youtu.be/JEYrJT2MJ4w Informative and helpful film. Well worth a few minutes of your time. @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social @minesactioncan.bsky.social

Move Fast, Break People | A Film by Stop Killer Robots

YouTube video by Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

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For those voting in the #Ottawa municipal election this tool from @ecologyottawa.bsky.social may be quite useful. www.ecologyottawa.ca/municipal_el... #OttCity

Municipal Election 2026

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"Patios, plazas and alleyways in much of the rest of the world are filled with public activities and private enterprise that generally get regulated or ticketed out of existence here." "OttCity

#Ottawa voters something to consider on Monday. "In most wealthy countries the city centre is dominated by car-free walkways, bustling town squares and rapid transit stations; in Canada the car still reigns supreme." The link is a gift. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7526c81...

#Ottawa voters something to consider on Monday. "In most wealthy countries the city centre is dominated by car-free walkways, bustling town squares and rapid transit stations; in Canada the car still reigns supreme." The link is a gift. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7526c81...

I spent a year visiting ‘world-class’ cities. Here’s how Canada compares on the global stage

When you go to big city after big city for an entire year, you realize the areas where Canada’s world-class obsessed cities struggle to keep up with the rest of the world

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@science-for-peace.bsky.social has an electronic petition calling for Canada to increase participation in UN peace support efforts. If interested here is the link to read and sign it www.scienceforpeace.org/petitions It is a very simple process. Please share. @canadianpeacemuseum.ca

Shouldn't the plan be to get the other phases to work first?

mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social@mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social · last wk.

If re-elected, I'll get to work right away on LRT Phase 3 to Kanata, Stittsville, and Barrhaven. See my plan: marksutcliffe2026.ca/priorities/t...

We are calling for proactive international engagement before these decisions lead to further proliferation, long-term landmine contamination, and civilian suffering. Read the full article here: icblcmc.org/our-impact/i... #MineFreeWorld

ICBL Calls on Global Leaders to Prevent Renewed Production of Antipersonnel Mines by Poland and F...

Geneva, 12 October 2026 — The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), the global civil society coalition working for a world free of landmines and a co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, ...

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Mines and #climatechange provide a deadly mix due to flood, drought and heat. Therefore "closer integration between mine clearance, environmental governance and climate planning will become increasingly important in the decades ahead", argues @sipri.org www.sipri.org/commentary/b...

Beyond a legacy of war: Integrating mine action into climate security

This blog highlights how climate change and landmine contamination can interact to create new security risks.

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#Ottawa needs leaders who understand not all things in life need to include cars or trucks, #OttCity

Pyke@pykey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ottawa needs parks like La Fountaine! And beer/burgers 😋

On October 10, 1997 the @minefreeworld.bsky.social was announced as the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Jody Williams, for their efforts to ban and remove anti-personnel landmines. (www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Nobel Peace Prize 1997

The Nobel Peace Prize 1997 was awarded jointly to International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines"

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The Cluster Munition Coalition is looking forward to working with Ambassador Alexander Kmentt of Austria as President of the 14th Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. #BanClusterBombs #MineFreeWorld

We congratulate Navi Pillay, 2026 #NobelPeacePrize laureate. Her recognition recalls the importance of defending international law even in the most challenging circumstances, when the rules protecting civilians matter most. #MineFreeWorld #BanClusterBombs

Hmmm I think the city you live in and where you were elected may have something to say about that. #Sens

Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mark Carney on the return of hockey: "We are expecting a final between the Canadians and the Oilers. Why not? Why not?"

Why are Canadian politicians still using Twitter?

Peter Dudley 🇨🇦@peterd56.bsky.social · 3w ago

Stop using Twitter/X

Yes it’s more urgent than ever to launch negotiations on a treaty to #StopKillerRobots!

Stop Killer Robots@stopkillerrobots.bsky.social · 3w ago

🎬 We’re happy to have been involved in "Will We Let AI Kill People?," a new film by Lex International exploring the urgent need to regulate #AutonomousWeapons. It’s more urgent than ever to launch negotiations on a treaty to #StopKillerRobots. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIT...

