Avi Lewis

@avilewis@mstdn.ca

Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral

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Avi Lewis@avilewis@mstdn.ca

Palantir is deeply embedded in the scariest activities of the Trump regime – enabling everything from mass deportations and lawless assassinations in international waters to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and war crimes.

CEO Alex Karp’s recent online manifesto is a truly disturbing, supremacist screed. One UK MP said it “sounds like the ramblings of a supervillain.”

The city of London, England recently canceled a contract with Palantir.

Why is Canada handing nearly $50 million in public money to this creepy company?

Doing business through a secretive contract with this MAGA-aligned tech giant is totally incompatible with the Prime Minister’s promise to defend Canadian sovereignty.

theijf.org/brief/canadian-pala

#cdnpoli #NDP #palantir

theijf.orgCanadian government spent tens of millions on secret Palantir contractRecords from the IJF’s Open By Default database reveal the government made over a dozen amendments to a contract with Palantir Canada to provide services to an elite unit of the military
Avi Lewis@avilewis@mstdn.ca

Canadians are getting clobbered by the cost of living, turbo-charged by food and fuel hikes thanks to the horrible, illegal US/Israeli war on Iran.

Meanwhile Big Oil is laughing its way to the Big Banks - with $90 billion in wartime profiteering expected this year alone.

Tax the excess profits.
Use the money to ease the everyday emergency of just trying to get by.

We're calling on PM Carney to act. It's simple: do the right thing.

350.org/ept/

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350Tax the Excess Profits of Oil and Gas CompaniesOver 60 unions and civil society organizations, backed by 66 % of Canadians, signed a joint letter calling on the Canadian Federal Government to deliver an Excess Profits Tax on the Oil and Gas Industry.
Avi Lewis@avilewis@mstdn.ca

The federal government has finally acknowledged the practice of surveillance pricing, months after the NDP raised the alarm and sparked a national conversation about it.

But the bill doesn’t ban this disturbing practice - in fact, it doesn’t even mention it by name. Instead, it just promises vague regulatory action in the future.

In contrast, Wab Kinew’s NDP government in Manitoba is simply making the practice illegal. That’s the only way to stop big tech and big grocery chains from teaming up to gouge consumers.

We’ve put this issue on the table, and we’ll keep building public pressure on the government to act decisively: today’s bill does nothing definitive to protect Canadians from this very real threat.

thestar.com/politics/federal/c

#cdnpoli #surveillancepricing #NDP

Toronto StarCarney government proposes major overhaul of privacy legislationThe Liberals introduced legislation that would overhaul Canada’s privacy laws in what would be the first major update in the digital age.
Avi Lewis@avilewis@mstdn.ca

Here’s just one of the unprecedented measures the Liberals pushed through at the end of this session:

Cabinet ministers will now be allowed to authorize the use of banned pesticides in the name of “national economic security.”

Even if they’ve been deemed unsafe for human health.

Debate was shut down, and scientists, public health and environmental experts were not allowed to testify before the bill was passed.

Another gift to powerful corporations at the expense of Canadians.

Legislation by lobbyists.

cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c-30

#cdnpoli #canada #food

CBCCarney government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides | CBC NewsThe federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize the use of pesticides — even ones that Health Canada has deemed unsafe.
Avi Lewis@avilewis@mstdn.ca

1/ This is completely out of line.

Minister Miller says, "It isn't up to me to speak to, or insert myself in, the curation of any particular exhibit.” And then he does exactly that.

His comments are a direct attack on the independence of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights – exactly what the Museums Act is meant to prevent.

The story of the Nakba needs to be told. It’s a hard history to confront: Israel’s independence was achieved with massacres, ethnic cleansing, and the forcible displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians.

And it’s a story that’s not over: all of those assaults on human dignity and fundamental human rights continue to this day.

cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ma

#cdnpoli #palestine #gaza

CBCPalestinian exhibit at human rights museum 'should be rectified': federal heritage minister | CBC NewsHeritage Minister Marc Miller said Monday the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has erred in how it curated an exhibit about displaced Palestinians.