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Screenshot from journal: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-understudied-dogs-reshape-science-canine.html Human psychological research has long recognized a bias toward Western views. More than a decade ago, researchers began pointing out that many studies in experimental psychology focused on participants from Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies. But in 2020, animal researchers began to recognize a similar slant in study animals, where research is centered on a narrow range of STRANGE factors (social background; trappability and self-selection; rearing history; acclimation and habituation; natural changes in responsiveness; genetic makeup; and experience; Webster and Rutz, 2020).
Screenshot from Proton website page on how to switch email accounts. Original Content: 1. Choose your provider Connect your Gmail account for an automatic import and ongoing sync, or import your email history from Outlook, Yahoo, Apple and more. 2. Log in to your old account To start your import, sign in to the email account you're switching from -- Gmail, Outlook, or another provider -- through Proton Mail. For Gmail, this also sets up your ongoing connection so the new emails keep arriving in Proton automatically. 3. Say hello to privacy Your imported email are now ready and waiting in Proton Mail. For Gmail, you can also send and receive directly from your Gmail address without ever leaving Proton. ANNOTATIONS to the screenshot... Along the top: Marketing is often enamored of STEPS ("simple as 1-2-3!") - and often forces product teams to create a pre-determined number of them. Instead of looking FIRST at TASK FLOW. Which often is iterative or can be done in ANY ORDER, so that "STEPS" creates confusion, poor reviews, increases support calls. Using website TEMPLATES, such as 3 column layout with graphical shapes - also forces companies to create fictitious task flows - to fill up the shapes provided. Annotations Step 1: Step 1 - CHOOSE a provide. Don't I already have one? This is actually not a "step" - but simply advance notice that the actual steps depend on which provider you have. In other words, the STEPS vary by provider - which should be represented with DIFFERENT TASK FLOWS by provider Gmail - follow these steps Outlook, Yahoo, Apple - follow these DIFFERENT steps... Annotation Step 2: Step 2 is ACTUALLY multiple steps: CREATE a Proton account, FIND the IMPORT feature, then, from WITHIN PROTON, SELECT & then LOGIN to your existing email. Which of these is the "ONE-CLICK"?? Annotations Step 3: Step 3 - TALK TO YOUR COMPUTER: Say 'Hello'"!!! This is also NOT A STEP! They've actually jammed different task flows into this "1-2-3" format.
Screen shot of Proton website with annotations. Red text above the screenshot: Signs that MARKETING has taken over your website - making it harder to use, harder to maintain... When mousing over the menu area, a section slides down, presenting essentially a second menu. On the left is a picture of people with a marketing message: "Choose an internet where your privacy comes first" A hand-written red "X" over this picture, with text: "Random pics, adds no info, must be updated & maintained. On website's text "Discover Proton" is annotated with: "No-one wants to "discover' you. "Learn more" perhaps, but not "discover" There's a red double-headed arrow between the actual menus and the slide-down menu alternative with text: "Mis-match between actual menus & the fake menus - confusing, extra work, "marketing" categories, rather than the way actual users categorize products The slide-down menu, multiple products are listed, with category headings. Red annotation text" "Who came up with these categories? These are not standard categories. Do you really believe EMAIL is not a way to "share" or "collaborate"? How do I find the product I need in this mess? Proton headings and products in the slide-down: Communicate and browse [image] Email [image] VPN [image] Video conferencing [image] Calendar Store, share, collaborate [image] Cloud storage [image] Docs [image] Sheets Private AI [image] AI assistant Security [image] Password manager [image] two-factor authentication [image] Bitcoin wallet More from Proton [image] Hide-my-email aliases [image] Encrypted notes Pricing Personal Plans Get started Switch to Proton
Screenshot from International Politics and Society Journal, https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/foreign-and-security-policy/canada-has-a-white-supremacist-problem-4757/ "Canada has a white supremacist problem", by Jordan Leichnitz, 30/10/2020. Both crimes briefly galvanised a national conversation on Islamophobia and white supremacist terrorism and highlighted uncomfortable truths about hate in Canada. For example, those looking for homegrown hateful content can find it without a problem in Canada. Thousands of right-wing extremist channels based in Canada reach some 11 million users globally. While the over three hundred identified hate groups in Canada tend to be more loosely organised than their American counterparts, their ideologies are largely the same.
