@Jaredt@social.linux.pizza2025-07-18 11:48:45
@Jaredt@social.linux.pizza2025-07-18 11:48:45
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-07-18 15:57:51
I’m very disappointed in Carney, he’s actually a Conservative. I don’t think Poilievre would have been better, but at least I wouldn’t have been lied to.
#CdnPoli
https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside/1148
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-08-18 21:56:51
"The program totally backfired. People thought ELIZA was intelligent, they were confiding in the machine, revealing personal issues they would not tell anyone else. Even my secretary asked me to leave the room so she could be alone with the computer. They called me a genius for creating it, but I kept telling them that the computer was not thinking at all."
Oh, really, now, isn't that interesting, and so, of course, they reanimated it, because only a liberal socialist would call that a failure. 🤣
#posiwid #automatedgatheringofintel #agi
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-18 15:15:00
Peak neoliberalism. https://kolektiva.social/@adub/115395745174476749
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-08-14 10:15:04
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/house-of-commons-data-breach-1.7608061
House of Commons hit by cyberattack from 'threat actor': internal email
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-08-18 12:45:38
Good Morning #Canada
A Canadian inventor gave Mothers across North America a device that was beneficial and a little scary. We are, of course, talking about the Jolly Jumper, once referred to as "the Canadian Nanny" on a 1957 CBC broadcast. Susan Olivia Poole (1889–1975) was an Indigenous Canadian inventor who created the Jolly Jumper in 1910, but it was not until 1948 that they were produced for the retail market, and patented in 1957. They continue to be manufactured in Ontario by the company that purchased the rights in 1960.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Inventors
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/olivia-poole
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-07-18 13:28:28
Eyes open my kind, Canadian, anti-fascist friends. The forces of hate are organizing and training in plain sight because they have been emboldened by opportunistic and ignorant conservative politicians who see power as the only goal.
“a months-long CBC visual investigation, in collaboration with The Fifth Estate, reveals exactly where some of these groups are training.
“It's f–king unacceptable,” said Kevin Mans, the owner of Niagara BJJ in Welland, one of the martial arts studios CBC identified. “I have built a team that is pluralistic… these guys are scum.”
Active clubs are part of a decentralized white supremacist and neo-Nazi network that has grown globally in recent years, increasingly moving from online forums to real-world training groups and anti-immigration protests.”
#canpoli #cdnpoli #nazi #rightwing
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/fascist-fight-club
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-18 04:54:56
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Henriette Schellenberg, Laverne G'Froerer, Keith Boldt, Carl Maria von Weber, George Roberts, CBC Radio Orchestra, Vancouver Chamber Choir & Jon Washburn:
🎵 Missa Sancta no 2 in G major J.251, Op 76 'Jubelmesse'
#KeithBoldt
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-10-10 04:12:39
O rly? Given that Alberta & Ottawa united to shove the TMX pipeline down the throat of the BC & Vancouver governments and several indigenous nations. And given that Carney has been saying “build all the pipelines”. ?!?!?
If my cynicism is misplaced I heartily apologize and salute in the direction of Minister Hodgson.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-10-16 13:13:09
Kicking off #a11yTOConf / #a11yTO day one with an impressive television display in the CBC atrium.
This year’s host is the puppet!
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-09-09 08:37:41
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-09-16 12:05:30
Good Morning #Canada
I have one final chapter for The Dirt on Canadian Farming, and it's more of an opinion piece.
As I conducted research on each province for information on their agriculture, there were numerous news stories about how farmers and farm organizations were fighting against loss of farmland. Urban growth, new housing development, and sprawling industrial parks are gobbling up prime farmland. The attached article is just one example. The statistics released by each province have common trends:the average age of farmers increasing, individual farm operators in decline, larger farms are increasing, renting of farmland is growing, and overall arable land is in decline. With the sparsely populated prairies holding the majority of fertile farmland, Canada likely won't lose our global impact because of development for houses or industry. But elsewhere, our food chain will be pushed further away from where we live. Or disappear.
#CanadaIsAwesome #SaveOurFarmland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-region-new-update-wilmot-land-plans-1.7534644
@cjust@infosec.exchange2025-10-12 17:43:35
I don't know art. I can't do art. Not familiar with in a purely basic sense, but have a level of respect (that is likely rooted in some way as jealousy) for those who do understand and can do art.
But if I were to try to define what art should be - I think that the Nova Scotia rocks painted as eyes would be the penultimate* example of what art should be
"We wanted it to be something that would make people laugh and it certainly did that, so I'm quite proud …
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-09-04 16:17:56
OK, now do a story on how scapegoating international students hasn't solved the housing crisis please.
