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E Selavy

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Graphic showing a single lane 9 m wide track for metros, a 35 m wide road for buses with four lanes, and a 175 m wide road for cars with seven lanes, making the point that one single track of Metro replaces seven lanes of car traffic. Mobility in cities is about space.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
The environmental and climate consequences of building a new oil pipeline are extreme, including the threat to endangered Southern Resident orcas.
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Cervantes Xavier 🇨🇦 @cervantesx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
HNIC will pivot to showing PWHL games. Very, very cool that a bunch of girls are going to get to live the dream of playing on HNIC. Unimaginable just a few years ago. Can we please just all agree to be cool with this? #HNIC #PWHL #Hockey dailyhive.com/vancouver/ho...
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'Hockey Night in Canada' is going to feature women's hockey instead | Daily Hive | Offside
'Hockey Night in Canada' will live on, despite the CBC not airing NHL games going forward. A new deal with the PWHL is expected.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Do you know what really grinds my gears? When billionaire, sex criminal, genocide-defenders tell us what voices we are and aren’t allowed to hear. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Justice for Macklemore
The rapper has been dumped from Ed Sheeran's tour for saying "free Palestine." That's a disgrace.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Still looking forward to the day when Carney announces historic investments in knowledge-based industries. You know, the ones where Canada is among the worst-placed in the OECD.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Good morning. Ipsos has restricting energy exports to the US with 2:1 support; an oil & gas export tax at nearly 3:1 support. *In Alberta.* (Table 2.) www.ipsos.com/en-ca/canadi...
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Canadians Support A Robust Response To U.S. Tariffs
Canadians Support COVID-Style Program To Protect Workers
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 27/08/2026
The whole renaming thing is silly, but #Canada’s government could stop awarding contracts to any tech firm — Google as an example — that institutes the change And while we’re at it, the Canadian government should get the fuck off of Twitter too #cdnpoli
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026
The best time to have made Canada digitally sovereign would have been *before* an American president announced his intention to annex Canada and began explicitly deploying America's tech companies to attack his geopolitical adversaries. The second-best time is *now*. 52/
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This week the 4 biggest publicly-traded Canadian oil companies posted $13.3b after-tax profit in the 2nd quarter ($146m per DAY). Like other global oil giants, they are getting rich from the misery caused by Trump's war. My take in today's @thestar.com: thestar.com/business/opi... /2
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Are Canadian oil producers cashing in on war?
With Canadian oil majors posting blockbuster war-fuelled profits, it's time for an excess profits tax, Jim Stanford writes.
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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Canada is being asked to make a $40B bet on the past. We’re told another oil pipeline will bring national unity, economic security & prosperity. We’ve heard this before. You don’t prepare a country for the future by betting billions on the past www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: With a new oil pipeline, Canadians are being asked to make a bet on the past
With $40-billion, we could fund heat pumps and solar panels, build hospitals, tackle clean water on reserves or build the economy of the future
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 24/07/2026
Watching CBC News, you might not even make the connection between this year's extreme wildfire season, and fossil fuel-induced climate change. Tara Mahoney sits down with @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss gaps in the public broadcaster’s climate coverage. breachmedia.ca/why-is-cbcs-...
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Why is CBC’s reporting on wildfires ignoring the role of climate change? ⋆ The Breach
Tara Mahoney sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss the climate gaps in CBC’s wildfire coverage
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Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It is 2006. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2016. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2026. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. thenarwhal.ca/canada-carbo...
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Carbon capture promises by politicians span almost 20 years | The Narwhal
It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 20/07/2026
Trump gives us another reminder: Canada needs a warlike effort to separate from the US, to boycott their country and their products, and to strengthen relations with democratic countries instead.
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 17/07/2026
Convoy leader Pat King is going to jail Ontario's court of appeal overturned King's earlier sentence, agreeing a conditional house arrest sentence was too lenient
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Convoy leader Pat King loses at appeal court, to be resentenced | CBC News
Pat King, a key figure in the 2022 convoy protests, will be re-sentenced after the Ontario Court of Appeal sided with Crown prosecutors who argued his original punishment was too lenient.
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Dogwood @dogwoodbc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
How does Mark Carney's 6-step LNG grift funnel public money to Wall St billionaires? Watch our latest - youtube.com/shorts/lf3Zl...
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How Mark Carney’s LNG Grift Funnels Public Money to Wall Street Billionaires
YouTube video by Dogwood
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Deeply sad about the loss of Ringwraith #4. We might have disagreed on policy, such as stabbing hobbits and murdering innocent villagers and working for the Dark Lord Sauron, but he loved riding horses and supporting his fellow Nazgûl. Wish he'd had more time." -Canadian politicians, apparently
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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
For those behind a paywall, my OpEd in the Winnipeg Free Press. Why should Canadian taxpayers provide enormous subsidies for Big Oil? A new pipeline to the west coast estimated at $34-43 billion. Expect that to be north of $100 billion when it's built and doomed to be a stranded asset. #PipelineBan
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michael oshea @osheafoto.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Happy 250th America
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Pembina Institute @pembina.org · 03/07/2026
Alberta and Ottawa said any new pipeline would be privately funded. Today that promise was broken: a private company will cover just 10%. Taxpayers will front up tens of billions of dollars. If oil exports are such an economic opportunity for Canada, why won’t companies invest? buff.ly/Ao6yGt3
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 02/07/2026
Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Canada Day extreme weather brought to you by climate change, which Carney announced yesterday we can’t afford to properly fight 🤗
CBC headline reads: Canada Day activities in Ottawa cancelled due to
'extreme weather,' including fireworks

