@Polymarket:
JUST IN: Utah residents sue officials to block Kevin O’Leary’s Stratos data center project.
@writerartisteh.bsky.social:
Cdns should not have been bullied into AI without voice.
@ssteingraber1.bsky.social:
So this happened last night:
The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on data centers. All eyes on Kathy Hochul.
Canadian Cynic @canadiancynic.bsky.social:
Oh, look … Mark Carney is exactly the kind of narcissistic, neo-con asshole I (and others) have been saying all this time.
It’s time for any remaining principled Liberal MPs to walk away from that party.
@journodale.bsky.social:
Back when people were floating Carney’s name to replace Trudeau, I’d heard from someone who used to work at the Bank of Canada who said he wouldn’t have the patience for politics because he’s used to being the smartest guy in the room.
This from @althiaraj.bsky.social is not all that surprising.
But seriously—”I don’t want to hear your complaints,” after he made a big song and dance about listening to caucus more than Trudeau did.
Don’t talk to journalists. Don’t write letters that could leak. Punching down at caucus.
We were sold a bill of goods.
@dtcochrane.bsky.social:
Carney’s AI strategy mentions commercializing of our medical data TWICE.
@leeram.bsky.social:
I feel like the major goal is to dismantle democracy worldwide.
The work of the IDU, which Steve Hideous Harper is chair of, is to destroy democracy globally and install authoritarian thugs like Trump and Carney everyfuckingwhere. So far, it’s working terribly well; AI will finish democracy and Canada off, which is why Carney is forcing it on us with such religious lust
@melindamosheim.bsky.social:
i had high hopes for Carney…i am just sooooo sad and angry that he’s completely flipped from alot of the stuff he ran on to get his MP position… i thought Canada would be new global leader leader for democracy…but that’s now been shattered…Carney is a con man, I despise him as much as I despise con woman Smith and her snuggle pal Trump.
Unacceptable. I wrote an email to @mark-carney.bsky.social and @evansolomon.bsky.social. AI has no place in higher education.
@journodale.bsky.social:
“Provide access to trusted AI agents for every post-secondary student – from the arts and commerce to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and medicine.”
I’m pretty sure that nobody who teaches in a post-secondary institution asked for this, and this makes their jobs even harder.
@blairaf.com:
Lots to digest here but one piece that sticks out is the proposed regulatory framework is mostly voluntary and opaque. Hinges on voluntary certification and selective safety partnerships & evaluations behind closed doors without clear public oversight mechanisms
The requirements the government may set on AI companies are unclear and limited in statutory power. They would not be required to disclose any actions, investigations, audits, or evals to the public – this sets up a regulatory regime with limited public oversight & independence from government
The strategy also states that the government will build watermarking capabilities for AI-generated content, but it’s not clear how or if these watermarks will be used. Is the expectation that Canadian AI developers will voluntarily use these watermarking tools without any legal requirement to do so? …
@arterialz.bsky.social:
Also known as : a gift to his oligarchic corporate pals
Selling Canada off in parts, it’s his only consistent policy
@hummingturd.bsky.social:
Did Evan Solomon forget about tumbler ridge already?Solomon and Carney don’t care.
@AlexCosh_:
Yet more secrecy from the Mark Carney government. Make no mistake, he is an authoritarian.
He just does it with a smile and a handshake.
@ahmadelbayoumi:
NEW: The Carney government is considering changes to the Access to Information Act, which governs access to government records.
One proposal would limit requests to “official records” stored in official repositories, while excluding “transitory records.”
Brookfield Launches $100 Billion AI Infrastructure Program
Nov 19, 2025
$100 Billion Investment Program to be Deployed Across the Full AI Value Chain
NVIDIA and KIA Will Each Join the Fund as Investors and Founding Partners
NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Brookfield today announced the launch of a $100 billion global AI Infrastructure program in partnership with NVIDIA and the Kuwait Investment Authority (“KIA”).