#cdnpoli
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-09-09 18:52:20
From Cascadia Journal
Toxic #Vancouver mining firm Teck agrees to merger
CBC reports that Vancouver-based mining firm Teck has agreed to a merger with the British company Anglo American to create a massive multinational mining corporation known as Anglo Teck. Teck has been involved in multiple environmental disasters and billions of dollars of pollution impacts from its operations across Ca…
@newstik@social.heise.de2025-10-02 19:54:06
"Right now, a lot of condos [are] coming online that people don't really want to live in."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/unsold-condos-metro-vancouver-bc-2025-1.7647776
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-07 14:00:16
"What's slimy, green and flourishing thanks to climate change?"
#Canada #Climate #ClimateChange
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-08-08 20:00:21
I think I've seen this photo before (it's from 2022) but I don't know that I've read the article or seen the photo right before the owl landed.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/great-grey-owl-lands-on-camera-1.6397792
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-23 23:25:08
A joint investigation by Canadian privacy authorities finds TikTok collected sensitive personal data from hundreds of thousands of Canadian children under 13 (Catharine Tunney/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tiktok-privacy-commissioners-1.7640974…
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca2025-10-08 02:34:08
"It's also a two-lane road, with a posted speed limit of 80 km/hr that does have a designated bike lane". If you think an unconnected 100m strip of green paint on an 80 km/h road (which, practically, is a 90–100 km/h road) is a "designated bike lane", take your 5-year-old out there for a ride. #LdnOnt
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-09-04 01:01:20
Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting (Catharine Tunney/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/kevin-roberts-project-2025-carney-1.7624327
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p180#a250903p180
@haayman@todon.nl2025-08-20 20:51:43
Je moet echt dapper zijn als rechter bij het ICC
Trump administration sanctions Canadian judge who sits on International Criminal Court | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-judge-icc-trump-1.7613704
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-17 15:45:23
So Carney tries to force AC employees back to work after less than 12 hours. Every day, he shows the Liberal Party has abandoned working people, and Carney is just the latest. Trudeau’s government didn’t care either.
“Steven Tufts, associate professor and labour geographer at York University, says Air Canada has become dependent on the federal government to solve its labour-relations issues.
He mentioned last year's dispute between the airline and the pilots' union. Air Canada asked for the government to be ready to step in before the two sides reached a tentative agreement in September 2024.”
#canpoli #cdnpoli #union #cupe #solidarity
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-25 20:02:03
Why do people hate?
#politics
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-10-04 09:46:46
@… First I've heard of this - very exciting! https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/jeremy-hansen-moon-1.7649455
@dkomaran@social.linux.pizza2025-08-30 18:42:42
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-08-28 18:42:01
More on CBP treatment of Canadians at the US border, this time with CBP’s own statistics, which are interesting: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-canada-device-searches-1.7619944?cmp=rss
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-09-15 16:08:56
From Clean Energy Review
In Edmonton’s Blatchford neighbourhood, a new “virtual power plant” is flipping the script on how communities use energy. Twenty (but soon-to-be 100) townhomes, each equipped with rooftop solar panels and energy storage, are not just powering themselves—they can feed the grid, manage peak demand, and even provide emergency backup when the lights go out. It’s a glimpse of what clean households could look like across Canada.
@barijaona@mastodon.mg2025-09-19 02:31:32
The U.S. ambassador to Canada is expressing frustration over the anti-American sentiment he sees in this country.
And Trump hasn’t even chosen a new name for the US Department of Commerce…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/us-ambassa…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2025-09-26 15:43:24
Well Dougie, it was your government that passed the enabling regulations almost six years ago.
On the 37 out of 444 municipalities that want it ->
1. How many asked to get rid of them?
2. How many actually have the cameras?
Just because it is a small number that want it doesn't indicate the majority doesn't want them. If they did, you would have trotted out that number.
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-08-14 13:58:22
Hackers reportedly compromise Canadian House of Commons through Microsoft vulnerability https://therecord.media/hackers-compromise-canada-house-of-commons
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-08-19 01:55:31
I think I've got some unopened junk mail older than the world's oldest chicken ...
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/pearl-oldest-chicken-1.7608298
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-09-13 12:32:04
Bonus content on PEI's focus on disappearing farmland. The island isn't getting smaller, or bigger, but housing and industrial development are putting pressure on those potato fields.
#Farming
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-news-farming-land-agriculture-1.6974633
@isonno@mastodon.social2025-09-26 19:12:44
SpaceX launching air strikes against Canada:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskatoon-space-debris-satelitte-reentry-1.7643516
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-11 21:32:11
…oooohhhhh this s____t FINALLY might start hitting the fan! I, and many others, have been pointing out the monopoly that BC company ConAir has over firefighting contracts for Canadian governments for years.
