Today is the last day for members of the #BCCons party to vote in the party's leadership #election.
Which raises a question: political parties in #Canada, to increase participation, have online voting. They also oppose online voting for #Canadians at all levels of government. Is this hypocritical?
#CdnPoli #CanPol #BCPoli #ABPoli #SKPoli #MBPoli #ONPoli #PolQC #NBPoli #NSPoli #PEIPoli #NLPoli
| Yes | |
| No | |
| No answer, just wanna see results. |
Combined federal, provincial debt to exceed $2.4T this year: study
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/federal-provincial-net-debt-fraser-institute
"Provincially, Manitoba has the highest combined debt as a share of GDP at 91.3 per cent in 2025-26, and while Alberta experienced the largest increase in that regard (21.5 per cent), its debt as a share of GDP remains the lowest in Canada (8.1 per cent)."
Often when people discuss gov't debt in Canada, we only think of the feds, but that's a mistake.
Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "age verification"
#ageverification #Canada #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #WabKinew #mbpoli #NDP #privacy
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/19/shes-dead-of-course/#consensus-hallucination
An interesting discussion of the issues around various #ageverification laws that are popping up in various places around the world on the "Techlore" podcast with Jithendra Palepu, a legal expert from the #FSFE (Free Software Foundation in Europe).
Lately relevant in #Canada with the province of #Manitoba announcing age verification for social media & AI chatbots.
#mbpoli #cdnpoli #surveillancecapitalism
https://techlore.tech/age-verification-laws-and-free-software-fsfe-interview-techlore-talks/
The generators are worysome though any good #datacenter has backup generators. Generators to provide regular electricity could be a problem.
Does Bell Canada have a partnership with AI companies? Is this just a datacenter rebranded? Are the Epic/BellMTS datacenter (now Equinix) on Waverley and the Videon one (now Rogers) still underused? Is there a chance that the many Crypto datacenters in MB can be converted? #Winnipeg #Manitoba #MBPoli #MBPol
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/bell-canada-rosser-manitoba-data-centre-9.7180565
A former protein-processing plant just outside Winnipeg is being converted into an AI data centre. Bell Canada is transforming the former home of Merit Functional Foods in the CentrePort industrial development into an artificial intelligence data centre in the rural municipality of Rosser.
As much as #Manitoba's Wab Kinew is the envy of the country, he is wrong on his desire for #socialMedia #surveillance of youth. And he is wrong to even suggest that it is possible. The real problem is the lack of regulation of #BigTech. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/the-illusion-of-protection-why-canadas-growing-push-to-ban-social-media-for-kids-wont-work/
The momentum behind a social media ban for Canadian minors has been building for months. The federal Liberals voted at their April policy convention to back a minimum age of 16 for social media accounts and AI chatbots, the government’s expert panel on online safety is studying the issue, protesters have now rallied on Parliament Hill calling for it, and on Saturday night, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew told a Winnipeg fundraiser that his government will be the first in Canada to ban social media and AI chatbots for kids. Kinew did not specify which kids, when it would happen, or how it would be enforced, none of which appeared to matter to the audience. The political appeal of a ban is obvious, since concerns about social media’s effects on young users are widely shared. Yet the policy itself is a terrible idea that will not work. This post examines at least six reasons why an outright age-based ban, particularly one that extends to AI chatbots, is the wrong response to a serious issue.
RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glnational_mirror/116473485518966842
Regulating youth instead of regulating social media companies. Providing social media companies with more data to harvest, and easier targeting.
#MBPoli #MBPol #CanPol #CanPoli #SocialMedia #ageVerification
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