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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary.

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@DiscussingFilm
David Ellison has shown an official graphic of everything Skydance will own after acquiring Warner Bros and Paramount.

Assets:

• TNT
• CBS
• CNN
• MTV
• TCM
• Showtime
• Adult Swim
• DC Studios
• Paramount+
• Nickelodeon
• HBO/HBO Max
• Comedy Central
• Cartoon Network

Film Rights:

• Star Trek
• Gremlins
• Beetlejuice
• DC Comics
• Tom & Jerry
• Harry Potter
• Citizen Kane
• Transformers
• A Quiet Place
• Looney Tunes
• The Conjuring
• Mortal Kombat
• Game of Thrones
• Dora The Explorer
• Mission Impossible
• The Lord of the Rings
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Dune 3 (distribution rights)
• Minecraft (distribution rights)
• MonsterVerse (distribution rights)
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026
The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x
The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mark Zuckerberg should be regarded in the same way Andrew Tate is for the insidious and intentional damage he does to young men
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:
Five straight years warmer than anything observed before 2023 (Current record +1.53 degrees warming) en route to 2 degrees by 2030
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PublicWrx @publicwrx.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Bruh...
In a decision issued last week, the Canada Industrial Relations Board said the Bank of Canada contravened the Canada Labour Code by using contractors from Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations during the strike.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/08/2026
One of the (many) reasons I think people are so anti-AI is that it’s a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. The average person’s life is difficult, expensive, and getting any kind of loan sucks - unless you’re raising billions of dollars to build an AI data center.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
ABC Vancouver told reporters that the Villages plan was “disrespectful”, that city staff went too far, and that they were protecting residents from the sins of bureaucracy. But who told city staff to come up with a transformative plan? Here’s the receipts.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If you've got even an ounce of a soul in your body, you don't touch anything by ModRetro. It's too intrinsically linked to Palmer Luckey and his cohorts. I know the vast majority of you haven't and won't, but it's always worth a fresh reminder.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
pre-war steel
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/06/2026
Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.
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spooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
idk how you unfuck the economics of game dev, but big studios constantly going "we just can't afford all these developers who we pay like 60% the market rate for engineering roles w/ comparable experience at comparable non-game-dev companies" doesn't reflect well on studio execs' basic competence
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026
Masayoshi Son is the greatest CEO of all time www.ft.com/content/d01f...
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+ Add to myFT Jesus Christ was also misunderstood, Masayoshi Son tells
investors SoftBank founder defends $13bn annual loss by comparing himself
to the Son of God
Masayoshi Son also suggested the Beatles had not been popular when they first started
© BloombergAs analysts pressed him on its poor performance so far during an investor call on Monday, Mr Son noted that Jesus was also misunderstood and criticised, according to three people who were on the call.
Two of them said Mr Son used the analogy to suggest that his reputation would be reassessed if the fortunes of his investments improved.
Mr Son, who has in the past quoted Yoda from the Star Wars films and urged investors to "listen to the Force", also suggested the Beatles had not been popular when they first started.
He spoke after he was asked whether he felt he was misunderstood by the media and whether there was a gap between the public's view of SoftBank and his vision, according to another person who joined the call.
SoftBank declined to comment.
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Lucy: ABC has a party has voted against: bike lanes on Broadway; ripped up Stanley Park bike lane; voted down 100 speed cameras; sent halloween safe streets to endless consultation; against lowering speeds on Cornwall. Casualties and deaths have since happened on that road.
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 10/06/2026
BREAKING: Mayor Ken Sim's ABC majority voted not to reduce speed limits on major roads, despite 93% of all road fatalities in Vancouver happening on arterials. This was one of the most important Near-Term Actions in the entire plan, because roads will never be safe until people drive at safe speeds.
Graphic that reads "BREAKING NEWS: Mayor Ken Sim's ABC rejects safer speeds on the most dangerous roads"
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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Liberal plan says it’s full speed ahead for AI tech billionaires NOW. Privacy and online protections for Canadians can WAIT. This is backwards. We need effective AI regulation and strong safeguards BEFORE we let this powerful technology run unrestricted. x.com/andiewinnipe...
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Andrea Dekeseredy on X: "Oopsie daisy https://t.co/ioiwUaXPyQ" / X
Oopsie daisy https://t.co/ioiwUaXPyQ
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The Picture of Doriane Gros @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Literally this is an entirely peaceful protest. They’re about to arrest everyone. They kettled everyone. I’m sick.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Imagine what he does to Palestinian prisoners when there's no cameras
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/05/2026
Carney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measure
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Carney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measure
EDMONTON - I addition to his announcement lowering industrial carbon pricing specifically just for Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled a plan to eliminate all of Canada's environment in o...
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Data centers are a two fold mechanism for fast tracking water and energy privatization. It's why billionaires and politicians are forcing them as quickly as possible. They undo all the progress we've made on climate change and increase the cost of both electricity and water forever
@MorePerfectUS
Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers.

NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers.

Northern Nevada is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country.The North American Electric Reliability Corporation — the top grid oversight agency for the US, Canada, and parts of Mexico — issued a rare alert on Monday, urging operators to address new risks posed by the deluge of data centers connecting to the grid.

NERC issued the Level 3 alert for "essential action" — the agency's highest level — after issuing two previous warnings about data centers in the last nine months.

The agency sends alerts to the entities that make the electric grid run smoothly, from regional transmission organizations to power plant owners.

This time, the agency stressed that grid operators lack "sufficient processes, procedures, or methods to address risks associated with computational loads."

NERC says that data centers — particularly ones running AI workloads — are prone to wild power swings.

The constant, rapid fluctuations between extremely high and extremely low power use levels can put entire electric grids at risk of going offline.The vast data centres that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people.

There are still big gaps in our understanding of the impacts of data centres, even as they boom in number, said Andrea Marinoni, associate professor with the Earth Observation group at the University of Cambridge, and an author of the study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed.

Marinoni and his colleagues decided to dig into one under-researched impact: the heat they release through their energy-intensive processes, including computation and powering cooling systems.

To do this, they looked at temperature data over the last 20 years from remote sensors and mapped it against the locations of AI “hyperscalers” — vast data centres that house thousands of servers and can stretch over a million square feet, which have mostly been built within the last decade.

They focused on more than 6,000 data centres located away from highly dense urban areas, as surface temperatures around these were less likely to have been affected by other factors, such as manufacturing or the heating of homes. The researchers also filtered out seasonal impacts, global warming trends and other influences.