Coulson Aviation has been doing firefighting aircraft for decades and has never been picked by its own home province on a long term contract.
The bias has been glaring.
Looks like they're going to fight it out in Court in Saskatchewan!
#BCWildfire #BCPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/government-overpaid-firefighting-planes-manufacturer-says-1.7630608
@cjust@infosec.exchange2025-09-28 17:05:10
RCMP asked citizens to stop pursuit of stolen truck in western Saskatchewan
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/stolen-truck-citizens-pursuit-1.7645624
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-09-13 14:16:12
Die #Klimakrise trifft #Kanada:
Nach über einem Monat hat #Neufundland und #Labrador das la…
@jamie@boothcomputing.social2025-10-09 12:47:37
My work here is done. See you in spring training.
#mlb
#baseball
#noyankees
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-19 01:24:01
Ashley King went to a bar on a Bali vacation in 2011, and woke up blind just a few days later
— a result of drinks spiked with methanol.
"I woke up in my hostel and I wasn't able to breathe. And shortly after I wasn't able to see,"
said King, a 32-year-old Calgary woman who is sharing her story in a new podcast called Static: A Party Girl's Memoir.
King was 19 at the time, on her last night in Bali before flying to New Zealand the next day.
S…
@sean@scoat.es2025-07-25 17:37:14
At this point, I’m in the camp of: We should stop wasting our time on this clearly-bad-faith “deal negotiation”.
We had a deal. The liar is going to lie. He’s going to chicken out of every deal. The dead USMCA deal we had was *his* deal. It’s negotiating with a child.
Yes, it’s going to hurt Canadians and Canadian business, but it’s going to hurt anyway. Time to focus on dealing with buyers who aren’t throwing yet another tantrum every week or two. A different future.
@newstik@social.heise.de2025-08-19 20:43:34
Anyone know this senior lady from #Toronto who speaks Portuguese? She has memory loss. Maybe she's your neighbour?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-lost-se…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-08-29 13:26:06
Quebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public (Matthew Lapierre/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/public-prayer-ban-quebec-1.7619985
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p12#a250829p12
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2025-08-06 16:01:49
Tired of how much Canadian journalism focus on the US. Sure let's do it about trade policies that impact us.. but their non-stop stupidity and fuckery, we just don't need to see that.
They are gerrymandering in Texas, this is their fucking problem. Why should it be the #1 news of the Canadian public broadcaster? What can I do? How does that concern me?
And yes, human rights abuse should be denounced.
Are we running out of problems in Canada to talk about? I don…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-07-18 06:42:10
“I can stick with the [Canadian Pension Plan], which is one of the most effective things in the world, or I can gamble with you idiots."
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #CPP #pension #AlbertaNext
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alta-next-panel-1.7587269
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-18 02:37:56
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Henri Sauguet, CBC Radio Orchestra & Daniel Swift:
🎵 La Nuit (1929)
#HenriSauguet #CBCRadioOrchestra #DanielSwift
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-09-12 11:16:39
The country of Brazil demonstrates how a trusted judicial system should work as they sentence a former president to 27 years in prison for his attempted coup. Meanwhile, in the U.S. the current president brags about how he escaped punishment for his attempted insurrection.
#YouHadaGoodRunAmerica
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bolsonaro-convicted-coup-1.7631517
@arXiv_mathOC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-09 10:48:12
Box Allocation Optimization in Meal Kit Delivery
Thi Minh Thu Nguyen, Loic Genest, Alain Zemkoho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06157 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-10-14 11:39:14
Listening to CBC Radio Barrie this morning and they were interviewing the manager responsible for housing starts for the Town of Innisfil. The discussion was about missed targets for housing starts and what can be done to get back on track. You could tell that he was frustrated, but the reason for less homes being built was almost solely put on the downturn in the housing market. No one is buying, so private industry isn't building.
All levels of government are throwing money at the problem, with most of it incentivizing for-profit companies to put shovels in the ground. At some point, the Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments have to realize that public housing, government leasehold development, co-operative housing, or subsidized family apartments must be considered to solve the housing shortage. Private industry will never have the same objectives of getting families into homes - without a calculation of significant profits first.
#CanPoli #AffordableHousing
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2025-09-26 15:49:15
Should we be surprised? Me... NO.
I haven't gone there for years. Overpriced coffee that is of dubious quality for me. I prefer to patronize the small shops that make great coffee and it is fresh! Also, they don't cost any more than Starbucks and the overwhelming majority of the time there is NO LINEUP! Where I work there is almost always a long line and I refuse to wait 10-15 minutes when I know the small shop nearby I can be in and out in under 5.
