I have gotten through every single day of my life without any voluntary/deliberate use of generative AI.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

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:

Labour leaders are already rethinking their political relationship with the “elbows-up” Prime Minister, writes @stufts.bsky.social. The right to strike is at stake. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: WestJet labour dispute is really a proxy battle between Carney and unions

Liberal government continues to set a tone restricting the right to strike in federally regulated sectors, something that’s emerging as foundational to the Prime Minister’s economic strategy

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

On this day in 1834, slavery was abolished across the British Empire, including such places as Trinidad and Tobago, and Nova Scotia (now part of Canada). This was due to centuries of resistance by the enslaved not altruism on the part of the powerful.

Exploring The Theme Of Emancipation Day 2026

YouTube video by TTT Live Online

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Municipal/local government law is often an afterthought in conversations about regulating AI in Canada. But it has the potential to do a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to determining where the physical infrastructures underlying AI systems are located, or whether they get built at all.

Emmerson Jull@emmersonj.bsky.social · last wk.

Mississauga councillors vote 11-0 to support a one-year pause on data centres. If approved on Sept. 16, this could be the first interim control bylaw in Canada. It’s likely to face appeals. My latest for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/29/n...

Big story out this morning by @lilypolenchuk.bsky.social and @readtheorchard.org 🔥 Coincidentally, David Slater and I will be citing this in a related scoop for @breachmedia.ca - watch for that soon! www.readtheorchard.org/p/alberta-mi...

Alberta ministry removed campus free speech from encampment talking points

FOIP records withheld for 2 years show that the government also omitted language describing encampments as “illegal tactics” from key messages on the 2024 pro-Palestine protests.

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This is a really interesting, comprehensive piece. Well worth a read if you're into housing policy.

The Tyee@thetyee.ca · last wk.

There are little-discussed, key positives to the “Canada-British Columbia Partnership on Condo Conversion” program proposed in June. Ernest Lang writes. #canpoli #bcpoli

The person charged was involved in the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta. This is an important -- and worrying -- case to keep an eye on www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge. (Gift Article)

Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.

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This would be a great opening reading for a legal theory course criticallegalthinking.com/2026/07/27/k...

Key Concept: Law’s Violence

The conventional story runs like this: violence is what happens where law ends. Law is the alternative to the feud, the pacifier of the state of nature,

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I love Ford City.

I’m surprised to report that I really enjoyed The Odyssey

I love Ford City.

I've watched Bea Arthur deliver this line a million times and it never gets old

Spudly Do-Right@spudleydo-right.bsky.social · 2w ago

Based Golden Girls

The Right to Housing is turning 20! Celebrate two decades of advocacy in Manitoba and help us keep pushing for social housing, an end to homelessness, and better protections for renters! RSVP: www.righttohousing.ca/anniversary

Ontario is using AI in its jails, and assigning Black prisoners to maximum security more than others The government knew its AI program would likely produce biased results, and used it anyway Our latest @breachmedia.ca investigation www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Ha...

AI is putting Black prisoners in maximum security

YouTube video by The Breach

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The flakey sketchy anon survey monkey (!) the federal government put out on the Island Airport, their "consultation," ends Friday. If you haven't yet be sure to still fill it out. There are places you can add your own thoughts like "this survey is faulty and skews towards done deal" and etc.

Public consultation on the future of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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Some good injunction news c/o @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social 🤞🤞🤞 ecojustice.ca/news/injunct...

Emergency protections for Piping plover at Wasaga

Urgent Federal Court order sought to stop damage to critical habitat at Wasaga Beach

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Exactly what everyone expected. Very glad Canada participated. 🙄

Dan Miller@dan--miller.bsky.social · 2w ago

Leaked U.S. counterterrorism strategy: • Expands "pre-crime" investigations • Labels left-wing movements as top terror threats • Targets pro-Palestinian activism • Broadens counterterrorism powers against domestic dissent www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre...

An environmentalist who grew up at Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Ontario's chemical valley, where hearing alarm warnings is a part of life, is concerned about a proposed west to east oil pipeline. The Nation has lived with the fallout of industry for years.

Aamjiwnaang First Nation worried about proposed Alberta to Ontario oil pipeline

Aamjiwnaang First Nation has had it’s share of environmental struggles. For decades the community has lived with toxic surroundings from Ontario's chemical valley, where roughly forty percent of Canad...

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My latest for CNO:

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 2w ago

One of the lesser-known services Thomson Reuters offers is Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting, or CLEAR, a database that compiles individuals’ private information not normally accessible to law enforcement.

The internet was a mistake www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Fewer Canadians believe humans are causing climate change, poll finds — even as Ontario wildfires burn

Researchers credit the trend with the politicization of climate policies.

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It's intended as a classroom simulation, but the virtual test run with volunteers will be 8/28-8/30. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Help me test a labor history simulation: Durban, South Africa, 1973. Test-run: Aug 28-Aug 30

Please answer the questionnaire if you're game to try this out. We'll do the whole thing virtually using Discord, Zoom, and Google Forms. It's meant to be fairly absorbing, so I put it on a weekend, 8...

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Thomson Reuters is a Canadian company, controlled by the Thomson family. I presume this is what Mark Carney meant when he said, "Canada Strong will help make America great again."

404 Media@404media.co · 3w ago

NEW: DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information — to help ICE investigate “voter fraud”, according to documents reviewed by 404 Media.

Welp. The law society finally nailed someone (a 30 year call no less) for an AI generated factum and related shenanigans. www.thestar.com/news/gta/6-m...

6-month suspension for Toronto lawyer who cited fake ChatGPT cases, blamed law student, faced contempt of court hearing, went back to ChatGPT for advice

"The court must quickly and firmly make clear that, regardless of technology, lawyers cannot rely on non-existent authorities or cases that say the opposite of what is submitted."

thestar.com

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

I can't leave my apartment and much of province is on fire, but watching this still made me happy for a brief moment.

Dylan Reeve@dylanreeve.com · 3w ago

It's very hard not to love @doctorow.pluralistic.net when he gets stuck into something. This video really lays out the AI bubble clearly!

So after refusing to confirm or deny if anyone was going, it turns out Carney did send someone to the McCarthy/COINTELPRO redux palooza! I mean why not? Those new pipelines can’t repress their opponents all by themselves! And it’s not like everything is literally on fire!!

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 3w ago

The Trump administration is hosting a high-level global meeting on combating “political terrorism” in Washington — a move experts have described as a politically-motivated crackdown on left-wing movements. Canada is one of more than 60 countries attending. Just in from @markramzy.bsky.social: