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useasmake-shifttherapy · 3 years ago
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I really feel like egging something.
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stone-man-warrior · 4 years ago
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February 13, 2021: 3:00 pm:
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I have a example of Gnosis that was presented to Los Angeles Unified School District students in the early 1970′s.
This Gnosis inclusion in printed required reading material may be possible to find and study further, was a “Life or Death” sort of a COVID Test in the 1970′s where a book report could get a elementary student killed if they say the wrong thing in the report.
The assignment was to read Lord of the Flies by British Author William Golding, then to write a book report about the events that those young stranded people faced while trapped on a deserted island after their airplane crashed there.
I think it’s last final chapter in the book (is) where the Gnosis shows up, and, it could prove to be that entire novel is a work of Gnosis for weeding out non-paratrooper Canadian terror soldiers who landed in great number in San Fernando Valley California in 1970 - 1971.
That last chapter included that at least two people on parachutes had come out of the shy (sky) and landed on the island where Lord of the Flies took place. The parachuting people did not land, but fell, is the way I remember it, and they had gas masks on when the children found them there, as they had hoped some help had come, it was some other thing, not help, and the children spent some time trying to determine who the dead parachuting guests were.
So, the way I did the report, is I read the book twice, then I decided that the part where those people came parachuting out of the sky was a mistake made at the printer, and I approached my book report as if that chapter belonged in a different book, not Lord of the Flies, was a mistake, and that I had somehow managed to pick up a defective book to do the report with. So, my report stopped abruptly at the close of the chapter before the one when those parachute wearing, gas mask donning intruders had come to the island.
The teacher asked about that, why I stopped without including the last part of the book, and my response was that the book was wrong, my book was defective and contained parts of a different book, so, I wrote about the other parts of the book. I got an A on the report. I lived. Others at the school began to vanish, all of my friends were said to have moved away to other places.
Some things to consider about the usefulness of such Gnosis, rely’s on real knowledge, only those who know that thousands of paratrooper terror soldiers landed in Southern California in the 1970′s will understand or be willing to consider why Lord of the Flies is only one of many ways for the terror leadership to reach the terror army that landed there. The paratroopers in Southern California came in tandem, two per parachute, one adult male, and one child on each parachute. The children ranged in age from about 8 years old to about 12 years old. The children started attending Los Angeles Unified School District Schools. Some of the paratroopers did not land safely. Some got hung up on power lines, some of the parachutes failed to open, and some were injured simply because it was dangerous event.
That report assignment based on a book where the premise is about a crashed airplane filled with children on a deserted island where a “Pig” is used as a religious figure head among the stranded group, and so many other details, all serve as fodder for a child terror soldier to say details about their presence, while writing a book report to a terror teacher substitute while the real teachers are away at a educational enrichment “inservice” day somewhere else. That book report gave opportunity to write something about who made it alive, and who did not. If there were injured terror soldiers, that book report was a way to say who and where the injured, or dead ones, were at, and about where parachutes could have been lodged in trees or power lines or other places where they got hung up on the way down.
I once found one of the parachute harnesses, not the chute. That one I found in a remote place at the east end of DeSoto Ave where there is a very old dam structure made of rocks at Browns Canyon Road where the 118 freeway overpass is at, in 1978, about seven years after the paratroopers landed. I’ll describe the harness when I get an interview from US national security personnel.
Think about that Lord of the Flies Gnosis assignment, and all of the simplified details I provided for you here, to see how Gnosis is bad for Freedom, and serves the terror pirates.
I have a lot to say about my youth in Southern California, but no one to say it to.
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4:03 pm:
Do a Bing search for “Map of Quebec”:
It brings up this image:
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Wait about three to five seconds, and the internet terror pirates put an overlay on top of the map you want to look at, the overlay erases the word “Quebec” and it happens live, as you are looking at it.
Later, when the information is shared, like I am doing, Justin Trudeau will go hide under his house in the basement and call his national Canadian Security forces to say that the information showing that the word Quebec has been erased was done because the person who presented the information is planning to explode Justin Trudeau, in Quebec, and that is why he is hiding in the basement under his house.
If the overlay is put on my view of a search result to cover up the word “Quebec” then it will happen to anyone who has drawn the attention of global terrorists such as Justin Trudeau.
For the record, I don‘t have any desire to explode Justin Trudeau or Quebec. That is not my job. I do think the world would be far safer if Quebec and Justin Trudeau exploded, either on their own or by actions taken by Global Security Forces. But like I said, that is not my job, others are in charge of that kind of thing. I am only an elderly disabled man who is a Medicare beneficiary, so, I can’t be expected to do that level of Global housekeeping, others who better equipped, and in better health are responsible for ridding the world of places like Quebec.
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This is also a place of interest, the whole thing with exception of some parts of Ireland is the way it looks. I used to say Scotland was not of interest, but that changed, it’s all bad news over there for far too long... where is my eraser?
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This has always been a big problem for the whole world. It’s a boat, sink it.
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And this is the main source of all of the problems on earth.
It’s just a little tiny place, see below:
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This is all it is, and it’s destroying everything else:
It’s a book, burn it.
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4:57 pm:
Revisit this just for a minute. This is really too depressing to really do an the in  depth report and decode that is warranted here, so, I’ll give you a head start, something to look at as a place of basis for your own decode work.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ReU6IGACo
First, some background is necessary:
              (when i do strikethrough that is example of Christian terror at Centurylink changing the text I wright to a “The” for “Theology” means “God”. There are thousands of places where “That” gets changed to “The” by the terror army operatives at Centurylink, Google, and Tumblr terror cells. It’s the same as if the Pope came to piss on the things I wright while trying to get some help)
To see what is happening here, you have to know the (that) when a citizen is awarded a disability status, that event is called “Award of Disability” and beneficiaries receive an “Award Letter” to inform them that Social Security Administration has finished doing their assessment on the application process that people have to go through, it takes more than two years to complete the process, and EVERYONE is denied in the first round, to discourage those who may be trying to deceive the application process. Once “Awarded”, the person becomes a Medicare Beneficiary, and begins to receive a nominal amount of income based on the amount of Social Security Monthly Premiums that person paid, automatically, as it was deducted from their paycheck throughout their lifetime. There is a maximum to the income amount, it’s not enough to survive on for most people. During the first fifteen years of Disability Award Status, those people are subject to the whims of the SSA, if they feel like a reassessment is necessary, the person is called in to a hearing, and must PROVE that they still should be considered as a Disabled Citizen. It turns out that other neighbors are often a threat to such people, and will go out of their way to make life more difficult for disabled people, and will call the SSA to tell them that their neighbor claims to be disabled, but does not look disabled. That means that the neighbor, who is not a doctor, works at McDonald’s as hostess, can make a problem for the disabled persons. You might say that should no problem if the disability is real, just prove it, again. What you don’t understand about that is the lack of control, the threat of having to pay back all of the income that was received before the neighbor called SSA to say stuff they know nothing about, the worry, extra expense, and most of all the time that is required to focus all of your life’s efforts on proving once again that an Award is to be continued. Every other thing a person may have going on, has to stop, all focus shifts on maintaining what is already in place. It’s like you are out at sea, and the information is such that someone is going to take your boat while you are ten miles out in the water. You have to stop everything to save the boat.
Then, for purpose of that video, after fifteen years passes, disability award citizens are no longer subject to any kind of interference from SSA for review no matter what any one says. So, the disabled person will never again be called in and forced to prove anything after fifteen years passes. That is what Jeff Kiesel is talking about in that video after he introduces the “Dotted Line” where a design patent contract is a protective measure. He is pointing out that it is not likely that anyone will be looking at, or interested in disabled people after fifteen years of awarded disability status, and that fact makes them good targets for the long haul where the victims income can easily be maintained after Jeff Kiesel signs the dotted line where the Guitoligist, Brad, does the dirty deed, Gain Cheap, on the Clean Channel.
Contract; Protection; Design.