I am not a snob. …
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-07 15:56:03
“The company had argued… "there was an operational need for additional staff," while what was described as a "pervasive anti-union campaign" was protected by employer free-speech rights.
The panel disagreed.
"In our view, the original decision adopts the correct approach, which is to consider the employer's conduct as a whole," the decision says.”
✊ workers rights over “employer free speech” to lie to regulators and artificially inflate employee numbers to “dilute” support for unionization.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/amazon-delta-bc-warehouse-unionization-1.7602892
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-07-24 14:32:39
If you haven't already, I advise reading up about "wet bulb temperature" because that's what kills you. Unless of course your locale is getting progressively cooler.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/how-hot-is-too-hot-for-humans-understanding-wet-bulb-temperatures-1.6088415
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-09-09 12:05:38
Some extra content this morning - how Canadian government money tried to save mink farmers in a dying fur industry.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mink-farming-canada-agristability-boom-bust-1.5495165
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-01 10:04:17
Testing the nature of GW200105 by probing the frequency evolution of eccentricity
Avinash Tiwari, Sajad A. Bhat, MD Arif Shaikh, Shashvath J. Kapaida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26152
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-08-02 01:43:16
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-16 22:13:20
“The airline's latest offer included a 38 per cent increase in total compensation, including benefits and pensions over four years, that it said "would have made our flight attendants the best compensated in Canada." “
Ya…. Because I am sure WestJet and ultra-budget Flair are so well compensated. 🙄
#racetothebottom
#union #aircanada #workerrights #strike #canpoli
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-07-18 00:07:23
You're damn right it is madness. We need to scrap these terrible systems.
"Suzuki says that, despite his understanding of the climate crisis, Carney — like all of us — is trapped by the economic and political systems we've created. And for Suzuki, our only hope for survival is to scrap those systems entirely.
David Suzuki joins Jayme Poisson on the podcast for a wide-ranging discussion from what a world of irreversible climate change looks like to what he describes as the "madness" of continued investment in fossil fuels to the lessons environmentalists of the future can take from the past.”
#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #Energy #EndGrowth #LateStageCapitalism #Capitalism #Racism
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/david-suzuki-warns-carney-of-pipeline-and-growth-madness-1.7586960
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-04 04:21:59
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari, Christopher Millard, CBC Radio Orchestra & Mario Bernardi:
🎵 Suite Concertino in F major for bassoon and small orchestra, Op 16
#ErmannoWolfFerrari
https://open.spotify.com/track/4NPxuqeRp2N3Oyxm07Toi3
@arXiv_grqc_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-23 08:17:22
dot-PE: Sampler-free gravitational wave inference using matrix multiplication
Jonathan Mushkin, Javier Roulet, Barak Zackay, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Oryna Ivashtenko, Digvijay Wadekar, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Matias Zaldarriaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16022
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-09-19 16:06:08
MP says group 'has engaged in actions and have made statements that are contrary to Canadian values and laws'
'has engaged in actions and have made statements that are contrary to Canadian values and laws'
'are contrary to Canadian values'
And THAT particular Canadian MP decides YOUR values.
In Canada, as of today, you no longer need commit a crime to be criminal. And honestly what the fuck are "Canadian values"? Oh wait, never mind, I've seen the Jewel of Canadian Art aka Dundas Square aka Sankofa and yeah, standing up for the underdog is gross violation of Canadian Values, long live Yorkdale Mall, our other most precious shrine😔
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/kneecap-ineligible-canada-1.7638108
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-10-08 13:29:45
Jfc. And as if on cue, I get a CBC alert saying Carney pitched f-ing Keystone XL to Trump.
I rest my case. 😡 🤦♂️
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-09-27 11:42:41
Good Morning #Canada
After recently moving to Belle Ewart (Bell You-wart), I find myself making strange pronunciations of my town to see people's reactions. Life is short... take pleasure where you can. But if you're a Canadian living in one of the towns mentioned in this CBC article, do you proudly tell people where you live, or do you mumble the answer and hope no one responds. I think you embrace the fun and show pride in your community by investing in t-shirts and hats emblazoned with your town name. But that's just me - some old retired guy with no reputation worth saving.
