Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't find a single word in here about protecting Canadian artists from having their work stolen by AI companies, or compensating them for that stolen work. Why is it that people who create Canadian culture don't deserve accountability or control?

i did not know this

NEW: As Canada rolls out its AI strategy, corporate leaders are struggling to justify use, businesses are seeing little to no gains and societal problems like deskilling are becoming prevalent. So why are the Liberals investing $2.3 billion in AI? Stock go up, that's why. Read the latest:

I mentioned this in an interview yesterday. Much of the case for the push for AI in Canada rests on a productivity argument. And so far that argument is largely built on faith.

Hey remember that time the Canadian military used loudspeakers in the Nova Scotia countryside to make wolf sounds, and then forged a letter from the provincial government to freak people out for ... like ... no reason? In September 2020. ottawacitizen.com/news/nationa...

With Stephen Guilbeault's departure from the LPC, cult-of-Carney supporters have chosen a climate narrative to gaslight us with: "You don't get it: we need to make the money to transition away from oil before we can start to do it. This is a vital first step!" Here's why that's total bullshit. 🧵1/

"The federal EI program needs to better accommodate irregular working schedules, gig workers, multiple jobs and contract workers, the Food Banks Canada argued. It’s also calling for a higher benefit floor — $450 per week — & extended benefits for people who" can't find a new job as their EI expires.

We can*not* afford this. Austerity is how we lose the country. Austerity - more than any other force - drives working people into the arms of fascists: pluralistic.net/2026/04/12/a... 32/

And *boy* did Canadians find a Third Way bullshitter to move into 24 Sussex Drive: Mark Carney, an austerity-crazed central banker who will endorse *incredibly* progressive policies...provided he never has to *do* any of them. 7/

Avi Lewis: "Leadership that brings back internationalism, that fights imperialism, that says Canada must come to the defence of Cuba and use our place on the world stage to fight for a free Palestine. That's the kind of leadership that I hope to deliver."

wild to turn on ctv and see the globe & mail’s queens park bureau chief calling steven guilbeault an environmental extremist. this country is so fucked on the climate front. mark carney is legitimizing a form of climate denial on all levels.

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

It won't be soon, but one day public opinion will catch on to just how many horrible decisions Mark Carney's government is making.

Guilbeault could quit caucus as soon as this week, government sources tell CTV News

Pleasure to be interviewed by the great @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. I've been a subscriber to Zeteo since day one!

Prime minister Mark Carney showed us all that he was here for the oligarchs and not for the rest of us well before he even drafted his first budget. Let's take a look at ten billion dollars he gave the rich while vulnerable millions suffer in the greatest cost of living crisis in generations. 🧵 1/

I had a bunch of stuff that Churchills said about the facsists that didn't make it into the final draft ... the tories (and liberals!) were very impressed with Mussolini's efficiency. canadashistory.ca/explore/poli...

"Once you know that (it) exists, it’s hard not to think about it every time you see a sudden flood of enthusiastic posts about a famous person’s new project or haircut or outfit or relationship or face." web.archive.org/web/20260515...

Anderson is a Liberal. And Carney is gutting environmental protections. This story summarizes the damage. "Canada’s former environment minister says a new proposal by the federal government to allow major projects to proceed even if they result in wildlife extinctions is “morally wrong.” #CdnPoli

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

Canadian prime minster Mark Carney is not the climate guy you thought | Seth Klein

“the government seems to be listening to these corporate voices and is moving quite fast on some very alarming moves that we view could significantly weaken the right to strike in this country.” Mark Carney IS the corporate voice. #GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Value(s): ✅ Military spending ✅ Oil and gas subsidies ✅ AI infrastructure ✅ Privatizing public assets ✅ Hosting soccer ❌ Pharmacare ❌ Climate action ❌ Funding research agencies ❌ Clean water for Indigenous communities

Twenty-five years after the Vancouver bookstore’s win against Canada Customs, the struggle for the freedom to read isn’t over.

My latest for Canadian Dimension: financial interests continue to devour our national housing system, 1000 units at a time.

