A great pleasure to speak with Lex Gill Frédéric Bérard and Svens Telemaque for this one. A truly watershed moment for equality rights in Quebec. therover.ca/quebec-court-o…

Honestly, I look forward to Ingrid Burrington’s Perfect Sentences every week. Is this + Rachel Tashjian Wise’s Opulent Tips the perfect Sunday newsletter spread?

This is the most important civil liberties fight in our country right now and anyone who is serious about freedom should be speaking out about it

If I was in Toronto this weekend this is where I’d be ❤️

The Citizen Lab’s Kate Robertson testified before the Senate Standing Committee on National Security, Defence, and Veterans Affairs Senate of Canada on Bill C-26. Robertson calls for stronger judicial oversight, protection for encryption, and transparency obligations in Bill C-26 to

For real, “That Time Our FOIAs Finally Paid Off” is the best news genre. We’ve got a grand purpose, we’ve got powerful adversaries, we’ve got supernatural forces beyond our control, we’ve got ordeals, holy grails, bad odds, the damning passage of time. 10/10 would read anytime.

📢 NEW REPORT: No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression. We investigate the rising trend of gender-based digital transnational repression by drawing on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders living in exile

Despite their resilience, targets reported experiencing chilling effects of these attacks, which profoundly altered women’s sense of security and their social relations. Respondents described feelings of exhaustion, stress and anxiety, burnout, sleeplessness, and depression.

Read our new report: "Something to Remember Us By: Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned With Monokle-type Spyware Installed" ✍️ by Exploit Code Not People 🏴, Rebekah Brown, and John Scott-Railton citizenlab.ca/2024/12/device…

In an open letter to Mélanie Joly, Dominic LeBlanc & Arif Virani, NGOs and individual experts, including Citizen Lab’s profdeibert, 🅽oura 🅰ljizawi, Jon Penney, and Kate Robertson, urge Canada to reject adoption of the UN’s draft Convention against Cybercrime. Read the letter on

Just realized this was online! My submissions to the Foreign Interference Commission, highlighting our longstanding work The Citizen Lab on the Charter implications of new national security powers and on digital transnational repression. citizenlab.ca/2024/12/testim…

I adore this idea of “night science” and treasure a sort of “night justice” in the (admittedly weird) litigation we do. The best ideas always come over late night drinks and dinners with the other lawyers, journalists, psychologists, artists and political thinkers in my life.

this dead period of the holidays is for reading cozy, on-point little essays about finding people you can effortlessly vibe with

The last time I spoke in Toronto the dear Joshua Sealy-Harrington asked a question about Palestine from the audience. My answer didn’t air, but this essay captures the emotional range I am in, remain in, on this issue. “Dead children have a way of clarifying things.” hamiltonnolan.com/p/stand-for-so…

Bravo Meghan Sali + smart move for David Eby.

NEW: WhatsApp says Israeli mercenary spyware company #Paragon targeted scores of users around world. The infection happened with no interaction. No link to click or attachment to open. This is called a "zero-click" attack. WA says targets included journalists & members of

Artists built an illicit ‘luxury squat’ in a vacant Montreal factory to protest the housing crisis theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

“There is so much that cannot be brought back, that I mourn because I cannot hold it anymore.” In a new Weekend Essay, Hanif Abdurraqib writes about the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered. nyer.cm/mt42lli