BTW, if you're looking for a conversation starter, here's a Geographic Fact - the distance between Dildo Newfoundland and Climax Saskatchewan is 5,551 km, about 2 days and 16 hours by car.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CivicPride
https://www.cbc.ca/television/stillstanding/the-most-hilarious-town-names-in-canada-1.5440187
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2025-09-30 11:27:43
'Struggle meals' and Hamburger Helper are trending because food is so expensive
https://flip.it/Pm0.q5
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-29 20:16:46
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-15 12:53:26
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Fela Sowande, CBC Radio Orchestra & Mario Bernardi:
🎵 African Suite (Akinla)
#FelaSowande #CBCRadioOrchestra #MarioBernardi
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-29 19:41:22
"Crown corporation cited 'operational constraints with our rail partner, CN’”
This would be a connection between Canada's two largest cities.
I am so DONE with industrial capitalists holding sway over our ability to move people around this very vast country!!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-montreal-toronto-pilot-that-skipped-eastern-ontario-postponed-1.7646512
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-09-05 12:01:35
BTW - that CBC article used a lot of numbers from this report, which because it's all numbers is awesome. Some tidbits:
- The number of farms over 3,500 acres has nearly doubled in 20 years.
- 41.3% of Canadian farmland is rented.
- From 1971 to 2021, the farm population declined by 62.2%, from 1 in 14 Canadians to 1 in 61.
- Farm debt has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from $43B in 2002 to $138.8B in 2022. That is currently 10x the size of net farm income.
- In 2021, 96,043 tonnes of pesticides were sold for agricultural use – more than three times the amount sold in 1991.
#Statistics #Farming
https://www.nfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Canadian-Ag-by-the-Numbers-2024.pdf
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2025-09-26 10:35:21
Which reusable grocery bags passed, and failed, Marketplace's durability test?
https://flip.it/GKg9nN
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-09-25 11:43:37
Good Morning #Canada
Today, while doing my morning Google thingy, I learned that Elon Musk has Canadian Citizenship. Now I need a shower.
Canada is pretty picky when we look for individuals who should be Canadian. Only 6 non-citizens have ever been recognized as Honorary Canadians, which takes an Act of Parliament to be designated with the honour. It provides zero rights or privileges but looks good on your resume. It is far more likely that non-citizens could be awarded the Order of Canada as they are eligible if they have made a significant contribution to Canadian society or had a positive impact on the world at large. As of August 2025, 8,647 people have been appointed to the order, an average of 150 per year since the honour was established in 1967. There is no list of non-Canadian recipients, as the government doesn't track them separately, but Queen Elizabeth II was awarded her Sovereign badge in 1970.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Welcome
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/who-are-the-honorary-canadians-1.1155903
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-12 20:22:56
It would be ironic if the shooting of a right wing influencer lead right wing US gov to 'taking aim at Big Tech algorithms' (interesting choice of words CBC!) and embrace the Fediverse perhaps!
“At the news conference, [Republican Governor] Cox... addressed young people specifically….. "Social media is a cancer," he said. "And I would urge people to log off, turn off and touch grass.””
#Fediverse #Algorithms #CharlieKirk #RIghtWing #SocialMedia #BigTech
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kirk-shooting-investigation-fri-1.7632106
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-08-21 12:00:40
BTW - if you're building Inuksuit in National or Provincial parks, please stop. Every few years, park staff ask news media to publish a plea to visitors to stop creating their own stone sculptures because of environmental impact.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/jasper-national-park-inukshuk-cairn-1.4758917
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2025-09-19 09:49:46
Canadians are taking a big step back from the U.S. — and here's the data to prove it
https://flip.it/ipG4ej
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-07-20 13:56:12
Interesting and fulsome interview on exactly how NORAD reacted to the plane hijacking in Victoria/Vancouver on Tuesday. They speak to the commander of NORAD, currently a Canadian.
I appreciated the last section most though:
“It's the only bi-national command in the world; it's been a strong bi-national command since 1958, and nothing has changed.
We don't ever talk politics at work. It's not something that we do, nor does it affect what we do.
I would say that we are as tight, and probably tighter than we've ever been. As the world around us gets to be more dangerous, I would say that NORAD is even closer than it's ever been.
But one last thing — we have the watch. That's the slogan here for NORAD.
To give you a great example, all of the assessors, we all live on-base in homes that actually have a safe, we call it the SCIF. It's basically a classified room that has all of our systems. The days that you're on duty, you're either at work or in your house. Because the timelines are so small for answering the phone, you don't walk the dog; you don't do all these other things, and someone covers for you when you're going between work and home.
