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@coldacid @SirMathieu I've been trying to push the #canpol tag, with corresponding #onpol, #qcpol, etc.

Not many people discussing Canadian politics on Mastodon...

@keithzg @ink_slinger Wouldn't they just apply the same rules as in Sask, Man, Ont? Those provinces are also suing, but the taxes are being collected.

The Ford government is putting stickers on all the gas pumps so that people know it's the feds who've raised the cost. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/04/17/a-scandal-thats-going-to-stick.html

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Canadian Civil Liberties Association sues Toronto, Ontario, and Canada over the plan for a Google Sidewalk Labs "smart city" in Toronto http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oKhKT96PtBk/waterfront-toronto.html #boingboing #alphabet #ccla #cdnpol #charter_of_rights_and_freedoms #google #onpol #privacy #sidewalk_labs #smart_cities #surveillance #surveillance_capitalism #torpol #waterfront_toronto

Ontario's low-budget Trump-alike wants to eliminate sedation for people getting colonoscopies http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Ped8dLqdp64/premier-rectal-probe.html #boingboing #canada #cdnpol #christ_what_an_asshole #doug_ford #health #laughable_bumblefuck #onpol #ontario #performative_cruelty #perhaps_he_will_supply_hashish_instead #rectal_probe #seriously_fuck_that_guy #the_nasty_party #tories

Shutting down Ontario's Child Advocate's office "is one of the new Progressive Conservative government’s least explicable and very worst decisions. The Ombudsman will take over some functions, and goodness knows there’s a lot in the CFS file for an ombudsman to sink their teeth into. But an ombudsman isn’t an advocate."

Chris Selley: Ontario PCs will regret eliminating child advocate
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-ontario-pcs-will-regret-eliminating-child-advocate

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Ontario parliamentarian calls for Right to Repair legislation http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0JY5zqyymP4/ontario-ari-ari-o.html #boingboing #buck_a_beer_lawmaking #canada #cdnpol #law #onpol #ontario #right_to_repair

Toronto cops can frequently get your public transit history without a warrant http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Zo8OPAbi4UM/doug-ford-is-watching-you.html #boingboing #canada #cdnpol #lawful_interception #location_privacy #onpol #privacy #toronto #torpol #urban_theory

Ontario court rules that Uber can't use arbitration to keep its drivers from suing it http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Jbz54GDg1wY/gig-economy-fiction.html #boingboing #binding_arbitration #cdnpol #law #onpol #private_law #uber

Sorting the spin from the facts: how big can the surveilling city that Sidewalk Labs plans for Toronto get? http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9H8_azYTYQE/2600-acres.html #boingboing #alphabet #canada #cdnpol #corruption #google #onpol #quayside #sidewalk_labs #smart_cities #toronto #torpol

@politique Mike Harris a bien compris le problème, et a promis de le résoudre avant son éléction. Est-ce que les PCs d'aujourd'hui sont si préparés ?

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"Quebec’s language laws enjoy widespread support across the linguistic spectrum nowadays, but they nevertheless constitute a genuine abridgement of human rights. Closing a university that doesn’t exist and ending the standalone operations of a 10-year-old office that fields fewer than one inquiry a day … doesn’t."

Chris Selley | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-ontarios-francophone-service-cuts-a-post-mortem

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Toronto 2033: science fiction writers imagine the city of the future http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oUXlnWiAUKI/diversity-is-strength.html #boingboing #canada #cdnpol #climate #events #happy_mutants #onpol #science_fiction #toronto #torpol #urban_theory #videos

@politique Laissons-nous défendre les droits des minorités linguistiques au Canada.

#questiondesécolesdumanitoba
#manitobaschoolsquestion
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@Modern_Industrial We don't know yet well how the Ontario PC party will govern; it will be hard going in any case given the awful fiscal policies of their predecessors. FPTP made it easy for Ontarians to throw out the Wynn government, and the PCs were the preferred choice of the anti-Liberal voters.

Why do you say the PCs are captured by private interests?

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Advisor quits Google Toronto's "smart city" project over privacy concerns http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gA8TYqb0PKQ/data-colonialism.html #boingboing #cdnpol #onpol #privacy #Saadia_Muzaffar #sidewalk_labs #surveillance #surveillance_urbanism #toronto

Have we seen a strategy like this before in Canadian politics? Wynne has admitted defeat efore the election and is now urging Ontarians to elect as many Liberal MPPs as possible to ensure whoever wins has a minority government.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/wynne-liberals-ontario-election-minority-government-1.4689222

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Patrick Brown resigns from leadership of PCPO! Ontario election in June!

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