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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 14h

Readout from the federal-provincial justice ministers' meeting.
I don't see a commitment in here from the provinces to properly fund their court systems (but more money for police!), which means all of these promised Criminal Code reforms are next to useless.
Slow clap, everyone.
FFS

Joint Statement by Ministers Fraser, Anandasangaree, and Secretary of State Sahota following the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Meeting of Ministers of Justice and Public Safety

From: Department of Justice Canada

Statement

Photo: Federal and provincial justice ministers posing in Kananaskis

October 17, 2025 – Kananaskis, Alberta – Department of Justice Canada

The Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety Canada, and Ruby Sahota, the Honourable Secretary of State for Combatting Crime today issued the following statement:

“Making communities safer is a top priority for our government. We promised Canadians we would act decisively, and we are delivering. This requires determined efforts from all governments to ensure the justice system is accessible, responsive and able to address evolving community safety concerns.

“This week, we met with our provincial and territorial counterparts—the Attorneys General and ministers responsible for Justice and Public Safety—to discuss these shared priorities, including plans to strengthen the criminal law’s responses to repeat and violent offending through changes to bail and sentencing reforms.

“We first welcomed a dialogue with representatives from the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapirisat Kanatami, and Métis National Council. Together, we explored Indigenous rights and priorities, including those related to justice and public safety. We also discussed the future of Indigenous policing and the importance of culturally grounded approaches to community safety. We value their perspectives and insights, and look forward to continued conversations on these shared priorities.

“With our provincial and territorial counterparts, we talked about urgent issues that have an impact on every part of the criminal justice system, and the need for a collaborative approach. Top of mind around the FPT table is the need to strengthen our bail and sentencing laws. Our government has committed to taking action to improve community safety and restore balance in our justice system. As Prime Minister Mark Carney has already mentioned, we intend to introduce legislation shortly with proposed measures to make it more difficult to get bail for repeat violent offenders, and those charged with certain serious crimes. We will continue working with provinces and territories to ensure that the justice system protects all people in Canada.

“We also discussed investments in our front lines, because we need to put actions behind our words. We’ve listened to Canadians across the country, and the message is clear: They want more visible law enforcement in their communities, more officers who can take guns off our streets and be there when we call on them. That’s why, today, we are fulfilling our commitment to hire 1,000 new RCMP officers across the country. In the coming days, we will be making further announcements about measures that will put more boots on the ground and keep Canadians safe.

“Finally, we talked about long-term crime prevention, which requires more than reforming our laws and hiring more police officers. We must address systemic issues by investing in areas like mental health supports, addictions treatment, affordable housing (through Build Canada Homes), and programs for youth at risk. By addressing the root causes of crime, we can help break cycles of violence and create safer, healthier communities for all people of Canada.

“We thank our provincial and territorial partners, as well as our Indigenous partners, for meeting with us on these important issues. We will continue to work together on measures that will help us build safer, healthier comm…

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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 1d

It is so impressive what human intellect and ingenuity can achieve, and so sad how often it is used for destructive goals instead.

Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 1d

As a kid of the 80s/90s, this headline reads surreal.

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First injection to stop HIV approved

The shot, given six times a year or every other month, is an alternative to taking daily pills to protect against ever catching the virus.

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 1d

The thing is, if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20h

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 18h

What a coincidence 🙄

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 1d

There are several other positions, of course, including:

- machine learning has great potential, but the models useful in my field are trained on stolen information, and I am an ethical person;

- I do not have legal and ethical access to sufficient data to train a relevant machine learning model;

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

Another thing about that group chat? The ‘boys will be boys’ mentality also paved the way for that group chat. Particularly when you consider that only certain ‘boys’ are given that grace.

White boys.

While Black boys are assigned manhood status as teenagers and predator status at all ages.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 1d

Gift link: Are You a Fermented Art Ho?
The return of paper fliers: “There are people who look at the fliers and think: ‘This is weird. Let me scan it,’” she said. #Analog #analogue
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Little Fliers Everywhere

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Girl Friday @girlfriday.bsky.social · 1d

on a personal note:
Hillside United church is holding the 1st annual Donna Dodsworth Memorial Food Drive on Saturday, Oct 25th.
Brave, extroverted folks will be knocking on doors asking for donations. Also an option to drop off donations at 12 flamingo drive between 10am & noon that day!

