Federal and municipal social media bans are also unlikely to work. It’s best regulated at the household level.

Much as I would like to completely ban everyone in the world from visiting facebook and twitter, you can’t really do that and still pretend to have a free society that cares about human rights. What you could do instead is outlaw the surveillance capitalist business model they depend on — universally, through strong privacy laws not aimed specifically at social media or any other narrowly-defined type of application.

The collection, use, and disclosure of personal information must be limited to reasonable purposes, which organizations must identify to individuals at the time of collection … Organizations must limit their collection of personal information to that which is necessary for the purpose identified to the individual.

That’s what Canada’s Vehicle Cyber Security Guidance says is required by Canadian privacy law. Maybe start enforcing that law, then? If that principle were adhered to in reality, cars wouldn’t collect any sensitive data at all. It would not have intelligence value for friends or adversaries if it didn’t exist.

Even after two rounds of everyone pointing out that it’s an incredibly bad idea, they still plan to make some cosmetic changes and push it through. The arrogance of this government is stunning.

I would take that as good news if it said “building” instead of “leasing.”

That was based on the quote from the article. Are your numbers for Manitoba? By “constantly” do you mean “on average”?

No, and I didn’t really mean to pick on you specifically — it just seems that way in general.

There’s something magical about solar power which makes people think “it’s only 12 thousand acres of solar panels, sounds easy!” You could probably fit them all in an area the size of Manitoba’s second-largest city, no problem. Let’s go ahead and start building a city-sized grid of access roads out in the woods to be completely levelled and filled with high-tech electronics, batteries, inverters, transmission lines, switching stations, and more solar panels than currently exist in Canada — how hard can it be?

I dunno, it’s not impossible. It’s just… there might be better ways to solve the problem.

Retention of metadata may not even be considered a search or seizure, it’s unclear to me how likely it is that it might be declared “reasonable”, taking it to the supreme court would require many years of work during which irreparable harm would be done, and whichever parts of the law were struck down it’s likely that others would stand — and every part of it is irredeemable.

The whole bill is so blunt, crude, and stupid that I think there’s hope that it might be somehow arranged that it gets stuck in committee until it’s forgotten about.

the potential to generate an average of 6.6 kilowatt-hours of electricity per square metre, per month.

That seems like not much. A household using 1kW (slightly below average) would need more than 100m² of solar panels, which seems like a lot. I’m open to being convinced that solar pv has gotten so cheap that it’s worth using on a large scale even in Canada, but I’m not sure if those numbers are going to add up. I’d expect wind power to be a better bet.

If it gets to the courts we’re probably lost.

The people who appointed him UN special envoy for climate action probably thought he was a climate guy. The people who read his book (not me) seemed to think he was a climate guy. The people who believed his election campaign promises might’ve thought he was a climate guy. He probably still thinks he’s a climate guy.

He talks a lot about the importance of climate change, so it comes as a surprise to quite a few people that he doesn’t seem to be in favour of doing anything about it.

Mark Carney should call for an end to the genocide. It’s not too much to ask. The taboo that once stopped people calling it for what it is has been shattered.

Keep talking about it y’all, we’re almost at the point where even normal people will have heard about it.

Companies impacted by the bill say the demand would force them to create back doors, opening them up to adversaries.

There was really no need to rely on unspecified “companies” there. That is what the bill itself says. Read it; it’s pretty clear if you know anything about tech stuff. That part is separate from and entirely different than the section referred to earlier in the paragraph, the one that would require mandatory data retention.

Yeah I guess this RX 6600 I bought for $300 is going to need to last until [checks prices] forever.

That seems like a bad idea. Without the environment, where will we dump all our industrial waste?

The surprising part is that this government is so eager to trample all over moral principles and constitutional rights in order to give cops and spies literally everything they want.

Proposing a bill including new powers to open everyone’s mail and everyone’s computers too was the first thing they did when this session of parliament opened, which bill seemed as if it might’ve been written by the Trump CIA or something. But no, it looks like our new prime minister himself really is into that sort of thing. Too bad nobody found out about it before he got elected.

Our strategy is guided by four pillars:

• There is no credible path to net zero

• Burning fossil fuels is strength

• Strength is power

• We have the power so fuck you

“When it comes to genomics and understanding the aesthetics of crops …”

Um… aesthetics? Did he say something else and get misheard?

On that small detail — I was calculating the % change from December 2025 to the latest month.