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Wrote something for the local paper in QC, 🇨🇦.

Strongman premiers crave control and hate bike lanes

There is a trend among conservative provincial premiers in Canada to vilify bike lanes. And to use that play to weaken municipal governments and take power away from elected council. This piece is about that, and the importance of biking to meeting the climate crisis. It's also about how the climate crisis is driving up vehicle insurance costs.

#canpoli
#climatecrisis
https://lowdownonline.com/strongman-premiers-crave-control-and-hate-bike-lanes/

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Going to protests works

Contacting your representatives works 📬

Building alternative platforms works

Creating supportive networks works

Advocating on social media works 🗣️

Stop telling people their action doesn't work, and pick one that works for you.

We need all of this and more to win.
Learn to fight together 💚

#HumanRights #Democracy #Protest #NoKings #USpol #UKpol #EUpol #CanPoli

I know there's a general "cause fatigue" with the current state of the world, and I feel it too.

But in my years working in privacy,
I don't think I've seen anything as terrifying as this European Chat Control proposal. And I'm not even European.

Everyone needs to pay
much more attention and be much more worried and outraged about this.

This proposal is the most dystopian glimpse into a horrible authoritarian future I have seen so far in the West.

It looks dismal, but we can still stop it
if we all work TOGETHER NOW ✊

There isn't much time left though,
so don't put it to next week.

Democracy dies in silence.

Everyone: Learn more here
Everyone: Spread the word on social media
Europeans 🇪🇺 Contact your local media NOW
Europeans 🇪🇺 Contact your MEPs NOW

The final vote is on October 14th,
but media and representatives need to receive your messages NOW, so they have enough time to act on it.

#ChatControl #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #StopScanningMe #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #CanPoli

Canada Post, hospitals, and schools aren't (or shouldn't be) private businesses, they are public services. They don't need to make profits or break even, and they should be supported by public funding.

However, oil, gas, and AI companies are private for-profit businesses. They shouldn't receive any public funding.

Stop this madness.

#CanPoli #CanadaPost

My cup overflows with anger toward these lying, deceiving, murderous, oil and gas companies. So this morning, I did something I've never done before in hopes the people coming home from their long weekends in Tofino and Ucluelet get the message.

Please Boost.

#BCLNG #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #OilandGas #LNG #Liars #bchwy4 #bcWildfire

https://bclngburns.ca

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Today something happened for the #Fediverse!

Petition #e4769 was presented in Canada's House of Commons on behalf of over 1000 #opensocialweb supporters! The government must now respond!

It was a group effort including @Dragon @chad @Dunstable @bougiewonderland @LALegault @mike @stephanie @danamcfarland @bluefacedbeast and 1003 more!

In 🇨🇦? Write the Speaker and your MP! Send them this post! Outside 🇨🇦 ? Use this example!

We can make it happen!! 😊 👊
#TheMediumIstheMessage
#canpoli @GottaLaff

“As long as Americans aren’t particularly attached to gassing up their cars, or eating beef, or using any electricity at all. Then they may not be forced to discover how much of that stuff comes from Canada. Oh, and it would also be helpful is a large portion of a major US city hadn’t recently burned down in a series of wildfires, and they aren’t looking for Canadian lumber with which to rebuild. Otherwise, oh boy, sucks to be them.”

#CanPoli #USPoli #TradeWar

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/americans-choose-most-expensive-way-possible-to-discover-what-goods-made-in-canada/

“The doctors that we are talking to are embarrassed to say they’re Americans,” said John Philpott, CEO of CanAm Physician Recruiting, which recruits doctors into Canada. “They state that right out of the gate: ‘I have to leave this country. It is not what it used to be.’”

https://www.alternet.org/doctors-canada/

#CanPoli

#mastodonmigration #canada #usa #cdnpoli

There are about 36 days left for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to shut down the @CanadianPM X/Twitter account. Mr Trudeau, stop clapping and waiving at the fascist in the gallery. #canpoli #leavex https://mastodon.online/@ZebKing/113913380438987656

This platform has proved to be pretty quite for me outside of one math meme re-share that went a little viral :).

I'm still checking in now and then but I've set up shop pretty much on Bsky, Cara, and still have active Meta accounts but, that's up for review for sure now.

Links to follow if you find this and are over there.

https://bsky.app/profile/salgoodsam.bsky.social/

https://cara.app/salgood

#art #comics #canpoli #rants #noai

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Huge win. Huge. Canadian Court upholds government restricting crypto bullshit use of electricity

"B.C. wins case for power use limits by cryptocurrency miners"

(Its not "mining" its wanking, nothing produced, nothing mined)

"The decision upheld an earlier court ruling against Conifex Timber Ltd., a forestry company located in Prince George .... The company was seeking unrestricted access to B.C. electricity."

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/11/news/bc-power-limits-cryptocurrency-mining-court-appeal

#victory #sanity #productivity #wealth #canpoli #Canada

"The True North is indeed strong and free," said King Charles in his throne speech at the opening of the Canadian parliament today. This was only the third time in Canada's history a monarch has delivered the address, which is usually given by the governor general. Charles was there at the request of Prime Minister of Mark Carney and referenced Canada's unique identity and a renewal of "national pride, unity and hope" in a speech that underlined the country's sovereignty in the face of U.S. President Trump's "51st state" threats.

https://flip.it/fT6-BR

#Canada #CanadaNews #KingCharles #CanPoli #ThroneSpeech #News #TrumpAdministration