Google has now renamed Lake Ontario for US users. They don’t even show the real name in brackets.
I used a VPN to compare: Apple hasn’t renamed it (at least not yet), nor has Dutch service Here WeGo or OpenStreetMap.
Yet another reason to ditch Google, and US tech more broadly.
#tech #lakeontario #canada #cdnpoli #tariffs #digitalsovereignty
NYT with more insider goodies on the US/Canada trade talks breakdown: nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/dp…. [gift link, I think]
Get them sued in Europe and China, and hey, and Canada?
Cory Doctorow has some ideas about permanently altering tech rules.
doctorow.medium.com/digital-el…
As the United States descends into a new Trump-and-RFK Jr-led scientific Dark Age, Canada is benefitting exponentially in research leadership. A brain gain and another pullback from the U.S. chaos sphere. Could prove hugely consequential.
#cdnpoli #Canada
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Government to announce 64 top ...
AI researchers, Ivy League professors, and at least one winner of the MacArthur “genius” grant will move to Canada from the U.S. with funds from the federal government’s research chair program.Toronto Star
Please sign this official e-petition to call on the government to properly enforce the Canada Health Act and to properly fund public health care in Canada. Ontario and Alberta have allowed aspects of privatization of health care within their provinces, and this should be stopped.
I'm drafting a petition to the Canadian Parliament along the lines of @pluralistic 's suggestion that we make circumventing TPMs legal.
I need 5 "supporters" who must be citizens or residents of Canada, willing to put their name and email address on it. Let me know if you might be interested and I'll send you the draft text
The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs.
Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too.
Luckily, I have a guide for that.
disconnect.blog/getting-off-us…
#tech #cdnpoli #cdntech #politics #digitalsovereignty #tariffs
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.Paris Marx (Disconnect)
Canada Presents the Award To Trump
(political cartoon by Theo Moudakis of the Toronto Star)
A storm is blowing.
It's coming in from Washington again.
And we can chart a new course, buoy against choppy waters–and become stronger at home and diversify our relationships abroad.
We are masters in our own home and partner of choice abroad, says Prime Minister Mark Carney.
🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!
❝ Most Americans are far more exposed to the predatory conduct of US tech companies than they are to the share price of those companies. That's because Americans are the beta-testers for every ripoff and surveillance tool that Silicon Valley produces. Long before those tools get to Canada or find their way around the world, they are making Americans poorer and worse off. ❞
pluralistic.net/2026/08/24/elb…
#ElbowsUp #cdnpoli #USpol #tariffs
Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
❝ And here's the kicker: turning America's trillions into Canada's billions, moving fast and breaking America's tech-kings, fixing the defects in America's extractive tech exports? It's all good for Americans. Sure, cratering the share-price of America's Big Tech companies will be bad for America's retirement savers, but the median American worker only has $955 saved for retirement:
finance.yahoo.com/news/955-sav… ❞
seriously, Cory’s on a roll. read the whole thing.
🔥🔥🔥
❝ The best time to have made #Canada digitally sovereign would have been before an American president announced his intention to annex Canada and began explicitly deploying America's tech companies to attack his geopolitical adversaries.
The second-best time is now.
By repealing Bill C-11 and legalizing reverse-engineering and modification of digital technology […] Canada will gain a devastating counter to Trump's tariffs. ❞
pluralistic.net/2026/08/24/elb…
#ElbowsUp #USpol #cdnpoli #tariffs
Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
Hashtags #cdnpoli #canpoli #Canada #buycanadian #tradewar
@pluralistic has written about this. We have economic weapons. We need leaders with the courage and strategic sense to use them.
A winning trade war strategy for Canada medium.com/@doctorow/https-plu…
Now that we're at trade war, individual acts and solidarity-building are important, and they include pushing our governments to do things we can't do individually, such as pushing for independence from the US-owned credit card and money-transfer systems, US -owned oil and gas companies, US-owned news and social media, etc.So far, Carney and most of the premiers have been decidedly weak on the big picture parts.
Excellent read! @pluralistic has been pushing the idea below and it's good to see another champion for it:
"If Trump is now ripping up our trade agreements and attacking us, we should be looking at a full rollback of the CUSMA digital chapter. It’s time to reclaim the policy space we gave up, like the ability to decide when sensitive Canadian data must remain under Canadian jurisdiction or using public procurement to build domestic cloud and software capacity."
“Canada walked into the stadium without studying the game film of the opponent.”A good read. Another great quote:
“In a nutshell, they are asking us to give away the essence of sovereignty.”
#cdnpoli #us #canada #tradewar
thewalrus.ca/trade-talk-collap…
Your Canadian company has a baked product, needs a sweetener, wants the best. ( and its local ) and its a victim of the Trump fascist invasion.