Those are among the key statement jargon, where “design” is in reference to subjects suitable for surgical experimentation. If not experiment subjects, then such people can be held captive by someone who claims to be a son or daughter or other relation to the victim, and used for things like taking to a SAG friendly doctor so that Jeff Kiesel and Brad the Guitologist can get high on the captive patients pain medicine that is prescribed after a fall down the stairs, or a “gardening accident” in the yard, while those patients never get the medicine they are prescribed. Hear Jeff Kiesel say the phrase “One Leg” to get an idea of the horror of being held in captivity by drug addict SAG members.
Refer to the 6:34 mark in video to get to the heart of the coded message.
It’s coded. You decode it yourself, to keep your parents and grandparents free of captivity, and yourself, because you never know when that freight train is going to run you over until after the train goes by.
All of that is talked about openly on Google/YouTube.
You watch this video and then argue that Google is not in the snuff movie business, I double dog dare you to.
They even know and mark the video with a warning, so, I’ll warn you also: You cannot Un-See this video. Once you have seen it, it will stay with you forever, like a heroin addiction is to a SAG member.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZYDc_yR0qA&bpctr=1613268727
This video worked and was playable here on tumblr for a few hours, someone had to manually see that it’s here, then put the age restriction on the Google Snuff movie service. I recommend using someone else’s computer to view the video, as Google has turned it into a controlled environment where they can trace your address, so, use a police computer or one at the local church for viewing Google Snuff Movie Service Productions whenever possible. If you click the link, they will assume you read this account, if that happens, you will be marked as someone who knows the truth about Google and the Vatican, and they will hunt you down, take you captive, torture you so you will give them addresses of your family, especially small children, and your banking and asset access information. Then, they will put you into a commercial grade Chipper/Shredder, and grind you up into a liquid, add some water, and some seeds, and spray you onto the roadside as Erosion Abatement for profit because the Department of Transportation pays the contractors for the service of doing Erosion Abatement work on the roadsides, so that the road won‘t wash away in the rainy season. That, is the Christian Way. You can‘t see it through so many daisy’s is part of the problem with that. Orange poppy seeds are most popular in Or/egon for the Human Erosion Abatement Program. The mixture starts out as “V-8″ they call it, then when the seeds are added, at the time of the spraying, they call it “Red Hydroseed” and that is what the State is billed for by the contractors. no, I am not joking, does it sound like a joke?.
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The reason that video exists and is presented on Google/YouTube, along with other similar ones, and movies of animal torture, is create a market for them. The existence of such movies available mainstream makes a “custom order” situation available through YouTube and it’s all approved and signed off by Sundar Pichai, and the Pope with use of a warning label, and the added benefit of that SAG Media “Color Announcer” who calls the action like a little league umpire calls an infield fly rule. Those who are really in the know, knows that the snuff movie presented, is about young boys and young girls because of the “Infield Fly Rule” that is presented in the approved Google snuff production there. “Infield Fly Rule” at a little league game is far more difficult to call as a umpire, than that snuff movie Color Announcer does with a train.
Boy Scouts of America
Eagle Scouts
Girl Scouts
Brownie’s
Little League Baseball
Pop-Warner Football
Gymnastics
Any and all extra curricular sports activities where SAG members can sign up to be a coach or a mentor, all inclusive, is what the train video is truly about, and is what Google is truly about.
Learn to read terror comm.
Turn off the fucking television, there is nothing real presented on it.
Stop the terror take over of USA. Preserve USA by restoring the Freedom that was lost to the Christian terror pirates.
Expose them, remove their fake Corona Masks.
Make arrests. Take them all to Easter Island and drop them off there. There will be way too many to put into the prisons.
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6:46 pm:
Local Conditions:
About 40 degrees F. Absence of wind, high overcast sky.
I saw lights moving around in my front yard as dusk settled in at the close of that Boy Scouts entry above.
I took a walk to the mailbox.
I hesitated momentarily at the front door, opened and closed it a couple of times knowing that the terror bastards are triggered into action with listen device they put beneath my house at the entry.
I stepped out and a car moved south on Russell Road, as is usual at this time of day when I step outside, I am a little early with walk today because of those lights I saw in the front.
There were no lights on at the 376 Jackpine unit B as I stepped over to the driveway, there is a odor of death there, is faint, smells as if a dead creature or persons is in wooded area over there near the Offensive Monroe Surveillance Travel Trailer. I continued to the road, as I passed by the Monroe’s camara area pointed at my gate, there was the sound of jet ... I looked all over the sky to see the jet, but there was no sign of airplane, the sound went north, then west, then north again, then south, it was not a jet, it was a terror soldier’s nitrous gas tank ignited by my Bic Lighter and the sound of a launched terror soldier.
There was one item at my driveway entrance that was out of place, someone had moved a thing that I don‘t think could have moved on it’s own.
The people at 445 Jackpine have all of the house lights off tonight, is totally dark in contrast to last night when the place was lit up brightly. I could see that one of the vehicles there is a pick-up truck, looks medium grey color, but it’s too dark outside to know more, or it could be blue color.
There was nothing in the mailbox.
That Mazda, or other similar looking car was at 520 Jackpine again, parked in front, there was a dog in the yard, and someone was hiding behind a wood fence there along the road watching as I looked for my mail in the box.
I went over that way, there should have been some trash cans brought to the corner by now, in anticipation of Monday Trash Day, but there were no trashcans out on a Saturday, is unusual but not unheard of.
As I looked around at the corner, another terror soldier ignited at 520 and must have taken off very quickly, that man hiding by the fence came out and got into that Mazda, and drove away while I was still walking on the road.  He used a flashlight to light me up, so, I returned the light back to him, with a bigger, more powerful light.
I was concerned for a moment he might try to run me over, but I just stayed my course, and went to my driveway. I think the man in the Mazda thought I was the Jet I heard, his accomplice terror assassin, or maybe the other one that was standing right next to the Mazda and launched away quick. I think that one landed at 535 Jackpine at Freeberg terror cell, as I did hear a “Thud” sound from that direction.
It looked to me that the Mazda went to 376 Jackpine to Chartrand terror cell. I did not stay close enough to know for sure though.
There is a possibility that the car was brought to Chartrand by remote control, that is not uncommon, and all of the automatic transmission cars are fitted with remote control operation so that in event that the gas wielding terror soldiers are ignited and burst, the cars can be driven remotely to a controlled place to clean the guts, piss, and shit that gets spattered all on the interior of the cars when that happens. The Myers car from 560 has had dozens of Bursted terror soldiers explode in it over many years.
The lights at 376 Jackpine unit B came on at the front entry there as I walked back to my house.
Conclusion is that all four of the 445 Jackpine assassins are all dead now, and as I thought, were working with the people at 376, and, 376 is the Mazda that has been bringing dogs to the 520 address on occasion for staging attacks at my house with help from many terror cells from near and far.
I’ll take another walk later on to see if Mazda Man wants to dance with me...
Here kitty, kitty, kitty .... Ohhh Mazda Man... Let’s Dance!
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7:27 pm:
In event that nsa is watching, wondering, learning,  be advised of the VKA follow up work I did earlier today.
Can’t say more.
also: 928-249-3186 Kingman AZ Jeremy is of interest, sent him the 1 2 3 in return for A B C he sent last week about a “SpringBoard”. I could use some help with dealing with Jeremy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQtPzo-7AHs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQtPzo-7AHs
Possibly Jeremy Barns. A former renter of one of my houses many years ago, associated with Marc & Kayla Cobb who are members of the Tucker’s Barber Shop on 6th St. at Village Square Shopping Center, a “Hawaii 5-O“ terror cell controlled by “Greens of Olde Three Ply” Vatican Choir high command at Kauai Ranch. Jerremy Barns is also loosely affiliated with Joanne St. Cyr of Quebec Canada, and she is part of many things, Jazz Airline is one of them, a Air Canada regional commuter airline serving the Quebec/Montreal area.