Brookfield will anchor the program with the Brookfield Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Fund (“BAIIF” or “the Fund”), which launches today with a target of $10 billion of equity commitments to invest in the backbone of artificial intelligence (“AI”). BAIIF has already received $5 billion of capital commitments from a select group of institutional and industry partners, including Brookfield, NVIDIA and KIA.
BAIIF, together with additional capital from its co-investors and prudent financing, will acquire up to $100 billion of AI infrastructure assets, deploying investment across every stage of the value chain—from energy and land to data centers and compute.
As one of the world’s leading owners and operators of AI infrastructure assets, with over $100 billion already invested in digital infrastructure and clean power, Brookfield is uniquely positioned to deliver integrated infrastructure solutions and critical services required to power the next generation of AI.
Sikander Rashid, Head of AI Infrastructure at Brookfield, said: “AI is creating one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in history, comparable to the formation of the modern power grid and global telecom networks, but unfolding at a far greater pace and significantly larger scale. This buildout will require $7 trillion of capital in the next 10 years across the entire AI value chain including power, compute, data centres, and beyond. We are thrilled to formally launch our dedicated AI program in partnership with NVIDIA and others to deliver this infrastructure at speed, at scale, and to the highest standard for enterprises, technology firms, and sovereign governments.”
“AI is transforming every industry, and like electricity, it will require every nation to build the infrastructure to power it. AI infrastructure demands land, power, and purpose-built supercomputers—and our partnership with Brookfield brings all of these elements together in a ready-to-deploy AI cloud,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “We’re thrilled that Radiant, Brookfield’s AI cloud service, is building an NVIDIA GPU cloud based on the NVIDIA DSX blueprint to deliver Vera Rubin–ready AI infrastructure—fast to deploy and designed to scale with the world’s growing intelligence needs.”
Investing in the Infrastructure Underpinning the Growth of AI
BAIIF will focus on investing in the physical infrastructure assets that underpin the delivery of AI, across four verticals: AI Factories primarily built on NVIDIA’s DSX Vera Rubin-ready reference design; dedicated behind-the-meter power solutions; compute infrastructure including integrated solutions tailored for governments and leading global enterprises; and strategic adjacencies and capital partnerships across the entire AI value chain. BAIIF will prioritize investments backed by highly creditworthy counterparties and contracted cash flows.
Seed Investments
Brookfield recently secured a seed AI infrastructure investment for the Fund with the announcement of a $5 billion framework agreement with Bloom Energy to install up to 1 GW of behind the meter power solutions for data centers and AI factories. Brookfield is launching Radiant, a new NVIDIA Cloud Partner, to provide full-stack AI services leveraging Brookfield’s access to scaled infrastructure, including land, power and data centers around the world. Radiant will build AI factories based on NVIDIA DSX reference design to offer the fastest time to revenues and provide direct support to Brookfield’s Sovereign AI programs. Brookfield has also announced landmark partnerships in France and Sweden to support their national AI ambitions with up to $30 billion of combined AI Infrastructure investment. …
@cascadianprepper.bsky.social:
Never trust a conservative to act like a liberal. They’ll lie to get into power and then they’ll do all the things they said they weren’t going to do. Selling us all down the river
@cascadianprepper.bsky.social:
The only current national AI strategy we should have is regulating the ever living f*** out of it
@valentenya.bsky.social:
Idiot men in suits keep attending meetings where they tell each other “AI is the future and we mustn’t fall behind”.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
Carney is somewhere between Harper and Trump.
Liberal Loophole Will Let Dark Money Fund Election Ads, Critic Warns, “They’re fine with the undemocratic influence of wealthy interests.” by Emma Paling, June 5, 2026, Read The Maple
The Mark Carney government’s new elections-rules bill includes a loophole that will let dark money fund third-party advertisers during future election campaigns, a transparency watchdog says.
“They’re fine with the undemocratic influence of wealthy interests … in Canada’s elections and policy-making processes,” Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch, said of the Liberals.
Bill C-25, the Strong and Free Elections Act, includes a provision regarding third-party groups that advertise during election periods.