Your company needs a few tons of honey
Give them a call.
Replace a US supplier today.
'Effectively, we're out of business': U.S. tariffs cut Manitoba honey farm off from vast majority of customers cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ca… CBC by Lauren Scott - Due to new #trumptax of 50% tariff on honey this would put this honey manufacturer in a really tough bind. Do you need honey? Are you a big company requiring a large supply? Or are you living in #manitoba and want to help in a small way? Consider #PodolskiHoneyFarms #buyCanadian
I wonder if PM Carney always knew that the US was negotiating in bad faith, and that their terms could be changed after the fact, but waited until the final humiliating demands were made by the US team before walking away. Now Carney has widespread national support and perhaps more respect from our other allies and partners.
If #MarkCarney knew the US was negotiating in bad faith, he certainly didn't show it by understanding the necessity of urgently developing Canadian #digitalSovereignty. Someone please sit him down in front of a @pluralistic talk (as Doctorow's a Canadian source, and Carney appears to trust journalists well enough to appoint them Ministers: though urgently read also the books by the experts cited below), and persuade our PM that our #sovereignty and #nationalSecurity depend on freeing #Canada from all Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), and Amazon (AWS) dependence, with wartime urgency.
Hon. @Paulatics, @KristopherWells, @SenKarenAb, or @colindeacon: Can any of you talk some sense into our Honourable bank executive about this? I'd be happy to volunteer to explain anything in Cory's presentations or books that you or Mark doesn't understand. (I have over 20 years' paid experience explaining tech stuff to non-tech people, if that'd be useful.) I'm sure plenty other Canadians such as those in the @linuxassociation and the Canadian #selfHosting community could help explain this too.
Perhaps this needs to be more diplomatically phrased, but if we need funds to accelerate Canadian digital sovereignty, I suggest taking them from Evan Solomon's tax-abyss Ministry of Slop. Evan's an uncritical career tech hype-man with less qualification to run a technology ministry than the historically and catastrophically incompetent #PeteHegseth has to run the US DoD. Solomon's education is in English literature and religious studies, not anything even remotely related to computing, and it shows. His religious fanaticism for, as Drs. @emilymbender and @alex aptly put it, The AI Con, ought to disqualify him from leading a tech ministry.
Meanwhile, the very existence of such an office as "Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation" shows that our illustrious economist mistakenly believes that, in the Empire of AI (per Karen Hao), Canada can become a colonizer, not return to its prior status as a colony: exactly as Trump and the coterie of technofeudal "AI" CEOs backing him are seeking to coerce us into becoming. The promises of "economic efficiency" (i.e., mass layoffs, wage deflation, and metastatic rent extraction) promised by the #TESCREAL (@timnitGebru) dogma of the AI cult system may resound with confirmation bias in the heart of the true believer in the religion of neoclassical economics (may the Earth become infinite and Homo economicus cease requiring infinite compute power), but alas, our first priority in tech policy should not be proliferation of climate- and community-destroying hyperscale #datacentres for the Slop God, but instead, in removing Trump's ability to do to all #Canadian government and business what Donald did the the #ICC with a few sanctions.
I wonder if PM Carney always knew that the US was negotiating in bad faith, and that their terms could be changed after the fact, but waited until the final humiliating demands were made by the US team before walking away. Now Carney has widespread national support and perhaps more respect from our other allies and partners.
Appreciate that the NDP is standing shoulder to shoulder with Carney walking away from Trump threat filled talks.
Holy shit. They tried to get Canada to give up the ability to freely negotiate trade with other countries *and* expected it to stop caring about French language information on products. That's basically being a vassal state.
Good on Carney for walking away.
Some fool on a CBC radio call-in describing Trump as a 'businessman' who strikes a hard bargain.
Let's correct that, Mr. Gullible Imbecile, shall we?
He's a monstrous grifter, groper, criminal, rapist (judicially recognized on that latter count in a US court of law) and a decades-long cultivated agent of Putin and the KGB/FSB.
That's why it's impossible to 'negotiate' with him.
2/ You can count on New Democrats to be a voice for swift and substantial aid to affected workers and industries. This is also a moment to rapidly transition to an economy that is more independent, that prioritizes housing, health, climate and the cost of living.
What brings us together and makes us strong is how we take care of each other in hard times. That’s the Canada the NDP will fight for in this crisis moment and those to come.
1/ The Prime Minister was right to walk away from the negotiating table last night. I believe Canadians are united in this crucial moment, on this crucial point: no deal is better than a bad deal.
Accepting a deal that would lock in pointless, destructive tariffs and undermine our ability to regulate big tech would have been disastrous for our workers, industries and sovereignty. PM Carney read the room by rejecting the Americans’ offer.
