With the uncertainty surrounding mstdn.ca I'm establishing another instance:
humanwords uses Sharkey
If I'm going somewhere new, explore :)
https://blog.elenarossini.com/sharkey-a-fediverse-project-that-is-beautiful-inside-out/
Ukraine exposed a Hungarian military intelligence officer as the handler of a spy network operating in Zakarpattia. Agents were recruited to collect data on Ukrainian air defense positions, military deployments and local sentiment, including potential reactions to the introduction of Hungarian troops. The network also targeted current and former Ukrainian military personnel and used diplomatic channels for recruitment, with multiple agents already detained. #Ukraine
Canadian politicians still use X?
A fake video of the NY airport accident that killed two Canadian pilots. Was produced by X’sAI Grok.
Convenience or accuracy?
CBC has begun the ugly task of identifying misinformation. They will be criticized by every political actor relying on misinformation
The third article in this (horrible) series of articles I've co-authored is now out. https://theconversation.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-will-destroy-the-night-sky-for-everyone-on-earth-277938
A million satellites of the size required for "AI data centers" would mean that everyone in the world would have more visible satellites than stars for most of the night and most of the year.
But don't worry, we'll be in Kessler Syndrome WAY before we get to a million satellites!
If you work in healthcare directly with patients, and have been thinking about 🇨🇦 Canada, keep reading.
Then visit https://HealthcareInfusion.org and https://NanaimoInfusion.ca
Canada believes in evidence-based care. Where your patients are treated like humans, not line items. Where nobody asks "can they afford this?" before deciding if someone gets help.
Come to Canada. We need you. You already have friends here. ❤️
Hazer Group of Australia continues its development of its Methane Pyrolysis plant partnership with FortisBC
project development work continues on the 2,500 tonnes per annum (“tpa”) commercial facility. The parties have now engaged Hazer’s global alliance partner, Kellogg, Brown & Root (“KBR”), to fast-track the project, leveraging their engineering and project execution capability.
The question for Canadians why this is being led by an Australian company in Canada?
https://mailchi.mp/hazergroup/hazer-investor-newsletter-june-6753897?e=4fac9729b1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRoT-fjQDSo
(Suncor backed out of this agreement)
The British Columbia Labour Relations Board recently ruled that Amazon violated the provincial Labour Code by denying scheduled pay increases to workers who unionized.|
"No worker should be punished for exercising their legal right to join a union, and today’s ruling sends a clear message that Amazon is not above the law,” said Unifor national president Lana Payne in a union press release."
https://www.readthemaple.com/amazon-breached-b-c-labour-code-by-denying-pay-increase/
https://www.unifor.org/sites/default/files/documents/Amazon-2026_wages_ruling.pdf
Just a few days ago, the Klamath Tribes Ambodat Department recorded the first naturally reproduced c'iyaal (Chinook salmon) found off the Upper Klamath Lake in over a century!
This tax system that favours wealth over work is financing Canada’s housing crisis.
This harms the working Canadian who’s taxed more than their landlords & bankers
https://www.taxfairness.ca/sites/default/files/2024-09/C4TF%20FIRE%20Report_0.pdf
Canada’s current tax policy says those that earn their income doing productive work, that creates real things, solves real problems, cares for real people, teaches real students, should be _taxed more_ than those who buy and sell what they already own to earn their income, who don’t work, don’t create, don’t solve, don’t care, don’t teach …
“ this wave of wealth concentration began around the 1980s. It is no coincidence that this is the same period when Canada took a neoliberal turn, characterized by free trade agreements that benefitted capital over workers, growing privatization, and the end of federal support for non-market housing. All of these policies made it easier for wealthy private actors to accumulate wealth at the expense of everyone else.”
https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/news-views/how-top-one-cent-threaten-canadas-future
Public service cutbacks or tax policies that challenges wealth without work?
“ Rather than using the tax system to prevent wealth concentration .. our current tax system promotes wealth concentration. – those who earn income from wealth have more income left over after taxes, allowing them to accumulate wealth more quickly than others.
If Canada does not rebalance our tax system to prioritize work over wealth, we may soon find ourselves with a runaway wealth inequality – billionaires in control of our politics.
A tax system that promotes efficiency and fairness will reinforce our democracy and protect our sovereignty in the face of the challenges represented by Trump and those putting their wealth ahead of our democracy.
https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/news-views/how-canadas-tax-system-puts-wealthy-above-workers
With all the news about amending #dripa by the #BC premier or about the BC #conservatives wanting to repeal it this is a good read.
Harper's IDU buddy Viktor Orban is blocking the EU's loan to Ukraine bc he expects this will make him more popular with Hungarian voters, even though Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are not contributing to the loan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/world/europe/ukraine-hungary-orban-elections.html
Youth Unemployment: The Canary in the Coal Mine
https://centreforfuturework.ca/2026/02/01/youth-unemployment-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine/
"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences. And for the first time in generations, those consequences involve a loss of unilateral authority for the Crown and the economic elite that has long benefited from it. The power dynamic is changing. The real question is not whether Canadians should fear that change. It is who benefited from the status quo, and for how long."
The players working to dimiss Powell river name issue, worked to elect Aaron Gunn
"An investigation by the fifth estate has found the website known as Entropy, which launched in Calgary, is in fact a safe haven for white supremacists and other extremists seeking to monetize the hateful content they livestream to online audiences."
Canadian company helping white supremacists fundraise from hateful livestreams https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-website-helps-white-supremacists-nazis-monetize-hate-9.7134485
Atlas Network works to inflame and outrage in B.C Canada over questioning a now inappropriate name for a community
Justice Centre is a AtlasNetwork operative, playing the usual pushing ignorance & prejudice for political gain
“The big money behind Powell River’s controversial name change
how American investors and Alberta oil interests are fueling division in small-town British Columbia”
https://www.bchistoryboy.ca/p/the-big-money-behind-powell-rivers