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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 1d

The brother of federal Industry Minister, Mélanie Joly, is the president and CEO of Intelcom, a courier company that exploits subcontracted delivery drivers for pennies per package. It stands to benefit mightily from the dismantlement and privatization of public postal services in Canada.

The privatization crisis at Canada Post

Canada Post is under attack. Political favouritism, privatized delivery, and precarious subcontracting are putting workers and public service at risk. From Intelcom’s exploitative practices to the gov...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 5d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 18d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 7d

Thanks @openmedia.org for leading the way against Bill C-2.

"[...]the government is poised to introduce a second bill, [...] without the controversial clauses that allowed Canada Post to open mail and law enforcement to access some digital data."

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Government to table new border bill amid C-2 privacy concerns: sources | CBC News

The federal Liberals are set to introduce a new bill expected to mirror much of what's in their already tabled border legislation — but with some clauses that sparked concerns from opposition parties ...

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 7d

The Liberals have undermined workers and their rights with Section 107. I stand with our caucus and everyone who believes in workers’ rights in full support of @leahgazan.bsky.social bill (www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en...) to scrap this back-to-work legislation by another name.

C-247 (45-1) - LEGISinfo - Parliament of Canada

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 8d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 8d

I guess you're right!

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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 8d

It should not be "until Trump is gone", but rather "until the US have restored democracy, law, and order in their country and added safeguards for something similar to never happen again".

Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 8d

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 9d

wake up, hosers

new petition just dropped

e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money

Sign this Petition - Petitions

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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 8d

Awesome! I am merely an ally but I'm glad that you consider yourself a human being 🤣 I should also say that when I wrote my reply the autocorrect removed the A, so the same thing might have happened to you too 😢

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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 9d

Please recognize asexuals (LGBTQA+) as they are people too and deserve to be included.

I wholeheartedly agree with everything you wrote and I am not trying to diminish that in any way, only trying to make sure we are inclusive as much as possible.

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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 10d

This "article" is embarrassing.
I am glad to see that other users commented by calling to boycott Amazon. It's a moral imperative under all points of view.

Wired, you should do better.

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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 12d

That's one of the US administration's talking points, I'm not surprised that it is being parroted here as well and I'm sure that the conservatives say the same.
I don't know if it's new (I doubt it) but I've heard it said exactly that way only today.

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