Jeremy Barns, The Cobb terror cell, Todd & Alicia Wright and Micheal & Mercedes Wright terror cells are all Safari terror cell members, the Wright’s are actual Lion Handlers, and the Wrights are family of Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, who is one of the Green’s of Olde Three Ply Vatican Choir terror high command at Kauai Ranch.
I suppose all of tonight’s walk to the mailbox is just for personal documentation so I can remember things as they occurred, since no one is interested in preserving USA, or restoring lost Freedom enough to ask me a question about this account of terrorism on Tumblr.
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9:49 pm:
I am tired, I don‘t want to do the decoding, but you can.
Here, this man runs down all of the necessary ingredients to say: “Last in Line”. a Ronnie James Dio song that is deep, but partly is about a entertainment event where terror soldiers go to the back of the line at the entrance, they have swords, a lot of protection from event staff at a concert, baseball, football, any kind of event where the venue has a “Grey Area”, a median place between the seating area and the entrance to the venue such as the concessions area at a baseball stadium is where you present your ticket to an usher before the event begins. The terror soldiers “Hold their swords horizontally, and move forward” through the crowd that is lined up in such a “Grey” area. The audience is killed before the show begins, three percent of the total show audience is taken, ID’s are processed, and replacement look-a-likes are arranged to go live at the victims homes, ultimately, to vote for SAG Shills on ballots such as are all of the people who are featured at the fake impeachment hearings. He says everything but “Horizontal” in coded language.
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1360677045139869702
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Here, Twitter covered that missing “Horizontal” twice with trending Letterman bullshit. Here, he “Roasts” Lindsey Lohan to a point of tears, she must have said or done something to gain attention to the ways of the Screen Actor Guild and was punished for saying whatever she had said, maybe some research can find what Lindsey revealed.
She is wearing “Upholstery”, basically is donned in a sofa. So, the Upholstery outfit could possibly be enough to piss David Letterman off, and Roast her.
Upholstery = “There must be some kind of hold up” in SAG terror language, is a Universally used term, many uses. She may be using it as a “USA is being hijacked” sort of holdup. So, they are sending her to Rehab, where she becomes the “Horizontal” member of the impeachment asshole above who is saying “Last in line” and it’s also a “Sloppy Seconds” statement.
https://twitter.com/davejorgenson/status/1360783863887376390
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This at the end is a place where Dave threatens Cher (who does not look exactly the same as I recall she looks in that interview) and that video clip makes the horizontal part of the impeachment Last in Line happen twice, with a “Sloppy Seconds” at the end of the show.
It’s complicated, but not impossible to decode David Letterman, besides, he’s been dead for about five years, his head was put into the mailboxes on Jackpine after the show was over.
https://twitter.com/Squidwardsnose8/status/1360696495708778504
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One of the more important things to keep in mind is that Twitter made all of that click together, with use of “Twitter Trends”. The content of the Tweets from Letterman are all contained in the vast archive of Twitters digital storage capacity, and Twitter is Google, so arranging all of that stored archive to produce desired results is what Google is all about, it’s what they do, they categorize information.
So, once you do the decode, then you need to see why the decode opertunity presented itself there for you to see. It was Twitter that arranged all of that so it would be there to use as a language, a graphic based language that says more than the individual pieces of video clip when combined, and with a host from the fake impeachment to guide the reader to the message.
The message is about a mass murder at a venue, where there are women who will be punished, captured and killed after plenty of raping is done by David Letterman and Jay Leno, who you know is waiting to share a garage with Dave nearby.
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My read is a personal one, that includes much other communication on Google products, in the music industry email promotions, and in my neighborhood, where the message spells out a Rush at my house on Sunday morning by men with swords, and with horses, equestrian snuff at my house, with a draw and quarter featured at the end of the show.
I can hardly wait.
Draw & Quarter: It’s been about fifteen years since the last time I saw someone being drawn & quartered. Usual is done with two horses, where some ropes and shackles are attached to a victims arms and legs, and the other end is tied to the saddle of the horses. They prefer to use four horses, but one will work if horses are in short supply, just tie the other end of the rope to a tree and the result is almost the same. The horses slowly pull the victim into pieces.
The Draw & Quarter events are very unpleasant to see, even worse to be the star of the show.
Best guess is Adrian Witcherly will supply the horses. She is a bank manager at the Midland St. Branch of JP Morgan Chase Bank in Grants Pass, corner of 7th St. not far from OR State Police Field Office which next to the Seventh Day Adventist Church on 9th St.
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11:00 pm:
This man is said to be the most powerful man on earth, surely he will save me, and prevent the event from happening, given that all of information necessary for prevention has been provided.
I am confidant that the US President will do what ever is necessary to prevent tragedy when he has opportunity in advance to do so.
Certainly he will realize the horrible threat to USA, to Freedom, and the threat to mankind that is presented to the world by Google, and will everything in his vast power to stop Google and Twitter from murdering more US citizens forever.
Joe Biden will do the right thing, he has been informed of the danger.
https://twitter.com/POTUS
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11:33 pm:
I just now sent this cry for help to the White House.
2-13-2021 at about 11:27 pm Oregon time.
Take note that I specified to read the information in the links provided, and that 911 Emergency phone service will produce assassins at my house if I use that. I have much other documentation of failure at FBI.Tips.Gov too. It does not work, only assassins come in response to reports of terror mass murder in Oregon.
“Please send help. The state of Oregon has been hijacked by terror army from Canada, they use poison gasses to overpower victims, capture and torture them, then kill & replace them with imposters. There are many hundreds of thousands of them, and they have been murdering the population for more than twenty years. There are more than 800 pages of explanations at the link provided, eye-witness accounts of actual terror mass murder happening in Oregon and all over the west coast of USA. Please study the information carefully, as the terror is very sophisticated. 911 Emergency phone service is not available, it's controlled and operated by the terror army, they only send assassins when people call for help. Please send US Military. https://stone-man-warrior.tumblr.com https://stone-man-warrior.tumblr.com/archive”
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They will call the local sheriff.
The local sheriff will send assassins.
That is what happened each time I sent a request for help to a US President.
Obama.
Trump.
Biden.
They have all been informed. none have stopped the terrorism, mass murders, kidnapping, or US takeover.
They all have sent assassins.
Joe Biden started sending assassins before he took office.
If I disappear, Joe Biden’s people did it.
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11:46 pm:
Here is the BBC UK news response to my letter to Joe Biden at WhiteHouse.gov:
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1360856008969621507
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This is the part where Reuters UK (SIS MI6) makes the order to change the contact information I included with the note to Joe Biden at WhiteHouse.gov. This effectively will result in the death of investigative persons sent to the wrong places, because that Tweet says to make “Variant Modifications” and is directed at what I posted regarding the note asking for help.
I used the correct contact information on the form at WhiteHouse.gov. Part of the terrorism includes that the phones don‘t reach the people I need to reach, only approved terror cells can be reached with a telephone, and only terror cells call my phone number.
It’s should not be difficult to see where I live to contact me by reading the information at the links included, to this account. The problem with that is the investigative persons are not provided with the source information and have no idea that this account exists at all, they just go where the leadership tells them to go do investigative work, but the leadership is all SAG Shills, are all terror army operatives, and they send the investigative people into traps intentionally. Reuters UK is making sure that investigative persons go to Bullhead City Arizona, instead of Oregon where I am at, and where I can help them help me to help everyone, and restore the freedom that was lost so long ago.
https://twitter.com/ReutersUK/status/1360857587453988866
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February 14, 2021: 10:05 am:
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February 14, 2021: 10:38 pm:
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1360990937606983691
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Biden effectively says: “Fuck you minion”
Then turns to his Canadian SDA terror soldiers and commands: “Grab your rakes and pitchforks, let’s get to work”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BniO017oeTM
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The President of the United States of America, Joe Biden.
It’s St. Valentines Day today, I forgot, he’s busy ... today is a bad day for doing anti-terror work.
