Council of Canadians

Bringing people together to challenge corporate power and organize for: 💧Clean water 🌍Fair trade ☀️Climate justice 🏥Public healthcare 🖐🏽A vibrant democracy

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

Airport fees will pad profits for investment funds.

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Transport minister won’t guarantee prices won’t go up after airport privatization, promises fees will be ‘partially regulated’ https://t.co/CmMYL3AUQy

[Unifor @UniforTheUnion]

Privatization means that you pay more. Private profits do not appear out of thin air.
In the case of airport privatization abroad, private investors extract profit from airports through staffing cuts and fee increases for travellers and airlines.  
https://t.co/93lXw6W7yQ

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

Council's own Nikolas Barry-Shaw bringing the 🔥 to the billionaire class at The Many vs. The Money protest in Toronto

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

Incredible turnout in the streets of Toronto yesterday to push back against Carney's privatization sell-off. More and more people are saying NO to Carney's "rip it and ship it" approach. The Many are out against the Money.

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

"Nik Barry-Shaw, trade and privatization campaigner for the Council: "I've been looking around the table that Carney has set for this summer and I don't see any of us at the table," he said. "Does that mean we're on the menu?"

https://t.co/dOkVxgsrXu

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

Portage students protested unfair work-permit denials. Calgary Police called CBSA. Ten now face removal orders.

Migrants have the right to protest without fear.
Today we are joining 250+ orgs to defend it.

Join us: https://t.co/ScfKvAhMRl
#DefendRightToProtest
@MarkJCarney

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

BlackRock? Blackstone? JP Morgan? They'll all be in TO this September, as Carney and Ford look to auction off what's left of our public infrastructure.
We’re organizing the response. Join us Sept 12-14 for a counter-summit (feat. Naomi Klein) and protest: https://t.co/GMoKUD7Zv5

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

Ten years ago, Colten Boushie was killed on a Saskatchewan farm. The RCMP left his body in a field, in the rain, for hours. A jury with no Indigenous jurors acquitted the man who shot him.

Gerald Stanley is alive. Colten Boushie isn’t. Ten years later, that’s still the whole story.

The racism that killed him didn’t go away — it’s alive and well, still shaping who gets presumed innocent and who gets presumed guilty. This isn’t the past. It’s still happening.

Read the full via Indigenous Insider:

https://t.co/AWwirAhNdo

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

From our friends at the Breach

[The Breach @TheBreachMedia]

As Mark Carney oversees a massive military buildup, Canadians are getting hit with a barrage of propaganda.

@Martin_Lukacs debunks the myths the country’s elite are peddling to justify this generational theft of public money.

[Russ Diabo @RussDiabo]

Approved nickel mine in Ontario to damage Indigenous rights, environment, according to impact assessment https://t.co/Grs1CFtSPv

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink will be attending the federal government's privatization summit. The government is planning to auction off what remains of our public infrastructure(airports, water systems, etc.) to the global 1%.
We’re organizing the response.
https://t.co/RPnd8aMCeM

[Maude Barlow @MaudeBarlow]

So the Democratic process means nothing?!? The will of the people to stop this water guzzling mistake is a side issue? Unbelievable.

Hamilton's mysterious data centre reversal haunts other municipalities | Canada's National Observer https://t.co/e56Wb1l6k7

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

Convened by the the Council of Canadians, 8th Fire Rising and World BEYOND War, the “Many vs. the Money” counter-summit at OCAD University will feature journalist/author @NaomiAKlein, U.S. academic and socialist @KeeangaYamahtta, and many more

Learn more: https://t.co/RPnd8aMCeM

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

Billionaires Vs All of Us

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

The CEO of Shopify, one of Canada’s largest corporations, says the poor and the elderly should not be allowed to vote. It’s pretty clear that billionaires are the real problem, not ordinary citizens.

