Canada does not have a policy for AI governance, and that absence is not a minor administrative gap—it is a structural failure. By Si Thu Naing @policyalternatives.ca
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The debate over UPOV 1991 - a kind of patent on seeds - is raging again in Argentina. Milei wants in, as required by his trade deal with the US, but farmers & local seed producers say NO! Summary of positions, in Spanish: ruralnet.com.ar/crisis-semil... @etcgroup.bsky.social @lughiotto.bsky.social
"In the first month of the war in the Middle East, Canadian oil companies made about $6 billion — $4 billion more than the previous month — according to an analysis from @policyalternatives.ca." thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...
The oil industry is profiting $10 million every day because of the war in the Middle East... “We could tax that,” said @hadrianmk.bsky.social, through an “excess profits” or “windfall” tax. The government could then use that money to improve affordability for Canadians. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...
Carney will have Parliamentary Committees with 7 Liberals, 4 Conservatives and 1 Bloc member. This is disproportionate and unnecessary. Committees are one of the few ways regular Canadians can have a voice in our system. Liberals will be able to control agendas to avoid hearings on key issues.
"Blakeney wasn’t about to let oil companies be the sole beneficiary of price hikes to a commodity that was wholly owned by the province. Instead, Blakeney implemented a 100 per cent windfall profits tax on Saskatchewan-produced oil." paherald.sk.ca/saskatchewan...
"Under our existing system, the government does not control the price of gas – gas retailers do. What Carney’s policy has done is reduced one of the costs that gas retailers pay, but whether they decide to pass those savings on to consumers is up to them."
This is where the pharma task force our health minister established is taking Canada. No accountability, no investment guarantees, just higher medical bills. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
This is what we need from Canada, beyond aid and stated support for the humanitarian crisis. End the blockade.
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The Carney government hasn't cut the women's state. It has let it expire.
WAGE under "Culture, Values, and Identity." Mandate letters scrubbed of gender language. Gender Statement missing from budget. By 2027–28, funded below where Harper left it. deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/w...
For the evening crowd.
What you get is a Harper-era fiscal and ideological architecture, executed with more subtlety and more plausible deniability, and on a trajectory that takes the women’s state below where Harper left it.
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On majority government, cutting through the clutter, and sobbing on the radio (ouch).
My conversation with the great Nil Köksal.
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Many people in Alberta are also being harmed by the oil industry's impunity. The hugely profitable sector unjustly offloads its costs onto the least powerful. See Aging oil wells on her land ar...
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The part about profiteering.
Did you read the article?
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... Max it sounds like you support politics of appeasement re the petrochemical industry. The gas we use originates in Canada does not cost more to produce now than it did on Feb 27 so of course oil companies are profiteering by selling here at "world prices."
an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
By taking off a tax instead of disciplining oil companies' profiteering he promotes the idea that corporate power is inevitable/untouchable and taxes cause hardship. A completely neoliberal decision.
A great, fresh framing of the contemporary challenges of critical agrarian studies by Facundo Martín, @kristinadietz.bsky.social, Barbara Göbel & Bettina Engels for the @agrarianchange.bsky.social blog:
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If USA had universal single payer public healthcare nobody would need to use tip money to pay for cancer treatment. The message also trivializes the way private for profit medical care and the gig economy holds people hostage.
These cuts are to libraries that belong to federal departments and agencies. They are where books, documents, reports, photos, etc are kept to support their work and institutional history.
Turning out the lights.
(1/) Grocery giants and other corporations have teamed up with big tech to raise profits through surveillance pricing. They're using personalized data to set individualized higher prices based on where you live, what you search online and how often you shop.