The bill will require third parties to make public the identities of their financial donors — unless the third party receives less than 10 per cent of its revenue from contributions in the year before an election.
The loophole will allow wealthy individuals to pour money into third parties right now — because there is no federal election on the horizon — without ever having to disclose that fact to the public, Conacher said.
“One voter could spend millions influencing a federal election, mostly in secret,” Conacher told The Maple.
“If I had millions, I give it to three, four, five, a dozen different groups that I know advocate things I like, and I tell them I want them to use it during the next election and all of their fiscal year ends are the end of June, so I give it to them now.”
“[An] election is called a year and a half from now, and they don’t have to disclose that I’m the source of the millions.”
Conservative MP Michael Cooper tabled an amendment which would have closed the 10 per cent loophole at a committee on May 28.
Liberal MPs Sherry Romanado, Jessica Fancy, Matt Jeneroux, Arielle Kayabaga, Tim Louis and Anita Vandenbeld voted it down.
In an email, a spokesperson for Liberal Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon said the provision was recommended by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada.
Billionaire Funds Third Party
The roles of third parties in Canada’s elections have become more closely scrutinized since groups like Canada Proud and Ontario Proud started racking up hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook.
Canada Proud reportedly spent more than $100,000 on anti-Justin Trudeau messaging during the 2019 federal election campaign.
In 2025, groups like the anti-abortion Campaign Life Coalition, Rebel News, and numbered companies registered as third parties in the federal election.
Another third party, “Friends of Free Enterprise in Canada,” was funded entirely by $550,000 in donations from billionaire Prem Watsa, according to Elections Canada filings.
“It doesn’t make sense. It’s totally undemocratic,” said Conacher. “Why would you let one voter spend the same amount as a union with 100,000 members?”
The Strong and Free Elections Act will also roll back Trudeau-era changes that made political fundraising events more transparent.
Party leaders like Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre will once again be able to headline fundraisers at secret locations, without posting any information in advance.
NDP MP Don Davies submitted amendments to those changes back in 2025, but they were voted down by Liberal MPs at a committee last week. Davies did not respond to a request for an interview.
In its emailed response to The Maple, MacKinnon’s office said the changes are necessary to protect people who host political fundraisers.
“We are seeing people’s addresses published online before a fundraising event and harassing behaviour is occurring that limits the rights of people to participate in the democratic process. This is a security concern that needs to be addressed.”
“Information about the event will be publicly released after it has occurred, including the names of participants. This will ensure continued transparency, while providing people greater protection from harassment and intimidation at an event.”
Carney’s conflict of interest in pushing AI is absolutely staggering. If this had been Harper, people would be furious. Please don’t comment about blind trusts. You can’t possibly be that naïve.
Brookfield Bets on AI at Scale Never Tested Before in $50 Billion Push
AI infrastructure spending trends ‘bode extremely well’ for Brookfield: expert
“(Brookfield) really has their hands in a lot of different aspects of our lives,” Christopher Ballard, managing director of Check Capital Managementwww.bnnbloomberg.ca
Carney’s Wealth Tests the Limits of Canada’s Ethics Laws | The Walrus
Our conflict-of-interest rules are no match for a prime minister this financially entangledthewalrus.ca
Does Mark Carney really have 574 conflicts of interest? | About That
YouTube video by CBC Newsyoutu.be
Never mind blind trusts. It doesn’t even matter if he divests fully from Brookfield stocks. That’s still his former (and probably future) firm and all his old buddies making a killing because of his intense push for AI as PM.
Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social:
Blind trusts are a scam at the best of times anyhow. You gotta be a willful idiot to think that makes a difference.
‘He yells’: Mark Carney’s focus has Liberal MPs bristling by Althiia Raj, June 3, 2026, Toronto Star
Althia Raj is a national politics columnist for the Star. Follow her on Twitter: @althiaraj
Perhaps, we’ll soon call it Mark Carney’s democratic deficit. The prime minister has a penchant for centralizing power — one explored a few times in this column — and now the edict to his Liberal MPs is that he does not want to be challenged.