Wab Kinew got it exactly right — the President is weak and cannot be trusted to abide by an agreement. We should stand firm, knowing it’s what the vast majority of Canadians want our government to do.
But what happens next matters. We are not out of this yet.
Should Canada go on offense and implement an export tax on oil and gas exports on September 1st?
(This is my personal idea, not anything I have heard considered officially yet)
This poll is open to anyone, Canadian or otherwise. Please leave a comment if you’re comfortable telling folks where you are from and why you chose the answer you did.
Please boost for reach!
#canpoli #cdnpoli #tradeWar #usa #theAmericanFascist #canada #uspoli #oil #gs #fossilfuels #pleaseboost
I was really expecting two possibilities from these negotiations:
- The USA leaves the table
- Canadian government plays the elbows gone stratey
This is a plot twist!
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Je m'attendais vraiment à deux scénarios de ces négociations:
- Les États-Unis quittent la table
- Le gouvernement canadien joue la stratégie sans colonne vertébrale
C’est un film de drame
Some of the things that might have been in the alleged offer are listed in this article.
Globe and Mail: theglobeandmail.com/politics/a…
Apple News (Free): apple.news/ADrWykafYSVSnV4CoCB…
#Canada #CANpoli #CDNpoli #USA #UnitedStates #USpol
Trump administration imposes 50% tariffs on $28-billion of Canadian goods; Carney calls last-minute proposals unfair, says Canada will respond ‘dollar for dollar’Adrian Morrow (The Globe and Mail)
The statement from Canadian Prime Minister 🇨🇦 Mark Carney
pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/20…
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La déclaration du Premier ministre du Canada 🇨🇦 Mark Carney
pm.gc.ca/fr/nouvelles/declarat…
#Canada #CANpoli #CDNpoli #USA #UnitedStates #ÉtatsUnis #USpol
We have recognised from the beginning that America has changed, and that we will not return to our old relationship. Our government understood, before many, that America is altering all its trade relationships.Prime Minister of Canada
Canada 🇨🇦 walks away from negotiations with the United States of America 🇺🇸
USA tariffs will come into effect. And Canada will put its own levies.
Me: Didn’t see this one coming!
cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/mi…
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Le Canada 🇨🇦 quitte la table de négociations avec les États-Unis d’A 🇺🇸
Les droits douaniers états-uniens entreront en vigueur. Et une contre-réplique viendra.
Moi: je ne l’ai pas vu venir celle-là!
ici.radio-canada.ca/info/en-di…
#Canada #CANpoli #CDNpoli #USA #UnitedStates #ÉtatsUnis #USpol
Les nouveaux droits de douane de 50 % de Donald Trump contre une variété de produits canadiens sont entrés en vigueur, après l'échec d'ultimes négociations.Radio-Canada
This is a good read. To me the scariest part is that our #forests are no longer a net #carbon sink. This means fire #emissions are making the problem even worse
government knows it is climate change.
they know it is CO2.
they know it is fossil fuels.
Continuing to invest in fossil fuels is a choice politicians have made to prioritize fossil fuel corporations over the safety and health of people and communities.
we myst vote for politicians who refuse this pattern.
"We know that with climate change, we’re seeing a wide range of worsening hazards, including wildfire seasons becoming longer and more severe. That means to stay safe, people should prepare for emergencies year-round. For those who may be at risk of an evacuation in the coming days, I urge you to have a grab-and-go bag packed and ready for each member of your household, including pets,” said Greene at a news conference Tuesday to provide and update on the wildfire and drought conditions in B.C."
#bcpoli #climatechange #endfossilfuels #bcwildfire #canpoli #cdnpoli
theprovince.com/news/bc-wildfi…
With B.C. in a state of emergency, here's a roundup of the latest news about the fires burning across the province, updated by our newsroom.Tiffany Crawford (theprovince)
It is absolutely amazing how many people have no clue what the first few verses of the famous anti-Nazi poem, "First they came for..." was:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
It seems people only know the last two verses:
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
@rightsprung
#Carney will never do this. They will double down on proprietary American tech and then tell us its making us strong!
4/ The rest of the world is racing ahead on renewable energy, leaving Canada behind. Instead of spending at least $50 billion of public money on fueling more climate chaos, Canadians deserve a government that invests in building the green economy of tomorrow – creating good jobs, lowering costs, and protecting our future.
3/ And for Canadians across this land, it is a kick in the teeth to call this climate bomb of a project “in the national interest”. It is in Big Oil’s interest for sure. But it doesn’t do a damn thing for people struggling with the cost of food and housing, increased costs from privatized healthcare, and of course the daily anxiety of climate breakdown.
