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I’ve seen it pop up more in local feeds recently, and the entire community is just one guy posting links to news sites being vaguely critical of the current Liberal admin in ways that aren’t actually critical. To anyone who has had the misfortune of exposure to national and provincial subreddits, this is a hallmark of conservative disinformation campaigns that utilize factual, authority driven news media outlets to platform criticisms which carefully condemn the current admin without introducing systemic criticism that could threaten Con or fascist talking points. They would often post links to say, the CBC or National Post that discusses budgetary or policy scandals, and then when that eventually seems legit enough, they’d just spam headlines about immigrant crime rates or trans pedophiles (I’m lookin at you, r/Ontario). So, the criticism may be that, “the Liberals aren’t doing what they said they’d do,” but that is also a vehicle to suggest that their appropriation of anti-racism or gender equality rhetoric (which they would suggest is genuine anti-racism and gender equality) is also a sign of this failure.

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Ottawa’s reaction to a new Chinese law on ethnic unity is tepid and does not live up to Canada’s promise to stop foreign governments from threatening diaspora abroad, a Uyghur rights activist said.

A former federal scientist in an alleged foreign interference case is accused of copying more than 2,000 documents off a shared departmental server to share with China as his lifelong career was nearing its end, CBC News has learned.

Note: I do not support Bad Badford, just a reminder that we are all responsible for making sure he doesn’t get into office.

Telus’s plans for two Al data centres in Vancouver could hit a wall, with a city councillor pushing to pause them until the city sorts out some actual rules. OneCity Vancouver Councillor Lucy Maloney is bringing a motion to council on July 15 called “Addressing the Risks of Digital Infrastructure,” according to CTV News.

Wildfire seasons, amplified by climate change, are getting hotter, longer, and drier, and Canada’s resources are buckling under the weight of the number and scale. In the last three years, Canada has spent more days at National Preparedness Level (NPL) five—the highest, meaning domestic resources are maxed out—than in the combined years of the decade before.

This is the first time nurses have gone on strike in British Columbia since 1989, and the first province-wide nursing strike anywhere in Canada since nurses in Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador went on strike in 1999.

But the data centre boom is zeroing in on one province: Alberta. The prairie province accounts for 93 per cent of all planned data centre capacity in Canada, in large part because of its cheap natural gas-powered electricity. Plus, Alberta’s UCP government has been courting the AI industry, offering corporate tax incentives to data centre builders and exempting them from otherwise routine environmental impact assessments.

Zhang Xinyan is one among 19 overseas-based democracy campaigners wanted on national security charges.

Canada objected on Thursday to the International Olympic Committee loosening its suspension on Russian athletes.

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In an initial response to CBC’s questions about why there is no cell service in the village, a Bell MTS spokesperson said: “wireless expansion in rural regions, such as St. Lazare, is a challenge for private investment alone and we are open to partnerships with provincial and federal government to expand our network.”

A new report finds that governments worldwide are reshaping labour law to favour corporate power.

The federal government says it’s simplifying the current ‘Buy Canadian’ procurement process to make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to be competitive and get new projects to market faster.

Immediately following privatization, CN began prioritizing its new shareholders—within less than a year, CN initiated its first dividend payout in 1996, delivering $99 million to shareholders. Since then, dividend growth has been explosive, with increases of between 10 and 30 per cent year-over-year every year from 1997 to 2019, with the exception of a seven per cent increase in 2010.

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The federal government said it will invest up to $400 million to support the expansion of Teck Resources’ smelting and refining complex in Trail, B.C.

On Tuesday morning, Attorney General Niki Sharma told media the province owes it to the community to prevent something like this from happening again.

Allegations that officers ripped locs from Black men to keep as ‘trophies’ have stunned the public. But those who have lived under aggressive policing say the accusations reveal a reality they’ve been describing for decades

Nine countries have committed to a new global defence bank, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday, in a boost ‌for the multilateral drive to help rearm allied nations.

Canada’s economy was in a trade surplus for the third straight month in May and exports were up for the fourth month, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday.

I’m playing something of a devil’s advocate here, but I think there’s a case to be made that the three new pipelines announced recently could end up being a good thing–for the environment!

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A British Columbia journalist who was targeted for months by followers of Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui says he’s feeling “tremendous relief” after Guo was sentenced to 30 years in a U.S. jail for fraud.

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China-aligned attackers broke into the networks of U.S. and Canadian universities to steal sensitive data and establish persistent access via webshells and backdoors, Proofpoint threat researchers said Tuesday.

The government will also remove the “non-partisan criterion” that previously defined the appointments process under Justin Trudeau.

The old Mayor of Clarington, Ontario, John Mutton has been leading a hate campaign against a family with a hobby farm, who just happen to live in The Greenbelt (search Middle Road, Bowmanville - https://greenbelt.ca/maps).

The Manitoba government has refused to join the project

This submission analyzes Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which would enact broad surveillance obligations and reforms in Canada. Issues include: the bill’s sweeping scope, significant constitutional and human rights risks, transparency and accountability deficits, and dangers to encryption and Canada’s cybersecurity. We recommend entirely withdrawing several elements of the bill and suggest amendments to mitigate harms.