Torrential rain falls on the capital

By: Gabrielle Huston

Published July 1 at 3:21pmET
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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"The changes we have made will mean that our emissions will be higher in the next few years"- Mark Carney
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 30/06/2026
NEW: A retired class action practitioner in rural Alberta has initiated a proposed class action lawsuit against Alberta's government, the Centurion Project, David Parker and the Republican Party of Alberta for one of the largest data breach in Cdn history. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
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Class action lawsuit initiated for mass Alberta voter data breach
The June 25 statement of claim names the Alberta government and chief electoral officer, as well as the Centurion Project, David Parker and the Republican Party of Alberta, as defendants.
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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026
I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that
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DR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World Cup
Michel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19/06/2026
Time for Canadian schools to expand their smartphone bans to include generative AI now too.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Man oh man. Canada really is a couple telecom companies and a grocery chain in a trenchcoat. We've totally forfeited this country over to the capitalist overlords and it's such a shame.
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CBC to stop airing NHL games after 74 years, marking end of free hockey on Canadian TV
The announcement means Hockey Night in Canada, which began airing in the fall of 1952, will cease to exist in its current form
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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Devastating account of degeneracy in the Ottawa police, which seems to be getting worse. Including that the police lied about the status of an investigative office (they'd killed it and pretended otherwise!) and the police board let them. By @kristynease.bsky.social . www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ottawa police have a sexual misconduct problem. A decade of fixes have largely failed | CBC News
After 10 years of assessments, recommendations, promises and millions of dollars spent by the Ottawa Police Service to end sexual violence and harassment among its ranks, some current and former emplo...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
June 6 is D-day, probably ANTIFA's most heroic moment.
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Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
New joint publication by @citizenlab.ca + @cancivlib.bsky.social! In which @kate-ro.bsky.social & I join forces w/ Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca to explain the federal govt's many... "(Un)forced Errors: Analysis of Proposed Surveillance Law Expansion under Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access" 🧵1/x
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The Citizen Lab (Un)forced Errors: Analysis of Proposed Surveillance Law Expansion under Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access -
This submission analyzes Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which would enact broad surveillance obligations and reforms in Canada. Issues include: the bill’s sweeping scope, significant constitutional...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/06/2026
businesses: we’re finding all this AI spending isn’t really paying off and we’re thinking it might be time to pull back public: it’s hard to tell what’s real anymore with all this AI slop and some of my friends are acting pretty weird mark carney: WE MUST SPEED UP AI ADOPTION FOR THE ECONOMY
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Draft federal AI strategy aims to scale up adoption, offer literacy training by 2031 | CBC News
A draft version of Canada's national AI strategy outlines a drive to scale up business adoption and provide all Canadians access to free AI literacy training, but is short on specifics regarding how t...
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Yeah, a reminder that I am aggressively anti Generative AI because I'm a consent educator. I know how consent works. And a world that says "You wrote a book? Cool, let me guzzle a lake's worth of water to steal that and repackage it" is a world I don't want to participate in.
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Lauren W. (she/they) @livewildly.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.
A bearded white man paints on an easel on the right side of the frame. Zuckerberg's eldritch horror of a yacht is on the left.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026
"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen. 2/
A turn-of-the-century Main Street, USA. Over the horizon looms a giant Canadian flag, made out of circuitry. In the foreground is a pixelboard sign reading 'U.S. BORDER CLOSED.' In the foreground looms a giant lumberjack, about to swing his axe into the sign.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 26/05/2026
Bill C-22 would expand surveillance powers in Canada while lowering protections around subscriber information. Privacy advocates say the reforms could also align Canadian law with US demands for cross-border data access. Writer Kate Robertson explores: ow.ly/LQF950Z45mN
On the left: a photo illustration shows a giant eye in the sky looking over Canada's Parliament against a solid red background. On the right: text that reads “Trump wants to tap your phone. Ottawa might let him. Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data.”
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 05/05/2026
Meet the "Fight Ford" protest movement that’s spreading across Ontario As dissatisfaction with Doug Ford's government continues to grow, thousands have been turning up to monthly, province-wide rallies: pressprogress.ca/fight-doug-f...
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Meet the ‘Fight Ford’ Protest Movement That’s Spreading Across Ontario
As dissatisfaction with Doug Ford's government continues to grow, thousands are showing up at monthly, province-wide rallies
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
CEO pay rose 20 times faster than worker pay in 2025, per Oxfam. Overall, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025 — while CEO pay rose 54% during the same time. Trickle-down economics was always a sham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay
Analysis finds real wages fell 12% since 2019, with inequality widening in the US beyond global levels
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...
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'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
“What educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.”
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 21/04/2026
My one big theory about why things fell apart when they did is just this Pew chart.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 13/04/2026
Now 14 months in, Canada’s rejection of the U.S. is the most successful tourism boycott in memory.
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Canadians Visiting U.S. By Car Down 35% In 2 Years
Now 14 months in, Canada’s rejection of the U.S. is the most successful tourism boycott in memory.
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Dr. Hello Bonjour @hellobonjour.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
University of Waterloo is leaving Twitter. We need all Canadian colleges and universities to do the same if they're still there. The Canadian social site Gander would be a good option. 🍁 #edusky #canada #education
University of Waterloo

