@editorwhedon.bsky.social Past lawyer & periodista, current comms guy. Nasty Canadian. Not drowning but waving. Quod scripsi, scripsi π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π°
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The birds they sang
At the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what has passed away
Or what is yet to be
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
Iβm open to correction but I cannot find a comparable country that assigns private-sector privacy oversight to a regulator that also polices online harms. Consistent approach is a dedicated, independent data protection authority. Will cause harm to Canada on global privacy stage.
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
Remember the safeguard the government included last week in Bill C-34 for age verification that required consultation with the privacy commissioner? Five days later, it now plans to repeal the provision as part of creating a super-regulator in Bill C-36.
michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/canaβ¦
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
Polls show that only 15% of Americans approve of yesterdayβs UFC spectacle on the White House grounds. But in this Palo Alto brothel/ketamine bar, that percentage feels much higher.
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
I apparently understated the power of the Commission. The new privacy bill strips the Privacy Commissioner of Canada of private-sector authority, transferring it to a newly constituted Commissioner who is a government appointed member of the Commission, now called the Digital Safety and Data Protection Commission with a new Privacy and Consumer Data Commissioner. Full digital regulator in Canada.
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
The story is even more alarming when you read the whole thing. A normal American president would be rallying the G7 today to confront the Russians on this and all the incidents Putin has been efforting to destabilize the West. Alasβ¦
π¨ BREAKING: The BBC has revealed the Russian Government was behind the arson attacks on Keir Starmer's home and car
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This aged wellβ¦
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Sen. Deb Fischer: "Iran played us and we ended up sending pallets of cash to them. I doubt that's going to happen under President Trump."
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.
Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.
A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
Thereβs ALWAYS a tweet
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Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
Trump said he demanded unconditional surrender, we just didnβt know he meant Americaβs.
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
There will be entire PhDs written about how badly this war was botched
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They warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris weβd get a new deal with the Iranian regime worse than the JCPOA. I voted for Kamala, and they were right.
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
I, too, have decided not to build nukes in exchange for $300 billion
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
My first post on Bill C-36 and the seismic shift in Canadian privacy. The bill marks the end of the Privacy Commissioner's role in private-sector privacy law and the arrival of a super-regulator with astonishing powers to regulate online speech and privacy
michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/canaβ¦
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
Have the New Yorkers finally learned this lesson?
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The new Alexa voices for Canada are exceptionally annoying. I would like the new features, but with the voice of the French Alexa.
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Tim Jaques π¨π¦ πΊπ¦ π¬π±π©π° retweeted
No one born after 1935 has ever walked on the moon.
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I was at the hospital today for x-rays. None of the clocks I saw had the right time. I wonder if I should be taking this as a brown M&M kind of warning. I mean, if you can't calibrate the clocks correctly . . .
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Yeah but the wind didn't blow it shut.
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This door weighed more than the entire fucking car you drive now.
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The U.S. funded bio labs in Ukraine were for the disposal of Soviet-era biological weapons but the MAGAs are far too stupid to understand that.
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Word of the Day: GRANFALLOON (coined by Kurt Vonnegut) - a proud and meaningless association of human beings.
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