Charlie Angus🟧 on Bluesky

The #elbowsup / resistance tour is on the road.

MediaSmarts on Bluesky

If you believed in house hippos, you’re not alone! Anyone can fall for misinformation – that's why fact-checking matters.

In an election, it’s more important than ever to check before you share. Learn how at www.breakthefake.ca

#BreaktheFake #AprilFools #househippo

Public Commenting Period Now Open

The Digital Governance Standards Institute (DGSI) is pleased to announce the opening of a 60-day public review period for CAN/DGSI 128: Machine Learning and AI Implementation in Research Institutions. This draft National Standard of Canada establishes minimum requirements for the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies across Canada’s universities, research centers, libraries, and archives.

As AI-driven tools increasingly shape the way research institutions store, analyze, and distribute information, this standard provides essential guidance on ethical AI use, data governance, research security, and long-term sustainability. It outlines best practices to help institutions integrate AI and ML while ensuring that research integrity, transparency, and accessibility are protected.

The draft standard addresses key concerns such as:

• Preserving information and data integrity to prevent AI-driven distortions, misclassification, or deletion of vital research data.
• Ensuring metadata and context preservation to maintain the integrity of research materials and historical archives.
• Promoting informed and principled access to AI-enhanced research tools while respecting intellectual property, cultural data sovereignty, and ethical guidelines.
• Defining sustainability requirements to mitigate environmental impacts of AI technologies within research institutions.
• Ensuring transparency in AI decision-making processes, including bias mitigation and proper human oversight.

How to Participate

The draft standard is now available for public review, and DGSI welcomes comments and insights until May 19th, 2025. Stakeholders can submit feedback via the DGSI website or click on the interactive tab and provide your comments right in the draft standard.

Get involved

The DGSI’s development process is collaborative and open to all, and anyone interested in contributing to the development of digital governance standards is encouraged to get involved. For more information on how to participate, contact:

Darryl Kingston

Executive Director

Digital Governance Standards Institute

The image is an infographic titled "The Liberal's Broken Promise: Electoral Reform" that displays a vertical timeline with colored dots and information boxes chronicling electoral reform events in Canada.

The timeline shows six key events:

1. June 2015 (pink dot): Campaign Promise - Justin Trudeau pledges: "We are committed to ensuring the 2015 election will be the last election using first-past-the-post."

2. October 2015 (blue dot): Election Victory - Liberals win a majority government with 39.5% of the popular vote, securing 184 seats (54% of the House of Commons).

3. June 2016 (light blue dot): Special Committee Created - The Electoral Reform Committee (ERRE) is established to study options. The committee conducts consultations across Canada.

4. December 2016 (red dot): Committee Recommendations - The ERRE recommends proportional representation. 88% of electoral experts consulted favoured proportional representation.

5. February 2017 (blue dot): Promise Abandoned - PM Trudeau abandons electoral reform, claiming "no consensus" despite clear committee recommendations and public consultations.

6. October 2024 (black dot): Looking Back - Trudeau admits he should have "immediately shut down talk about proportional representation" and that Liberals were "deliberately vague."

Below the timeline is a "Key Statistics" box showing:

• 63% of voters cast ballots for parties promising electoral reform
• 80% of town hall participants asked for proportional representation
• 71% wanted parties to govern together

The infographic includes a Creative Commons license icon in the bottom left corner and a QR code in the bottom right. The footer cites sources: House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform, Fair Vote Canada, Policy Options.

NDP🟧 on Bluesky

New Democrats will always show up for you—just as you've shown up for us.

New Democrats secured dental care, pharmacare, anti-scab legislation, and more because what we're all about: delivering programs that change people's lives.

And Jagmeet is ready to fight for more.

Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 on Bluesky

The far-right hijacked the GOP and gained power in the U.S. thanks to first-past-the-post.

Proportional representation prevents hostile takeovers—no group gets outsized influence without real voter support.

#cdnpoli #Election2025

Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ on Bluesky

Pierre Poilievre once said politicians shouldn’t stay in office for life. That was 1999. It’s 2025—he’s still here, with the same angry rhetoric and no results. Now he wants to kill public media and silence journalists. What’s he so afraid of? #SaveTheCBC #CdnPoli #Canada

"Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation... Therefore, I would institute a limit of two terms for members of Parliament" - Pierre Poilievre 1990

Green Party of Canada | Parti Vert du Canada🟢 on Bluesky

Today we celebrate our loved ones in the trans community! Joy is essential to resistance.

Greens will continue to show up at Pride, to fight against hate, bigotry and transphobia, to protect trans kids, and to keep advocating for trans rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

The Walrus on Bluesky

There are over a hundred Green parties around the world, but the only country in which they’ve ever held actual power is Germany. Still, it’s never wise to write the Greens off entirely, notes @arnokopecky.bsky.social. thewalrus.ca/the-withering-of...

Jagmeet Singh🟧 on Bluesky

While Trump threatens health care, Canadian provinces are stepping up to bring in US doctors and nurses.

Doctors from overseas should be allowed to work from coast-to-coast-to coast. The NDP is focused on expanding health care for all Canadians—because everyone deserves care, not chaos.

APTN News on Bluesky

Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault was in Whitehorse on Monday where he announced the party's new plan to tackle national defence.

Green Party announces plan to tackle national defence at northern campaign stop | APTN News

Jagmeet Singh🟧 on Bluesky

More New Democrats in Ottawa means YOU are better off.

With 25 of us, we fought for the biggest expansion of health care in a generation. We brought you dental care and pharma care.

These are concrete things that improve people’s lives.

If you elect New Democrats, we will fight every day for you.