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🚨Canada is about to destroy #privacy with Bill C-22 — one of the worst surveillance laws.
We stopped Bill C-2 just last year (details: tuta.com/blog/canada-bill-c2…)
Let's do it again! We say #NoToBackdoors 💪
Because there's no such thing as "lawful access" for the good guys only.
We've signed an open letter against Bill C-22, please join the fight!
👉 theccf.ca/stop-government-sp…
👉 Open Letter: fixc22.ca
#Canada #BillC22 #BillC2
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As Mayor, I have been working to negotiate with the province to find a path forward that keeps every road user safe - pedestrians, cyclists and drivers alike. Disappointing to see a member of Council undermine the City's right to determine its own future and repeatedly side with provincial overreach.
Today the Court of Appeal confirmed what I said on Bloor Street W., in Etobicoke on Tuesday: where bike lanes go is a decision for elected governments, not for courtrooms.
For almost two years, the future of Toronto’s streets sat in legal limbo. Drivers sat in gridlock. Businesses on Bloor West watched their sales fall. The Mayor spent those two years cheering on a courtroom fight instead of fixing the street. That’s two years this city doesn’t get back.
Here’s what today’s decision doesn’t change: the best people to decide what happens on Toronto’s streets are still Torontonians. My message to Queen’s Park is simple. You’ve made your point. Now let the city do this job, with the communities who live on these streets, and work with Toronto’s next mayor instead of around him.
My commitment from Tuesday stands, and today removed the last excuse for delay. As Mayor, I’ll take the bike lanes on Bloor Street West, from South Kingsway to Resurrection Road, out in my first year and restore the vehicle lanes. And I’ll build cyclists something better than a painted line on an arterial road: a real network of trails in our ravines and hydro corridors, plowed in winter, and routes on quieter streets. That promise doesn’t depend on any courtroom, and it never did.
Mayor Chow should accept today’s decision, end the legal chapter for good, and sit down with the province on an orderly plan. If she won’t, voters can choose a mayor in October who will.
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I’ll soon be sponsoring a bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock (and other style) cameras to surveil law abiding citizens.
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The plan is to continue breaking health care to the point that there is no opposition to privatising it. They are doing precisely the same thing in public education. #ONpoli #OntEd
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Doug Ford didn’t get rid of his #gravyplane. He just found a way to keep flying it on your dime.
The taxpayer funded Bombardier Challenger was sold at a $200k loss to Chartright — the same company now chartering it back to Ford at $10,000 an hour. Also billed to Ontario.
🇨🇦 The Bombardier Challenger Doug Ford bought with the MNR black budget, that he sold back to Bombardier at a loss of $200k, has been sold to Chartright, who provide Doug Ford with his aviation charter services at $10k/HR; so Doug Ford gets his happy ending after all. #GravyPlane
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🇨🇦 Doug Ford's $30M private jet, that he wasted $200k of Ontario tax revenue on, has been sold to Doug Ford's preferred private charter company, Chartright, who have previously provided planes for his luxurious travel tastes to Texas and Saskatchewan at ~$10k/hr. #GravyPlane
On June 23 Doug Ford's former Gravy Plane was registered to its new owner, Chartright, allowing Doug Ford to charter his #GravyPlane anytime he likes, and bill the Ontario tax payer. C-FBBW #C002D5 has been at the Bombardier facility at Bradley Intl in Connecticut since May 28.
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Canadian Police Chiefs: Our officers are using police databases to meet women by running their license plates in the system and finding their info.
Also Canadian Police Chiefs: We absolutely NEED laws that force companies to keep databases about all Canadians! For uh... safety!
Canadian police chief forced to make a video statement after his officers started running the plates of attractive women coming out of coffee shops and gyms.
Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs is calling on officers who use police databases to meet women to quit.
Stubbs says these officers are turning police databases into "their own way to meet women."
"We've seen members messaging vulnerable victims on calls that they've attended in an attempt to develop an intimate relationship," Stubbs said.
Despite the accusations, Stubbs says the police force has committed to hiring enough women so that females make up 30% of the workforce, according to CBC.
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The worst-case scenarios that Carney's 'social media ban' could enable.
Ottawa could get sweeping powers to decide who's able to use the internet, and even what AI chatbots are allowed to say, writes Tristin Hopper nationalpost.com/opinion/wor…
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NP View: Mark Carney's online surveillance state
nationalpost.com/opinion/np-…
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Police go directly for the circuit breaker panel to avoid being filmed
This post will be in English, because there apparently is a lot of interest in what happened to me yesterday.
I'm a libertarian danish privacy activist and former police officer and I have been doing activism for about 15 years.
I have had a bit of time to think about my arrest and the actions of the masked police that broke down my door - with no prior warning.
The prefece to the story is, that I in a kind of roundabout and (I think) humorous way published "my two favorite numbers" by spelling out a 10 diget and a 8 diget number with letters. I didn't tell what they ment, but they where prime minister Mette Frederiksen's social security and phone number.
I also published a screenshot of me trying to interview Mette Frederiksen on what app, asking her about her wanting to ban encryption (CSA) and introducing mass surveillance via granting the police intelligence services access to all sorts of information (medical journals, social media posts, DNA registers ment for research and so on).
