Sean Brookes 🇨🇦

I design and build web apps. Interested in music, hydrofoils, 3D design. Injustice riles me up - part-time cynic

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

Yahudi İzleyici: (ağlayarak) Konuşmanız sırasında Yahudilere yönelik birçok kez Nazi benzetmesi yaptınız. Bu son derece incitici. Bu, Nazi rejimi altında gerçekten acı çekmiş olan insanlar için çok aşağılayıcı.

Norman Finkelstein cevap veriyor:

— Bu tavra artık saygı duymuyorum. Gerçekten duymuyorum. Bu timsah gözyaşlarından hoşlanmıyorum ve onlara saygı da duymuyorum. (Dinleyicilerden alkışlar ve yuhalamalar yükselir)

— Yabancı bir dinleyici kitlesi önünde "Holokost kartını" oynamaktan hoşlanmıyorum ama şu an kendimi buna mecbur hissediyorum. Rahmetli babam Auschwitz'deydi. Rahmetli annem Majdanek toplama kampındaydı. Ailemin her iki taraftan da tüm üyeleri katledildi. Annem ve babam Varşova Gettosu Ayaklanması'na katıldılar.

— İşte tam da annem ve babamın bana ve iki kardeşime öğrettikleri dersler nedeniyle, İsrail'in Filistinlilere karşı işlediği suçlar karşısında sessiz kalmayacağım! Onların acılarını ve ölümlerini kullanarak; İsrail'in her gün Filistinlilere karşı işlediği işkence, vahşet ve ev yıkma suçlarını meşru göstermeye çalışmaktan daha aşağılık bir şey düşünemiyorum!

— Bu yüzden artık bu gözyaşlarıyla sindirilmeyi veya baskılanmayı reddediyorum. Eğer zerre vicdanın olsaydı, burada döktüğün o gözyaşlarını Filistinliler için döküyor olurdun!

[David Knight Legg @KnightLegg]

They crossed a line with this condos-for-housing grift.

No one gets EVs or Telesat:
- for years this govt has corruptly wasted billions of public money competing against market forces in EVs and satellites. No one got how corrupt that was because those aren’t assets people understand.

Everyone gets houses:
- but everyone understands condos, fees and mortgages - and sale prices that make no sense.

- everyone knows the Vancouver Liberal condo developers are donors that supported our fed housing minister when he was mayor of Vancouver. And they know the Chinese money they used to prop up Vancouver is going away.

So watching the government use Canadians’ tax dollars to buy mispriced poorly made Vancouver condos off of donors who can’t sell them but won’t lower their prices?

That hurts.

People are watching their kids leave Canada at record levels now - for better jobs, houses and economic options - and then they watch their govt give billions to donor developers instead of letting the prices drop?

It’s not washing this time.

Everyone - even the CBC - understands house and mortgage math. And this is the most corrupt thing they can imagine doing with public money.

And they’re right.

[Dan Dicks @DanDicksPFT]

Bill C-8 IS NOW LAW: Canada’s WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE NIGHTMARE Explained!!

On June 16, 2026, Bill C-8 (formerly Bill C-26) received Royal Assent and became official.

This legislation gives the government sweeping new surveillance powers, including:

- Warrantless access to your subscriber data, location, browsing history, metadata, and more

- The ability for one minister to secretly order your internet or phone service shut off with no court review

- Secret gag orders preventing companies from telling you why your service was cut

- Broad powers that could force weakening of encryption

Sold to Canadians as a “cybersecurity” bill to protect critical infrastructure, it actually delivers massive new warrantless spying powers and internet kill switches with almost no oversight.

In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth breaks down exactly what’s in Bill C-8 and what it means for your privacy.

Please share this video far and wide because most Canadians still have no idea this just became law!

[Sean Brookes 🇨🇦 @seanbrookes]

@ronmortgageguy Hopefully between the two of them they can find the wisdom to walk away from the whole idea and not dig in on it.

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

I have no words

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

Mark Carney Brings Canada TOGETHER: Everyone Hates The Condo Bailout

The Prime Minister has united the Country

Everyone despises Bailing Out Condo Developers

More to come on this Steaming Communications Shitstorm

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: Carney’s ridiculous, myopic plan to bail out condo developers https://t.co/2TmVAENLFu

[Sean Brookes 🇨🇦 @seanbrookes]

No bailouts

[John Pasalis @JohnPasalis]

“If you succeed you get rewarded, but if you fail, you fail, your institution fails

I’m saying no bailouts”

Mark Carney, 2011

15 years later, Carney wants to bailout home builders who failed

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

What would you suggest we do with empty condos that no one can afford to buy, asks Liberal MP.