They found surface temperatures increased by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit after a data centre started operations. In extreme cases, nearby temperatures reached up to 16.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure
Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The creator of He-Man is suffering from dementia and his wife had to set up a gofundme to fundraise despite the fact that Amazon MGM is releasing a multi-million dollar live action adaptation of the franchise this year www.gofundme.com/f/support-ro...
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Donate to Support Roger Sweet, Creator of HE-MAN, organized by Marlene Sweet
My husband, Roger Sweet, is the creator of HE-MAN and MASTERS of the UNIVERSE. He… Marlene Sweet needs your support for Support Roger Sweet, Creator of HE-MAN
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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
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Andy Yan @ayan604.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Remember Olaf. With the 40th anniversary of Expo 86, there was a human cost to the Fair #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/this-da...
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This Day in History, 1986: Olaf Solheim's tragic death after being evicted for Expo 86 tourists
Olaf Solheim had a chest-length white beard and liked to watch children play at Oppenheimer Park
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
What the fuck
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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I thought Carney was a builder of infrastructure? With $2.4 billion, we could quickly get to incredible levels of intercity bus service. Medical appointments, family visits, vacations, etc could all be done without a car. Instead, the people who can afford a car will save ~$5 per tank.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Under the liberals police are partnering with Israeli AI companies to do mass surveillance in Canada. With over $900 million in tax breaks for AI data centers and companies Mark Carney will transform Canada into a permanent corporate police state in just a few years www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Edmonton police emails, documents provide new information on Canada-first AI facial recognition bodycam pilot | CBC News
Key details include a “critical fault” system outage, possible extension of pilot project and that facial recognition model was supplied by Corsight AI, a company whose technology has reportedly been ...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/04/2026
Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 08/04/2026
it makes sense when you consider that one company owns almost all our grocery stores, and one that owns all our telecommunications, that we would just have one political party that's just kind of all them at once.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 30/03/2026
Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today they voted to bring it back — exclusively for Palestinians.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 30/03/2026
BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Leader of a major political party essentially saying that if you're a non white woman and you win awards you must be a man
Pierre Poilievre sharing JK Rowling attacks on Imane Khelif
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I really can't put this more clearly. If you watch the new Harry Potter series, you are directly funding the genocide of trans people, because that's what Rowling gleefully spends HP revenue on. There's no "death of the author" here, no "there's lots of awful creators." You are funding genocide.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Epic Games layoffs serve as a timely reminder that accountability is dead
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Epic Games layoffs serve as a timely reminder that accountability is dead
What happened to Harmonix and Mediatonic under Epic Games? Good question.
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GC Rust @gcrust.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I genuinely wonder where the Infinite Growth Money Bros are going to realize if they lock out everyone from the consumer economy, then that economy collapses and their Infinite Growth model just stops. Magic Line Must Always Go Up but eventually the momentum stops.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Potentially unsalvageable country.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Yikes
Taking a Spending Hit
Federal departments, agencies and Crown corporations ranked by the dollar size of the spending cut each faces in 2026-2027.
Organization
Canada Revenue Agency
-$4,349,385,598
-40.9%
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
-$4,320,858,684
-69.6%
Department of Indigenous
Services
-$3,037,315,660
-11.2%
Jepartment of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs
-$2,695,904,089
-18.5%
Global Affairs Canada
-$2,147,587,856
-22.9%
Canada Post Corporation
-$2,042,000,000
-98.9%
partment of Citizensl d Immigrati
-$1,556,006,107
-26.1%
Environment and Climate
Change Canada
-$1,422,353,888
-45.4%
Dept. of Public Works and Gov’t Services 
-$1,387,784,798
-19%
Department of Health
-$1,339,361,658
-10.9%
VIA Rail Canada Inc.
-$1,162,533,800
-50.2%
Canadian Air Transport
Security Authority
-$653,339,097
-53.8%
Canadian Space Agency
-$442,522,329
-32.6%
Office of the Chief Electoral Officer
-$417,455,705
-60.4%
Be in of Agriculture
-$409,353,326
-10%
Public Health Agency of Canada
-$367,598,756
-19.4%
Department of Canadian Heritage
-$361,794,939
-16.3%
CHMC
-$340,728,826
-5.3%
Department of Natural Resources
-$278,767,713
-5.4%
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
-$242,554,378
-12.5%
Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority
-$226,900,945
-50.4%
anadian Broadcastin orporatic
-$191,985,100
-12.2%
Shared Services Canada
-$188,588,051
-7.4%
Department of Justice
-$98,672,941
-7.8%
Department of Western Economic Diversification
-$97,079,705
-22.5%
Calculations made on data drawn from 2026-27 Main Estimates
© Global News
Source: Treasury Board Secretariat
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
My latest! I'm keeping a list of the cuts that Mark Carney's government has made, and what impact they'll have on our public services. noraloreto.substack.com/p/counting-t...
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Counting the cuts
Mark Carney's attacks on Canada's public service should concern all Canadians.
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Peter Wade @peterwade.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 09/03/2026
xAI’s Grok chatbot is powered by unpermitted gas turbines at a Mississippi power plant. Here's how we know.
floodlightnews.org
Video: We caught Elon Musk's AI company flouting EPA rules using a thermal drone
xAI’s Grok chatbot is powered by unpermitted gas turbines at a Mississippi power plant. Here's how we know.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/03/2026
I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life
media.tenor.com
shrek is standing on top of a set of stairs with two knights .
Alt: Lord Farquaad Some of you may die but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make gif
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 26/02/2026
NEW: The Chinese-language messages that accused non-ABC Vancouver councillors didn't start with Lenny Zhou, who has since apologized for them. They started with the mayor.
nationalobserver.com
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim started false claim councillor 'handed out illegal drugs'
Sim on Tuesday had applauded Coun. Lenny Zhou for "acknowledging his mistake" and retracting elements of the claim that Zhou shared on Chinese-language social media, but Sim did not reveal that it was...
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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 26/02/2026
Tara Armstrong is a danger to BC residents and to Canadians of all walks of life. Seeking to kill the entire human rights enforcement mechanism in B.C. for the sake of allowing anti-trans hate to go unchecked is perhaps one of the most significant attacks on trans rights in Canada I've documented.
Bill M233 — Human Rights Code Repeal Act

Tara Armstrong presented a bill intituled Human Rights Code Repeal Act.

Tara Armstrong: I move that a bill intituled Human Rights Code Repeal Act, of which notice has been given in my name on the order paper, be introduced and read a first time now.

The purpose of this bill is to end the assault on freedom of speech by our Human Rights Tribunal. Last week, they fined Barry Neufeld three-quarters of a million dollars for refusing to believe that a man could become a woman, for his own personal opinions.

This bill will protect ordinary people with common beliefs from politically motivated financial attacks. The Human Rights Code Repeal Act is the only solution to this assault on our rights. This bill will protect the freedom of speech of Canadians. It will abolish the Human Rights Tribunal, a kangaroo court, and repeal the human rights code that the Left is using to punish and profit from anyone who doesn’t adopt their views.

The bill will terminate the position of a Human Rights Commissioner, who makes over $300,000 a year to police speech, and it will invalidate any outstanding orders made by the tribunal against Canadians like Mr. Neufeld.

Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of our democracy. The judgment last week was a wake-up call, and Canadians are demanding their freedoms back.

To the members in this House, this is our chance to answer their call. Therefore, I urge you to vote in favour of this bill.

The Speaker: Members, the question is first reading of the bill. Division has been called.

[10:25 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.]
Draft Segment 007

The Speaker: Members, the question is first reading of the bill introduced by the member for Kelowna–Lake Country–Coldstream.

[10:35 a.m.]
Draft Segment 008

Motion negatived on the following division: YEAS — 37, NAYS — 50. [See Votes and Proceedings.]
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