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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Andrew Mercier, Eby's chief of staff since July, is running for the NDP in Langley-Willowbrook. Weirdly, his nomination announcement doesn't mention that Mercier was elected in Langley in 2020, lost in 2024 (Quite a few retread candidates so far: Mercier, Sims, Paddon, presumably Alexis)

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026

“We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us” - Marshall McLuhan

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We are so dependent on American reporters who were able to get the chat logs leaked to them BC’s AG apparently didn’t know what was in those chats until the Mother Jones report today

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m just not sure I trust that his wife will protect our oceans while her husband is building yet another crude oil pipeline towards those same oceans and expanding ports that will result in the extinction of our resident orcas! The whole thing feels a bit icky. I mean this clip….

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the policy front, BC Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson said repealing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act would be his top priority if he becomes premier #bcpoli

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Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

YEEEEIIIIIIIIIKES

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

it’s absolutely fucked that people are elevating these effective altruist freaks and falling for their rhetoric on AI. media is letting these people set the narrative, while those of us following EA/longtermist circles for years know how insane they are. they consistently downplay climate risk.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

some genocide and war crimes are ok as long as you’re part of the International Community

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

First AR poll since the writ drop suggests many British Columbians are pissed about the snap election call 65% say Eby's decision is self-interested 62% say it's too soon for another election, including 52% of NDP voters OTOH 56% say the BC Conservatives aren't ready to govern WHAT FUN! #bcpoli

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Ballot Backlash: BC Conservatives open 8-point lead after snap election call, but electorate far from locked in - Angus Reid Institute Canada

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Devin Dignam @devindignam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is anyone surprised that Richard Zussman is entering politics and running under the NDP banner? It was quite clear from his coverage! #bcpoli

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Kerry-Lynne Findlay became leader of the BC Conservatives on May 30 113 days and over a dozen MLA departures/expulsion later, with the NDP salivating over a snap election, she has resigned #bcpoli

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 20/09/2026

So where are we ranking this cycle of B.C. politics through a historical lens? It has to be top five right?

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Devin Dignam @devindignam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As always, @nolore.bsky.social has an accurate (and hilarious) description of Mark Carney's continued destruction: noraloreto.substack.com/p/icymi-this...

"He’s gutted environmental legislation, pushed through and fast tracked highly stupid projects that he needs us to believe are in the national interest, and now, he’s welcoming the vultures of global capitalism to come in and buy whatever they’d like. A move ostensibly done to solidify ourselves against the Americans, it will likely attract even more American investment in Canada and he will be laughing all the way to the bank (or wherever he sleeps at night)."

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/09/2026

“privatization doesn’t mean prices will go up,” they told us last week. but of course they will, and they’re starting to have to admit it. the reason why investors are so desperate to get our airports is precisely because they know they’ll be able to make monopoly profits.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 16/09/2026

Doesn’t the federal government have rules preventing the appointment of family members to official positions, regardless of their CV?

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Devin Dignam @devindignam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It makes sense that the organizers of an Onanism festival would invite Stew Young! #yyjpoli #crd #bcpoli

Picture of former Langford mayor Stew Young with two others in an indoor space at some kind of event.

The text reads: "This weekend, Brandy Gordon and I were invited to the Onan Festival with the Victoria Titans Club. Thank you for the warm welcome and a wonderful celebration."

Presumably, this post is trying to refer to "Onam", but "Onan" has *very* different connotations.

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Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The National Post published an article defending the white nationalist Dominion Society because, they propose, 8% of Canadians *could,* "for argument's sake" support ethnic cleansing—meaning it's more popular than the NDP. They Included a legal argument but did not disclose the author was disbarred.

Polls have shown that roughly half of Canadians believe immigration levels are too high. Let’s say for argument’s sake that only eight per cent of Canadians support remigration, and 92 per cent oppose it. Should having only eight per cent support for your opinion mean losing your right to rent government-owned facilities, and to use public spaces like parks and sidewalks?

If yes, then no government facilities should be available for rental by the NDP, which garnered only 6.3 per cent of the popular vote in Canada’s most recent federal election. Almost 94 per cent of Canadians rejected the NDP in 2025. Yet the NDP is not disqualified from being able to exercise its Charter freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly.

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 12/09/2026

Canada’s global rankings have fallen across democracy, transparency, press freedom, and living standards. Writer and lawyer Matt Malone argues that reversing the decline requires rebuilding the institutions meant to hold government accountable. ow.ly/bAlL50ZMOIr

On the left: an image of the Canadian flag torn at the top in a jagged, declining pattern that mimics a downward-trending graph. On the right: text that reads “Canada was the ‘best country in the world to live.’ What happened? I went looking for answers in the nations that surpassed us.”

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Devin Dignam @devindignam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“The fact that they’ve been sitting on this is really alarming,” said Rattée. “It’s telling me there’s probably something in that data they don’t want people to see.” 🤔

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There are zero actual amalgamations that have made biking better. ZERO Vote no

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 10/09/2026

One of the biggest threats to cultural heritage is the climate emergency. So, I guess I am more than disappointed to see an LNG company was a sponsor of the provincial heritage advocacy org’s annual conference.