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xtruss · 4 years ago
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So You Want To Move To Canada? It's not so easy right now.
— By Lloyd Alter | September 30, 2020 | TreeHugger.Com
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Canada during Prohibition. Postcard
About an hour into the recent United States presidential debates there was a huge spike of Google searches for "move to Canada" and "how to move to Canada." It's a bit problematic now because the border is closed to keep out the coronavirus, but according to the Canadian government website, they are still accepting permanent resident applications and focusing on "work permits for people who perform or support essential services." Some tech companies are hiring like mad and even with the coronavirus happening are getting their new employees into the country within a month. Express Entry can even work for those who want to be self-employed. Get more info here.
Canada is not coronavirus-free, but has had significantly lower numbers of cases relative to population and way fewer deaths. David Frum writes in The Atlantic that "On one side of the border, almost everybody took the virus seriously – and few people had it. On the other, the reverse." Most people do take it seriously in Canada, but you still see a lot of people without masks and even a few anti-mask protests.
How Treehugger Correct Is It?
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Astronaut and Governor General Julie Payette. Office of the Governor General
In the recent speech from the throne, Prime Minister Trudeau made some serious promises of a green recovery of the economy. "Climate action will be a cornerstone of our plan to support and create a million jobs across the country. Canadians also know climate change threatens our health, way of life, and planet. They want climate action now, and that is what the Government will continue to deliver."
Trudeau also promised to create jobs retrofitting buildings, investing in resilience, delivering more transit and active transit options.
"This pandemic has reminded Canadians of the importance of nature. The Government will work with municipalities as part of a new commitment to expand urban parks, so that everyone has access to green space. This will be done while protecting a quarter of Canada’s land and a quarter of Canada’s oceans in five years, and using nature-based solutions to fight climate change, including by planting two billion trees. The Government will ban harmful single-use plastics next year and ensure more plastic is recycled."
He will not get everything he wants, because the provinces have a lot of power, more than the states have in the U.S., and Alberta isn't happy. The Alberta energy minister says "If we are treated unfairly and our largest sector in oil and gas is left out of it, then there will be a fight – and it’s a fight for fundamental fairness." Ontario also has a conservative government that is ripping up wind turbines and fighting federal carbon taxes, and the City of Toronto is run by conservatives who pander to suburban drivers.
Before the 2016 election I wrote in greater detail: So You Want to Move to Toronto.
Where Should I Live?
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Survey of Canadian Cities. Macleans Magazine
Macleans, a national magazine, does an annual survey which you can play with by sliding the weightings on the side, but these are weird choices, with mostly sprawly Ontario suburbia in the top 10. The only major city here in the top is Ottawa; it's home to government and Shopify, but when former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was asked what he thought was the nicest thing about Ottawa, he answered "the highway to Montreal." To be fair, that was a long time ago.
Explore Magazine, an Outside clone, lists the 10 best adventure towns and real estate consultancy CBRE lists the best cities for tech talent, with Toronto on top, followed by Ottawa, Vancouver, Waterloo Region and Montreal.
Is it Expensive?
Everything is relative. People think housing in Toronto or Vancouver is expensive, but it is a lot cheaper than New York or San Francisco, especially if you have U.S. dollars. But some big expenses are much lower; public schools are good, the best universities are far cheaper than those in the U.S., and health care is covered by taxes. Drugs are not covered by the health plan, but they cost a lot less than in the U.S.
Ken Rother, an entrepreneur who once was the CEO of Treehugger, used to say that Canada was a great place to set up a new business because nobody worried about their health insurance and were much more willing to take a chance on a small new venture.
Is it Fun?
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Bar Raval. Jonathan Friedman/Partisans
Yes, before the Covid-19 hit there were wonderful new places opening everywhere (like my favorite interior, above, in Bar Raval), vibrant arts communities, and theaters – it was busy. How many will survive is unknown.
How Cold Is It?
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Ready for winter biking. Lloyd Alter
Depends where you are, but most of it is no colder than you get in the U.S. nearby. Ninety percent of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border, so Toronto is like Buffalo with a bit less snow, and Vancouver is like Seattle, and everything in the middle is like Minnesota. I ride my bike all winter and with a good pair of Black Diamond mitts I am perfectly comfortable.
Forget About the Clichés
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The police are not Dudley Do-right, Tim Horton's is terrible and it's not even Canadian anymore, poutine is mostly disgusting goo. But there are very few guns and people are generally polite, and maple syrup is nice. Some things are weird, like getting milk in bags.
Perhaps the key difference between Canada and the United States can be seen in the unalienable rights in the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, and the Canadian version from the Constitution: Peace, Order, and Good Government. Definitely different priorities.
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WHOAAAA It’s going to take 2 weeks to get a work permit in Canada. Justin Trudeau pulled it off in 5 months after tech CEO’s asked him to take advantage of Trump’s travel ban. Where some see problems. Others see opportunity.
The money might not be as good. The cost of living, sanity and health care will make up for it. Plus Happiness trumps Trump and extremists Republicans. O Canada
Trump’s jobs plan, send them to Canada and France. Newspeak: America First means America Last.
Trump, “At what point do they start laughing at us as a country?". Everyone already is!
Facebook, Google and Uber have recently opened or expanded their offices in Toronto. Microsoft has satellite offices in Vancouver. And smaller Canadian companies say they're getting interest from a pool of American and international job applicants they hadn't heard from before.
Roy Pereira is the founder of Zoom.Ai, a startup in Toronto. After Trump's election, Pereira says he saw a 30 percent jump in Americans applying for engineering jobs.
"As Canadians, we're not accustomed to seeing Americans want to move to Canada," says Pereira. "They have a perception that Canada is cold. But there is a certain anxiety around the immigration policies and so forth."
"It wasn't like, going on Facebook [saying] I'm done. I'm moving to Canada," Hume says. "It was a little bit more organic." Hume works in artificial intelligence. She is now employee No. 3 at a startup company called Integrate AI, where her title is vice president of product and strategy.
"I had a couple job offers also in the U.S.," says Hume. "And I chose it primarily because it really felt like the right job."
Still, Hume says Trump's election was in the back of her mind. She voted for Hillary Clinton.
"I thought, well, if there's a time to move to Canada, it might as well be now."
Starting Monday, Canada's government says it will streamline the visa process so that international tech workers can get a work permit in just two weeks — compared to a complicated process in the U.S. that can take months.
"For us to compete globally, we need to be open," says Navdeep Bains, Canada's minister of innovation, science and economic development.
"We do believe it does give us a competitive advantage."
And then there’s:
Liberty moves north. Canada’s example to the world, The Economist - Oct 29 2016
The man who put up $1.5 million to save 200 Syrian refugees, Toronto Life -  Dec. 20, 2016
Google Opens Montreal AI Lab in Global Race for Scarce Talent, WIRED - Nov. 21, 2016
Canada CEOs Urge Trudeau to Take Rejected U.S. Tech Workers, Bloomberg - Jan. 30, 2017
Ontario to help kids whose medical treatment is affected by Trump Travel Ban. Globe and Mail -  Feb. 03, 2017
If you're upset with the election results, Canada is making it easy to move there if you work in tech, Business Insider Nov. 9, 2016
Canada's immigration website crashes on election night, CTV - Nov. 8, 2016
Google searches for 'How to move to Canada' spike after Trump win, Mashable
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The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 13: Digital Charter or Chart: A Conversation With Teresa Scassa on the Canada Digital Charter
Years of public consultation on Canadian digital policy hit an important milestone last week as Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains released the government’s Digital Charter. Canada’s Digital Charter touches on a wide range of issues, covering everything from universal Internet access to privacy law reform. To help sort through the digital charter and its implications, I’m joined on the podcast this week by Professor Teresa Scassa, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy.
The podcast can be downloaded here and is embedded below. The transcript is posted at the bottom of this post or can be accessed here. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify or the RSS feed. Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod.
