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Our esteemed governments, federal and provincial, have cooked up a brilliant scheme to tackle the housing crisis: buying back condos. Yes, you heard that right, buying back properties that, one could argue, their own policies helped make unaffordable in the first place.
Hold onto your data, folks, because the government is at it again! Bill C-36 promises a 'major overhaul' of federal privacy law, which, if history is any guide, means a whole lot of bureaucratic jargon leading to precisely zero actual privacy.
Bill C-22 is being sold as a clean, lawful tool for police and intelligence agencies. Critics say it also builds a sturdier pipeline for mass metadata retention, surveillance backdoors, and foreign access to Canadian-held data.
“Because when life gives you frozen tundra, you find a way to make it weird.”* Good day, loyal subjects of the digital realm. It has been a truly remarkable week.
A Reddit post about designer-researcher jobs in the BC Public Service should be read as a warning, not a gripe. When an organization makes skilled people feel invisible, overextended, and interchangeable, it is squandering public money and public trust.
In a move that's either incredibly brave or profoundly naive (or both), a group of young activists is suing the Carney government over climate change. This isn't just a protest; it's a legal challenge, a literal 'children vs. government' showdown in the hallowed halls of justice.
What started as a noble quest for dignity in death has become a bureaucratic death march in Canada. Our government, in its infinite wisdom, has managed to turn the 'right to die' into a legal labyrinth that would make Sisyphus himself throw in the towel.
Across Canada, 'essential services' are deciding they're not so essential after all, leaving us to ponder who will collect our garbage or care for our elders. It's a tragicomedy where everyone loses, except perhaps the mediators.
The Carney government says it wants to modernize privacy law by tightening rules around data use, surveillance, and pricing practices. That sounds reassuring—until you remember governments and corporations tend to discover privacy right after they’ve already been mining it.
Because when life gives you maple syrup, you find a way to make it weird.
Who knew playing Pokemon Go from a company in a country that wants to annex you as the 51st state could smell like treason? The new scans linking Niantic to Vantor military drone navigation raise bizarre geopolitical questions.
You weren't playing a game. You were participating in a 10-year-long, global, crowdsourced intelligence gathering operation.
What could possibly go wrong? Only the complete and total atrophy of a generation's ability to write a cover letter without prompting a machine first.
An AI doesn't need to win a seat in Burnaby or Kelowna. It doesn't care about a corporate lobbyist buying it a nice dinner in Victoria. It doesn't get nervous when wealthy NIMBYs show up to a council meeting to complain that a subsidized apartment building will ruin the "character of the neighborhood."
Blaming the Silicon for the Sins of the Carbon. How C-Suites and Complacent Settlers Are Using the AI "Existential Threat" to Hide Their Own Masterclass in Resource Incompetence*
The pendulum has swung back to "stability," but "stability" in Canada has always just been a fancy word for an expensive rug under which we sweep our historical debts. Enjoy mowing the lawn this weekend; you're paying for it twice.
Welcome to Canada, where we don’t reward homework, we reward hostage-taking: a breakdown of how Alberta’s separation tantrums successfully bullied Ottawa into fast-tracking pipelines, while rule-abiding provinces got left in the dust. It's a masterclass in why our federation is broken, largely because lazy voters treat the Constitution like an iPhone terms-and-conditions box—scrolling straight to the bottom without reading a single word about how provincial autonomy actually works.
"British Columbians are currently behaving like a tenant who hasn’t paid rent since the Crimean War and is now absolutely scandalized that the landlord has stopped by to ask for a key. To hear the Western Standard tell it, David Eby invented 'land claims' in a Victoria basement in 2017. In reality, the 'crisis' isn’t a policy shift; it’s a physics problem. For a century, BC operated on the 'Ostrich Strategy'—burying its head in the muskeg and hoping the Supreme Court wouldn’t notice the Crown never actually bought the ground it’s standing on. Whether the NDP tries to fix the foundation with 'Shared Decision-Making' duct tape, or the Conservatives promise to 'repeal' reality back to 1950, the bill remains on the table. You can’t 'repeal' a Supreme Court ruling any more than you can vote to make gravity optional. We aren’t witnessing the 'deconstruction' of BC; we’re witnessing the inevitable collapse of a legal fiction that even the best political spin can no longer sustain."
It takes a special kind of legislative talent to pass a bill, throw a parade for yourself, and then act shocked when the bill actually *does* what it says on the tin.
Eby is pitching this as the "economic engine of the new Canadian economy." It’s a bold move: if we can’t fix the housing crisis, we’ll just turn the province into a fortified financial bunker for the military-industrial complex.