Unless ISPs decide to block all inbound traffic to subscribers

I think some ISPs already do this, if they suspect you’re running any kind of server, to force you to subscribe to a more expensive “business” plan.

They will try to ban websites run by anonymous weirdos.

It’s always referred to as age verification, but it’s ID verification. It’s the introduction of a regime where you can’t use the internet without everyone knowing exactly who you are, and without the government being able to track your activity via your ID. Governments around the world are making what must surely be a coordinated effort to end anonymity, and thus privacy, online. In other countries this has gone along with a push to end encryption for phone calls and chat, and a push to outlaw VPNs. Canada’s government is embarking on a program that’s very hostile to its own population.

Avi Lewis is the strongest candidate I have seen. I think he could actually rally the left around him.

I came up with MMMCMXCIX, but your one seems better.

At the end of September the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), to which all working Canadians outside Quebec are subscribed, held $8 billion of Nvidia stock as its largest single equity holding. In fact, its eight largest stock holdings were all AI stocks. At $33 billion of combined value, these holdings amount to a quarter of the value of the entire pension fund.

Quebec’s main pension fund, La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), also reported Nvidia as its largest holding at the end of September. Almost all of the “Maple Eight” big pension funds also lead with Nvidia and other AI stocks as their largest holdings, or they are loaded up on index funds that are in turn overloaded with Nvidia and other AI stocks.

That doesn’t sound at all good.

It’s what everyone does. Which doesn’t make all interpretations equal, but anyone who tries to live according to that book is picking and choosing and interpreting in some way.

Meeting people face to face is often a pretty good way to get over hangups about them. The closer you are to a person the harder it is to remain bigoted about them. I hope this will have some positive effect.

Edit: where I live there are Catholic schools that are explicit about being pro-LGBTQ+, with big pride flags on display and a policy of supporting gay and trans kids against bullying and discrimination. I have known trans kids that were happy at these schools. Their school may not be changing the official stance of the Vatican, and we might rather not have Christian schools at all, but I still think it’s worthwhile and important that a Catholic school makes explicit these messages of support and respect for its students. Even without the Catholic church officially progressing, a good number of Catholics and Catholic institutions are.

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“The white nationalist movement used to be very fragmented and had a lot of infighting,” Balgord said. “The reason that we’ve been warning about the size and the threat of the white nationalist movement in Canada right now is because they have managed to sort of figure out a unified and coherent strategy. And they are successfully recruiting large numbers of people doing it.”

Not good. Canada needs a broad antifascist movement, including communities and mainstream political parties, to ensure that the Nazis don’t get anywhere near as far as they have done in the USA. There’s still time, but if we leave the country in the hands of neoliberals while doing nothing to counter fascism or to provide a socialist alternative, we’re leaving the door wide open to Nazis. For now though, there’s still time to disrupt their funding and their organization. And if the NDP can pick the right leader, someone who is an energetic and unashamed socialist (like Zack Polanski in the UK) it could still provide the electoral alternative people need to steer the country away from the rocks.