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My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social · 12h ago

Palantir wants health data. "According to its registration, Palantir’s Canadian subsidiary was interested in “areas where [the] company's capabilities & experience in improving patient care while optimizing limited health system resources match needs & objectives of the B.C. public health system.”

Investigative Journalism Foundation@theijf.org · 12h ago

The Canadian arm of controversial U.S. data mining company Palantir was until recently registered to lobby B.C. health authorities. Elsewhere in the world, Palantir’s health-care contracts are coming under fire. zurl.co/J0wmn

Heather Campbell@thatheatherc.bsky.social · 7h ago

This post by @dshepyeg.bsky.social is brilliant, although I'm annoyed he had to do it to address the ongoing absurdity of the Alberta government. Article from the @edmontonjournal.com: edmontonjournal.com/news/politic... Please report hate crimes & hate incidents to the police and #StopHateAB. ✊🏾

Premier Danielle Smith criticizes Edmonton police for video on hate reporting

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says police should be focused on addressing violent crime not policing free speech.

edmontonjournal.com

David Shepherd@dshepyeg.bsky.social · yesterday

In today’s edition of “The UCP Are A Bad Boss,” Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis comes out against…police? Two Ministers & the Premier are calling out EPS for trying to support communities facing increasing levels of hate, online & IRL. Because the UCP always put politics before people. #abpoli

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com · 7h ago

We will keep re-electing Doug Ford, even though everyone agrees the province is worse off under him, he's terrible at governing, and mired by corruption.

David Coletto@davidcoletto.bsky.social · 7h ago

The immediate impact of Ontario’s expense scandal is marginal. The PCs still lead by eight. But a majority of Ontarians see a broader culture of entitlement, and 41% say the story has made them more negative about the Ford government. NEW POLL: abacusdata.ca/expense-sca...

Blayne Haggart@bhaggart.bsky.social · yesterday

A company that would experiment on its own users like this, and obfuscated what it was doing, is not one that will abide by any "duty to act responsibly." @ntusikov.bsky.social and I lay out exactly why not in this Policy Options piece. policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/07/bill...

Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech

Bill C-34 puts too much faith in Big Tech. Canada should regulate the algorithms, data practices and business models that drive online harm.

policyoptions.irpp.org

Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · yesterday

BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · yesterday

"Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections" Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. From Zeteo:

Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections

Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. Trump’s assault on elections is truly unprecedented.

zeteo.com

SEIU_ORG@seiu.org · yesterday

Farmers must be protected from deadly heat. Working people musn’t be forced to collapse at work while protections & safety enforcements are rolled back. We need water, breaks, shade & real protections! Climate change is a labor issue & we’re fighting to make sure worker safety is never optional.

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yesterday's temperature topped 105° in Fresno. "Carlos" and team were working in the watermelons. "Our team is paid piece rate. The more boxes we fill the more we make. The person closest to the truck has the hardest job so we switch off. This is exhausting work." #WeFeedYou

APTN News@aptnnews.bsky.social · yesterday

The Alberta government is ending an online mandatory Indigenous training course for new lawyers and those transferring from out of province. To speak more on the matter, Dennis Ward was joined by Melinda Moch, Secretary of the Indigenous Bar Association.

Alberta ends mandatory Indigenous training course for new lawyers | APTN News

The Alberta government is ending an online mandatory Indigenous training course for new lawyers and those transferring from out of province. To speak more on the matter, Dennis Ward was joined by…

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David Moscrop@davidmoscrop.com · yesterday

One person, one vote. We should be strengthening democratic equality, not killing it. If rich people don’t like it, they can go start their own Ayn Rand utopia on Neptune. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

A tech billionaire floated the idea of curtailing the right to vote. That wasn’t even the worst part

The Shopify founder’s endorsement of a bad idea suggests there is far more work to do to protect democracy from a surge of anti-democratic thinking.

thestar.com

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Chart showing solar panel exports from China (the main solar panel maker by a long shot) growing steadily & mightily from 2018 through 2026, then spiking by almost 2x in March 2026.
My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social · 2d ago

"When it comes to social, economic, and environmental policy, [the Carney government] is following through on its promise to “nation-build” with a sweeping program of austerity, deregulation and cuts," writes @lukewsavage.bsky.social. #GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

But we should also consider the possibility that Carney’s apparent promise of a new and more independent global posture was never really genuine in the first place. When the prime minister gave his big speech in Davos earlier this year, what many heard was a stirring call for a new progressive internationalism in the age of Donald Trump. But, as I argued at the time, what he was really saying was that middle powers like Canada can no longer afford to ground their actions in the pursuit of idealistic notions like human rights. This, not incidentally, is more or less how the government has sought to justify its own right-leaning domestic agenda as well: its abandonment of climate targets and gutting of environmental regulations; its tax cuts for the wealthy; its slash and burn attitude toward the public sector; and its overzealous embrace of AI. Both at home and abroad, the Trump threat serves as a pretext for a form of would-be pragmatism that is really just conservatism by any other name. Within its own borders, Canada is increasingly being run less like a country and more like a business. On the world stage, it is barely even pretending to care about concepts like international law and human rights. This also helps explain the very stark difference between the prime minister’s campaign rhetoric and his incessant pursuit of cosy relations with Washington.
James 🇨🇦@jemotluk.bsky.social · 3d ago

"In 2025 millions of Canadians rallied behind what they took to be a promise of renewed economic sovereignty and progressive nation-building. Over the past year, the government they elected has effectively delivered the exact opposite." #cdnpoli

Robson Fletcher@robsonfletcher.com · 3d ago

Seeing lots of COVID minimizing / memory-holing in the U.S. lately. A reminder of what it was like at its worst here in Alberta: "The deadliest week came right around Christmas [2020]. From Dec. 21 to 27, the novel coronavirus was claiming 24 lives per day across the province. One death per hour."

What it’s like to die from COVID — and how it feels for those left behind

Marlene Ducommun realized she was going to die and was angry for about 15 minutes. She’s one of nearly 2,000 Albertans who lost their lives to the disease in the past year.

newsinteractives.cbc.ca