Sam Wollenberg

There's a closing window of opportunity on data dentre regulation in Canada. A new @policyalternatives.ca report by @simonenoch.bsky.social and @rachelpettigrew.bsky.social shows why regulation is needed now to protect the public interest. #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

The morning after the provincial election, a white supremacist group stood in front of the BC legislature. Premier-designate Lorne Doerkson condemned their actions and pledged to fight hate. @jenstden.bsky.social reports. #BCPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

One Chart That Explains The 2026 B.C. Election

David Eby's legacy will be going from someone who wrote a book on your civil rights while being arrested to overseeing the raids on Wet'suwet'en territory as attorney general to centre right neoliberalism that led to conservatives winning for the first time in over a century

Photo from Reddit. White nationalists just outside the BC Legislature this morning after a BC Cons supermajority. This group is Loyalist Pioneers, a white nationalist organization virtually identical to Second Sons. They've been active around Victoria for about a year & a half.

CANADA ANTI-TRANS RISK MAP: OCTOBER 2026 Featuring: BC’s gone far right. celeste.lgbt/map

So this is Build Canada Strong? Yet another sign that Canada is being hollowed out from within

our institutions have stopped hiring, we've been telling students not to pursue advanced study, and to the extent that humanists have mounted a defence, it's been by pleading our utility as an adjunct of STEM disciplines and professional schools in short, it all worked

"Chief technology officer Bart Butler said Proton had been exploring putting servers in Canada for its North American customers and opening an office here. But if Bill C-22 becomes law as drafted, the company 'wouldn’t expand into Canada.'” 🫠

Why is this government allowing Israeli companies blacklisted for genocide to acquire Canadian companies - contrary to our own laws and policies? The government's response is what exactly?

Anti-immigrant sentiment in Alberta has hit a majority, and that province is hardly an outlier. That's what happens when we fail to blame a lack of planning and instead blame people who are just trying to find a place to live securely. My latest ... noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-invent...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports reut.rs/4z2Zi9J

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

This is a publicly funded government agency refusing to share weather warnings and their own public warnings with a journalist at Global News, one of the larger mainstream news outlets in Canada. I really want you to sit with the bare facts of that.

Highly recommend The Bending Cross as both a comprehensive and compelling biography of Debs.

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is sounding the alarm on the proposed government surveillance law – Bill C-22. If passed, Bill C-22 would put everyone's privacy and digital security at risk. Read our full alert and sign our petition below: ccla.org/take-action/...

In email after email, party supporters use racist slurs and share antisemitic theories of Jewish world domination; there are jokes about turning refugees into handbags and boots, discussions of whether refugees should be shot at the border, a Christmas card sent with a swastika and “Heil Hitler”….

huh, again, almost like Pegasus is designed for this

Awful results in Alberta, where voters had the literacy to vote overwhelmingly against separation but not to toss out the 5 racist immigration red herrings, which now get weaponized by provinces, police, & the feds to crack down even harder. www.jurist.org/commentary/2...

Here's the application pressure for the past 4 CIHR Project Grants as denoted by Pillar (1-4). Similar growth in each with somewhat more proporionately in pillars 2 and 3. Data from CIHR Decisions web page.

#SocialistSunday Village of Al Ma'ani in Gaza, 2023, 2024, 2026 You can see the systematic demolition of every house and tree gradually moving in from the East. This WAS NOT a result of fighting. Don't stop talking about the genocide.

The U.N. World Food Programme says funding shortages are forcing major cuts to its aid in Gaza, leaving about 500,000 people without monthly food support in a territory where two-thirds of the population struggle to get enough to eat.

it's honestly kind of wild to watch 50+ years of "noooo the coups and corporate malfeasance weren't part of the plannnnn we were just trying to promote democracyyyyy" liberal revisionism get one-shotted by the stupidest man on the planet

"A closer look at the data reveals a brute-force guessing machine, not a reasoning intellect. Mathematics isn't dead; it's being spammed, strip-mined, and exploited by an industry that needs human creativity more than it admits." emeraldbook.org/news/oct-162...

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/

These are all photos by Heidi Levine, the @washingtonpost.com photojournalist assaulted by Israeli attackers today in the West Bank. She was covering Palestinian families picking their autumn olive harvest. Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop the violence. washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

An open letter to Premier Tim Houston and MPs Kody Blois and Mike Kelloway From me, publisher of the Halifax Examiner

The City of Ottawa needs a Victims of Car Culture Memorial so we can collectively stop normalizing this: "Twenty-nine people have died in traffic-related collisions so far this year, compared to 23 fatalities on Ottawa roads in all of 2025"

Health policy by podcaster in full effect.

Mind-boggling. The sovereign citizen wallet inspector asked, and the tax agency just handed it over.

This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!

The fines should be ruinously expensive for drunk driving your $100k sports car at 120 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. Yet here, the cops brag that in total it'll come to "at least $2,400" and that the speed fines themselves only account for about $350 of that. www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/...

NEW @citizenlab.ca report We uncovered an Israeli firm using online ads to run vast spy operation This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. 45 devices at @aljazeera.com confirmed infected citizenlab.ca/research/how...

If you're a Canadian worker, there's no better place than BC to do an hour's labour for an hour's pay. Since 2024 BC has boasted the highest hourly wage of any province (incl. imputed hourly pay for salaried staff). BC passed SK in 2019, Ont in 2023, and Alta in 2024. #bcpoli /2

Global tech sell-off deepens as Asian markets tumble www.ft.com/content/cf5f...

We are failing Palestinians in every possible way

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.