That's how important this mission is to us down here. It's really important for everybody in Canada to know that at NORAD, we have the watch”
#canpoli #norad #cf18
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-fighter-jets-bc-alleged-plane-hijacking-1.7588750
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-13 02:44:22
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Arthur Butterworth, Martin Hackleman, CBC Radio Orchestra & Mario Bernardi:
🎵 Romanza for horn and strings
#ArthurButterworth #MartinHackleman #CBCRadioOrchestra #MarioBernardi
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-08-20 11:11:49
Good Morning #Canada
In August 1998, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Quebec could not legally secede from Canada unilaterally. The court's decision affirmed that any secession would require a constitutional amendment negotiated with the federal government and other provinces. This ruling stemmed from a reference case initiated by the federal government following a close referendum on Quebec sovereignty in 1995. Although Quebec was represented at the Supreme Supreme Court hearing, they did not participate in presenting arguments. They essentially ignored the ruling and planned a future referendum, which never happened.
This ruling established an important precedent that Alberta separatists should pay attention to. But details such as this ruling, aboriginal rights, or common sense seem to escape their attention spans.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/supreme-court-says-quebec-can-t-separate-unilaterally-1.159509
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-10 19:26:29
Apparently Mark Carney was runnin’ up that hill in support of his wife who's celebrating her 60th Birthday.
Happy Birthday to Mrs. Diana Fox!
#Race #CanPoli #CdnPoli #RunningUpThatHill
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6895031
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-10-10 17:30:08
“"Why should a person be entitled to drive again after that?" she said.”
Indeed... why do people get away with a slap on the wrist even when they kill someone with their vehicle!?
#BCPoli #Canada #Driving #law
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/xaviers-law-speeding-driver-penalties-death-1.6434929
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-26 18:07:20
Uhoh! That Saskatchewan space lady @… is on the CBC again! :)
#LookUp #CBC #Starlink #spacedebris
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskatoon-space-debris-satelitte-reentry-1.7643516
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-10-10 11:40:31
Good Morning #Canada
To all you CFAs out there, you would find Newfoundland right scary. Large white ghostly shapes looming out of the fog and winds screaming through hundreds of abandoned settlements. OK... maybe icebergs aren't frightening, unless you sail into one, and all those abandoned towns were the result of government resettlement programs in the 60s. But.... boo. One of the largest communities to be resettled was Merasheen, whose name supposedly means "Ocean of Seadogs." How scary is that. The town of almost 400 was incorporated in 1963, but by the end of that decade, all the residents were gone. Merasheen today continues to haunt us through a website: merasheen.org
#CanadaIsAwesome #Halloween #CanadianGhostTowns
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/merasheen-resettlement-fiftieth-1.4762565
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-10 02:26:01
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Julia Nolan, Paule Maurice, CBC Radio Orchestra & Mario Bernardi:
🎵 Tableaux de Provence - 5 pieces for saxophone and orchestra
#JuliaNolan #PauleMaurice #CBCRadioOrchestra #MarioBernardi
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-08 05:07:31
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Fęlš Şowšndé, CBC Radio Orchestra & Mario Bernardi:
🎵 African suite for harp and strings (1944)
#FęláŞowándé #CBCRadioOrchestra #MarioBernardi
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-10-04 12:10:50
Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Milan Chvostek (October 4, 1932 – November 8, 2018) was a producer/director at the CBC. He worked on A Case for the Court, The Lively Arts, This Hour Has Seven Days, Science Magazine and the CBC's flagship show The Nature of Things,[ which has aired in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Awards for Chvostek's shows include one from the Monte Carlo Television Festival awarded by Prince Rainier III in 1975, and the Bell Northern Research Communications Award for science programming from the Canadian Science Writers' Association (Chvostek is the only three-time winner of this award) in 1974 and 1975. After a decade of teaching television broadcast at Seneca College, Toronto (1986 to 1996), he embarked upon a freelance videography and photography career, working both independently and in partnership with his wife, journalist Isobel Warren. He also started researching climate change in the 1960s.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianLegends
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/wife-discovers-late-husband-was-researching-climate-change-before-anyone-was-taking-it-seriously-1631676
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-08 16:24:01
your feel good moment of the weekend comes to you from GTA Prince George.
#PinkCars #DontDrinkandDrive #ToyCar #RCMP #Driving #DrunkDrive
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/barbie-jeep-arrest-prince-george-1.7626945
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-09 04:30:42
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
John Thrower, Joaquín Valdepeñas, CBC Radio Orchestra & Mario Bernardi:
🎵 Improvisation on a Blue Theme
#JohnThrower #JoaquínValdepeñas #CBCRadioOrchestra #MarioBernardi
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-08 19:14:30
Short video of Didulo exiting the RCMP transport to go into her bail hearing. (She was granted bail but ordered to stay in Regina)
But I thought the most interesting thing was the very short exchange she had with someone, presumably an Indigenous person, off camera.
Off Camera Person (OFP): “Chief George Cody told you and your people to stay off Treaty 4 lands”
Didulo: “Colonial System!”