As the corporate tax rate went down, the tax burden has been shifted squarely onto the shoulders of the poor and middle class. The very rich, like corporations, can typically engineer things so that they pay less than this or nothing; these rates are only on paper, not absolute. 1/

A tax break "for new home buyers" was rapidly extended to everyone and is now helping corporate landlords save big while buying condos in bulk. So it's yet more taxpayers subsidizing corporate profiteering. Every damned day. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

I spoke to the Trudeau-era environment minister who resigned from cabinet under Carney. Steven Guilbeault has a warning about Carney’s latest environment-trampling proposals — ones he agrees would be worse than Harper’s. Here’s the latest on the plan that would “eviscerate” environmental laws:

Every politician who cheers on AI data centers should agree to live next to one for the rest of their life.

Imagine talking about any other public service this way. Does the government keep public hospitals “afloat”? What about when it gave Marine Atlantic $169 million to support its operations in 24/25? The media does the bidding of those who want to private Canada Post when they adopt this framing.

Daaaaamn GM, sure let’s all jump on the inflated stock market right now! Today is your investor opportunity with a quagmire war, ascendant fascism and an oil crisis all mixing together is totally a bull market that is only going up!

Scathing op-ed from Lloyd Axworthy. "In his dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” George Orwell coined the term doublethink: the capacity to hold 2 contradictory beliefs simultaneously & accept both. Canada’s policy on climate — & other files, I daresay — has all its earmarks." #CdnPoli

Pipeline boosters know they gotta get those pipelines built as fast as possible because the rest of the world is getting off oil and with each day that passes it becomes more and more obvious that fossil fuels are a dead end, business-wise.

It’s really common and insane that they make claims and block any refutation of their lies about Carney being some progressive savant. Is it just bluesky or are these Astroturfing accounts? It seems crazy how many blatant lies they’ll post

"There is a broader story here about the trickle down economic logic guiding the Carney Liberals. Fundamentally, this is a government that sees […] that safeguarding the interests of corporate investors should be the preeminent concern of public policy" YES! Say it loud!!!

AI Sports Instagram post: www.instagram.com/reel/DSdB00l...

Your browsing history could soon set your grocery bill — and Canada isn’t ready for it

"There is effectively no new money in Carney’s fiscal plan to support what he calls “essential social programs.” "...the Liberals would be wise to remember their support stems from women. And it is progressives that helped them win the last election." #CdnPoli 🎁 www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

New from @ntusikov.bsky.social and me. Carney's reckless decision to introduce AI, in all its flavours, into government while simultaneously slashing the public service is a recipe for disaster. We know this because it's happened elsewhere, including in Canada. It's a matter of when, not if.

Oh, look ... here's Mark Carney purchasing more U.S. military equipment while not bothering to tell us. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... All you people whining that I've been overly harsh towards Carney: The line to apologize to me and admit I was right is over there. Single file. No pushing.

8/ Let’s put a windfall tax on oil & gas companies that are projected to make $90B in profits this year because of Trump’s illegal war in Iran. Then, let’s use that money to fill up the Sovereign Wealth fund — and invest in projects that benefit Canadians instead of a few wealthy investors and CEOs.

its a fire sale

Oh, ok, so this CPP cut is a giveaway to corporations. If I understand correctly, an individual making $70k will save $11 a month, which is nothing. But an employer with 1000 employees making $70k will save $11,000 a month. God. The Liberals are such assholes. Corporate bootlickers all the way down.

When you hear 'asset recycling' from PM Goldman Sachs & his ministers, think of Britain. Yes, it started under Thatcher but has continued (Royal Mail was listed on the London Stock Exchange the same year Carney became governor of the Bank of England.). Britain and the British are the worse for it.

In all of this, don't miss the term "asset-recycling". Canadians might also be manipulated to feel like they're supporting a, um, war effort by potentially watching Canada sell off crown corporations. Hard questions need to be asked about this. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/carney-... #CdnPoli

That’s murder, extra-judicial execution if you like fancy words to describe an insane and violent institution.

I want postal banking, goddamn it. I want to have a bank account with the post office that gives me a reasonable interest rate and maybe my banking card has a picture of a mushroom on it, like some fungus stamps I bought awhile ago. This is what I want, and moreover, this would be good for Canada.

What’s the saying? Fool me three times, shame on me? Carney has never explained how he was twice suckered into offering concessions to an obviously bad-faith con artist. CBC: Washington demanding 'entry fee' from Ottawa before trade talks: sources www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi

@margaretatwood.bsky.social Correctional Services Canada will be eliminating all prison librarians at federal prisons. This will save between $1.5 million and $2.5 million annually. We know you advocated for prison farms. Can you advocate for prison librarians too? Thank you.