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 11/09/2026

In Canada, financial firms owned zero rental units in the mid-1990s. By 2024, they owned close to 400,000 apartments, nearly 20 percent of the purpose-built rental housing stock. Writer and housing expert Leilani Farha investigates the consequences: ow.ly/RrPn50ZMomx

On the left: an image of a man standing in front of a building with an ATM face spitting money. A family is seen moving out at the ground floor of the building. On the right: text that reads “The corporate takeover of Canada’s apartments is worse than you think. Property investors have discovered that getting rid of tenants is very good business”

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Devin Dignam @devindignam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"The list of Liberals & liberals that journalists have trot out to help Canadians understand this situation is just too much. These men are all implicated in the problem, & have no business telling us what they think is the solution. Their fingerprints are all over Canada’s neoliberal status quo."

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My latest! In this moment of potential massive change, liberals have made sure that no one will be given any room to talk about how we need to break with the logic that lead us here. Instead, they want us to do things as we have, but harder. noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-libera...

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The liberal Hit Parade

In a time of historical instability, the censors know who to silence

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

Do you think all this is happening right before IPOs just by coincidence?

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 10/09/2026

In a city where rents have doubled in 15 years — where rents were notably cheap on a national scale and are now notably expensive on a national scale (with little change in the local economy) — this is very interesting information!

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10/09/2026

the only way AI is killing us all is if we let the AI CEOs get their way and build so many fossil-powered data centers they trigger runaway warming. stop giving any fuel to the sensationalist, science fictional notion they’re building an intelligent computer that will decide to murder us all.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 09/09/2026

Municipal democracy, as we know it, depends on residents, councillors and staff understanding enough of the same system to question one another meaningfully. But, increasingly, they don’t. Erick Villagomez writes. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Why Don’t We Train People to Run a City? | The Tyee

Baristas seem to receive more on-the-job instruction than incoming city councillors. That’s bad for democracy.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026

I will say it is funny watching OpenAI boast about solving a complex math problem using millions of dollars of compute (and someone else’s work) all while remaining unable to solve the most obvious math problem (how to make their services profitable)

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So nice to see the BC government picking "confidentiality" for oil and gas companies over transparency on how much those companies pay to profit off our natural resources 🫠 "The NDP government changed the law so that company-specific royalty payments would be shielded from public view" #bcpoli

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BC Changed a Law to Keep Gas Royalties Secret | The Tyee

‘Improved confidentiality’ for oil companies leaves the public without previously available payment data.

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 09/09/2026

It's us, we're media report www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/n...

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Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On Friday, after our investigation was published, OpenAI banned the account behind the websites. You can submit any image here to find out if it was made with OpenAI's models: openai.com/research/ver... www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...

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A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots

The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.

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alex himelfarb @alexhim.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Questions we should be asking before our big investors summit.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 06/09/2026

Anyway, I’m signing off, but I will end on 3 points: 1. This is a mess. The end result will be worked out over weeks 2. There are big questions about how a society addresses the fact 44% voted for a far-right extremist party 3. Never sail the North Sea unless a seasoned captain is at the helm

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 06/09/2026

Numerous people in Saxony-Anhalt and other areas of eastern Germany that I’ve spoken to over the last month have explicitly identified the pandemic as a moment that “accelerated” the far-right Many people have a story of a family member who went down a rabbit hole and ended up aligning with the AfD

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Devin Dignam @devindignam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Prompting pushback", give me a fucking break. If you have to quote Aaron Gunn or Gardiner to both-sides an issue, may I advise you to simply...not.

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Devin Dignam @devindignam.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What makes Mike Harris, who failed to get elected in Langford, think that Victoria will want him? Hopefully the "know-nothing conservative who refuses to give specifics on policy" won't fly here.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 04/09/2026

This story is a big deal. Please give it a read, even if you need to sign up for a one-dollar subscription. This tactic — manipulating chatbots as a backdoor to human beings — is only going to get worse, and Alberta separatism appears to be just a testing ground for these people.

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Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The PBO anticipated the Digital Services Tax alone could have raised $7.2 billion over five years. Tom Parkin laid out how Carney's corp tax cuts have cost us $75.5 billion over five years: tparkin.substack.com/p/carneys-re...

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Carney’s revenue cuts show shrinking the public sector is the priority, not deficits

If balancing the budget was his priority, cutting billions in revenue is funny way to go about it.

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The Maple @readthemaple.com · 03/09/2026

U.S. Admiral Refuses To Say If He’d Obey Order To Invade Canada “I follow the orders of the commander-in-chief, but that is a needlessly emotional question.” www.readthemaple.com/u-s-admiral-...

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U.S. Admiral Refuses To Say If He’d Obey Order To Invade Canada

“I find that scenario to be absolutely and utterly preposterous.”

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 03/09/2026

"I'll show you, my enemy, what happens when you call me your enemy, for the things I'm doing to you, which will result in bad outcomes for you because of your recognition of those things."

Trump: "It is very good for Canadian Politicians like Prime Minister Carney to make President Donald J. Trump 'the enemy,' until their Economy collapses, then it will prove to be very bad for Politics — Worse than anything that has ever happened to a Canadian Politician. Just watch!"

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