Last night Mr. Laffy, the twins, and I celebrated:
1- May 34th #TrumpGuilty
2- Finding a townhouse to put an offer on …in our preferred complex, exactly where we wanted to buy
3- Being together again, in #Canada for realsies
4- The rule of law working as it should
Today I woke up (I actually didn’t sleep much) under the weather… which started yesterday but was trying to ignore. So, no Champagne today.
Today, in The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same:
A robot has replaced the person with the lawnmower on Citadel Hill National Park, but even so, it's still a Federal government gig, so one does the work and one, inset, stands there supervising.
Let me stop #cdnpoli now from the run-away American-inspired narrative that only Trudeau can save us from Poilievre. We don’t have a two party system and Trudeau is turning #Canada into an unaffordable police state. So get over that Singh is in a turban and vote for someone who actually represents your long-term interests.
Trudeau has let all the Premiers run roughshod over the Health Canada act and just approved Ford’s plan to run an unnecessary highway (as studies have shown, it is a make work project) and #climate disaster through ecogically sensitive farmland after buying a pipeline that went 30x over budget for his oil buddies. Then Prime Minister mcDreamy got on board with a genocide. Launch 🚀 him into the sun. #cdnpoli#Canada
And don’t tell me how PM mcDreamy is protecting my bodily autonomy while access to abortion has DECREASED not increased under his rule. It is a load of malarkey! No one serious should vote for Pierre but Justin ain’t it. And his harem Cabinet of ghouls can go with him, starting with Freeland who is a nazi. #climate#cdnpoli#Canada
This is why I buy DRM free MP3s/FLACs, or I buy CDs and rip them. I can play them in the background, offline, etc. with no subscription required. Subscription services like Spotify pay very little to the artists, so not only do they get a bigger cut of the money when I "buy" a piece of music, but i actually own it with no further transactions required.
#Canada#Cybersecurity#Encryption#Backdoors#5G#Privacy: "Bill C-26 empowers government officials to secretly order telecommunications companies to install backdoors inside encrypted elements in Canada’s networks. This could include requiring telcos to alter the 5G encryption standards that protect mobile communications to facilitate government surveillance.
The government’s decision to push the proposed law forward without amending it to remove this encryption-breaking capability has set off alarm bells that these new powers are a feature, not a bug.
There are already many insecurities in today’s networks, reaching down to the infrastructure layers of communication technology. The Signalling System No. 7, developed in 1975 to route phone calls, has become a major source of insecurity for cellphones. In 2017, the CBC demonstrated how hackers only needed a Canadian MP’s cell number to intercept his movements, text messages and phone calls. Little has changed since: A 2023 Citizen Lab report details pervasive vulnerabilities at the heart of the world’s mobile networks.
So it makes no sense that the Canadian government would itself seek the ability to create more holes, rather than patching them. Yet it is pushing for potential new powers that would infect next-generation cybersecurity tools with old diseases."
"Your encampment is a threat to the global witch hunt campaign (IHRA) to change the meaning of anti-Semitism (Being against #Jews because they are Jews). The #IHRA campaign attacks you as anti-Semitic because you criticize #Israel racist apartheid. The IHRA opposes the wearing of the Kyffeyeh and persecutes all defenders of #Palestine freedom." #Gaza#SolidarityWithPalestine#NotAntisemitism @palestine@israel
"Major oil companies have in recent years made splashy climate pledges to cut their greenhouse gas #emissions and take on the #climate crisis, but a new report suggests those plans do not stand up to scrutiny.
The US firms Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil each ranked “grossly insufficient” on all 10 criteria."
Big Oil n Gas in #Canada will also keep producing climate disasters.
Key conclusions of their assessment are that “Canadian oil and gas companies have released a range of complex, misleading climate change pledges that must not be taken at face value.” Moreover, “despite all the talk from Canadian oil and gas companies about climate leadership, their current business plans would fuel further #climate disaster and global injustice.”