Ad by Twitter account Citizen X @CitizenX with a picture of the cover of a passport. Passport text is in a foreign language, but appears to be St Thomas. Text: - No interview, no physical presence - Citizenship for $90k donation - Processing in 6 weeks More details below:
Pricing (prices vary, estimates only) - Proton Free - 5GB limit -- VPN for 1 device at a time, medium speed, connect to servers in 5 countries (randomly selected) -- Includes: Proton Drive, Docs, Sheets - Drive Plus - 200 GB (around $5/month) -- Includes Proton Drive, Docs, Sheets, and 10-year recovery of files - VPN Plus -- Up to 10 devices at a time, highest VPN speed, free choice among VPN servers (20,000 servers in over 140 countries) -- Block ads, trackers, and malware -- Priority support & live chat - Pass Plus (password & credential manager) -- 2FA authenticator -- Unlimited email aliases, custom email alias domains and mailboxes -- Dark web & email breach monitoring -- Includes: CLI - command line interface -- Attach notes to passwords (store account-related info)
List of products. Those below the ">>>" line are in violet font (added later). Annotation to the side of the product list, about the items in violent font, indicated below with the heading "Annotation". Products - Proton Email (mobile, web, desktop) - Proton Drive - cloud storage - Proton Docs & Sheets - Proton Calendar - Proton VPN - Proton Pass - password manager >>>> - Proton Scribe - AI writing assistant - Proton Meet - videoconference? - Proton Wallet - Proton Auth. - VPN Accelerator - NetShield - Stealth - Lumo AI - Proton Mail Bridge - integrate with other email clients - Business apps -- Proton Calendar for Business -- Business VPN -- Proton Pass for Business -- Meet Professional -- Workspace Standard -- Workspace Premium Annotation Products & features discovered "along the way" - sometimes hidden in product descriptions or in comparison charts, some seem to have their own websites, only loosely linked to the main site. I could not find any place that listed all the products. Or a comprehensive pricing chart!
Proton Meet (video-conferencing) - Free - one-hour calls, up to 50 participants (host must have a Proton account) - Devices - browser, or app for desktop or mobile - End-to-end encryption for audio, video, and chat - not used for AI-training - Invite via link - participants do not need a Proton account - Special features include: blur background, noise cancellation, remove participants - Paid Plans: -- Calls up to 24-hours long --Up to 250 participants --Sync with Proton calendar --Personal meeting rooms [dedicated URLs or break-out rooms?] --Record meetings (either to local computer or to cloud, depending on plan) --Screen-sharing --Includes: Proton Mail, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, Proton VPN, Proton Pass, Lumo AI, Support services (see plans for restrictions and extras)
Proton VPN (Virtual Private Network) - Hide your IP address when on the internet - Your data goes through a secure server, that may be anywhere in the world, and your data is encrypted - Bypass geographic and government restrictions - Secure - Proton practices “zero-logs”, and legal jurisdiction is in Switzerland - Block ads, malware, and trackers (not available on free Proton VPN) - Across devices - web, mobile, desktop, browsers - Paid Proton VPN plans support speeds appropriate for streaming 20,000 servers in more than 140 countries (not all available on free Proton VPN) - Up to 10 Gbps servers with “VPN Accelerator” - can increase VPN speed up to four times (4x) - Uses “NetShield” (DNS filtering that prevents profiling and improves security) and “Stealth” (bypasses geographic and government restrictions)
Proton Drive - File storage in the cloud - Access from any device - mobile, desktop, or web - Proton Drive cannot scan, analyze, or share your data - complete end-to-end encryption - Access levels: Viewer or Editor … [ONLY two levels?] - Set access permissions on folders or individual files - Access can also be limited with passwords and expiry dates, or by revoking access at any time - Share files by email - only the email recipients will have access - Or share by link (URL) - for public access - Files can be shared with people who do not have a Proton account - Compliant with multiple security and privacy regulations, including HIPAA, CCPA, GDPR - Data stored in Switzerland, with some of the strictest privacy laws in the world
