Amnesty International & the Canadian Council for Refugees are suing Mark Carney's government for violating the rights of refugees in Canada by handing them over to the United States, despite evidence of rights abuses under the Trump administration:
https://amnesty.ca/press-releases/new-stca-court-challenge-announcement/
#Canada #CDNPoli #AmnestyInternational
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow. Archived at pluralistic.net I post long threads. If you don't like these in your timeline but want to read them, I suggest unfollowing me here and subscribing to my RSS, or my newsletter, or any of my various long-form feeds. Links at https://pluralistic.net.
mamot.fr
🚨 Bill C-22 would force every Canadian internet provider, messaging app, and cloud service to build surveillance backdoors & store a year of your private data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US — compromising up to a million people. Tell your MP: https://openmedia.org/StopC22-mast #BillC22 #cdnpoli @OpenMediaOrg
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@Paulatics@mstdn.ca
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Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca
Independent senator from Alberta. Host of Alberta Unbound. I live on Treaty Six Territory. she/her Vive le Canada! Forever a Canadian.
mstdn.ca
I am really disturbed at the way the Senate is being “pressured” to pass complex, important and deeply flawed legislation without proper study and debate. Bill C-16 is just the latest example. Under the cover of protecting victims, the government is rolling back important constitutional protections. Few people have noticed. So I’m telling you. https://youtu.be/vhfJqlJdc3A?si=EWWI9vtR6zJD8zjd #BillC16 #cdnpoli #SenCa #femicide #coercivecontrol #Jordan
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@OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social
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OpenMedia
@OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social
🇨🇦 digital rights community fighting for your privacy, democracy, and freedom of expression. High speed Internet is a universal human right. Learn more and take action at https://www.openmedia.org.
mastodon.social
BREAKING: 🇨🇦 decides there will be NO debate of amendments to #BillC22's controversial part 2 - the part that lets gov install surveillance devices in any digital tech in Canada.
Gov amendments will pass without reading; House vote will happen this week. #cdnpoli
https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/house/sitting-137/order-notice/page-11
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The federal government has finally acknowledged the practice of surveillance pricing, months after the NDP raised the alarm and sparked a national conversation about it.
But the bill doesn’t ban this disturbing practice - in fact, it doesn’t even mention it by name. Instead, it just promises vague regulatory action in the future.
In contrast, Wab Kinew’s NDP government in Manitoba is simply making the practice illegal. That’s the only way to stop big tech and big grocery chains from teaming up to gouge consumers.
We’ve put this issue on the table, and we’ll keep building public pressure on the government to act decisively: today’s bill does nothing definitive to protect Canadians from this very real threat.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/carney-governments-privacy-legislation-targets-data-use-surveillance-pricing/article_f0790b3e-f42c-42a4-bc11-51f7e75e5771.html
#cdnpoli #surveillancepricing #NDP
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“We have to recognise that the world is committed to net zero – more than 80% of our trading partners are committed to net zero (…). The world is changing. We can pretend that’s not happening, as some in Australian domestic politics do. Or we can prepare.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/13/australia-fossil-fuel-exports-renewables-cop-chris-bowen
#Canada #CDNPoli #Australia #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #NoPipelines
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@OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social
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3d ago
OpenMedia
@OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social
🇨🇦 digital rights community fighting for your privacy, democracy, and freedom of expression. High speed Internet is a universal human right. Learn more and take action at https://www.openmedia.org.
mastodon.social
Federal political parties are collecting your data and using it to target messages to you—but unlike companies and governments, they aren’t held to the same privacy rules. Canadians are calling for change! ✍️ Sign and share: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237
#cdnpoli
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@mayintoronto@beige.party
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5d ago
May Likes Toronto
@mayintoronto@beige.party
Aspiring auntie with dadjoke uncle energy. Genderfluid queerdo. Former career nomad settling into building better tech companies. Community educator and organizer. Prone to verbose macroblogging. Purpose: get Fedi to nap more. Posts about: #cdnpoli, #onpoli, #topoli. Toronto life. Sometimes I'll go on about product or capitalism or antitrust. https://ODLAN.ca is trying to make things better for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. I commit blasphemy with spreadsheets.
beige.party
Canada Post has a new service for digital verification that uses their post offices for human verification.
However, what's on the back end of the system that enables digital verification? That's entirely nebulous. Canada Post sold off their tech innovation arm to Deloitte. Who wants to bet Persona is involved?
https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/IDplus/
Anyway, Gander (Canadian ATProto social) requires this verification and it's how I found out about it.
