I cannot stress this enough: our government is falling for a corporate scam in using AI the way they are using it. It could very well cost lives. That they are that susceptible to that scam, says a lot about their capability to make other decisions in the best interests of Canada as well. #CDNpoli

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 3mo ago

“Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada acknowledged using generative AI to reject an application for permanent residence on the grounds the applicant’s job duties didn’t match her claimed Canadian job experience. However, the AI tool erroneously generated the applicant’s current job duties.”

hah. fat chance from this government

rabble.ca@rabble.ca · 3mo ago

Canada has long historic diplomatic ties to Cuba. Mexico has stepped up to offer support as the country weathers an oil blockade from the US, Canada should do the same. #canpoli

"Surely, Canada Strong includes health care, too. Without healthy Canadians, there is no Canada Strong." Research Fellow @danyaalraza.com calls for federal leadership on health care as a nation-building project. 🔗 www.hilltimes.com/2026/05/06/m...

So did the South Vietnamese.

“Not unexpectedly, the corporate media have largely come to the rescue of USAID. They try to give the impression that they are mainly concerned that some countries would be badly effected by its loss. In fact, the follow-the-flag media understand that USAID is part of the imperial toolkit”

The Demise of USAID: Few Regrets in Latin America

USAID (US Agency for International Development) spends around $2 billion annually in Latin America, which is only 5% of its global budget. The temporarily closed-down agency’s future looks bleak, whil...

counterpunch.org

Edm_Dantes@emchi85.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Presumably you're all good with the below, right? 😌🤷‍♂️ www.npr.org/sections/goa...

🤬🤬 A conservative government led by Premier Ford who has disparaged and impoverished people with disabilities fails at finding them jobs after ripping them off social assistance? It’s as though PCs don’t care about people who aren’t part of their Gravy Class! More on tonight’s OShow Scandal Panel!

Mark Carney, tragically, is the worst PM in Canadian history for climate change. Yes, worse than Harper. Read this incredible thread for why.

Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Not just bad for the climate, the worst we've had to date. Harper might have *wanted* to cause this much harm, but Carney is the one actually doing it. Harper was warned, but the situation in Harper's term wasn't nearly this dire. Not by a long shot. 37/

so you're telling me a white dude calls for mods to "clean house" of trans people, furries, and leftists he doesn't like, the head moderator of the website likes a bunch of his tweets, and then the next day the moderators begin purging the website of trans people, furries, and leftists? strange!

Linda McQuaig sets it out clearly. Privatization is great for investors, lousy for the public. The only question: Is Mark Carney here for Canadians or for foreign investment corporations? Continued Liberal ambiguity about this is causing anxiety we do not need right now. #BillyBishop #MarkCarney

Linda McQuaig: Privatizing our airports won’t keep air travel affordable — just look at how Highway 407 is playing out

Highway 407 is an example of ruinous privatization. There is also well-documented evidence of problems with hundreds of airport privatizations around the world.

thestar.com

While Ontarians are struggling to afford groceries, rent, and basic bills, Doug Ford spent $29M of taxpayer money on a luxury gravy plane for trips to the U.S. If this was really a “clean giveback,” then show Ontarians the receipts. What are they hiding? #onpoli www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Doug Ford declines to say when records on scrapped $28.9-million jet will be released

Premier Doug Ford is stonewalling on releasing documents related to the controversial purchase of a $28.9-million executive jet.

thestar.com

So far there has been so much conflicting news. Did he even buy it? Was it a distraction from the changes to FOI? Some say he was using it before the news came out that he was going to buy it. Others say that he has other private jets as well so he didn't need another one. #OAC #ONpoli

Tyler Watt@tylerwatt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I don't accept "just trust us". I asked Premier Ford a simple question: how much will Doug Ford's $29M luxury jet cost taxpayers after its return, and when will we see the receipts? ✈️💰 Ontarians deserve transparency. Instead, we received spin, deflection, and non-answers. #onpoli

You don't say?