PART ONE Proton Suite for Nonprofits All Proton apps are encrypted end-to-end. Proton does not, and cannot, scan your email, calendar, docs, or other apps. Includes: - Proton Email (mobile, web, desktop) - Proton Drive - cloud storage - Proton Docs & Sheets - Proton Calendar - Proton VPN - Proton Pass - safely manage passwords & credentials Proton Mail - End-to-end encryption - Proton does not, and cannot, scan the contents of your email - Runs on desktop, web, mobile - Custom domains available - Use custom rules to sort and filter messages - Organize email with folders and labels - Other features: schedule sending, undo, and snooze emails - Proton Scribe, an AI writing assistant - Integrate with other email clients - Central administration for: permissions, storage, customized settings
Screenshot of part of Proton's website, with annotations. Original Text: Empower your mission with privacy and security Proton's encrypted tools and nonprofit discounts help you protect sensitive data, collaborate securely, and drive impact - affordably. Annotations Orange circle around the word "Empower", with a line pointing to: How do "office tools" EMPOWER, well... anything? "nonprofit discounts" - and - "protect sensitive data" - are both underlined, with an arrow pointing to this text: How do "nonprofit discounts" "protect sensitive data"? If I DON'T get the "discount", is my data unprotected? Why have you rammed two unconnected things into this one sentence?
Proton Suite for Nonprofits All Proton apps are encrypted end-to-end. Proton does not, and cannot, scan your email, calendar, docs, or other apps. Includes: - Proton Email (mobile, web, desktop) - Proton Drive - cloud storage - Proton Docs & Sheets - Proton Calendar - Proton VPN - Proton Pass - safely manage passwords & credentials Proton Mail - End-to-end encryption - Proton does not, and cannot, scan the contents of your email - Runs on desktop, web, mobile - Custom domains available - Use custom rules to sort and filter messages - Organize email with folders and labels - Other features: schedule sending, undo, and snooze emails - Proton Scribe, an AI writing assistant - Integrate with other email clients - Central administration for: permissions, storage, customized settings
Screenshot from Proton website explaining products / features available to nonprofits. It includes 6 purple boxes in two rows of three, with white text inside the boxes. Headings of the text inside the boxes is: Proton Mail --- Proton Drive --- Proton Docs Proton VPN --- Proton Pass --- Proton Calendar A green hand-drawn line simulates eye-tracking of eye movements. It starts in the top left of each box, then follows a squiggly path going clock-wise around the entire box, then enters the box across the first heading, the sub-heading and a line down the left-hand of the remaining text inside each box. Only the top three boxes have the green simulation of eye-tracking. Additional annotation on the top right in purple font: "Eye-tracking - how eyes move / read when text is inside boxes" This screenshot is labelled: A - current website
Replace SEVEN SCREENS of fluff with this: Proton Drive supports docs and spreadsheets. Collaborative editing, commenting, set access levels from private to public. Fully encrypted end-to-end. Free accounts or Drive for Business [image of UI for each of docs and spreadsheet]
Screenshot from Proton website Includes annotation: "Why is the key details - spreadsheets are supported - located a full SEVEN SCREENS away from the top of the website?" [in orange font] Screen text: Part of a secure productivity suite "Proton Docs is part of the Proton Drive workspace, our end-to-end encrypted cloud storage platform that lets you store, manage, and access your documents securely from one place. Use Proton Docs, Sheets, and Drive to keep every piece of your business data secure and under your control."
Screenshot of account profile for: Beebs (@blue-rosary52.bsky.social) [blue heart emoji] thoughts - opinions headlines - randoms #SlavaUKRAINI #EpsteinFilesPecophiles #Free Speech #HumanRights #NoRepublicans #BlueCrew #RESIST #Democrat #HandsOff #SocialSecurity #Medicare #UniversalHealthCare [red flag emoji] edit button
Screenshot from a DM on Twitter from the account of Dr Lynne Filiatrault asking for the recipient to vote for Dr Filiatrault to appear on a joint CBC / Spotify podcast, displaying a shortened URL.
