Ian C

Born late, hope the trend holds...

[Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd]

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[Ian C @em3ian]

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[Alex Bowers @BowersWrites]

“We were gaslit every which way,” said retired sergeant Jessica Miller on Veterans Affairs Canada and its handling of the Women Veterans Council.

Six members have since resigned, including Miller.

You can read more in my latest Legion Magazine article.
https://t.co/O4jbAdSi82

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

If you want to see what happens when the Frankfurt School gets a government badge, a pension, and a corner office in Ottawa, look at Bill C-9.

This is not just another “hate speech” bill. It is a sign of a much bigger shift.

The old political arguments were about wages, factories, class, ownership, and the economy. That was the old Marxist world. Today’s politics is about language, symbols, identity, emotion, culture, and who gets to decide what “harm” means.

Parliament has stopped arguing about who owns the factory.

Now it wants to control the dictionary.

Bill C-9 reads like a critical theory seminar that escaped campus, found a suit, and got hired by the Department of Justice.

Under the older liberal model, the law punished actions. Assault someone? Crime. Vandalize property? Crime. Block access to a building? Crime. The state dealt with what you actually did.

But C-9 moves the centre of gravity from action to meaning.

What did your words mean?

What did your symbol represent?

What was your motive?

What cultural message did your expression create?

That is not law as a neutral referee. That is law as a cultural therapist with police powers.

The most revealing part is the proposed removal of the long-standing “good faith” religious defence for hate propaganda. That defence existed for a reason. It protected freedom of conscience. It recognized that in a free country, people may express religious beliefs that others find offensive, outdated, or wrong, as long as they are not wilfully promoting hatred or violence.

That was not a loophole.

It was a guardrail.

But to the modern ideological mind, an ancient religious text is not treated as a source of conscience. It is treated as an artifact of power. A legal protection for religious speech is no longer seen as freedom. It is seen as oppression wearing a church hat.

So the guardrail has to go.

And what does government offer instead?

Trust us.

Trust that prosecutors will be reasonable. Trust that judges will interpret the law narrowly. Trust that ordinary Canadians will not get dragged through the process for saying something unpopular, traditional, religious, or politically unfashionable.

Sorry, but that is not how liberty works.

Rights are not protected by hoping the state behaves itself. Rights are protected by limiting what the state is allowed to do in the first place.

That is what makes the Senate debate so revealing. The Senate was supposed to be sober second thought. The old establishment airbag. The place where bad laws were supposed to slow down before hitting the public at full speed.

But now even the Senate is wrestling with a bill built from an intellectual toolkit designed to dismantle the very traditions the Senate was created to preserve.

Bill C-9 does not build social cohesion. It does not repair trust. It does not ask why people are angry, alienated, or radicalized in the first place.

It does what modern bureaucratic progressivism always does.

It manages symptoms by expanding state power.

It turns culture into a compliance file. It treats offensive expression less like a social problem to be answered with argument, courage, and moral confidence, and more like a hazardous substance to be regulated by experts.

The Frankfurt School wrote in dense, foggy jargon to expose hidden systems of power.

The joke is on everyone.

The modern state did not reject those tools. It absorbed them, stripped out the revolutionary romance, bolted them onto the Criminal Code, and called it public safety.

Bill C-9 is what happens when cultural theory becomes administrative power.

It is what happens when the state stops protecting public order and starts managing public meaning.

And that should worry anyone who still thinks freedom means more than government-approved speech.

[David Jacobs @DrJacobsRad]

As Carney made his way through the crowd at Holy Blossom Temple, every handshake was a betrayal because he hadn't come to help the community, he'd come to bury it.

Carney's appointees to his committee meant to combat antisemitism include:

-A lawyer who is leading a Charter challenge against the removal of the University of Alberta's post October 7th encampment.

-A former MP who lobbied to keep Hezbollah legal, condemned the use of the word 'terrorist' to describe the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, and eulogized prolific terrorist Yasser Arafat.

This is a sick joke that won't end well for the Canadian Jewish community, or Canadian society as a whole.

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

The Canadian public has been told this agreement exists.  But we have not been told what it actually says — because the RCMP has stated it will not release the document without Beijing’s permission.
That is not how a democracy operates. Canadians do not need a foreign government’s consent to know what their own police force has agreed to.
We call on the Government of Canada to release all details of the RCMP–Ministry of Public Security MOU to Parliament and the Canadian public immediately.
This agreement was not signed in a vacuum. It was signed against a backdrop of sustained, documented, and escalating interference by the People’s Republic of China against Canada and Canadians.
@rcmpgrcpolice

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

In Toronto, a young Jewish girl named Esther has been missing for over a week. To make matters worse, people have been ripping down posters about her disappearance, just like they did with the hostage posters after 10/7—one of the more appalling things I've ever seen in my life.

