This is a huge issue I have seen happen in multiple jurisdictions

Thank you to Mike Morrice for asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau directly if he will support his own party's call for an electoral reform citizens' assembly. It's never too late to keep a promise!

Feature of Apple Maps, since nobody pays attention: Leave a terrible review with a picture and it can become the official picture, like this grizzly meat officially repping No Frills on Broadway

The information Commissioner continues to calmly state that the system is completely broken & it’s clear nobody’s going to do anything about it. Despite multiple committees/reviews laying out what has to happen to have an actual democracy: the ability to know what gov is doing

My Original draft pitched this to be part of a series called: “The Internet was a great experiment but it’s time to shut it down” but The Tyee didn’t want to go for that for some reason. Reverting back to RSS: small steps thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/…

The scale of wealth creation from this corruption is so unimaginably large that’s it’s hard to think of strong enough disincentive, but Ontario better get to work doing so anyways if it wants to have a province #onpoli tvo.org/article/the-gr…

The rich and powerful know that it's harmful to keep getting reinfected with COVID over and over. So they keep up to date with vaccines, wear masks, clean indoor air etc. But they don't tell anyone else to do it because they profit from creating the illusion that COVID is over.

I emailed Torstar owner Jordan Bitove three times this summer asking if he would sell any community papers to community members in order to keep them in print. No response. Now he's cut the print editions of ~70 local papers saying they'll continue online. cbc.ca/news/business/…

Doctorow’s novel imagines a non-bleak planetary future & works backwards to recent non-fiction decisions And as is rarely the case w/ audiobooks (& increasingly every mass produced internet-obtainable thing), you can have someone read it to you w/o giving a penny to Jeff Bezos:

I'm kickstarting the audiobook for *The Bezzle*, sequel to 2023's *Red Team Blues*, featuring Marty Hench, a hard-charging, two-fisted forensic accountant with 40 years in Silicon Valley, busting every scam hatched by tech bros' feverish imagination: thebezzle.org 1/

an Alabama-based company is buying BC chain Black Press in a 50/50 partnership with two of Black's Canadian debt holders for $14 million . . . foreign ownership of newspapers is supposed to be limited to 25% . . . will Ottawa allow the deal? #cdnmedia canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Reminder: this woman is a landlord who uses homes as a financial asset to make money off tenants.

TLDR; today Privacy Commissioner OPC found Charlie Angus complaints on RCMP internet surveillance tools (based on my The Tyee reporting) “well-founded” for a myriad of reasons … and “unresolved” as RCMP already committed to NOT fixing it priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions…

The OIC Canada did a systematic review of the RCMP and ATIP in 2020 and they committed to all kinds of reform. The number of illegally delayed requests at last check-in in Nov had nearly doubled since then, per RCMP annual report rcmp.ca/en/corporate-i…

Really great project that shouldn’t have to exist

There is NO store like it in the world. L&M has helped Canadian musicians every bit as much any grant system. As a private business, they’ve put getting musicians on the road to performance and creativity seemingly ahead of profit interests. I know this ethos was installed and

Nerd test: would you think this was about network cables y/n

Have tried to follow most everyone i follow here over on bluesky bryancarney.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bryanc…