#cdnpoli #privacy
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@parismarx@mastodon.online
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Jun 11, 2026
Paris Marx
@parismarx@mastodon.online
critic of tech futures | host of tech won’t save us | writer of disconnect | my book “road to nowhere” is out now! | he/they
mastodon.online
Mark Carney’s AI strategy suggests Canadians’ concerns about AI will evaporate if they become more “literate” about the technology.
In trying to boost industry, Carney ignores many of the biggest concerns about generative AI and data centres. If anyone needs to become more AI literate, it’s him.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/06/11/AI-Safety-Concerns-Mark-Carney/
#tech #cdnpoli #canada #markcarney #ai #generativeai
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@quaff@thecanadian.social
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Jun 10, 2026
quaff
@quaff@thecanadian.social
Privacy advocate 🔐. Full-stack Web Developer by trade; fledgling rustacean 🦀 by moonlight. Lifelong astronomy student 🪐. Sci-Fi enthusiast 🖖. Avid horror content consumer 👻. "Hey! Why the drive by?" - Pluto (probably) Tech admin 👩💻 for the https://journa.host & https://newsie.social instances too.
thecanadian.social
Bill C-34, the new Digital Safety Act / Safe Social Media Act.
If this passes, this will have sweeping repercussions for the Canadian fediverse.
#canada #privacy #cdnpoli #billc34 #fediverse #mastoadmin
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/news/2026/06/government-of-canada-introduces-legislation-to-make-social-media-services-and-ai-chatbots-safer-for-children.html
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@kevinrns@mstdn.social
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Jun 10, 2026
Kevin Russell
@kevinrns@mstdn.social
Image is whats on twitter now. All tweets about their propaganda, silent censorship, silently censored, removed. Twitter is no longer a social media site. The last image was the Canadian Womens Hockey Team Beat Russia, 6 to 1. The Russians showed up late without test results, so Canada played in masks, every minute of every period. I was and am, filled with admiration. Entire Site Is Content Warning. Fascism is harming my friends, taking democracy, its ugly, be warned. Triggers.
mstdn.social
@Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
No, Carney moves to deep mass surveillance of all adults while pretending its about "the children"
We made a mistake, Carney is a trick, a subterfuge, a subversion.
#cdnpoli #lpc #carney
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
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Jun 10, 2026
Scary Austin
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
The Last Rose of Summer is a true story about corruption in #cancer research. I discovered a cheap, plant-derived drug that could replace some much more toxic (but more lucrative) therapies. #BigPharma got involved and suppressed the research. Eventually I had to publish the story in thinly veiled fiction and survive a bunch of murder attempts. "Mary Austin" is a pseudonym, as my publisher forced me to use one. So... hi, I'm "Mary." 🤷♀️
mstdn.social
At a First Nations #Pride celebration/protest in #Manitoba led by Oshki-Giizhig, an Indigenous-led nonprofit that benefits people with complex medical and housing needs.
https://oshki-giizhig.org/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZVqmqySvPi/
#LGBT #CdnPoli
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When the system is rigged for the rich while the 99% struggle to afford the basics, public ownership is how we take back the economy.
https://youtube.com/shorts/E14aIMY0D-o?si=sXrNSojiHp9VR5zJ
#cdnpoli #affordability #NDP
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@pinhman@humanwords.party
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Jun 10, 2026
Gordon J Holtslander
@pinhman@humanwords.party
VanIslander ExSker Pinholer altphoto steelGuitar linux !Fear&Ignorance guitars & cameras. I make new old photos. Was a biologist once, now herd electrons through complex mazes? I do technical support in FirstNations Language learning
humanwords.party
“By focusing legislative attention on who is permitted to use social media rather than on how the platforms operate, an age-based ban lets legislators and the companies off the hook from more effective broad-based regulation..
Rejecting a ban does not mean rejecting regulation. Rather, it places the emphasis on the need to regulate the platforms, not the user..
government can impose requirements on how platforms are designed and create liability for failure to meet them without locking anyone out”
ie. regulate the villain not the victim
Meanwhile adults will entrust their identity and privacy with corporations who’ve proven they are untrustworthy, or we will entrust the untrustworthy to measure access?
This is nothing more than political performance.
Solving the problem will take much more than a petty performance.