Poster:

1st Annual
DONNA DODSWORTH
Memorial
Food Drive
On Oct 25th residents of Rockingham, Clayton Park and Fairview can expect a knock at the door! Friends and neighbours of Donna's will be out collecting food items to stock the shelves of Westend Community Food bank and Halifax West Ecumenical Food
Bank
Donations will also be accepted at Hillside
United Church
12 Flamingo Drive from 10am until 12pm Saturday, Oct 25th
Cash donations also accepted

Needed items::
• Canned vegetables
• Cooking oil
• Condiments
• Canned fruit
• Canned beans (chickpeas, black beans, kidney beans)
• Canned meats
• Dry baking ingredients
• Jello, juice, pudding mix
• Peanut butter
• Pasta and pasta sauce
• Rice, oats, barley
• Soup, stew, chili
• Snack items (granola bars, fruit cups, applesauce)
• Instant coffee/tea
• *Gluten Free Items*
• Cereals
• Noodles/Ramen
• Deodorant, shampoo, soap
• Toiletries (period products, dental care items)

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 1d

Also, as Dale notes, provinces have no room to incarcerate more people. Judges are reducing custodial sentences because jail conditions are so bad. bsky.app/profile/jour...

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 1d

For the record, in Ontario jails, 78 percent of people are in pre-trial detention and have not been convicted. Facilities are so overcrowded they are triple-bunking in tiny cells.

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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 1d

Meta: 20 years of always changing without ever improving .

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Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 1d

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 1d

This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1937. The Buchanan Dam, which dammed the Colorado River of Texas, west of the town of Burnet, was dedicated. Let's talk about how dams and electricity transformed the work lives of rural women!

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't a new insight, but: the people who are always ready to put a Black teenager on trial as an adult sure do like extending the "youth will be youth" excuse in other contexts— not just to college students like Kavanaugh, but to, e.g., 35-year-olds on a Young Republicans group chat.

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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 1d

He seemed extra detached from reality. And extra angry.

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Ken Donnelly🇨🇦 @novaken.bsky.social · 1d

It is the “It doesn’t matter how awful it tastes, you are going to eat your dinner and you are going to like it” approach to democracy.

Ken Donnelly🇨🇦 @novaken.bsky.social · 1d

I went to bed in Nova Scotia and woke up in Alberta.

Nova Scotia removes public’s ability to file complaints about municipal politicians | CBC News

Nova Scotia residents can no longer file complaints about their municipal elected officials, a move one advocate calls “dangerously undemocratic.”

www.cbc.ca

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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 1d

*whole

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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 1d

The clips of Trump speaking yesterday afternoon are so unhinged that I feel I need to actually learn what the while press avail was like.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

When Big Balls got beat up by 15-year-olds they said DC should prosecute 14-year-olds as adults.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Hitlergate wasn't "kids"—it was 20- and 30-something GOP flacks.

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 1d

Woohoo!!!

Jim Abraham @yhzweatherguy.bsky.social · 1d

Showers, rain or drizzle most likely in NB & W NS today. Northeast winds increase Friday and Saturday allowing light showers or drizzle to persist in onshore flow over SE NB-PEI and N NS.
Clears Sunday then a few more significant rain events starting Tuesday next week.

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HfxPam 🇨🇦 @hfxpam.bsky.social · 2d

Nova Scotia removes public’s ability to complain about municipal politicians | CBC News

Nova Scotia residents can no longer file complaints about their municipal elected officials, a move one advocate calls “dangerously undemocratic.”

www.cbc.ca

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David Lewis @uniondesign.bsky.social · 2d

“The hospital has a mission assurance agreement […] The agreement outlines and protects the philosophy, mission and values of the Catholic doctrine. It’s the only publicly-funded hospital in the province to have this agreement.”

Unheard. Unserved: N.S. woman says she was bleeding out inside hospital, and no one intervened - Halifax | Globalnews.ca

Cherise Basque had a medical abortion for a high-risk pregnancy. But when complications arose, the mother of five alleges her treatment at her local hospital was a nightmare.

globalnews.ca

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