Homepage of Gander: https://gandersocial.ca/ Meet Gander The Social Media You Want, Built in Canada Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your personal data taking an unexpected trip down south. [Get updates] Join us here
Screenshot of Bluesky website at: https://bsky.social/about/faq About Bluesky What is Bluesky? Bluesky is a social app that is designed to not be controlled by a single company. We’re creating a version of social media where it's built by many people, and it still comes together as a cohesive, easy-to-use experience. We've done this by building Bluesky on the AT Protocol, an open source toolbox for building social apps that can all talk to each other. We want modern social media and public conversation online to work more like the early days of the web, when anyone could put up a blog or use RSS to subscribe to several blogs. We believe this will unlock a new era of experimentation and innovation in social media. Researchers and communities will have the ability to jump in to help solve the problems social networks currently face, and developers will be able to experiment with many new forms of interaction.
Eh! Web now available! Start Here! [Create Account] [Login] EH! is built for connections. Designed for community. Made & Kept in Canada. [Apple Store Link] [Google Store link] Canadian-made. Privacy-first. What is EH!? SHARE YOUR STORY Post the moments that matter -- big or small. Connect with neighbours, share what you love, and discover everyday. SUPPORT LOCAL Tag the shops, makers, and spots you love. Help neighbours find hidden gems -- and keep dollars DISCOVER CANADA From neighbourhood gems to road-trip finds, explore places through the people who know best. BUILT DIFFERENT Your data lives in Canada. your feed is yours to control. EH! is built on transparency, real moderation, and respect
Screenshot of the Eh! website. Header includes the logo, "Web Now Available" and "Start Here" pointing to a button to "create account" and "sign in" Below that two images - one of the an older man and a young child, sharing a piece of rattan? The other two women sitting and chatting in what appears to be outdoor patio of a café? Below that, the words "WHAT IS EH!?" And no content. Typed next to the screenshot: There's no actual content in "What is eh!? Could you add text? Stop the jiggling? Would lover to learn more.
Extract from TVO news article/ interview: https://www.tvo.org/article/lessons-from-sars-part-3-the-public-health-officer It was about 10 days, but we didn’t know that and had to figure it out. We needed to figure out if it was transmitted from person to person by anything other than droplets. It wasn’t, mostly — mostly droplets. But, in Hong Kong, it was probably through aerosolized feces traced back to the plumbing. We established a hotline for information and for people to assess their risk. The public was worried. We talked to them and told them what we could.
Screenshot from The Tyee with a bio of Dr Filiatrault: https://thetyee.ca/Bios/Lyne_Filiatrault/ Lyne Filiatrault Dr. Lyne Filiatrault is a retired emergency physician who spent most of her 25-year career at Vancouver General Hospital. On March 7, 2003 she was on duty when the index case of SARS presented to the emergency department. Her team followed the precautionary principle, and isolated the patient. Since 2021, she has been an active, and outspoken member of Protect Our Province BC. Image: headshot of Dr Filiatrault wearing an N95 respirator mask. White woman with brown hair.
Screenshot from ISO website: https://www.iso.org/standard/63500.html ISO 9241-11:2018 Ergonomics of human-system interaction Part 11: Usability: Definitions and concepts Published (Edition 2, 2018) This publication was last reviewed and confirmed in 2023. Therefore this version remains current.