#cdnpoli
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-a-kids-social-media-ban-but-were-rightly-afraid-to-ask-a-faq-on-age-verification-and-mandated-id-for-everyone/
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@keyofG@mstdn.social
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Jun 07, 2026
keyofG
@keyofG@mstdn.social
alternative or Indie music disabilities #Linux #Debian #Murena/Teracube smartphone #sustainability #Brodie (commuter bike) Democratic socialist She/her/they unceded territory of indigenous peoples in 🍁 RSS: lindarambles.mataroa.blog/
mstdn.social
Canadian warehouse workers have signed the first-ever collective agreement with Walmart, a breakthrough labour organizers are calling a “historic and powerful step”. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/06/canada-walmart-first-union-deal
#union #workersrights #humanrights #cdnpoli #uspoli
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@LALegault@newsie.social
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Jun 04, 2026
All the things she said. 🤌🏻
@LALegault@newsie.social
Former print (research)/television/comms. ≠Legal advice. Liberté, égalité, fraternité (And that includes you.) 🇨🇦 ⚖️ 🍉 🇺🇦 😷 📚 #cdnpoli Avatar picture: me. Header picture: Barbie/Oppenheimer watching a pink mushroom cloud
newsie.social
There is growing dissent in the Liberal caucus because Mark Carney is as mean to his colleagues as he is in his policy.
I have been telling people this for 11 months
One MP stated that the Prime Minister "yells" and "punches down at caucus all the time," reportedly telling members, "If you don't agree with our agenda, I don't want to hear it".
#cdnpoli #Canada #democracy
Free link: https://archive.is/0gsbZ
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/he-yells-mark-carneys-focus-has-liberal-mps-bristling/article_f2abbdb9-5c04-440c-8e37-a0c54e0a18a0.html
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@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party
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Jun 02, 2026
Ms. Que Banh
@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party
Family Caregiver. Eco/Social Justice Activist. Disability Advocate. Decolonizer. Accessibility Consultant. Eldercare Liason. Death Doula. Photographer. Teochew Chinese & Indigenous Vietnamese. War & Polio Survivor. ND, AuDHD. Cat lover. Gardener. Water/Forest protector. GenX. AnarchoSocialist. Radical disabled leftie. Yeller, at corrupt government, cops & corporations. Vancouver Island, BC. #AsianMastodon #POC #StopEcocide #BeTheChange #ACAB #StopAbleism #CovidSafety #DoxNazis
beige.party
Helping PACES Vancouver with Victoria & area postering, door to door community awareness & got some college/university students to assist in getting posters up & more door to door community awareness building volunteer work ✊️
Please follow:
@aicaution@mastodon.social
Please boost for more awareness on the anti unethical AI fight in BC.
#StopAIInSchools #PauseSchoolAI #BCPoli #CDNpoli #AI #Ethics #PublicSchool #BCEducation #HumanizeLearning #PACESVancouver #nonprofit #BCSchools #Volunteer #Petition
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Palantir is deeply embedded in the scariest activities of the Trump regime – enabling everything from mass deportations and lawless assassinations in international waters to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and war crimes.
CEO Alex Karp’s recent online manifesto is a truly disturbing, supremacist screed. One UK MP said it “sounds like the ramblings of a supervillain.”
The city of London, England recently canceled a contract with Palantir.
Why is Canada handing nearly $50 million in public money to this creepy company?
Doing business through a secretive contract with this MAGA-aligned tech giant is totally incompatible with the Prime Minister’s promise to defend Canadian sovereignty.
https://theijf.org/brief/canadian-palantir-contract-amendments-obd
#cdnpoli #NDP #palantir
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@quaff@thecanadian.social
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May 29, 2026
quaff
@quaff@thecanadian.social
Privacy advocate 🔐. Full-stack Web Developer by trade; fledgling rustacean 🦀 by moonlight. Lifelong astronomy student 🪐. Sci-Fi enthusiast 🖖. Avid horror content consumer 👻. "Hey! Why the drive by?" - Pluto (probably) Tech admin 👩💻 for the https://journa.host & https://newsie.social instances too.
thecanadian.social
MP Jenny Kwan has been doing great work protecting our rights (amongst many other great work they're doing).
https://bsky.app/profile/jennykwan.bsky.social/post/3mk6vsdevg22d
Please consider signing their petition against Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act, 2026) and contacting your MP regarding the act.
We've seen this type of bill before, they will keep trying to pass this in some form, and so we'll keep fighting it.
Let's go to work.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416
#ndp #cdnpoli #canada
(PS: I'm working on getting the MP over here 🫡)
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