The problems with OC Transpo can be fixed but it takes political leadership & commitment. There has been none of that since the day Mayor Watson & city councillors had their giddy first ride on the LRT. Thereafter, bus service declined rapidly & train service never really got going. #Ottawa #ottcity

Shannon Proudfoot@sproudfoot.bsky.social · 3w ago

We have one car, both by choice and for budgetary reasons. But boy, it sure feels like OC Transpo and the city of Ottawa actively discourage anyone from relying on their system, with constant kicks in the shins like this. It is enraging.

You championed the city spending 1/2 billion $$ on Lansdull 2.0 which was a fiasco because the international design competition for Lansdowne 1.0 was cancelled by Council!

mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social@mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social · 3w ago

We have an opportunity to build housing on City-owned properties. I will launch design competitions to create vibrant, walkable communities with a mix of market and affordable non-market housing. We will get shovels in the ground within two years.

Did they mention November of which year?

Occasionally Spooky Transpo@occtranspo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Womp womp.

The Review Conference may have closed on 18 September, but our work is far from over. Meeting in Laos, one of the countries most contaminated by cluster munitions, was a powerful wake-up call for everyone who attended. #BanClusterBombs

"Precisely when states are investing more money in defence, developing new weapons systems, and private companies are gaining influence in the security sector, rules are needed to place limits on military force." www.ips-journal.eu/topics/forei... About Germany but applies equally to #Canada.

Strength needs limits

Europe is betting increasingly heavily on military power. But as rearmament accelerates, arms control is becoming more – not less – essential

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Nothing says "AI executives" quite like assuming what you are reading is correct and not noticing the misspelling of the name of your country.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4w ago

Trump White House misspells “United” on the official “super intelligence” document with AI executives. Instead of “President of the United States,” it reads: “President of the Unites States.” Nothing says “super intelligence” quite like misspelling the name of the country.

"one may hope that Norway and other committed states have not forgotten what an effective treaty-making process requires — and that they remember that the point of disarmament diplomacy is not to agree at any cost, but to protect people from war." spoileralerts.substack.com/p/the-three-...

The three o’clock follies

After the applause, a harder question: how can the rule-making majority deliver a treaty on autonomous weapons if the blocking minority holds a veto?

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"More civilian harm, less accountability and a faster slide into riskier, automated warfare.” That's what's at stake if states do not move toward a treaty to #StopKillerRobots at November's CCW Review Conference www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... #AutonomousWeapons

U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

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"The region’s long game, total nuclear disarmament in the age of AI, might be the answer to one of the most intractable problems in grand strategy today." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lati... @nuclearban.bsky.social @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social

Latin America’s Long Game: Nuclear Disarmament in the Age of AI

The answer to one of the world’s most dangerous security problems was drafted in Mexico City nearly sixty years ago.

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How does the saying? Oh yeah: no deal is better than a bad deal.

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · last mo.

I was involved in a foreign policy deliberative democracy exercise this spring, and the report was just released Basically, they take 400 Canadians, an exact demographic cross-section, who spend a weekend discussing foreign policy www.global-canada.org/foreign-poli...

“[A machine] must never have the final say over who lives and who dies.” Austria’s Foreign Minister warned the UN that increasingly #AutonomousWeapons are already being used on the battlefield. Governments must ensure humans — not machines — remain in control. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mqo...

🇦🇹 Austria - Federal Minister Addresses United Nations General Debate, 81st Session | #UNGA

YouTube video by United Nations

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“[AI is] being used to target real people, real ships and real schools, that’s a real problem today.” #StopKillerRobots' Peter Asaro spoke to @sfgate.com about AI-enabled surveillance, the growing accessibility of dangerous tech, and why regulation needs to catch up. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

This SF startup's advanced stalking drone is meant to keep you safe

A terrifying video shows an AI-piloted drone that can stalk someone.

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"[AI is] making lethal recommendations, which don’t appear to receive enough human oversight to prevent atrocities." States must act now and create legal safeguards to #StopKillerRobots www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran

Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.

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That means tech companies are still the ones making the rules: “Their terms of service are defining how AI systems are being used for war to a greater extent than any laws that have been written, or to a greater extent than even executive branch guidelines,” @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social

Marie Lamensch@marielamensch.bsky.social · last mo.

Killer AI Is Already Here. We’re Using It in Iran. "As AI companies enter the battlefield, “the scale of atrocities committed…is rising correspondingly.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...