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Canada’s Digital Charter Canada’s Digital Charter Represents a Sea Change in Privacy Law, But Several Unaddressed Issues Remain
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The Canadian Press, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains Introduces Digital Charter CBC News, Security, Control Over Personal Data Outlined in Canada’s New Digital Charter FactPointVideo, Trudeau Announces Digital Charter to Fight Fake News, Online Hate
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Michael Geist: This is LawBytes, a podcast with Michael Geist.
Navdeep Bains: We can’t ignore some of these new complex challenges that have emerged. At the heart of these new challenges is the fundamental question of trust. How can Canadians believe in the good of this online world when they’re confronted with a video of 51 innocent people gunned down during prayer in Christchurch and that video goes viral. How can they trust their data will be used to improve their lives when it is used to bombard them with disinformation. Here’s the thing: innovation cannot happen at the expense of privacy and data and personal security. I’m happy today to present Canada’s new digital charter.
Michael Geist: Years of public consultation on Canadian digital policy hit an important milestone last week as Innovation Science and Economic Development minister Navdeep Bains released the Government’s Digital charter. Touching on a wide range of issues, Canada’s digital charter features 10 guiding principles: universal access, safety and security, control and consent, transparency portability and interoperability, open and modern digital government, a level playing field, data and digital for good, strong democracy, freedom from hate and violent extremism, and finally strong enforcement and real accountability. To help sort through the digital charter and its implications, I’m joined on the podcast this week by Professor Teresa Scassa a friend and colleague at the University of Ottawa. Professor Scassa holds the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy. She writes frequently on information and data issues at her Web site at teresascassa.ca, appears regularly in the media and before House of Commons committees and serves on several key advisory boards and panels including Waterfront Toronto’s Digital Strategy Advisory Panel and the newly created federal A.I. Advisory Council.
Michael Geist: Teresa, welcome to the podcast.
Teresa Scassa: Thank you for having me.
Michael Geist: It’s great to have you. So we’re recording this at the end of a week in which the innovation science and economic development minister Navdeep Bains has been off selling the digital charter in Toronto and Montreal. It’s been in the news regularly and so I want to talk a bit about the charter and I guess consider whether or not Canadians ought to be buying what the Minister’s been selling. What do we start with a little bit of background though. What is the digital charter.
CBC News: The Federal Government is launching a new digital charter to protect, they say, Canadians personal data. Ottawa is promising changes to federal privacy laws to give Canadians more control over their personal information when it’s collected by technology companies. The government laid out a series of principles today they say will guide changes to the Privacy Act. The changes will also include penalties and fines for tech and social media companies that breach the new privacy law. So does that mean the government will start fining Facebook right away. When can Canadians expect these new protections to kick in?
Teresa Scassa: The digital charter is built around 10 principles that are intended to guide the government’s digital strategy going forward. So so they called it a digital charter. They’ve they’ve set out these principles and. And. Yeah. And that’s that’s essentially what it is. And the principles are are somewhat broad principles. But the I guess the issue you hear the hesitation my voice the issue I have with the digital charter is that I don’t like the word the use of the word charter in there because I would see it. I would call it a digital chart. It’s a roadmap right. It’s here are some principles that are guiding us as we develop policy. And that’s fine. And there are interesting principles and they will shape or guide policy but a charter is the charter is a document that confers rights and entitlements and often those are actionable rights. And so there are things in this digital charter that maybe should be rights but aren’t there just principles like Canadians should have universal access not Canadians have a right to access. Right. So so you know it may sound a little bit like quibbling but I think that if we’re serious about ff something like a charter articulating the basic rights that Canadians should have in a digital society. This isn’t the document. This is a roadmap to developing digital digital strategies digital policy. And it may be an interesting roadmap but it’s not a charter.
Michael Geist: This is a really interesting perspective. So it’s a road map or a charter it sometimes has almost a checklist. Yeah kind of feel on a whole sort of issues including universal access and the privacy issues and open government and those sorts of things so given that it is not that charter in the sense that one might typically think of something conferring rights. I take it this is a bit more aspirational in terms of where were they where the government says they could be going as opposed to resulting in something immediate.
Navdeep Bains: It’s going to be very difficult to pass any legislation at this point. What we’ve done is proposed policies and changes to the privacy legislation that we’d like to implement in a timely manner. Clearly there is very limited runway in the legislative agenda for this session. So the hope is for putting in our platform and also in the next mandate as well if we’re fortunate enough to earn the trust of Canadians.
Teresa Scassa: It’s almost like a political platform. Given that an election is six months. It’s it’s basically saying this is this is what we’re thinking where we’d like to go. These are the you know the values that will underpin what we���re going to do in terms of digital strategy and so all of that’s well and good. And. you know and I think it’s it’s good to set those out so but that’s what it has the feel of. I mean there are things in there that that aren’t new. Again the concept of universal access how long have we’ve been talking about universal access in Canada. How long have we been talking about. Well you mentioned privacy but privacy isn’t actually one of the principles. Control or consent is a principle. Better enforcement of all rights not just the privacy rights is a principle but there isn’t actually a principle that says that talks about privacy as a as a right. It’s it’s about aspects of data protection essentially.
Michael Geist: Oh that’s right. What do we actually go there and talk a bit about the privacy side which is which was certainly one of the aspects of the chart or charter that included a full background paper and the Minister has been talking quite a lot about it. So obviously got a fair amount of attention. Knowing the Privacy Commissioner of Canada was out speaking this week also had major privacy conference and was talking about the need for a rights based framework. Do you have the sense that the minister that the minister and the government are on the same page as where the privacy commissioner wants to go?
Teresa Scassa: No no. I think that what we have in the document from ISED about reforming paper essentially is is a discussion of the reform of a data protection statute. It’s data protection reform it’s not a human rights based approach to privacy or to digital rights more generally it is. It is a set of reforms to data protection laws and that may sound like a subtle distinction but I do think I do think it’s it’s an interesting and important one. We don’t actually have a right to a broad right of privacy that’s contained in that in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms there’s a right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure so there’s a search and seizure related privacy right that comes up in a number of different contexts mostly related to law enforcement. There’s been some discussion around whether the right to life liberty and security the person has a privacy dimension but it’s not extensive. If there is one and so we don’t have sort of a broader right or a set of principles around privacy.
Teresa Scassa: One of the things that I think is interesting and I and I find entirely absent from this and not just this but other kind of data protection oriented things is is this is the is any addressing of the issue of surveillance. Individuals to a completely unprecedented extent or being exposed to surveillance both by the private sector. We hear a lot about surveillance capitalism and surveillance in the context of smart cities but there is just a massive data collection which is a form of private sector surveillance. And the part that doesn’t ever get talked about a great deal is the extent to which government has back channels into all of that private sector data and can carry out various forms of surveillance using those back channels for access and I’m not saying they’re gonna illicit back channels but they can get you know judicial authority authorizations or warrants and there have been disputes in the past about whether they need warrants for access to some of that information. But there are routes by which government can access the massive amounts of data in the hands of the private sector and some of those channels are set up very explicitly in the data protection laws and these are the exceptions to the requirements for consent. And so you know I think this is a part of data protection how it gets ignored which is that these exceptions to consent expand and the channels and the routes are there and the amount of data that’s being collected by the private sector expand and we never really talk about what we need to do to what kind of frameworks we need and place what kind of additional protections we need in place to manage the significant changes in both the volume of data in the hands of the private sector and the interest in government and having access to it. And I do think that we need to be thinking about that.
Teresa Scassa: So you know if you want to talk about our human rights based approach to to. Privacy legislation. I’d like to see a right to be free from unjustified surveillance. And then I’d like to see what that looks like in practical terms. So this is something I think that we don’t see in the digital charter and we don’t see it in this discussion about PIPEDA and it doesn’t get talked about a great deal but I do think it is a very significant issue and one that will I think have continue to have or may have greater ramifications for example when you get data.
