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I was going to post this in !britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca, but this is likely a national / international problem.

City officials say the QR codes were not authorized by either the municipality or its mobile payment provider, PayByPhone. While the stickers appeared to advertise a convenient way to pay for parking, they actually redirected drivers to a fraudulent site.

I guess it's best to either use the machine (while jiggling the card reader), or you keep the official app pre-installed on your device

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58 per cent of Canadians surveyed said they no longer view the U.S. as a reliable ally

Over two-thirds of Canadians said the U.S. tends to create problems for other countries rather than solve them

U.S. officials are threatening major changes to a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada that could upend the way business is done and leave Canada on the outs.

The Trump administration has a list of things it wants Mr. Carney to concede, including longstanding grievances about protected industries in Canada, such as the dairy sector. Another pressing issue for the U.S. administration is the fact that liquor distributors controlled by Ontario and other provincial governments in Canada pulled U.S. liquor off their shelves last year, in retaliation against Mr. Trump’s tariffs on Canada.

Trump administration officials have also been irked by Mr. Carney’s global charm offensive as he seeks to bolster Canada’s trade relationships with other countries, including China. Responding to a modest tariff deal that Mr. Carney struck during a visit to Beijing last month, Mr. Trump threatened to impose 100 percent tariffs on Canadian goods, and claimed that China would “take over” Canada and even ban hockey.

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Mr. Trump and his advisers have indicated that the three-country pact could be scrapped altogether. Instead, the United States could end up with bilateral deals with Canada and Mexico, the advisers have suggested. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

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Anyone in any government agencies know if your answers on these forms affect your hiring process? And if they do, how?

Because most jobs tell you that it's just for statistics, but this government job straight up asks if you want your answers to be considered in your employment process, or used purely for statistics.

I don't know if I should be honest or just straight up "prefer not to say" everything.

Debate is at https://www.ndp.ca/debate

More info on debate and candidates:

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-leadership-candidates-debate-preview-9.7096023
• https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2026/02/19/ndp-leadership-candidates-face-off-aim-for-breakaway-in-key-debate/

Candidate sites:

• Heather McPherson - https://www.heathermcpherson.ca/
• Avi Lewis https://lewisforleader.ca/
• Tanille Johnston - https://www.tanille.ca/
• Rob Ashton - https://robashton.ca/
• Tony McQuail - https://tonymcquailgreenprogressive.ca/

Archive article: https://archive.is/FmFAC#selection-647.1-647.51

Britain, Canada and the European Union on Wednesday denounced possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan during the nearly three-year war between the army and paramilitary rivals.

The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a bitter struggle for control of the country since April 2023.

The war has killed tens of thousands, displaced 11 million and triggered what the UN calls one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

Wednesday’s joint statement said the signatories “condemn the abhorrent violence against civilians, particularly women and children and all serious violations of international humanitarian law in the strongest terms.”

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“Sexual and gender-based violence is rampant, famine is confirmed and severe hunger continues to spread,” it said.

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The war has effectively split the country in two, with the army holding the centre, north and east while the RSF controls the west and, with their allies, parts of the south.

With truce talks deadlocked for months, the UN has repeatedly urged warring parties to respect international humanitarian law and allow access for aid.

As Canada opens up to China, it should do more to ensure that the country doesn't use the opportunity to increase transnational repression against members of the Chinese diaspora living here, warns a veteran national security expert.

Phil Gurski, a former analyst with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), said the service has a large security screening branch which already screens some citizenship and immigration applications. He said it should screen visitors from China to reduce the possibility of Chinese government agents slipping in.

Experts and a public inquiry into foreign interference have pointed to China as one of the largest sources of transnational repression in Canada, with government agents engaging in activities like surveillance of members of the Chinese diaspora, online attacks and threats against family members back in China.

"If there are visitors coming [from] the People's Republic of China, they should be vetted through CSIS," Gurski told reporters on Parliament Hill on Tuesday. "It has its own intelligence sources, it has alliances with its counterparts around the world. If CSIS comes up against information that indicates somebody is not being truthful, or forthcoming, in their background or their intentions in coming to Canada, they should be denied entry."

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Marie Lamensch, global affairs director for the Montreal Institute for Global Security, said Chinese "secret police stations" still exist in Canada and a lot of Chinese government agents have come to Canada to intimidate members of the Chinese diaspora.

In 2022, human rights group Safeguard Defenders reported that the Chinese government had set up "police stations" around the world, including in Canada. The RCMP investigated but concluded its probe into alleged Chinese police stations in the Montreal area in 2025 without laying charges.

Defenders of the locations have maintained that they were simply offering services to the Chinese-Canadian community.

"It is important for us to keep an eye on the people from China who come here in order to make sure that they aren't intimidating members of the diaspora," Lamensch said.

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In January 2025, an inquiry headed by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue concluded in its final report that transnational repression in Canada was a "genuine scourge" and that the People's Republic of China was the "most active perpetrator of foreign interference targeting Canadian democratic institutions."