Image of Flo mask respirator with parts, including mask, head straps, sealing ring, extra filters and carrying case. https://shop.evidencebased.ca/products/flo-mask-pro-adult-elastomeric-respirator-value-bundle-1
PICTURE man wearing blue surgical mask, plastic eye shield and surgical scrubs. Hand drawn red arrow points to gap along cheek between surgical mask and skin. TEXT ASTM Level 3 Surgical Masks include 4 layers of construction which offer clinicians comfort, protection, and breathability that they seek. Designed for fluid protection. https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/product-solutions/medical/infection-control/facial-protection/surgical-and-procedural-masks/surgical-masks/astm-level-3-surgical-mask.html
Extract from CBO https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56898 they would be in that year under current law. (The current subsidies include federal spending on health care programs plus forgone revenues from tax preferences for health benefits.) As a result, the share of total U.S. health care spending financed by the federal government would be larger than under current law. The single-payer options would change total national health expenditures (NHE) in 2030 by amounts ranging from a decrease of $0.7 trillion to an increase of $0.3 trillion. Lower payment rates for providers and reductions in payers’ administrative spending are the most important factors tending to reduce NHE, and greater use of health care is the most important factor tending to increase NHE. Under the design specifications for a single-payer system that CBO analyzed, health insurance coverage would be nearly universal, and total out-of-pocket spending on health care would be lower—both of which would increase the demand for health care. The supply of health care would rise because there would be fewer restrictions on patients’ use of care and on providers’ billing,
Screenshot of Psychology Today website https://www.psychologytoday.com/us With a red circle around the website name ("Psychology Today") and an arrow pointing to the copyright designation in the footer: Psychology Today (c) 2026 Sussex Publishers, LLC
Screenshot of part of Wikipedia article: Constitution of Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Canada Words highlighted in yellow are indicated below by "<< >>". -- Constitution of Canada (French: Constitution du Canada) is the supreme law in Canada.[1] It outlines Canada's system of government and the civil and human rights of those who are citizens of Canada and non-citizens in Canada.[2] << Its contents are an amalgamation of various codified acts, treaties between the Crown and Indigenous Peoples (both historical and modern), uncodified traditions and conventions.>> Canada is one of the oldest constitutional monarchies in the world.[3] The Constitution of Canada comprises core written documents and provisions that are constitutionally entrenched, take precedence over all other laws and place substantive limits on government action; these include the Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly the British North America Act, 1867) and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.[4] The Constitution Act, 1867 provides for a constitution "similar in principle" to the largely unwritten constitution of the United Kingdom, recognizes Canada as a constitutional monarchy and federal state, and outlines the legal foundations of Canadian federalism.[5] The Constitution of Canada << includes written and unwritten components.>> [4] Section 52 of the Constitution Act, 1982 states that "the Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of Canada" and that any inconsistent law is of no force or effect.[4] << It further lists written documents which are included >> in the Constitution of Canada; these are the Canada Act 1982 (which includes the Constitution Act, 1982), the acts and orders referred to in its schedule (including in particular the Constitution Act, 1867), and any amendments to these documents.[6] The << Supreme Court of Canada has held that this list is not exhaustive >> and that the Constitution of Canada includes a number of << pre-Confederation acts and unw…
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)60130-5/fulltext Screenshot of extract from the Lancet article: For example, Haslam-Stroud says she wants Ontario labour officials to insist that health-care employers provide respiratory protective devices with a filter efficiency of 95% or greater. Ontario's pandemic plan currently stipulates only the use of surgical masks, she told The Lancet. Although the SARS Commission has established that “hospitals are as dangerous as mines and factories”, says Haslam-Stroud, “we lack the basic health and safety culture and systems to protect us”. The most important message from the Commission is its emphasis on the application of the “precautionary principle”, says Haslam-Stroud. In his final report, Judge Campbell notes “a systemic failure to recognize the precautionary principle in health worker safety, and in the identification and diagnosis of a respiratory illness that mimicked the symptoms of other, better-known diseases”.
