“For the industry itself, if it wants to continue to expand, it should be welcoming these sorts of rules, because without the rules, we’ve seen how quickly public opinion has turned against them,” said @simonenoch.bsky.social #bcpoli #cdnpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

“For the industry itself, if it wants to continue to expand, it should be welcoming these sorts of rules, because without the rules, we’ve seen how quickly public opinion has turned against them” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Is the free market going to do anything for these free market conservatives? ca.yahoo.com/finance/news...

Shot: During last budget Regina city council cuts budget for park maintenance and for planting and trimming trees saving property owners less than $0.50 a month on property taxes. Chaser: Viral post on local Facebook blows up complaining about lack of maintenance in city parks

Western Canadian Liberace is fed up with your mollycoddling

“Only belatedly did they realize that declaring that your technology will wreak devastation would lead to a public backlash, and that this backlash would be a serious problem.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-e...

This is the first evidence Ive seen of water contamination via a closed loop cooling system cowboystatedaily.com/2026/07/02/c...

New episode: pca.st/episode/2ae7...

“Why should employers bargain in good faith when they know the state is ready to undercut labour’s power in negotiations? Without the right to strike, workers’ power is short-circuited at the bargaining table.”

“What does appear clear is that Canada’s tech companies want a private piece of this public asset, and, perhaps, so do the U.S. companies some of them are affiliated with.” Carney Is Selling Off Canada's Publicly Owned Tech Gem. Why? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

“The goal, Enoch said, is to put industry-friendly messages into the mouths of people students already trust—their teachers.” heated.world/p/an-educati...

"Canadians are right to be skeptical of a federal strategy that aspires to indiscriminate AI integration "at school, at work, at home, in the community" We are already experiencing the harms...and we can see...greater risks on the horizon." @hadrianmk.bsky.social kirklandlakevoice.ca/in-the-news/...

The federal government appears unwilling to stand up to the Alberta government and uphold the Canada Health Act Public health care is Canada's greatest social achievement Bill 11 is a clear violation of the Canada Health Act. Alberta wants to kill public medicare #cdnpoli #abpoli

Nearly all serious adverse reactions among plasma donors in past decade involved for-profit sites, data shows www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Piece in CCPA with @marxist.af on surveillance pricing. We gathered industry webinars and earnings calls to study how firms are using AI to set individualized prices. We found that surveillance pricing is built on existing market power and infrastructure. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Driven by big tech and corporate concentration, companies are using surveillance to warp prices and extract from consumers @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Not what you want from your leadership during an emergency: “38% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed they had witnessed bullying or harassment directed toward others…contributing to increased resignations following the wildfire season…” www.saskatchewan.ca/-/media/news...

Saskatoon and Regina post the first and third highest Year-over-year change in the average asking rent in the country leaderpost.com/news/canada/...

Moose Jaw’s proposed 150MW data centre in ValleyView considered in council yesterday.

The province doesn’t put a limit on how much any one person or company can give to a party, Enoch said, “so why go through all these shell companies? Is it because they don't want to be seen to be putting too much largesse to the party via Rawlco?” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“This idea of copyright and taking work without the consent of creators has been dogging the...generative AI industry for the last three years,” @hadrianmk.bsky.social said. “So it was surprising that it wasn’t...acknowledged in this strategy.” @policyalternatives.ca globalnews.ca/news/1189238...

“A single airport is a natural monopoly. If it’s a non-profit, then by design it doesn’t chase monopoly profits. If we sell it to a private company, that company will use the monopoly power to rake in monopoly profits for its investors.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The Walrus invited me to share initial impressions, alongside the awesome Starling Centre crew (eg Alissa Centivany, @jredden.bsky.social, @lukestark.bsky.social) & others. "AI for All" seems less an optimistic promise than a threat. The real slogan is: "AI will be adopted until morale improves." 🧵

“The layoffs done to save money also proved more costly for 75 per cent of organizations that let staff go. Those costs typically came in the form of recruiting, training, onboarding and institutional knowledge loss.”

“If AI increases efficiency while wages stagnate, skills erode and jobs disappear, the benefits of adoption will accrue primarily to employers and technology firms rather than the workers whose labour generates them.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

10 seconds into reading the new federal AI strategy and already rolling my eyes at "AI is rapidly becoming a foundational driver of economic growth, productivity, industrial capability, and geopolitical influence." ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Support for a windfall tax on excess oil profits at 65% in SK/MB (wish they wouldn't lump us together, particularly on an issue like this), but shows just what broad support this idea has.... climateactionnetwork.ca/wp-content/u...

Saskatchewan receives D+ for addressing poverty - Regina | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1187719...

Saskatchewan receives D+ for addressing poverty - Regina | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1187719...

I completely agree w/ the Premier. Too difficult to verify and platforms could just refuse to provide service to small market provinces. But why then is he consulting our entire province if he thinks it's the fed's job? thelogic.co/news/social-...

“We’ve locked ourselves in the stupidest possible version of Plato’s cave,” www.vulture.com/article/soci...

Nice use of the FOI system on the University of Saskatchewan by the student newspaper. USask Spends Over $60k on Former President Stoicheff’s Farewell Parties thesheaf.com/2026/05/25/u...

1984, A Handmaid’s Tale, V for Vendetta, The Watchmen….Alberta’s most banned books of 2026: theijf.org/article/albe...

“Governments should be creating rules and regulations so AI data centre developers can be held accountable,” said @simonenoch.bsky.social, a senior researcher with the @policyalternatives.ca But there’s hardly any regulations around how these facilities can be built.”

Vancouver Is Getting AI Data Centres. That's Not Good via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

We’re totally going to have to subsidize this thing aren’t we? “There is no private sector proponent or route for a possible pipeline. The Alberta government says it will act as the project's proponent in submitting the proposal to the federal government's major projects.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I spoke on the Mike Smyth show about the wisdom of putting data centres in downtown Vancouver open.spotify.com/episode/1h27...

Ah, the asset-stripping phase of ‘elbows-up’ nationalism….

“Since partnering with the province, Surgical Centres Inc. has given more than $35,500 to the Saskatchewan Party.” Private surgery company gave thousands to Sask. Party: theijf.org/brief/privat...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'we seem to be relying on boosterism & wishful thinking that private corporations will prioritize the environment in their mad rush to cash in on AI infrastructure without asking the right questions about impact.' @policyalternatives.ca

This story is so important if you're interested in workers' rights. For too long, companies have been able to classify workers as independent contractors and thus void themselves of all basic workplace protections. Gig work has amplified this problem.

I wonder if Halifax’s Economic Development agency can explain what it does?

The Minister says "this is how you build right." If this is the right way to build data centres - why not regulate to ensure everyone does it this way? www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Tech bros have discovered the first contradiction of capitalism, wait until they read Jim O'Connor.... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

Excellent analysis: what we have left on the table in SK-Bell deal? Ben Beveridge: Bell’s $1.7B AI data centre reveals flaws in Saskatchewan’s Crown deal strategy policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/04/sask...

“At least some of these big companies look for communities that are news deserts to build projects,” a local journalist said, “because it’s easier for them when there’s less public scrutiny.” AI Data Centers in the Land of Diminished Local News! 🦋 www.cjr.org/feature/ai-d...