Unofficial CP24 Mirror@cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Senior diplomat skeptical of Carney's middle powers pitch

I said this in the 80s

The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Canada’s cognitive sovereignty — the ability of Canadians to make political decisions freely, without foreign coercion or manipulation — is not simply under threat; it is being actively contested by foreign actors seeking to shape Canada’s democratic future.” disinfowatch.org/wp-content/u...

His name being "Champagne" in combination with the Peter Lorre-esque mannerisms, is sheer perfection, to the eyes of this observer

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

François-Philippe Champagne on funding Canada's sovereign wealth fund: "We're gonna look at how we can get the full value of federal assets ... look at Australia, look at the UK. They've been generating value from federal assets, providing better services, generating value."

Very silly that the conservatives in Toronto are terrified by hypothetical violence from unhoused people which is not borne out by statistics than the very real and documented road violence and death that happens frequently every year.

Really good thread here. also, good spider too, obviously.

Dante Atkins@danteatkins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hi, spider expert here! Kyle Rittenhouse was bitten by a Brown Recluse (loxosceles reclusa). Unlike widow bites, recluse bites don't affect the nervous system. Instead, they are a cytotoxic venom, destroying local tissues at the site of the bite.. So how bad could this get? Well...

Can't he be sued for this?

onion person@junlper.beer · 3mo ago

remembering this

Congratulations (posthumously) to Bin Laden. Did not see an Al Qaeda victory coming, but here we are.

I had a commenter on one of my posts insist that it's impossible that Mark Carney is worse for the climate than Harper was, and having taken the time to respond at length, I thought I should share that as a thread because it's clearly not just one person operating under that false belief. 🧵1/

Many people are aware of at least one good reason to avoid Hogwarts Legacy. Fewer are aware that it’s a retelling of the antisemitic “blood libel” myth. Yes, really. The game’s central antagonist is a greedy, hook-nosed “goblin” trying to kidnap children and use their blood for a magic ritual.

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

Real History, despite the efforts of a certain children's book author to engage in denialism

Matthew Hodson@matthewhodson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

Amazing how many deals Carney is making with the US to ensure that Canada is reliant upon the US for decades to come. Publicly he speaks of a pivot away from the US, but his actions speak to a different course of action. www.state.gov/releases/bur...

Canada – C-17 Sustainment - United States Department of State

Transmittal # 26-44 The U.S. Department of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Canada for its purchase of C-17 sustainment services and relat...

state.gov

War isn't all bad, say Canadians.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Canada swings to trade surplus for the first time in 6 months #Canada #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

Meta recently added new restrictions around "Antifa content" on Facebook and Instagram. Internal documents I reviewed show it applies when a user merely uses the word "Antifa" in a post. theintercept.com/2026/04/14/f...

Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa”

Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.”

theintercept.com

i’m so tired of the demonization of mental illness. we’re both tired. you should take a nap. i’ll drink caffeine and keep fighting for Mad liberation.

Todders@todders707.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am so tired of a mentally ill president.

They say a Time Machine doesn't exist, and yet I stumbled across this song,

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Brand New Friend (1985) [HD 1080]

YouTube video by Bill Vickerman 2.0

youtu.be

She may very well be a racist, but the quote in question was used to falsely accuse first nations and indigenous people of being nazis. Not a statement of her own beliefs. So she's a disgusting asshole and a racist, but not in the way being suggested.

Spudly Do-Right@spudleydo-right.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just in case you thought openly fascist propaganda wasn't here in Canada. BC has a nazi in office. Also the Alberta separatist movement is being fueled by paid 20 something Dutch YouTube actors. youtu.be/CbPcVh6whrs

This again is one of the problems of this whole thing. The Iranian leadership is not "insane." They're fairly rational actors that seem to behave in rational ways, but if you keep saying they're insane there's no way you can talk to them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

RubIo: "The top people in that government are insane in the brain"