Screenshot showing search results for "science" on the Starter Pack website: https://blueskystarterpack.com/search?q=science Two Starter Packs are visible as very large rounded squares with blue background and white text: On left side "Hypothalamus Gordon Research Conference - HypoGRC" On right: "Don't Eat #UPFs 2 (Full)"
Screenshot of an unsourced screenshot by Unapologetic Lee (@canadiancurated.bsky.social) from a previous post, with markup on words indicating "neutral" political bias Markup is done in red in the screenshot, but below indicated by "> <". TEXT: Based on established media watchdog organizations, CBC News is generally viewed as minimally biased to moderately left-leaning, with a strong reliability rating. However, this view is sharply contested by specific advocacy groups who allege systemic bias in coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. Professional Bias Checker Ratings Ad Fontes Media: Rates CBC as > "Middle"(Centrist) < on bias and "Reliable/Analysis for reliability. Its bias score of -5.01 places it > extremely close to dead center < on the spectrum, indicating generally balanced reporting. AllSides: Assigns a "Lean Left" rating based on a July 2022 review. Panelists agreed most news is > neutral/fact-based< but noted left-leaning word choice and bias by > omission < on U.S. social issues (abortion, guns, LGBTQ). Confidence is low: community feedback often suggests a > "Center" < rating
Screenshot of the "About" page of the AllSides website https://www.allsides.com/contact/team Text: AllSides Technologies, Inc. is a public benefit corporation doing business as "AllSides. Image Map of the US with dots across the country. Dots look like a pie, colored in thirds (red, blue, and purple), with more dots in larger populated areas
Screenshot of a Bluesky profile and one post. Profile: [image of a man and young boy] Account: @mhm0dsfmlykc607 Don't turn away from our suffering Supp0rt my family in Gaza Post: "I'm sorry if this message bothered you" I'm Mahmod from Gaza, a software engineer
Screenshot of the profile page of an account on Bluesky. Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.bsky.social 1.3K followers 10 following 48 posts Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts. Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. [emoji images: blue dot, yellow dot, pink crab, red dot, white dot]
Screenshot of tweet by Tony Aube "If you're celebrating Charlie Kirk's death, you're not a good person. Please stop going to bed thinking you're a great because you're "woke" and on the "left" You cheer for pain, death, and violence upon people you disagree with. This is who you are. These are your values." --- Please note - in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's death, no progressive leader, in the US or Canada, "celebrated" Charlie Kirk's death. Many gave condolences. All expressed shock and concern. This is a trope pushed by bad actors and chaos agents on the right. Accounts pushing this trope are trying to increase visibility, clicks, and tend to be either "influencers", or potentially bots or trolls.
Screenshot from https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/report-cmcrb/executive-summary.html Executive Summary In her 2022 Independent External Comprehensive Review, which examined sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces, retired Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour raised concerns about a culture of misogyny and sexual misconduct in Canada’s two Military Colleges. She posited that sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces finds its origins, in part, in the culture of the Canadian Military Colleges and she questioned whether the situation at the Colleges was remediable. Pursuant to Madame Arbour’s report, the Canadian Military Colleges Review Board was established to examine and make recommendations about whether the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston (RMC) and the Royal Military College Saint-Jean (RMC Saint-Jean) – collectively, “the Colleges,” “the Military Colleges” or “the CMCs” – should continue to exist and, if so, to what extent and how they should be reformed.
Screenshot of a tweet by Boston Smalls circa 13 Jan 2026. Includes photo of a young blond-haired boy and one of a man in full military gear. @smalls2672 - Twitter There's a link I'll put in the comments. Its a link to a substack of a supposed victim of the trump/epstein ring. Sascha Riley claims he was abused by Trump, Epstein, Lindsey Graham, Andy Biggs, and Clarence Thomas. The alleged abuse happened when he was between 11 and 14 years old. Its all audio recording of his testimony and he goes into great detail. Sascha Riley went on to become an iraq war veteran.