OFP: “When are you going to leave Treaty 4”
"Didulo: “Under Natural Law there is no colonial system”
OFP: “Sorry! Natural Law is Treaty Law!”
Indeed!
(I would be shocked if Didulo didn't skip town and probably try to cross the border in the middle of Montana or something… 'secure the royal puppies!’)
#Cult #Canada #RomanaDidulo #QueenofCanada #SovereignCitizen #CanPoli #CdnPoli
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-09-04 12:50:17
Good Morning #Canada
In yesterday's post about farming and fall fairs, I ruminated about a series on Canada’s agricultural areas. OK, ruminated may be the term as it was more of a random thought, like a retriever seeing a squirrel. But over the next 2-ish weeks, I'll try to highlight the significant crop regions in each province and teach myself more about our great country.
The first post should be easy because I'm sure most Canadians don't think a lot of farming happens in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, or Nunavut. But small areas within each can sustain crops in a short season, mostly potatoes, and commercial warehouse growing operations are being funded and encouraged. With a warming climate, more land is being used to farm, and additional types of crops are being tested.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Agriculture #Farming
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/feb-15-agriculture-moving-north-arrokoth-s-secrets-the-microbiome-for-flight-and-more-1.5463847/wheat-and-potatoes-in-nunavut-climate-change-could-bring-agriculture-to-the-north-1.5463850
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-07-26 19:11:15
The CBC included a clip from the South Park episode this week that features a scene with Trump, Canada, Satan and… small body parts.
Viewer Discretion is advised... i guess. lol 😂😈
#TheAmericanFascist #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Trump
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/south-park-trump-1.7593849
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-08 16:13:41
Glad this did not turn into a Waco situation. In fact, it doesn't look like it was even close to that. But Didulo is obviously completely off her rocker and knows how to manipulate people for money and influence in whatever scheme she dreams up.
I'm glad she's essentially the face of the Sovereign Citizen movement... making it clear it’s not a place for responsible people.
#Cult #Canada #RomanaDidulo #QueenofCanada #SovereignCitizen #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/queen-of-canada-romana-didulo-cult-leader-bail-hearing-court-1.7627417
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-09 15:31:44
“Even after the war ended, the atomic bomb brought invisible terror," survivor Hiroshi Nishioka, 93, said in his speech at the memorial, “Never use nuclear weapons again”
#Nagasaki #NuclearWeapons #Nuclear #Japan #USA #Russia #War #CanPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/japan-hiroshima-80th-anniversary-august-9-1.7605183
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-04 18:59:23
While Venezuela is not a democratic example like Ukraine, the echoes of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as Trump moves US military assets toward the Venezuelan coast are certainly there.
"Maduro spoke to the Venezuelan people on Monday, asking them to prepare for an invasion.
"In the face of this maximum military pressure, we have declared maximum preparedness for the defence of Venezuela," Maduro said of the deployment, which he characterized as "an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody threat."
He deployed troops along the coast and at the border with Colombia. He also urged Venezuelans to enlist in a civilian militia.”
#Trump #Venezuela #Russia #Empire #War
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-us-attack-military-drug-cartels-1.7624235
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-08-30 11:57:30
Good Morning #Canada
It's 1866, and there's no TV or interweb, so what do you do? We'll, if you live on a dairy farm near Ingersoll Ontario, you make a 7,000-pound wheel of cheese. It's helpful if you are also not lactose intolerant.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Cheesy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/mammoth-cheese-ingersoll-ontario-1.7157633#:~:text=More than 150 years ago,enough milk to create it.
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-07-27 11:51:25
Good Morning #Canada
I know you have been crossing days off on your calendar, and you're excited, but there is still 1 more sleep until #BeaverWeek. To get you through one more day, we have some alternative critter content - the Richardson Ground Squirrel. Commonly called "gophers" or "prairie dogs" across Canada’s prairie provinces, they should not be confused with the Black-tailed Prairie Dog that is rare in Canada. They are generally disliked (putting it mildly) by farmers but tolerated in more urban areas. Hey, they may not be beavers, but we should show them some love because they're cute.
#CanadaIsAwesome #PrairieDog
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/gophers-richardson-ground-squirrel-gail-michener-lethbridge-zoology-1.5782301
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-07-30 11:14:38
Good Morning #Canada
The Beaver is the only mammal, besides humans, that is able to re-engineer their environment to support their lifestyle. Humans can use this Beaver superpower for good, rebuilding #Watersheds and increasing storage of water to combat drought and wildfires. Provinces are reintroduc8ng Beavers to their historical habitats, and even moving pairs of Beavers to desert regions in the U.S. to totally transform landscapes.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BeaverWeek #Engineering
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/nuisance-beavers-relocated-1.7268057
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-29 16:34:02
Imagine getting to lend your croc to a 6-time Olympic medalist!