@UWaterloo

This account is no longer active.

Looking to stay connected with the University of Waterloo?

News: uwaterloo.ca/news/

Bluesky: uwaterloo

IG: uofwaterloo

FB: university.waterloo

LI: uwaterloo

Thank you
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Supriya Dwivedi @supriya.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
ah yes a tent so big that even conspiracy theorists and pro conversion therapy pushers are welcome into LPC caucus
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
In Belgium, employees receive compensation for every kilometre they ride, with some cyclists earning up to €810 per year. And why not? Biking saves public money for everyone. “All employees in Belgium who cycle to work are entitled to a bicycle allowance of €0.28 per kilometre of their commute.”
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Belgian commutes pay off: Employees earn up to €810 for cycling to work
One in five people in Flanders commuted by bike and received compensation last year, but this figure is significantly lower in Brussels and Wallonia.
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Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It’s time for bike share in Ottawa! Our transit system is in crisis and our roads are congested. Bike share can help! A quarter of trips in Ottawa are under 2 km—well within bikeable range. Bike share is affordable, accessible, and efficient. Learn more: 1/2 ottawabikeshare.ca
Ottawa Bike Share Poster
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"Electricity generated from wind and solar is largely insulated from fossil fuel price volatility – once built, the fuel is free." This is what I told @dharna.bsky.social @theguardian.com who published this article. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What does the Iran war mean for clean energy transition?
Here’s what to know about how the current crisis could shape the expansion of renewable energy
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Why would we do this to ourselves?
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Wealthsimple clears regulatory hurdle to bringing prediction trading to Canada
Approval for online financial services platform permits it only to offer contracts tied to economic indicators, financial markets and climate trends
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David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca · 14/03/2026
I have some thoughts on #BillC22 related to #lawfulaccess. More to come ...
If the new Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act 2026 becomes the law, the government of Canada will be able to secretly order Apple to build a capability into its infrastructure to allow Canadian law enforcement and national security folks to track every iPhone, iPad, Apple watch, Apple AirPod and AirTag in real time. 
Then they’ll be able to require Apple to confirm whether they provide you any services. Then they can go to a justice of the peace and get an order – without actually believing that a crime has been or will be committed – requiring Apple to hand over EVERY device identifier for every device you use with their services. That’s the digital ID for your iPhone, iPad, Apple watch, Apple AirPod, Apple TV and AirTag. 
With that information, they can go back to the judge and get an order – again without actually believing that a crime has been or will be committed – requiring Apple to give them the moment-by-moment locations of all your devices. Oh, and that secret order also required Apple to keep your location history for a full year, so cops can get that too. Is that a power we want Canadian police and law enforcement to have?
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 11/03/2026
This is from 1975.
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
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