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Last month’s Public Safety report said antisemitism “includes anti-Zionism.” Misleading claims now suggest the government walked that back. But it hasn’t. The Minister’s reply retracts nothing, twice says the position is unchanged, and reiterates IHRA.
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Claims that the government “clarified” that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism are untrue. The letter from Public Safety Minister @gary_srp does not retract or amend the antisemitism progress report and twice says the government's position has not changed.
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Exclusive: Neil Herland is back! | @kinsellawarren thewarrenkinsella.substack.c…
"Like any good journalist, @NEWSneil doesn’t want to make the story about himself. He’s declining comment."
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The @nccm is circulating a letter from Minister Anandasangaree that @AmiraElghawaby touts as “clarifying” that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. It does no such thing. The letter does not retract the report and twice says the gov't position has not changed
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The students at TMU will move on. But the F4P - Faculty for Palestine - will continue to send out a new generation of kids to get arrested, and then complain they were brutalized. The rot is deep.
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Canada treats new data centre investments as the digital sovereignty solution, but data residency is the easy part. Legal rules, provider choice, and interconnection are much harder. My digital sovereignty keynote on the Law Bytes podcast:
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The Law Bytes podcast is back after a two-month hiatus. This week’s episode is my keynote at CANARIE’s NREN Assembly on digital sovereignty. A key theme: the sovereignty squeeze between the US CLOUD Act’s reach and the EU’s conditions for cloud alignment.
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Michael Geist Weekly Digest #29: Non-Public Consultation on News Media Funding, and Bill C-22’s Missing Regulations and Secret Ministerial Orders
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What is it with Canadian Heritage and secret consultations? Media funding: non-public, sent only to recipients, results unreleased. Film and TV policy: memos to an advisory panel asked to sign NDAs. Cultural policy made without the public in the room.
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Canadian Heritage wanted to know if its media funding should be expanded. So it asked the funding recipients. Not the public. The consultation was never posted. The answer, in a summary the government still hasn’t released: more money and make it permanent
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Canadian Heritage ran a non-public consultation asking the media what it thinks of programs that give it millions of dollars. Predictably, the sector asked for more money and dismissed concerns about press independence. I’ve posted the gov’t summary.
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The Senate is being asked to approve a surveillance framework in C-22 without knowing who it covers, what they must build, what data about Canadians it will retain, or what it will cost. Regs could take 5 years, but no delay for secret ministerial orders.
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Officials say Bill C-22’s regulations could take five years. The Senate is being asked to approve a surveillance and data retention framework without knowing who it covers, what they must build, what data on Canadians it will retain, or what it will cost.
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The Bill C-22 timeline: new police powers in 180 days, first regulations take 18 months to two years, the rest up to five years, secret ministerial orders could come before the regs, and a full parliamentary review might not occur for seven or eight years.
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Officials say Bill C-22’s regulations could take five years. The Senate is being asked to approve a surveillance and data retention framework without knowing who it covers, what they must build, what data on Canadians it will retain, or what it will cost.
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The Bill C-22 timeline: new police powers in 180 days, first regulations take 18 months to two years, the rest up to five years, secret ministerial orders could come before the regs, and a full parliamentary review might not occur for seven or eight years.
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Officials say Bill C-22’s regulations could take five years. The Senate is being asked to approve a surveillance and data retention framework without knowing who it covers, what they must build, what data on Canadians it will retain, or what it will cost.
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Officials say Bill C-22’s regulations could take five years. The Senate is being asked to approve a surveillance and data retention framework without knowing who it covers, what they must build, what data on Canadians it will retain, or what it will cost.
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Today I spoke in the House of Commons explaining why anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism. Criticizing Israel’s government is legitimate. Calling for Israel’s destruction is not.
Michael Geist Weekly Digest #28: Sovereignty risks behind Canada’s EU digital pivot, Bill C-34's missing Charter statement, and three years after October 7th
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I believe Bill C-34’s social media ban is unconstitutional. It blocks an entire cohort of Canadians from expressing themselves on social media and requires millions to verify their age to access lawful content. Yet four months later, no Charter statement.
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Must read from @KateRobertson_ on Bill C-22:
"The assumption by government officials that technology companies can find “safe ways” to weaken critical cybersecurity protections badly misreads the current threat landscape."
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Bill C-34's social media ban for under-16s blocks an entire cohort of Canadians from expressing themselves on social media and requires millions to age-verify to access lawful content. Four months later, the government hasn't issued a Charter statement.
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