Dream moment on the West Coast Trail. And here I am still dreaming of completing the trail myself. I will one day!!
#Olympian #hiking #Canada #ClaraHughes #WestCoastTrail
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/clara-hughes-west-coast-trail-one-shoe-1.7620261
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-09 16:57:45
The Carney government's suspension of the EV mandate has nothing to do with “pragmatism” or “moderation” as I heard an interviewee say on the CBC this morning.
It's about the Ontario car industry realizing they don't make EVs or even Hybrids that can compete with Korea, Japan, or Europe (let alone China).
People want them. BC is at 20% new (the mandated level), Quebec is at 30%. Those are the #2 and #3 most populous provinces in Canada btw.
It's politics, and... specifically with Carney, cowardice, nothing else. BC’s Energy Minister Adrian Dix called it out
“I want to say this: Their target for this year, we achieved four years ago,” Dix said of the existing federal electric vehicle mandates. “The issue here in Canada -- and I think the federal government needs to engage in this a little bit -- is first and foremost with Ontario.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #EV #Carney #ClimateAction
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/ontario-drove-carneys-decision-to-suspend-ev-mandate-bc-energy-minister-dix/
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-09-22 12:51:49
Good Morning #Canada
Today, we celebrate the #FallEquinox, not to be confused with the Chevy Equinox, which is an entirely different thing. The Fall Equinox means summer is officially over, and some of you missed 3 weeks of nice weather when you gave up back on Labour Day. Right now, day and night are roughly equal, more or less, across Canada, but our days are getting shorter for the next several months, until December 21st-ish. Start thinking about snow tires and Christmas shopping because the calendar moves quickly this time of year. If you're in the Southern Hemisphere, please ignore this message.
Some bonus content - your Fall 2025 #Horoscope. It's from the CBC, our national news service, so you know it must be accurate. I read mine (Virgo) several times and haven't got a clue what it means. So I've got that going for me.
#CanadaIsAwesome ##WinterIsComing
https://www.cbc.ca/life/culture/fall-equinox-horoscope-2025-1.7638561
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-22 20:25:05
Brutal, the CFL is essentially going to take everything about the game that is unique to Canada (larger field, goal posts, points) and scrap it so it looks more like the NFL.
Why? well just because apparently…
Hey CFL: Read the room/stadium!
#elbowsup #canada #CFL #NFL
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-major-announcement-game-changes-1.7640149
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-25 17:38:30
Nothing more to be said here…
“An inmate who has pleaded guilty to murdering Robert Pickton in prison last year says he did it for the serial killer's victims.
Martin Charest admitted on Thursday morning to fatally assaulting Pickton with a broken broom handle at the Port-Cartier federal penitentiary in May 2024.
Charest pleaded guilty to first-degree murder during a court appearance in Sept-Îles, Que., northeast of Quebec City.
Pickton was convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder, but confessed to killing a total of 49 women whom he lured to his pig farm near Vancouver.
A statement of facts read out in court detailed how Charest locked himself into a room with Pickton and assaulted him twice while guards were unable to enter.
Charest told the judge he murdered Pickton after the serial killer had continued to brag about the murders and told other inmates he'd commit more crimes if he was ever released.”
#Justice #Canada #RobertPickton #MMIWG #Indigenous
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pickton-s-killer-murder-charge-1.7643499
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-25 19:50:23
Fascinating that BC's population dropped marginally (2154 people) last quarter ... but it still had the second highest inter-provincial migration of any province!
If we're anything like Alberta, then it's a good bet the biggest source of decline was in temporary international residents.
#CanPoli #Immigration #Population #CdnPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-19 20:18:40
The last time a Russian jet entered the sovereign airspace of a NATO country this is what happened... this was a 17 second violation (after multiple warnings by Turkish forces to the Russian jet to change course)
#RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #NATO #Russia
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/estonia-airspace-russia-1.7638294
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-28 21:30:56
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that a convoy-er (aka honourary Canadian Nazi Party member) is not just skipping his court date ( making him a fugitive ) but also skipping the country to go live under a criminal Nazi regime.
(Also the glasses and beard and “mouth-open-while-gesturing-with-pen-in-hand” has big middle-aged aaaahhctually-rightwing-mansplaining vibes)
#canpoli #altright #theyWereActualNazis #cdnpoli #convoy #usa #crime
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/convoy-figure-seeking-u-s-asylum-wanted-on-canada-wide-warrant-1.7620180