That resulted in me being arrested by armed and masked police breaking down my door without me having any chance of opening it for them.
When the two civilian dressed masked men entered the apparentment one of them immediately went for the circuit breaker panel to shut off the power to my router. They then removed my Google Nest cameras - because they knew that the cameras contains local storage.
That way they could avoid having video of the (in my view) illegal arrest. Only the few moments before the power is cut was filmed. There is video of me asking them for the charges - and them refusing to tell me (which is illegal). But I can't access it, because they took the cameras.
I'm not even sure if that is legal. In Denmark it is (nominally) totally legal to film the police. That way it is possible to know what happened and it's not just your word against there's.
Denmark and the West are moving in the wrong direction, and it makes me sad.
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OHHHH BUT WHEN *I* SAY IT IM THE CRAZY ONE, HUH
I LITERALLY SAID THAT IF YOU WANT INTERNET FREEDOM FOR SPEECH, YOU NEED TO DEFEND PORN
NOW LOOK
Age verification started with porn and social media. Now, governments are passing laws requiring operating systems to collect your age before you can use your computer at all. pcmag.com/explainers/your-pc…
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Major Canadian experts in internet security and privacy - like @RonDeibert, @OpenMediaOrg and @cancivlib - are absolutely freaking out about Bill C-22.
They’re sounding massive alarms, warning that it could:
- force companies to keep metadata for up to a year, making a vast trove of personal information vulnerable to leaks and hacks
- make encryption meaningless by creating backdoors in software that allow police and gov. agencies to scoop up our personal data and messages
- give US police and spy agencies direct access to Canadians’ personal data without warning or oversight
So what is the Carney government doing? Ramming C-22 through in the dying hours of the session.
Meanwhile, Minister Solomon offers a retail sales pitch for potential powers of a new regulator that won’t even exist for at least 18 months.
Instead of just banning surveillance pricing and protecting us from other forms of digital spying and extraction.
Bill C-22 is a disaster and should be withdrawn.
Canadians deserve more control over their personal information.
That’s why the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act would introduce a Right to Deletion, giving Canadians greater control over their data and strengthening privacy rights in the digital age.
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Les Canadiens méritent d'avoir davantage de contrôle sur leurs données personnelles.
C'est pourquoi la Loi sur la protection de la vie privée et les données des consommateurs instaurerait un droit à la suppression, offrant ainsi aux Canadiens un plus grand contrôle sur leurs données et renforçant les droits à la vie privée à l'ère numérique.
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Carney rammed C-22 thru committee, rushing massive expansion of state surveillance powers w/o proper debate.
With few minor fixes, core threats to digital privacy & civil liberties remain unresolved. Canadians deserve better than secret orders and closed-door cabinet overreach.
ALT NDP Public Safety Critic Jenny Kwan’s media statement regarding Bill C-22. Headline reads: "Carney Government Rushes Bill C-22 Through Committee, Leaving Core Privacy and Civil Liberties Threats Unresolved." Statement expresses deep concern over the government forcing the bill through committee before parliamentarians could meaningfully debate a massive package of amendments or listen to civil liberties groups. While amendments partially improved clauses regarding encryption and systemic vulnerabilities, loopholes remain. Severe concerns around lower thresholds for foreign law enforcement to access personal information went unaddressed. Statement calls out the bill's reliance on secret orders, closed-door cabinet discretion, and the broad collection of sensitive metadata. It concludes by stating that after-the-fact oversight is no substitute for robust safeguards before data is collected, and condemns the Carney government for curtailing committee debate on digital privacy.
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Hey ‼️ digital rights advocates worldwide
The Carney 🇨🇦 govt is pushing thru parliament a flurry of bills that are among the worst I and my colleagues have ever seen. They will create security risks, erode civil liberties, enhance mass surveillance, and undermine oversight.
This is absolutely appalling. Shameful.
"Government prematurely ends debate on Bill C-22 without dealing with dangerous surveillance powers | OpenMedia" openmedia.org/press/item/gov…
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🚨 BREAKING - The government just called a vote on their motion to end debate on Bill C-22. Clause by clause could wrap tonight with the government's amendments effectively rammed through.
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A privacy expert told Global News the Liberals' push to fast-track the bill and limit debate was "staggering" and "astonishing."
globalnews.ca/news/11908249/…
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🚨The government is moving to shut down lawful access hearings and consideration of amendments on mandatory metadata retention, security backdoors, and weakened encryption today. All amendments to Bill C-22 would be kept secret and voted on without debate.
michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/gove…
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Now is the last chance for Canadians to urge their MPs to reject Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. This bill will give government and police easy access to your private internet data.
Find your MP's contact details here: ourcommons.ca/Members/en/sea… and urge him or her to oppose this surveillance legislation.
Signal, NordVPN, Windscribe, and ProtonVPN are among the companies that will withdraw their services from Canada if Bill C-22 passes.
If passed into law, Bill C-22 will allow the government to:
- order companies to develop capacity for organizing and extracting your data for law enforcement review
- order companies to install devices that feed your information to government and law enforcement
- order companies to retain your data for up to one year
issue orders in secret.
Contact your MP today: ourcommons.ca/Members/en/sea…