Here is an idea: let the prices drop until people can afford them. Welcome to the real world!

NO TO THE CARNEY CONDO BAILOUT

[T.D. Leaker @TdLeaker]

If Condos aren’t selling at “market value”, then they aren’t priced at “market value”.

It’s really that simple.

[Kyle Riley 🇨🇦 @Smileyyeg]

I am struggling with Carney's plan on housing.

Is he really just going to buy it all with people's tax dollars and then try to rent it out to them?

[Sean Brookes 🇨🇦 @seanbrookes]

@ronmortgageguy No tax payer should let this one go. Socialism for the rich...

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

The Carney Condo Bailout Fucktastrophe! I Won't Leave This One Alone: It's Just Too WRONG

To quote the Prime Minister: "Builders dont want to sell at a loss"

Doesn't mean the Canadian Taxpayer needs to make sure Developers get full price for their Garbage Units at crazy prices

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Tech companies on Bill C-22

• Shopify @Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke @tobi warned that Bill C-22 could become a “death blow to Canadian tech viability” and make Canada “essentially unviable for those with choices on where to build.”

• Signal's @signalapp VP of Strategy & Global Affairs Udbhav Tiwari stated, "In its current form, Bill C-22 would convert the everyday tools Canadians rely on into a sprawling, insecure surveillance apparatus."

• Apple @Apple Senior Director of User Privacy & Child Safety Erik Neuenschwander warned that Bill C-22 allows the Government of Canada to force companies to break encryption by inserting backdoors into their products - “something Apple will never do.”

• Google's @Google Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy Jeanette Patell warned that Bill C-22 “goes well beyond lawful access regimes in other G7 democracies, and risks creating new surveillance infrastructure that would introduce serious security vulnerabilities, undermine user trust and hinder our ability to innovate and offer pro-privacy technologies.”

• Meta @Meta warned that Bill C-22 could require companies to build or maintain capabilities that weaken encryption and that could force providers to "install government spyware directly on their systems."

• Proton VPN @ProtonVPN General Manager David Peterson warned that complying with Bill C-22 could conflict with Swiss and European privacy obligations. He said, “Complying with foreign surveillance orders without Swiss legal process is a criminal offence...We’ll defend our Canadian users and never compromise them.”

• NordVPN @NordVPN stated that “there isn’t a scenario in which we would compromise our no-logs architecture or encryption protections" and that it would consider limiting or removing its Canadian presence.

• ExpressVPN @expressvpn warned, “Legislation that mandates data retention or technical access, however well-intentioned, undermines the security that millions of users rely on."

• DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo stated that "if the bill passes, we will be forced to stop offering our VPN in Canada."

• Windscribe @windscribecom stated, “...they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens."

Privacy protects citizens. It also protects innovation.

Note: These statements were made before Bill C-22 was amended on June 18, 2026. In our view, those amendments did not meaningfully address concerns raised by tech companies, privacy experts, or civil liberties organizations. The companies above are free to tell Canadians whether the amendments have changed their assessment.

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

i watched every single major western news outlet deny the most obvious genocide in history

[OffGuardian @OffGuardian0]

No they weren’t, they were implemented for ad breaks in the US tv market. Obviously.

And the criticism is the instinctive resentment of something clearly cynical and profit-motivated being presented as benign and friendly.

[Sean Brookes 🇨🇦 @seanbrookes]

This. I am curious to see how well the current Liberal government 'majority' will hold under the inevitable backlash

[Dodge This Security @shotgunner101]

Mark my words and bookmark this tweet. One day in the coming years, once all these laws about age verification pass and become law. There is going to be a windows update that REQUIRES a microsoft account be linked and ID verification to continue using your windows device.

People who can't see that are going to be really caught off guard when suddenly they have to dox themselves just to use their phones, pc, and every single website they visit.

[Sean Brookes 🇨🇦 @seanbrookes]

No government should be conducting itself this way

[Lisa @YoungStreete]

If you’re Canadian and don’t have an issue with the increasing and alarming secrecy within the Carney Liberals, you’re an active participant in the decline of Canada.

No Canadian government should be conducting itself this way.

[David T.S. Fraser @privacylawyer]

Bill C-22 Lawful Access is being jammed through without adequate debate. Watch this shameful process unfold: https://t.co/q7usPlKxnc

[Sean Brookes 🇨🇦 @seanbrookes]

everyone seems to be having a good time ramming through C-22 this evening