Screenshot of tweet from Twitter City of Minneapolis, 19h [13 Jan 2026] Recent reports of ICE activity include detaining or arresting US citizens. If this happens to you or someone you know, learn about your rights, how to report what happened, and where to get help. www.MinneapolisMN.gov/ice [includes the following graphic] If a US citizen is arrested by ICE: 1. Contact your US Representative or Senator 2. File a report with the ACLU
Extract from Canadian govt site: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6679 Petition to the House of Commons Whereas: - Members of Parliament (MPs) have been accused of making important public statements that are false and without evidence; - Misinformation is a growing threat to the proper functioning of, as well as faith in, our democratic process; - A mechanism is needed to verify MPs’ public statements to maintain trust in our governing body; - Artificial Intelligence is amplifying misinformation; - Current events in the United States demonstrate the dangers of not addressing this problem; and - The Institute for Constitutional and Democratic Research (ICDR) of Wales, UK, proposed a white paper entitled “A Model for Political Honesty,” created because “the Welsh Government will bring forward legislation before 2026 for the disqualification of Members and candidates found guilty of deliberate deception through an independent judicial process and will invite the committee to make proposals to that effect.” We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to propose a bill to address the issue of perceived and actual misinformation being presented by MPs to the public, provided that such a bill could be informed by details outlined in the white paper proposed by the ICDR. Open for signature - July 30, 2025, at 9:58 a.m. (EDT) Closed for signature - November 27, 2025, at 9:58 a.m. (EDT) Member of Parliament [Photo - Karim Bardeesy] Karim Bardeesy Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park Liberal Caucus
Extract from the court filing ("lawsuit"): https://pressprogress.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Caylan-Ford-Statement-of-Claim.pdf 60. The quotation attributed to Ford in the Google Ads is a falsification by Jivraj. Ford has never said what was alleged to have been said. Ford had lived for three years in the Calgary-Mountain View constituency, which is located in Northwest Calgary, while she was attending the University of Calgary. She had the intention of moving back to Calgary-Mountain View to raise her children had she been elected.
Screenshot of two tweets on Twitter by Ari Peskoe @AriPeskoe, Sept 29, 2025 Utilities are building massive amounts of regional and local transmission for industrial computing facilities. Existing cost allocation methods spread these costs to everyone. And here's a post form @UCSUSA explaining the report. "This spreading of costs isn't illegal. It is simply out of date." [Tweet links to article at blog.ucs.org] https://blog.ucs.org/mike-jacobs/data-centers-are-already-increasing-your-energy-bills/
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Screenshot from Wikipedia article on David Frum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum David Jeffrey Frum (/frʌm/; born 30 June 1960)[4] is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He is a senior editor at The Atlantic as well as an MSNBC contributor. In 2003, Frum authored the first book about Bush's presidency written by a former member of the administration.[5] He has taken credit for the famous phrase "axis of evil" in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address. He is considered a voice in the neoconservative movement.[6][7]
Extract from Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers (such as advertisers), and finally
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Extract from Wikipedia entry on the fictional world of "Gor" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor "philosophical content. The Gor series repeatedly depicts men abducting and physically and sexually brutalizing women, who grow to enjoy their submissive state. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Norman's "sexual philosophy" is "widely detested",[1] but the books have inspired a Gorean subculture.[2]"
Extract from an interview with Erica Chenoweth: Chenoweth: I think it really boils down to four different things. The first is a large and diverse participation that's sustained. The second thing is that [the movement] needs to elicit loyalty shifts among security forces in particular, but also other elites. Security forces are important because they ultimately are the agents of repression, and their actions largely decide how violent the confrontation with -- and reaction -- the nonviolent campaign is going to be in the end. But there are other security elites, economic and business elites, state media. There are lots of different pillars that support the status quo, and if they can disrupted or coerced into noncooperation, then that's a decisive factor. The third thing is that the campaigns need to be able to have more than just protests; there needs to be a lot of variation in the methods they use. The fourth thing is that when campaigns are repressed -- which is basically inevitable for those calling for major changes -- they don't either descend into chaos or opt for using violence themselves. If campaigns allow their repression to throw the movement into total disarray or they use it as a pretext to militarize their campaign, they they're essentially co-signing what the regime wants -- for the resisters to play on its own playing field. And they're probably going to get totally crushed
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Extract from "A Proposed Rule by the Personnel Management Office" on 04/23/2025, in the Federal Register https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/23/2025-06904/improving-performance-accountability-and-responsiveness-in-the-civil-service SUMMARY The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduct. The proposed rule lets policy-influencing positions be moved into Schedule Policy/Career. These positions will remain career jobs filled on a nonpartisan basis. Yet they will be at-will positions excepted from adverse action procedures or appeals. This will allow agencies to quickly remove employees from critical positions who engage in misconduct, perform poorly, or undermine the democratic process by intentionally subverting Presidential directives.
