In Canada, top 1% of wealth holders hold 24% of total wealth.
Meanwhile, PM Carney has an ‘austerity budget’, which will impact the disadvantaged.
Patriotic Millionaires Canada, which I am a board member of, estimated that a 3% tax on wealth over $100-million could raise $25-billion annually.

listen i am not saying he should be running anything but eric adams should certainly be encouraged to continue to post forever

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities:

At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

100%

The continued interest in cloud computing (and using American and other non-Canadian companies for it) is also a major threat to Canadian sovereignty.

If we lose control of our data and information, we could easily lose ourselves.

#cdnpoli

Notable that there's no published algorithmic impact assessment for this system yet. Regulation is clear that AIAs are to be published prior to production. Yet here we are, $15.3 million in the hole on an incredibly risky system with no transparency or public input.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Reading Henri Kissinger’s Wikipedia (as one does) and got jumpscared by this absolute nightmare of a blunt rotation

My second piece for the Guardian in a month! As promised, I wrote about Bill C-2 the border bill and how it’s MAGA-inspired
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fucken YIKES, pals

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Hoo boy it's another Sunday on HBO you know what that means

This is an extreme example, but it's important to remember that editors make changes like these all the time for—in their minds—a variety of reasons.

But whatever the intent—however malicious or not—the result is still the same ... it's erasing trans existence from our own stories and lives.

Here's my new piece. It's a deep dive into why Millennials have been infantilized and why teenagerness has been extended into young adulthood: it's a tool of social control to render entire generations incapable of organizing to fight back.

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“You’ve got an economy that’s dying of cancer, and a political system that doesn’t believe cancer exists.”

True nearly everywhere, but the LPC are more dedicated than most to keeping their heads in the sand on wealth inequality. Would love someone in this leadership race to prove me wrong.

Computers absolutely have the capability to unlock human creativity across an enormously broad spectrum of disciplines and their mutation into read only gambling porno viewers is so goddamned disheartening

one of the things we are going to regret most about the last decade is not making cryptocurrency flat illegal. i think you should think hard about what it means to have much of the president's inner circle heavily invested in an asset class which depends on the collapse of the American economy.

Freeland or any one Liberal politician aren’t going to save this party. Like the Democrats, they’ve pushed their coalition to its breaking point. The small c Conservative to small l Liberal is an endangered species. There is no “I’m ok with carbon taxes ANS buying a pipeline” demographic in 🇨🇦