Until there is verifiable proof of the existence of god religion should have no place in society. It should not be taught in schools and should not form the basis of any laws. In fact even if you do show up with proof that god exists I still hold the right to ignore god and religion. I claim the right to live without god.

Good thing the Saskatchewan government allows parents to opt out their children in whole or in-part and bars third party organizations to present on Sexual Health (source) /s

https://mas.to/@dmacphee/115878148610217839

Le gouvernement fédéral continue d’utiliser la plateforme X malgré le scandale.

The NDP leadership race could be turning into a nail-biter with no clear winner in sight. But it's unclear if Canadians are tuning in.

But according to party insiders, three are likely bets to become leader: Heather McPherson, Avi Lewis and Rob Ashton.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/45322079

Carney’s own department, the Privy Council Office, has been one of the worst performers in the access to information system. In the span of about two years, the office was peppered with an extraordinary 87 legal orders to release documents after initially refusing to provide them to requesters. That’s up from zero orders in the previous three years. Little surprise, then, that bureaucrats have been quietly recommending curbs on the information commissioner’s ability to issue such orders.

I couldn't find an archive link that works. I tried signing in and archiving myself but it still asks for an e-mail.

If you enter a throwaway e-mail it'll let you in without having to confirm.

A massive mud plain cutting north-east made it clear where the water had gone. It had travelled almost 10km overland into a bigger lake. Amazingly, no one had been hurt in this gigantic – was it a mudslide? A flood? Nobody was sure what to call it.

The federal government is sending the military to help Pimicikamak Cree Nation after a days-long power outage led to damage to hundreds of homes and the evacuation of thousands of people.

In a letter posted to the social media site X on Friday afternoon, Eleanor Olszewski, Canada's emergency management minister, said a "specialized team" from the Canadian Armed Forces will be deployed to the northern Manitoba First Nation.

Military personnel will provide "targeted assessment and advisory support focused on water treatment and sewage systems, power generation, project management and logistics," Olszewski said.

The decision to send military personnel follows a request from Pimicikamak Cree Nation nine days ago.

This is what the radical far right wing of the US establishment is thinking about Canada. This has echoes of Project 2025 "when they tell you who they are, believe them".

Q: You talked about your counter-UAS equipment having radio frequency detection and intercept capabilities. What’s Canada’s policy on kinetic counter-drone systems?

I think there’s other optionality, right? And I think this becomes a policy and a legal discussion. What are the boundaries for our authorities? And if we need more authorities, we have to go back to the government to get them. We do have some exemptions from [Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada] that manages our spectrum. It’s like the FCC in the States, so we’ve got a bunch of dispensations from them to conduct the interceptions we need for defense installations, which is good news. But I do think there’s probably more to come. I do think kinetic, directed energy, drone-on-drone type [of defenses] would be very useful. I think it’ll depend on the legal framework we’re allowed to use to protect our facilities.

A company largely owned by the French and U.K. governments is pitching Canada on a roughly $250-million plan to provide the military with secure satellite broadband coverage in the Arctic, CBC News has learned.

Eutelsat, a rival to tech billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink, already provides some services to the Canadian military, but wants to deepen the partnership as Canada looks to diversify defence contracts away from suppliers in the United States.

A proposal for Canada's Department of National Defence to join a French Ministry of Defence initiative involving Eutelsat was apparently raised by French President Emmanuel Macron with Prime Minister Mark Carney on the sidelines of last year's G7 summit in Alberta.

"We also give them the ability to not be under the control of a singular individual who could decide to disconnect the service for political or other reasons."

What van Dyke is referencing, more than anything else, are reports that Musk ordered Starlink switched off in Ukraine during a pivotal push by the Eastern European country to retake territory from Russia in late September 2022.

The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, or CIPPIC, is described as “Canada‘s first and only public interest technology law clinic” and is operated out of University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law

Peter Nowak is also covering this at his substack.

inb4: yes, I know you can say, "Fuck!" on the 'net: it's OG headline

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I am sharing here because He IS Canadian.