Canada
Canadian government funds plan to combat online “disinformation”
New censorship demands.
Canada’s Conservative leadership hopeful Leslyn Lewis vows to end “WEF travel program” and digital IDs
One of the few speaking out.
Canada faces call to scrap vaccine passport app after elderly man without a smartphone is threatened with fine
Canada’s attack on civil liberties continues.
Hate “expert” dismisses free speech as a “rallying call for the far-right”
“I think it was really amplified by the emergence of the alt-right in particular.”
After extending the vaccine passport program, Canada threatens fines for those that don’t use it
Forced to use controversial app.
Canada’s Heritage Minister panel: unregulated speech “erodes the foundations of democracy”
Apparently, free speech is somehow antithetical to democracy.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police used smartphone malware to spy on targets
A breach of rules.
Bill Gates tells governments to invest in technologies for “payment and ID systems”
More central control.
Canada’s government funds booklet that teaches kids to be suspicious of “free speech” support
Turning kids away from classic values.
Canada’s government tracked citizens through a federal weather app
Users weren’t aware that data was being collected.
Canada’s ArriveCAN app introduced for Covid could be made permanent, government suggests
Least surprising news ever.