Teresa Scassa: When we get more standardized data for example open banking and standardized financial information it’s gonna be very tempting for governments to to. To analyze large volumes of data looking for red flags or looking for patterns in the way that they now get tower dump warrants for example and and look for things within the data that they collect. And again that’s data from the private sector. So that’s a little bit of a side issue it’s not in any of these documents but to me I think this is something that we don’t talk about enough and we don’t think about enough and it’s it’s the relationship between all of that private sector data and government and how we are going to manage that relationship in a way that that that that is in the public interest. But that also protects our rights.
Michael Geist: That’s an interesting perspective and it strikes me that this document particularly the privacy background stuff not only does not address that issue but it’s focused primarily on private sector and presumably the minister would say well that’s where my constitutional responsibilities are but whether we’re talking about the political parties and the ongoing gap there or even the Privacy Act which they have also said that we’re prepared to take a look at after decades of really not doing very much the focal point in terms of saying we’re going to modernize these rules is almost entirely private sector focused without really looking internally at the government itself.
Teresa Scassa: Yeah. And I do think that’s really I think that’s really important because the two are now very very closely linked and in so many different ways. And you and you can see the the interaction of public and private sector again in things like Sidewalk Toronto where there’s you know there’s an increasing overlap between the things that government do and the things that the private sector do and the things that they do together and and data caught in between and so I think this is becoming more and more of a challenging issue. And so it’s true. You mentioned political parties I mean there’s that there’s a little bit in the statement about the or the document about the reform of PIPEDA that talks about how it might be necessary to look at whether the application of PIPEDA needs to be changed because there are more and more non-profit organizations that are engaged in data collection. And I was reading that and I thought this would be a place to mention political parties but they’re not there, whether they’re nonprofit organs they fall under that umbrella of non-profit organizations that we need to think about or look about. Look look at whether it’s meant to fall under that I don’t know but it’s not there in any explicit term.
Michael Geist: And that’s you know it’s been difficult to get governments of all political stripes to focus internally once they get into office. It seems like making changes whether it’s on the access information side or on the privacy side is far more challenging. And I suppose it’s easier to get other people to to measure up and even that’s been difficult in terms of PIPEDA reform. When I think of the early stages of PIPEDA it talked about trying to strike a balance. Business considerations and the like and that was the way we understood business and e-commerce back in the 1990s and we clearly have some different conceptions and different models today. Can you talk a bit about some of the kinds of things the government is talking about from an updating perspective and perhaps are welcome but that are open and perhaps even long overdue in terms of some of the changes they’re trying to make.
Teresa Scassa: Yeah. And I think the government has taken a serious look at at some of the challenges the need for modernization there are things in here that look a little bit like some of the things that are in the the famous GDPR that everybody’s talking about. And so for example there are some of the interesting things I mean there is there’s talk about things like data portability although it’s referred to as data mobility and that’s the idea of it’s partly data it’s data protection in the sense of giving individuals more control over their data. But it also I think is linked to both consumer protection and competition law. So it’s one of those things that’s a little bit broader in terms of its scope and the idea is that individuals would be able to take their data from one company and bring it to a new company entering the market that that will then be able to with that data be able to offer them comparable a comparable level of customized service for example. And so so there’s some discussion of data mobility it’s interesting it’s a little bit different from the GDPR in that they’re not talking about data in machine readable format but talking about data in standardized format which is a little bit different and maybe a little bit more case by case industry by industry. And so. So that’s interesting. So data mobility is one aspect there’s some discussion of.
Teresa Scassa: There’s a little bit of discussion about the right to be forgotten but they’re not going there fully because there’s a court case before the Federal Court of Canada but. But it’s. That this might be something that reputational rights and linked to that the right to have information deleted for individuals asked that their information be deleted which is a dimension of that. There’s some discussion about algorithmic. Well I was gonna say algorithmic transparency but perhaps a right to explanation of automated decision making. And so again that’s something I think that people are concerned about and interested in. There’s also discussion about making changes to the rules around consent in a variety of different ways to try and make individual control over personal data more manageable so both reducing the amount of information that’s pushed at consumers and making it more accessible and easy to understand but also providing other other means by which individuals can manage their personal information and there’s some you know there’s some interesting stuff also about relying on standards and data trusts and other sorts of mechanisms to allow for management of personal information. So there’s quite a lot of stuff in there and I think it’s all thoughtful and these are you know these are directions that we need to be thinking about in terms of data protection. But that’s a lot. There’s a lot.
Michael Geist: There is, I mean a lot of this really would would significantly change some of the approaches that we’ve had in the past and some of some of the kinds of things around algorithms and data mobility or portability feel pretty responsive to both open banking or some of the emerging business models that are out there. The changes to consent of caught some people’s attention and not in a good way made people think consent is the bedrock of what privacy laws are supposed to look like and this one seems to suggest that at least the government here is suggesting and consent isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. You’re always looking for consent in every instance and a lot of people are effectively consenting to things and have no real idea what they’re consenting to. What’s your thoughts on on shifting towards more transparency and better ways of managing one’s data without necessarily saying that it’s got to be consent in every situation.
Michael Geist: I mean frankly I think consent is broken the way it’s currently dealt with under in practice and under the legislation. I mean nobody can manage. Nobody has the time or the energy to manage information. And you know and in fact so many services are tied to consent. Right. You can’t proceed to get the service unless you agree to the terms and conditions and the privacy policy so that it’s not even a free choice if you actually you need to do something. You need to agree to the form it’s not like you get to negotiate it. So consent with respect to what’s happening to personal information I think becomes really quite meaningless in those contacts. So there’s. something in there that talks about taking consent out of contracts for the services which is interesting so separating the agreement to the service and the agreement to privacy that’s that’s an interesting development. And so I don’t see this as being negative with respect to consent if it’s not working right now and if people are consenting left and right as you say to anything just to get access to the service or just because there’s simply too much of a burden to manage all of this and frankly then you have to read the privacy policies and understand them and it’s that’s you know that’s not an easy thing to do. So I think that finding ways to make consent more manageable and to reduce the burden on individuals I think is important.
Michael Geist: And it’s interesting I think we’re gonna end up with quite a battle there certainly from some who say you can’t you simply can’t abandon that model although I’m inclined to agree that too often the consent models feel completely illusory.
Teresa Scassa: Yeah.
Michael Geist: You’re consenting as a matter of course without reading it’s certainly not an informed consent. And we’ve seen that play out a number of times. Say even with the anti spam legislation where suddenly people were inundated with messages from organizations where they were purported to obtain some form of consent that was consistent with where the law was at. And it turned out that most people weren’t even aware that someone had ever thought that they’d given it that kind of consent. So once people were actually made aware of it. So hold on a second. This might try to find new mechanisms to ensure that people’s perspectives or views are better reflected in terms of how their information is managed which perhaps holds some promise.
Teresa Scassa: It does hold some promise and there’s there’s discussion in the document about it increase expanding the areas for example where fines can be levied so on the enforcement side and consent is specifically mentioned for one of those so if if consent is obtained. To the or if an individual is sharing information but doesn’t consent to certain uses and the information is used for those purposes anyway or disclosed it without the consent then there may actually be the potential to to address that with fines which would certainly strengthen them which would strengthen the consent that’s being given because as you say right now you know whether what happens. I mean there’s two things. One is we may be consenting the vision of what we’re consenting to may be quite different from the reality of what we’ve consented to and that’s one problem. So that you actually have technically agreed to a whole range of disclosures that you didn’t mean to agree to. But there’s also the situation where you know you go in and you actually take the time to fix your privacy default settings and do all of this and then you find out after the fact that the information was used for purposes that you didn’t agree to. And there’s not much recourse except right now a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner which will lead to a series of findings that say that shouldn’t have happened.
Michael Geist: Right. I’m glad you raised the issue of enforcement and would feel sometimes like the futility of filing complaints when all you’re left with is well-founded finding and starting from scratch at the federal court if you want something more. The government has emphasized the enforcement.
