hey @JakeAndersonFF,
I pulled the data based on our conversation with @evansilva & @pahowdy last week.
This is what I came up with.
cc @PFF_Eric @LukeBraunNFL
En el partido de esta noche entre Congo y Colombia en el Mundial, un hombre congoleño se quedó inmóvil durante los 90 minutos imitando el saludo del líder anticolonial congoleño, Patrice Lumumba.
Lumumba fue descuartizado y disuelto en ácido por EEUU y Bélgica en 1961 por conseguir la independencia del Congo ante el colonialismo y negarse a que los imperialistas siguieran saqueando los recursos de su pais.
Aunque los imperialistas disolvieron su cuerpo, no pudieron borrarlo de la historia, 65 años después, Lumumba sigue presente para millones de personas.
For those of you who will see this man for the first time this evening as DRC-Congo (once known as Zaire) takes on Colombia in the World Cup tonight, the history of the man he represents: Patrice Lumumba, is worth your time to learn.
➡️ https://t.co/9bIwTzQxh7
"Developers are stuck. They don't want sell at a loss." - @MarkJCarney
Developers have options:
▪️Keep empty
▪️Convert to rental
▪️Lower prices
And so what if they sell at a loss? That's the game.
Why should Canadian taxpayers bail out homebuilders?
Call me whatever you want, but I believe the goal of a society should be to secure the happiness and highest quality of life possible for its citizens and not to endlessly generate capital for the ownership class at the expense of everyone else.
One thing I love is how basically every study says that students do better in school with less homework and later start times and workers do better with more vacation days and shorter shifts, but we do the exact opposite in this country because Puritanical feelings apparently beat facts.
Canada passed a law criminalizing the Hamas and Hezbollah flags, introduced mandatory ISP metadata retention, and tabled a Digital Safety Commission with authority to define "hatred" — all in the same parliamentary session.
Bill C-9 clears Parliament:
The Combatting Hate Act passed the House in March and the Senate in June, with Royal Assent imminent. It creates a new criminal offence for displaying symbols with intent to promote hatred, covering Nazi insignia and flags of designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah. The religious expression defence has been removed, opposed by the United Church, Anglican Church, National Council of Canadian Muslims, and Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.
Bill C-22 builds the retention infrastructure:
The bill requires providers to retain metadata — call logs, location data, digital traces — for up to one year and mandates adaptations for data transfer to police and CSIS under warrant. Google said the bill goes further than Canada's allies; Apple said there is no credible way to build access that excludes bad actors; Meta flagged it could require installing government interception software on their systems. Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne warned extended retention increases breach risk.
Bill C-34 creates the speech regulator:
Introduced Jun 10, the Safe Social Media Act establishes a Digital Safety Commission of three to five unelected commissioners empowered to require platforms to mitigate "harmful content," including content that "foments hatred." Civil liberties organizations note the definition is broader than the Supreme Court's requirement of extreme manifestations. Non-compliant platforms face fines up to $10 million or three percent of global revenue. The bill bans under-16s from social media, mandates age verification, and covers AI systems capable of simulating human-like relationships.
My take: Three bills in one session to make Canada fascist again.
The Carney government is constructing durable legal and technical capacity while governing through falling institutional trust and ongoing Indigenous land disputes. Palestinian solidarity organizers face immediate exposure: the Hamas flag ban is operational now, the metadata infrastructure follows, and the Digital Safety Commission will eventually decide what "detestation" means. Canada presents as the liberal alternative to the American surveillance state. This legislation closes the gap. If you needed any more proof on what you get when you scratch a liberal.
when we say “crime is a social construct”.
what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jaił for littering but a corporation can poıson the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jaił.
I’m constantly astonished that billionaires would rather ignore the climate crisis and prepare to live in a bunker with dvds and baked beans than devote a modicum of their bottomless wealth to saving the planet where we have fresh fruit and soft grass and blue skies.