Canada

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/139539

Canada’s law expands the territory where big tech platforms are forced to pay for news and could lead to similar laws passing in larger markets, including Brazil, Britain and the United States.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/116177

“There are Muslim, white, and Asian students in the crowd. There are students from every ethnicity. This is not an ethnic or a religious protest, this is a protest for the students who just … want to not be indoctrinated. We just want to have our beliefs that differ from other people,”

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/92143

Has Canada declared war on the USA by shutting down their power generation capability?

And I always thought those Canadians were so nice.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/87258

Both CBC and NPR receive government funding. Why are they trying to hide it.

We have a right to know if we might be reading government propaganda

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/87199

Josh Alexander, 17, was suspended from St. Joseph’s High School in Renfrew, Ontario, in November and issued a trespass notice for organizing a student walkout against biological males being allowed in girls’ bathrooms.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/86275

Toronto’s plan does not limit the amount of drugs that can be possessed for personal use. But the city still claims that it will investigate drug trafficking and other violations.

“Drugs in possession for personal use can vary considerably depending on the type of drugs being used, or an individual’s tolerance to a substance. For the anticipated benefits of decriminalization to be available to all Torontonians, the model should apply to all drugs in possession if they are for personal use.”

In February 2022, texts exchanged between two senior advisers in the Canadian Prime Minister's Office (PMO) revealed that they were putting pressure on banks to seize assets belonging to the Freedom Convoy protesters.

As reported by Rebel, the texts between Ben Chin and Tyler Meredith were entered as evidence at the Public Order Emergency Commission, and they showed that the Liberal party was encouraging financial institutions to take action against customers who supported or participated in the weeks-long peaceful protest against COVID-19 mandates in Ottawa.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/83900

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/297323

While various federal agencies tasked have acknowledged that "foreign interference has been attempted," the government is taking "concrete steps" to strengthen Canada's institutions and ensure those responsible face consequences, National Security and Intelligence Advisor Jody Thomas says.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/83619

True evil

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/292639

A spokeswoman for Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said Canadians will not be intimidated and called it disappointing that Google is borrowing from Meta's playbook. The new Online News Act requires digital giants such as Google and Meta, which owns Facebook, to negotiate deals that would compensate Canadian media companies for republishing their content on their platforms.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/81670

A Catholic high school student in Canada was reportedly arrested Monday after being suspended for protesting against transgender people’s use of bathrooms and saying there are only two genders – and now he’s appealing to Ontario’s human rights tribunal.

Josh Alexander, 16, said the leadership of St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario, told him that his continued attendance would be “detrimental to the physical and mental well-being” of transgender students

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/80515

The political establishment, the mainstream media, and Big Tech have combined efforts to mete out punishments for wrongthink. Systematic deplatforming has become an accepted part of our new media landscape. When banishing political lepers from social media isn’t enough, payment processors, such as PayPal and GoFundMe, have cut off dissenters and activists.

Anyone paying attention to these developments should be alarmed. Using the banking system to attack the basic essentials of economic life sets a disturbing precedent for the extrajudicial persecution of dissent. It is one thing to make it difficult for supporters of a person or group to receive donated funds. It is quite another to freeze someone out of the financial system entirely, such that the necessities of life become unavailable to those guilty of nothing more than opposing government policies.

The introduction of central-bank digital currencies, currently being pursued by the United States, Britain, and other governments worldwide, will make such measures even more seamless to implement. It appears that the economic lives of individuals are set to be funneled into ever narrower and ever more surveilled digital alleyways—with no way out.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/80171

They were informed that the child would have to be injected with a substance to be euthanized so that it doesn’t cry before being extracted from the mother. Some of the staff have refused to take part in the “procedure”.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/392649

Time to jump ship from Google products?