CBC News: How will what you’re proposing be enforced. What kind of penalties will your government establish.
Navdeep Bains: That was a key part of the changes that I talked about today. It was really about strong enforcement so significant and meaningful penalties maybe a percentage of revenue and we’re gonna be looking at other jurisdictions as well. We’re also going to be looking at how two companies even collect data or revenue and if they do not follow the privacy laws in this country we’re going to make it difficult for them not only to collect the revenue but collect data as well and this sends a very clear signal signal that enforcement is very important part of the changes that were proposing.
Michael Geist: It seems to me that part of that may be driven by the news cycle and the recent Cambridge Analytica Facebook set of findings from the B.C. and Federal Privacy Commissioner in which Facebook response to those findings was well thanks but we’re not really that interested. And so the government now says we’re talking about real enforcement in fact I think I’ve heard Navdeep Bains talk about potentially global revenues and sort of modelling on the European approach and even talked about 5 percent I think in one interview which would suggest even higher than what we see out of Europe. What’s your what’s your view generally on our ability to get large global platforms to pay attention to Canadian privacy law and is the lack of enforcement one of the challenge room the real challenges we faced.
Teresa Scassa: Yeah I think lack of enforcement has generally has been a challenge across the board not just with large platforms but but right across the board and in fact you know it may be even more acute with you know medium to smaller businesses in the sense that a lot of the large platforms are now paying attention to the GDPR and GDPR compliance and are at not just platforms but any large company in Canada that does business across borders is going to be you know raising their standards to the most stringent standards which are currently GDPR. And so we’ll probably benefit indirectly from from that. So I do think. But I do think that having stricter stronger enforcement measures not only will encourage greater compliance with the legislation because frankly if there isn’t really a consequence to not complying then why would you go to the expense of complying. And there is an expense there. So I think that that should make that should make a difference and I think it also may help with a general sense of futility and disempowerment among the broader population when it comes to when it comes to privacy the sense that you know people want if something goes wrong people want and they have a statute that says this is how it’s supposed to be. You know if nothing happens if there are no consequences then that’s actually I think extremely disheartening and discouraging and this document talks about trust and the importance of building trust and this idea that Canadians are going to need to be able to trust when they share these enormous quantities of personal information with companies that that that it is being dealt with appropriately so I do think the enforcement piece is appropriate there how much of a difference it will actually make people know that Facebook and other large companies are being fined left and right in Europe and and in the United States so we’ll see how much impact that has on changing things I think it will have. I think it will slowly have an impact.
Teresa Scassa: That’s an excellent point. It’s really this notion between the large global platforms and the SMEs. I was reading I think was just this morning a piece in TheLogic, a digital publication focusing on the innovation economy in Canada, that was reflecting on the collision conference that took place in Toronto and they had asked a lot of CEOs and others about the charter and specifically about the privacy reforms and the response was actually exactly what you just raised. Those that are playing in a global environment said we’re already focused on GDPR like requirements and those enforcement measures. And so as long as the Canadian rules are kind of sufficiently similar or at least recognizable based on the kinds of obligations we face globally this isn’t anything particularly new. But some of the SMEs that pay far less attention potentially to some of these rules. This these may be game changers in terms of the kinds of things they’re required to do.
Teresa Scassa: Yeah that’s right. And you know it’s always been whenever PIPEDA reform has come up in the past and it’s come up so many times. It’s always been this idea that it was going to have too much of a negative effect on business. And I think SMEs were a big part of that that it that it was going to have this and that it was simply going to be too costly and was going to harm business because the cost of compliance would not be feasible. Now I think the cost of non-compliance is going up. We’re seeing more and more class action lawsuits for example in Canada a really rapidly growing number of class action lawsuits in Canada over data breaches and other mishandling of personal information. So you know I think that yes there are the costs of non-compliance are there and are growing not just. It’s not just all about PIPEDA. It’s what’s also happening in other contexts too.
Michael Geist: I think that’s right. One of the other things that’s happening right now of course isn’t just the privacy side and one of things that was notable I think about the way even this charter was launched was prime minister started talking about it even before Navdeep Bains did and his point of emphasis wasn’t on the privacy side to a significant extent at all it was more focused on dealing with concerns surrounding hate online and extremism.
Justin Trudeau: Here’s the reality. People are losing trust in digital institutions for a whole host of reasons. They’re anxious about the future of tech and the future of data from emotional contagion experiments to major privacy breaches. These concerns are absolutely valid.
Michael Geist: We’ve seen a big shift in terms of the government talking points on this and clearly the Prime Minister’s interests on this. Can you talk a bit about what the charter has to say about regulating social media companies or finding ways to deal with the harms online in a way that we at least up until recently hadn’t seen our government talking about.
Teresa Scassa: Yeah and it’s interesting that this has become you know this. This has also captured so much attention and you know I find it interesting also that the focus is on hate and extremism and I think you know those are important things to be addressing. So I don’t mean to diminish that at all. There’s also the whole disinformation and other sorts of toxic behaviours online. There’s those raised some really big challenges and they raise challenges I think that are going to you know bring us sharply up against freedom of expression values on the one hand and on the other hand they’re also going to raise questions about how we’re actually going to do this. And you see this a little bit in the right to be forgotten. Because it’s one thing to talk about a right to be forgotten in the privacy context and then when you’re going to implement it. I mean there’s a whole you. There’s you almost have, you have to turn to the platforms and it’ll be the same thing with dealing with hate and extremism and misinformation is there is going to have to be some sort of relationship with the platforms in order to deal with that or to manage it. And so I think that it’s going to be interesting to see how that that’s not going to be easy.
Michael Geist: No it’s not. We’ve seen some jurisdictions that may not have charter like rules take pretty aggressive positions in terms of the kinds of expectations they have for some of these platforms or intermediaries. Let’s take action against this kind of content. It was striking that one country that sort of stayed to the sidelines a little bit in the United States at least with the recent efforts post Christchurch. Part of that may be the companies are based there but part of it quite clearly is that they’ve got First Amendment rights there that may find themselves quickly conflicting with some of the expectations that we see bubbling up. I think you’re right to raise the charter. Canada, at least this Government, has moved itself more and more towards the more aggressive approach, at least in terms of some of the rhetoric but we still do have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms here that may significantly constrain our ability to at least mandate certain kinds of actions.
Teresa Scassa: Yeah. And I think I mean I think I do think Canada has been maybe better at finding a balance and more open to finding a balance and I think that the the way in which our charter is drafted for example it does explicitly contain equality rights provisions and you know I think that the charter itself demands doesn’t put one right above another and demands a balance as well. So I do think that that may provide a different constitutional context but it’s it will be challenging and and it’ll be particularly challenging because it’s I think it’s going to be hard especially when you’re talking about the major platforms it’s going to be hard to do things on a piecemeal country specific basis. The global issues are going to be extremely complex because the message. You know it’s one thing if the message is coming from Canada and you know that that makes it a lot easier than if the message is coming from another country. So you know I think the global dimensions are going to make this incredibly challenging.
Michael Geist: Yeah I mean we think the Equustek case of course in Canada raised this issue of Canadian court orders applying outside of our jurisdiction. And you quickly devolved to a place where if every country gets to say these are the standards that we want to see applied to access to certain kinds of content and our expectation is full scale moderation by the large platforms you’re throwing out or losing a whole lot of freedom of expression along the way and media and finding places that may not have the same kind of cultural considerations or legal rules or safeguards in place started doing decisions for countries to do.
Teresa Scassa: Yeah. And then of course who are who are the the very low paid moderate haters who are reviewing the content and where are they located and you know what values influenced them and what kind of conditions are they working in and you know in some of that of course may shift to AI. But then you’ve got all of the you know. So this is this. This will be this is not gonna be solved overnight. And it’s not gonna be solved without controversy controversy either. But but but there you know there are really important issues and I think they’re becoming even more critical as we move forward. But yeah that that’s going to be tough.