Hogue said this kind of foreign interference went "well beyond" the scope of her inquiry's mandate.

"But what I have learned about it is sufficient for me to sound the alarm that the government must take this seriously and consider ways to address it," Hogue wrote in her final report.

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While China is believed to be one of the most active countries in engaging in transnational repression in Canada, the report [published by Montreal Institute for Global Security and co-authored by Gurski and Lamensch] also outlines activities conducted by Russia, India, Algeria, Iran, and Rwanda.

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The report details how transnational repression can fall between the cracks. While the government has now named a foreign interference coordinator in the Public Safety department, it says no one agency is responsible for countering transnational repression. Depending on the nature of the activity, it could be referred to CSIS, the RCMP, the Centre for Cyber Security, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) or the Canada Border Services Agency.

"The lack of comprehensive guidelines makes reporting particularly complicated, causing frustration among diaspora communities, as follow-up has not been systematic," says the report. "Several targets of transnational repression have reported reaching out to Canadian authorities with little response."

It said many targets of transnational repression are hesitant to come forward or fear retaliation against relatives abroad.

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"Canada needs to confront this evolving threat by closing gaps in policy and enforcement, strengthening legal protections, and ensuring that those targeted have access to meaningful support," [according to the report].

OTTAWA — It’s the world’s most awkward breakup.

More than a year after U.S. President Donald Trump casually joked about absorbing Canada and repeatedly threatened debilitating tariffs on its goods, many Canadians are convinced their former pals to the south have lost the plot.

New results from The POLITICO Poll suggest a lasting chill has settled over the world’s former bosom buddies. Americans are rosy as ever about their northern neighbors, but Canadians don’t share the love.

Their message to America: It’s not us, it’s you.

Canadians don’t see Trump’s America as merely an annoyance, the survey found. They consider the superpower next door the world’s greatest threat to peacetime.

Dozens of health-care workers snooped in the medical files of those hospitalized in last year’s Lapu-Lapu Day attack in Vancouver, a new investigation by B.C.’s privacy watchdog has revealed.

The chair of the Filipino community organization that planned the festival where the attack occurred says he was surprised and disappointed to learn Tuesday that health-care workers violated provincial privacy laws and accessed private patient information following the tragedy that killed 11 people and sent dozens more to hospital.

“The anxiety is palpable from folks who don’t know whether this very private information is out there, and some are even fearing for their safety,” Filipino BC chair RJ Aquino told The Tyee. “When people are at their most vulnerable, there should always be an expectation of trust, confidentiality and privacy.”

The revelations were contained in an investigation report released this week by B.C.’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner. It found that 36 employees, including 35 health authority staff and one assistant working in a physician’s office, used their access to private patient health information to snoop on those hospitalized following the attack.

A B.C. court will decide in the coming days whether to approve a $4.5-million settlement with female WestJet employees who say they suffered as a result of the airline’s lack of procedures to combat harassment.

Former WestJet flight attendant Mandalena Lewis filed the lawsuit nearly a decade ago, alleging the airline failed to support her after she says she was sexually assaulted by a pilot on a layover in Hawaii in 2010.

More women who worked for the airline came forward and the case was certified as a class action by the B.C. Court of Appeal in 2022.

The lawsuit alleges WestJet “breached contracts of employment with female flight attendants by failing to implement and maintain an adequate anti-harassment program, including adequate systems and practices for reporting, investigating, and responding to workplace harassment” between April 4, 2016 and Feb. 28, 2021.

The agreement in principle, reached by the parties during mediation in December, would see WestJet pay $4.5 million, including compensation to 3,458 affected class members, legal fees, administration costs and a $20,000 honorarium to Lewis, the lead plaintiff.

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The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were a population of Canadian children wrongly certified as mentally ill by the provincial government of Quebec and confined to psychiatric institutions in the 1940s and 1950s. Many of these children were deliberately miscertified in order to acquire additional subsidies from the federal government. They are named for Maurice Duplessis, who served as Premier of Quebec for five non-consecutive terms between 1936 and 1959. The controversies associated with Duplessis, and particularly the corruption and abuse concerning the Duplessis Orphans, have led to the popular historic conception of his term as Premier as La Grande Noirceur ("The Great Darkness") by its critics.

Budget season for Canada has kicked off with three provinces already posting steep deficits, a trend economists say is the result of several factors impacting every part of the country.

Independence movements don’t usually thrive in regions that are rich.

In the past year, leaders of Alberta’s main separatist organization have travelled repeatedly to Washington, D.C., for quiet meetings with senior American government officials in the Treasury and State departments. They’ve reportedly discussed everything from adopting the U.S. dollar to building an independent Alberta military.

These highly unusual interactions — which prompted Canada to warn the Donald Trump administration to respect Canadian sovereignty — are unfolding just as a new Angus Reid poll shows 29 per cent of Albertans would vote, or are inclined to vote, for separation if a referendum were held today.

This is a clear minority, but it’s also an indication of some discontent. The more interesting question is why a province that has long been among Canada’s richest feels so hard done by that some are willing to contemplate breaking up the country.