[Windscribe @windscribecom]

Oh this is just rich... Bill C-22 is driving VPN businesses like ours out of Canada because of the required user logging. And in the same breath you tell people to secure their data with VPNs.
I hope you bought your circus tickets folks, because the clown show is starting.

[Michael Chong 🇨🇦 @MichaelChongMP]

Canada is an independent, sovereign country. We do not take direction from foreign governments on where MPs can travel internationally.

Taiwan is a democracy on the front line of threats coming from authoritarian states.

My statement on my visit to Taiwan.

#cdnpoli

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Public Safety Canada (@Safety_Canada) has received a Community Note on X over its attempts to refute growing criticism of its state surveillance legislation, Bill C-22.

Bill C-22’s state surveillance powers are so extreme that companies focused on privacy and cybersecurity are warning they may leave Canada rather than comply. Signal says it could pull its service. VPN providers are raising alarms. When laws drive secure communications services out of the country, Canadians should be asking serious questions about privacy, security, and government overreach.

Stop Bill C-22 by signing our petition today: https://t.co/nfKjDpbRtp

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Take action today Canada. Sign our national petition to stop Bill C-22:
https://t.co/IZaJXIisnt

[Shane Wenzel @ShaneWenzel]

115 million litres. 💧
Lost. Every single day. Through leaks in pipes the City already owns.

42 billion litres a year. Enough water for 260,000 households.

Council's response? Permanent restrictions on you.

The homeowner who installed low-flush toilets a decade ago gets the same rules as everyone else.

The reward for efficiency is more restrictions.

In Ward 14, 88% opposed the plan. 90% want the leaks fixed first. 92% said engagement was inadequate before the vote.

We elected a council. Not an administration that rules over us.

Fix the pipes. Reward efficiency. Restore accountability.

💻 My full opinion column is live this month in The Western Standard. Read it at https://t.co/xEkADSUuVL.

Take care,
Shane

#yyc #Calgary #yycCC #yycpoli

[Daniel Franke @dfranke]

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection.

You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum.

You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom.

You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine.

You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two.

You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

[David Jacobs @DrJacobsRad]

This whole concept is very troubling for me and should be for all Canadians.

It's not that a sovereign wealth fund is not a good idea. It's actually a very good idea.

The problem is that this isn't a sovereign wealth fund. Those are funded by surplus usually from natural resource extraction. Norway has one, and Alberta has one.

Mark Carney is very smart and he knows exactly what he's doing. That's why I find this troubling. He's willfully misrepresenting what he's proposing.

I expect more from a former central banker.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

If you need something to lift the mood please enjoy 50 seconds of my dog Hank. He knows Sundays are beach days.

The cloud of dust. The head butt at the end. The land speed record broken!

Have a lovely Sunday ❤️

[HoCStaffer @HoCStaffer]

Dear Leader @MarkJCarney has decided to assume complete and rightful control over all 26 committees of the Supreme People’s Parliament.

There will be no more childish and divisive “partisan games” that harm the unity of our motherland, declared respected Government House Leader @stevenmackinnon.

This revolutionary measure will firmly put an end to all so-called “ethics investigations,” illegal subpoenas, & any futile attempts to harass or question loyal comrades and witnesses who serve the Party and the people with unwavering devotion.

Long live the Liberal Party of Canada!

[The Royal Canadian Legion @RoyalCdnLegion]

The Legion notes a renewed request to award the late Jess Larochelle the Canadian Victoria Cross. Private Larochelle performed selfless acts to protect others during an attack in Afghanistan and deserves this commendation. The idea of a military honours review board could help provide consistency and fairness. We will continue to advocate for this, and for Jess. We will remember him. Read more: https://t.co/D9VBoZp607

[Montreal Expos @Montreal_Expos]

We have sent a notice to cease & desist to the Milwaukee Brewers.

Having rain fall inside a stadium with a closed retractable roof is the intellectual property of the Montreal Expos.

[Ian C @em3ian]

@nenshi You stole from Calgarians allowing critical infrastructure to decay to the.point of failure. You are the last person any voter should trust to defend rights and prosperity.