Michael Geist: It is. I mean it feels like that’s the case for a lot of these issues here. I mean I come back to this description of here’s a chart where there was a lot of different things raised. There isn’t an immediacy to make changes in some instances in part because as you’ve mentioned we’re in an election year and so the clock has effectively run out on full legislative change and even something beyond that is less than legislation is still difficult. I’d be remiss before we close if I didn’t pick up on you just had a little brief reference to A.I. and that’s been one of the focal points in this as well and certainly of this government, which has made significant investments in A.I. and talked more and more about A.I. policy. You’ve been named as a member of the new A.I. Advisory Council one of our colleagues Ian Kerr another member of that council. Any thoughts on the role either the council or perhaps more broadly if it’s still early days there that Canada can play when it comes to some of these A.I. policies that in some ways raise some of the same kinds of global challenges.
Teresa Scassa: Yeah and I think it is early days so so there’s not a lot that I could say about the council itself. But I do think that there there are really two pieces one is the role that Canada can play internationally in influencing and in helping to develop approaches and ethical approaches and ethical guidelines and standards for artificial intelligence and sort of more global norms around the circumstances in which AI should or should not be used. And so there’s that international but there’s a domestic role as well. And I think that you know for example the government recently put in place its directive on automated decision making in the federal government which is a really interesting document. And there’s a great deal of thought went into it. And it’s meant to do to to guide and to shape how automated decision making will take place in government and we’re kidding we’re kidding ourselves if we’re if we think that that’s not already happening and that it’s not going to continue to happen and grow on a on a more significant scale. And that’s just the federal government we’ve got all of our provincial governments who are also you know looking at automated decision making and variety of forms so it’s here, it��s affecting our lives. There’s the whole private sector piece as well. So I know that the AI advisory council of course is not going to touch on what provincial governments do or any of that sort of thing. But but I think there is a tremendous amount of change that is happening and impacts that we are going to experience as a society. And and we need to be thinking about how we’re how we’re going to manage those changes how we’re going to to develop equitable fair processes and protocols whether the decision making is coming from government or from the private sector it’s going to have significant impacts in our lives. So yeah there’s a there’s no shortage of work to do on the side as well.
Michael Geist: No there’s not. Well you know I think I speak for a lot of people in a way grateful that you’re on that council and grateful for the the work you’ve been doing on these challenges whether it’s through your blog and your research and the writing that you’ve done. Thanks so much for joining us on the panel.
Teresa Scassa: Thank you.
Michael Geist: That’s the Law Bytes podcast for this week. If you have comments suggestions or other feedback, write to lawbytes.com. That’s lawbytes at pobox.com. Follow the podcast on Twitter at @lawbytespod or Michael Geist at @mgeist. You can download the latest episodes from my Web site at Michaelgeist.ca or subscribe via RSS, at Apple podcast, Google, or Spotify. The LawBytes Podcast is produced by Gerardo LeBron Laboy. Music by the Laboy brothers: Gerardo and Jose LeBron Laboy. Credit information for the clips featured in this podcast can be found in the show notes for this episode at Michaelgeist.ca. I’m Michael Geist. Thanks for listening and see you next time.
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JFL Northwest comedy profiles – Jon Dore
Jon Dore plays the Comedy Mix as part of JFL Northwest.
Jon Dore is one of Canada’s most successful comedy exports. The Ottawa-born, L.A.-based comic is a regular on the late-night talk show circuit and the host of Funny As Hell on the Movie Network. Other credits include The Jon Dore Television Show (The Comedy Network,  2007-2009),the ABC-TV series How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life), and appearances on Live At Gotham, How I Met Your Mother and Inside Amy Schumer. Feature film credits include the indie drama Gus, and the comedy film Stag.
Dore, whose unique bait-and-switch comedic style has made him a favourite on the comedy club and festival circuit in Canada and the U.S., appears at the Comedy Mix Feb. 24 & 25 as part of the JFL Northwest comedy festival. We talked to the comedian about funny cities, Google searches and his favourite band.
Q: You did a show called A Dore to Winnipeg, about your adventures in the city. Do you think some cities are funnier than others?
A: You know what, I haven’t given it a lot of thought. But impulsively, in the moment right now, I’d have to say yeah – I think some cities are funnier than others. Winnipeg is kind of a funny city, for a lot of reasons. Even the geography of it, the fact that it’s in the middle of nowhere, the fact that the infrastructure is very strange. When we made that documentary – mockumentary, actually – we tried to expose all of the grey, dark weird things about Winnipeg. It was springtime when we shot the documentary, but of course there was still snow so we found the snowiest place we could find to introduce the documentary and announced that “It’s springtime in Winnipeg.” You can have fun with the city, and I think people in Winnipeg have a great sense of humour, and I love going there. So yeah – some cities are funnier than others. Some take themselves more seriously than others.
Jon Dore braving springtime in Winnipeg.
Q: In what ways is Vancouver funny?
A: I don’t know if I’ve thought of it…
Q: Coffee, rain, mountains, snowboarding, Australians in Whistler…
A: I find it to be kind of a serious city. I don’t know if I find Vancouver that funny!
Q: Where do you get your Canadian news from down there in Los Angeles?
A: Every day I Google “news Canada.” It’s my first search of the day.
Q: How often does any of this stuff make it into your stand-up?
A: It doesn’t really. I guess if something strange pops up. It was kind of towards the end of the year, but when Castro died and people were aggressively going after (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau for his eulogy, there was enough going on there where I was able to work that in. But it’s mostly to stay up-to-date and see what’s going on in Canada.
Q: What are some of the things you’re going to be talking about when you come to Vancouver?
A: I really don’t know. I’m excited about it but I’m also a little nervous about it in a way. Definitely I’ll probably touch on a little bit of Trump, but I wouldn’t say that would be the focus at all.
I had an accident in December, and I’m still kind of recovering from it. I’ll probably talk about my visit to the hospital in America, insisting that I’m supplied the proper amount of opioids for my pain. It was a bizarre experience. I was playing poker and I fainted and I cracked a bone in my neck. The best way to describe it as probably Jimmy Stewart from Rear Window, trapped in my house nursing an injury and looking at the outside world, and coming to conclusions about life. I’m certain about a lot of things now. I’m certain that the Stone Roses are the greatest band ever. I feel like I was a mystic who went into a cave and observed the world and came to conclusions about subjective truths.
Q: That must’ve been one helluva poker game.
A: Yeah. My nickname’s “The Big Flop” now, so that’s not good.
Q: Was it you and a bunch of comedians?
A: It was me and a bunch of writers from Hollywood that I’m friends with. I can’t really say anymore than I was at a guy’s house. Just a bunch of friends playing poker, and I kind of went down. They had to call an ambulance and everything. I’d just come off the road from a bunch of touring. I probably just stretched myself to my limits. I have no memory of it. I passed out and woke up in a hospital.
Q: You mentioned your first Google search of the day is Canadian news. What would the second be?
A: I don’t know if there is a second thing. I think I go down the rabbit hole. Whatever Canadian news links me to. My second search is “news.” It used to be “Gord Downie” (lead singer of Canadian band the Tragically Hip; Downie has been diagnosed with incurable brain cancer) to see if there are any more solo shows coming up.
Q: Did you catch any of the Tragically Hip shows on their last tour?
A: I caught three of them. One in Victoria, one in Toronto, one in Kingston. I got to see friends in every city. I thought it was beautiful, just magical. I loved it.
Q: Do you have a favourite of the three?
A: The one in Toronto, on a Friday, was just so great. The band was not only tight but Gord was really with it. The show in Victoria was almost too emotional and overwhelming, almost too heavy. Then, with that Toronto show, I felt like, This guy’s on it. He can do a thousand more shows. That was the show where I really romanticized the idea of the Hip and what they mean to me. They’ve been my favourite band since I was in the ninth grade.
For tickets to Jon Dore and a full JFL Northwest schedule, visit jflnorthwest.com.
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