Screenshot from CBC site URL in the skeet. Canada Votes 2025. 3-column table showing Elect, Lead, Total. All but one of the Lead entries are 0 Lib - 169 Con - 143, 1, 144 BQ - 22 NDP - 7 GRN - 1 172 required for majority
Election Results showing only the results for parties that got seats https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2025/results/#/ Table shows Elect, Lead, Total. Elect and Total are the same except for the Conservatives, who have a 1 under Lead. Lib - 169 Con - 143, 1, 144 BQ - 22 NDP - 7 GRN - 1 172 for a majority.
Screenshot from CBC election tracking, labeled Canada Votes 2025: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2025/results/#/ A table lists vote totals for parties that have gained seats, from most to least seats, with three columns labeled Elect, Lead, Total. Text above table indicates a majority government requires 172 seats. Lib - 155, 13 - 168 Con - 133, 11 - 144 BQ - 21, 2 - 23 NDP - 5, 2 - 7 Green - 1, 0 - 1
Extract from "Fair Vote Canada" website, section on Rural-Urban Proportional: https://www.fairvote.ca/rural-urban-proportional/ A graphic of Alberta and potential voting districts sits alongside the text. a) Multi-member districts in most places The key to the system is to elect representatives in multi-member districts wherever possible. The number of MPs elected in each multi-member district would be greater in densely populated “urban” areas and fewer in sparsely populated semi-urban and rural areas. Depending on how the system is designed, voters would elect MPs from across the district by marking their ballots with a simple X (an open party list) or by ranking their choices (STV). b) Single-member ridings in sparsely-populated regions The exception to the rule would be in sparsely-populated parts of the country which could retain single-member ridings. Voting in such ridings could be with a single X like in first-past-the-post, or by ranked ballot.
Extract from "Report of the Standing Committee on Electoral Reform". Report #3. Dec 1, 2016. https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/ERRE/report-3/ c. Jean-Pierre Kingsley’s suggestion and Fair Vote Canada’s Rural-Urban Proportional Proposal In his testimony before the Committee, former Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley proposed that some level of proportionality be introduced in Canada by clustering urban ridings into multiple member constituencies while keeping remote, rural ridings under FPTP. Voters would continue to vote once, whether in a single- or multiple-member constituency: That being said, here is my suggestion. Since Canada is so vast, we would keep the first-past-the-post system for remote, rural or large ridings. About 40, 50 or 60 members would be elected using that system.
Extract from CBC article showing part of a picture, its caption, and some text. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parliament-hill-lockdown-1.7503089 Title: "Ottawa man charged after lockdown on Parliament Hill, police say" Apr 06, 2025, 10:14 AM EDT Image: Various police officers milling around, with PPS-SPP on the back of their jackets and two police cars. Caption: Parliamentary Protective Service officers secure the perimeter of Parliament Hill on Saturday. (Blair Gable/Reuters) Text: The man, who was not named in the release, has been charged with a breach of probation, public mischief and uttering threats to cause property damage.
Extract from the URL / PDF posted in the skeet: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2024-05/Erica%20Chenoweth_2020-005.pdf Summary The “3.5% rule” refers to the claim that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against it during a peak event. In this brief paper, I address some of the common questions I have received about the 3.5% rule, as well as several updates from more recent work on this topic. Four key takeaways are as follows: • The 3.5% figure is a descriptive statistic based on a sample of historical movements. It is not necessarily a prescriptive one, and no one can see the future. Trying to achieve the threshold without building a broader public constituency does not guarantee success in the future. • The 3.5% participation metric may be useful as a rule of thumb in most cases; however, other factors—momentum, organization, strategic leadership, and sustainability—are likely as important as large-scale participation in achieving movement success and are often precursors to achieving 3.5% participation. • New research suggests that one nonviolent movement, Bahrain in 2011-2014, appears to have decisively failed despite achieving over 6% popular participation at its peak. This suggests that there has been at least one exception to the 3.5% rule, and that the rule is a tendency, rather than a law. • Large peak participation size is associated with movement success. However, most mass nonviolent movements that have succeeded have done so even without achieving 3.5% popular participation.