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Join Isaac Murdoch and friends for a day in community: songs, stories, silk-screening and feast! Water is Love — A Community Gathering with Isaac Murdoch & Friends
August Sept 23, 10-4 pm in Georgetown, ON

GET DETAILS: https://t.co/0f4KYYGCED
We are here to LOVE WATER. 💙

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

Job Opportunity: Director of Membership and Development Strategy

Working closely with leadership, the Director is responsible for growing revenue, strengthening supporter relationships & building fundraising capacity to advance the Council’s mission.

https://t.co/2lw1fBwRVt

[Blue Community .net @BlueCommunity_N]

Meta to build C$13 billion Alberta data center
Tech giant Meta announced Wednesday it will build a massive data ​center in central Alberta, the company’s first in Canada, as it rapidly builds out computing capacity to support the global AI ‌boom.
https://t.co/X3vzTb1aur

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

AI just hit a wall that no amount of money can move. The planet itself.

There is not enough power, water, or land on Earth to build the data centers the AI race now demands. So the most valuable bet in artificial intelligence is no longer a chip company or a model. It is a rocket company. The plan is to leave.

In January, SpaceX filed with the FCC to launch up to 1 million solar-powered data center satellites into orbit. In February it bought xAI, the maker of Grok, folding an entire frontier AI lab into a rocket company in the largest corporate merger ever recorded. On June 8 it unveiled the AI1, a compute satellite with a 70-meter wingspan, wider than a Boeing 747, powered by the sun, cooled by the vacuum of space, and wired to the ground through Starlink. Four days later it went public in the largest IPO in history, near 1.77 trillion dollars, touched 2.1 trillion on its first day, raised close to 86 billion, and made one man the first trillionaire alive.

Now read the direction of that merger, because it is the whole story. A rocket company bought the AI lab. Not the reverse. For three years everyone assumed the constraint on AI was chips, or data, or talent. It is none of them anymore. It is energy and heat and dirt. The head of Anthropic said his company grew faster than the exponential, 80 times in a single year, and that is exactly why it ran out of compute. The answer was not to build more data centers in Virginia. It was to leave the atmosphere, where the sun never sets and a solar panel does five times the work. The moat in artificial intelligence is no longer the model. It is the launch.

And the first rent is already being paid. A rival lab, Anthropic, is reported to be sending roughly 1.25 billion dollars a month to Musk for compute. Google near 920 million. If intelligence moves to orbit, the company that owns the only affordable road there becomes the landlord of the next layer of the internet, the way one bookstore became the landlord of the cloud. The merger is the proof of concept. The IPO is the war chest. Those monthly checks are the lease.

Here is the part the price tag does not want you to read. Close to a trillion dollars of that valuation rests on orbital data centers that do not yet exist, and on a chip factory, Terafab, that SpaceX's own public filing calls a general framework with no binding deal, one that may not achieve commercial viability. Musk said it on camera. This is not a promise. The largest IPO ever written is priced on a future the filing itself cannot verify.

The other side is just as real. Compute in orbit costs about four times what it costs on the ground today, and the curve may not cross for fifteen years. The machines that print the chips are backordered for years. Shedding heat in a vacuum at this scale has never been done. Musk's timelines have a long history of meaning later. And Bezos is racing the same orbit with a constellation of 51,600 satellites of his own.

But strip it all away and the trade underneath is one sentence. Earth has run out of room for intelligence, and whoever owns the road off the planet owns whatever gets built next. Call it the most expensive science fiction ever sold, or the first time the map of the internet pointed up.

[Cdn Health Coalition @HealthCoalition]

NDP MP for Edmonton Strathcona, Heather McPherson @HMcPhersonNDP says Health Minister Marjorie Michel @MarjoriePLC is ‘not stepping up’ on Alberta's plan to increase private pay surgeries.
Provincial NDP leader Naheed Nenshi has written to the PM @MarkJCarney citing Health Canada's lack of response to allowing doctors to work in public and private health care systems at the same time. #cdnpoli #abpoli https://t.co/3NGbpkGFk2

[Maude Barlow @MaudeBarlow]

Bring these proposed data centres into the light so we can all see what is being planned. Keeping the contract terms secret is wrong!!!

Hamilton-owned corporation signs NDA over proposed AI data centre | Canada's National Observer https://t.co/t7iu2KqvyA