Four days ago, for the first time in Canadian history, a member of a legislature proposed a bill to repeal an entire Human Rights Code. And 36 other members of said legislature voted for the same. BC MLA Tara Armstrong attempted to introduce Bill M233, the Human Rights Code Repeal Act, which outright repeals the B.C. Human Rights Code and abolishes the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

It’s fortunate that this bill didn’t make it anywhere close to third reading. Yet, what this bill entails is horrifying. This would mean that an employer could refuse to serve someone for being Black (just like in Christie v. York Corporation, a 1939 Supreme Court of Canada case upholding “freedom of contract”). It would mean that a business owner can refuse to sell their business to a woman because they are a woman. It means that a landlord can refuse to rent to someone because they’re Indigenous. And of course, it would mean that dehumanizing speech against trans people — speech that can make a workplace untenable or even lead to incitement to genocide, as exemplified so well in Chilliwack Teachers’ Association v. Barry Neufeld (No. 10) — will face no sanction by the State.

the notwithstanding clause is a five-alarm fire, this is even more unprecedented. It means regressing back to a vision of Canada consisting solely of a white, male, able-bodied, cisgender and heterosexual class that gets to participate in society, and everyone else, left by the wayside.

Yet, this isn’t isolated. The callous disregard for human life and human dignity can be seen across the world. Last week, Kansas (USA) took away the drivers’ license and birth certificate of every single one of its trans citizens, only permitting said IDs to contain sex assigned at birth — an obvious marker of transness — officially making trans people second-class citizens, akin to how the Nazis did so with Jewish people’s passports in 1938. And just over the weekend, the United States and Israel decided to launch an offensive war against Iran — one obviously motivated by imperialist interests more than anything else.

Et tu Blaze? Posting euronews 😭

Go Taiwan! 🇹🇼

I hope people learn that this how age verification trend is a massive Trojan horse for tyranny.

Dump all American products and services!

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I’m shocked to see that the humble Pinetime had the features: aod, tilt-to-wake, heart rate monitor app, step counter, music volume control, flashlight, boot logo before AsteroidOS.

Police unions will regularly endorse political parties.

The rcmp literally phoned people in BC trying to fearmonger them into voting for a change in government during the 2024 general election or else “crime will surge!”

I’m glad I clicked off a service that required Persona verification.

The third time the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) got involved, I started thinking to myself – someone’s got to be funding this. JCCF is a Calgary-based legal advocacy group founded and run by John Carpay, a former lawyer who was disbarred in both Manitoba and Alberta for spying on a judge back in 2021.

Their first time dabbling in Powell River politics was in June 2024, when Diane Sparks (a local realtor) booked a library space to host an anti-name-change event. The library hesitated, saying they would need consent from city council before confirming her booking. Suspicious that the library might be considering cancelling Sparks’ booking, the JCCF sent the chief librarian a warning, “urging the Library to respect citizens’ Charter rights.”

Two months later, JCCF followed up with a strange, exhaustive fifty-six-page legal letter to the city.

It was a serious escalation, accusing council members of silencing dissent and violating citizens’ Charter rights. It claims “that Council appears to have largely lost its legal jurisdiction in connection with the name change.” Amazingly, it claims that four of Powell River’s six councillors are “irredeemably biased” and “must recuse themselves from further debate and decision-making in connection with the name change.”

The Canada Revenue Agency doesn’t require charities to disclose where their funding comes from. So, unless they get audited, it’s next to impossible to figure out who’s donating to the Justice Centre. But there are clues. JCCF has disclosed to the CRA that it received donations valued at $10,000 or more from donors outside of Canada. At least some of that (and likely more) is coming from the American-based think tank that creates think tanks - the Atlas Network.

The Atlas Network, the big boys behind it all, have a long list of powerful backers that you can read about here. To summarise, it’s all the usual suspects: fossil fuel magnates, finance bros, hedge fund managers, and big tobacco. Prominent donors include Exxon Mobil, Philip Morris, and the Koch family.

The Atlas Network isn’t secretive about what it wants. Limited government and unregulated industry. They dream of a world where corporations can do what they like, unencumbered by Indigenous rights, labour laws, or environmental protections

The BC Prosperity Project is BC’s chapter of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a group trying to get Alberta to secede from Canada. Their vision is for Alberta (and also BC and Saskatchewan?) to become “the least governed, least regulated and lowest taxed nation in the world.”

The controversy around Powell River’s name change is being used as a building block in a narrative that’s becoming increasingly mainstream. The idea is that Indigenous rights are being used as a smokescreen by a global Marxist elite. Powell River being forced to adopt an Indigenous name is another step down a slippery slope that’s leading us toward authoritarianism, the abolition of private property, and the end of representative democracy.

The Atlas Network’s aggravation of the name change debate is a small part of a broader strategy to create, seek out, and amplify division across the province. Their goal is to destabilize government and give extractive industry unrestricted access to our resources.

Starting February 24, riders will have the option to pay their fare with a tap of a debit card, credit card or mobile wallet.

The Pleb and Radio-Canada recklessly endangering an innocent trans woman and taking hours remove the posts 🙄

Tara Armstrong spreading bullshit and scapegoating once again.

Charlie Morningstar also had it with Adam!

I love watching windows and reddit disintegrate from the sidelines.

If windows hangs on searching pasta recipes, you install Linux instead.

The losers always ruin the fun.

The naive sjw user always so trusting of the elites.

100% share all that information with not only US governmental agencies, but also private companies.

Their intent to do so is already proven in the recent bills.

Mark Carney is such a backstabbing idiot.

I see people speeding in snowy, rainy, foggy and nightly conditions. They just don’t give a damn.