Over the course of several caucus meetings now, Grit MPs report Carney lashing out at certain members when he doesn’t like the message they deliver. They include Nova Scotia MP Jamie Battiste, a Mi’kmaw from Cape Breton, raising concerns over negative perceptions of the government’s changes to the Indian Act and receiving a stunning rebuke; Winnipeg MP Doug Eyolfson, a physician, being told not to come to the prime minister with his concerns over the lack of federal response to Alberta’s two-tiered health care Bill 11; and Laval MP Angelo Iacono, who wanted the prime minister to visit his riding and was met with Carney insisting he’d been to Laval recently, though he had not. The experiences have left a lasting imprint on several MPs.
“He yells,” said one MP who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid retribution from the Prime Minister’s Office. “He punches down at caucus all the time.”
Carney has told his caucus members he doesn’t want to hear their concerns, he wants solutions. While it’s a message that resonates with some, hearing complaints can be useful. It’s an early warning system for the government that certain policies or bills are not properly understood, and that the message needs to be tweaked or the legislation amended to address legitimate and unforeseen criticism.
Last week, some MPs felt the prime minister’s message was that he’s not interested in what they have to say.
Carney was making the case that the government is focused on national unity, on the CUSMA talks, on growing the economy; it has a plan, and message discipline is key. “If you don’t agree with our agenda, I don’t want to hear it. If you have criticism, keep them for yourself,” was the way another MP portrayed it.
This week, caucus chair James Maloney told Liberal MPs not to talk to journalists. He also told them not to write to the prime minister with their concerns because their letters could leak.
In late April, 13 MPs sent an email to Carney about their concerns regarding the memorandum of understanding with Alberta and the Liberals’ plan to fight climate change. The existence of the letter was first reported by Radio-Canada.
While Carney’s desire to stop caucus leaks is not unprecedented — Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford also urged caucus members not to speak to specific journalists — some MPs feel it is more extreme than what they’re accustomed to.
It is, perhaps, another reminder that the Trudeau days are really over. Back then, the prime minister wrote cabinet ministers mandate letters urging them to engage with journalists, to constructively dialogue with stakeholders, to set a higher bar for openness and transparency.
When Trudeau won the Liberal leadership, he pledged his MPs would be a voice for their communities in Ottawa and not the other way around. His criticism that “Canadians who thought they were sending community leaders to be their voice in Ottawa, but instead got only Mr. Harper’s voice back in their communities” might soon apply to Carney.
The current prime minister’s desire to keep a firm hold on power can be seen being exercised through the nomination process — one the Liberals used to boast was open.
Carney, who is accused by the Conservatives of manufacturing a majority by luring opposition MPs to the government benches, has yet to hold an open nomination.
When Bill Blair and Chrystia Freeland left Parliament, Carney appointed physician Danielle Martin and NDP MPP Doly Begum as Liberal candidates in the Toronto and Scarborough byelections, preventing local members from having their say.
There are expectations internally that Carney will also appoint candidates in upcoming byelections, including in North Vancouver, where his deputy chief of staff, Braeden Caley, is eyeing a run.
The prime minister’s desire to run a tight ship can also be seen in the proposed changes to the federal freedom of information law. (A consultation period is underway until June 15.)
Journalist Dean Beeby was the first to notice the government trying to weaken the already dysfunctional Access to Information regime by proposing to legally deny access to some frequent users — journalists? — as well as proposing to limit the kind of records that the public is able to access, such as leaving emails and text messages out of the law’s scope .
Carney’s focus has been on the economy, there is no doubt. But it’s also worth highlighting what’s happening outside of the spotlight — whether the government wants us to know about it or not.
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And Herr Carney is a staunch Zionist supporter of genocide, crying antisemitism but not a word about hate of Muslims and Palestinians and Iranians, etc. and Israel’s intentional mass slaughter of Palestinian babies.
