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Every Canadian has the right to understand their government.

Canada Katılım Ekim 2022
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Charestiste🇨🇦🍁
Charestiste🇨🇦🍁@RealAlbanianPat·
I am thinking of a web-based political game, starting with the 2025 Canadian federal election with features like policies/ads/ground wars/visits/money/debate. Did you guys think it's a good idea? It might not be free (will have free trial)
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her)
By now it’s unsurprising that Carney’s Liberals are openly anti-worker, repeatedly caving to corporate interests and violating the right to strike through Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code. While the Liberals quietly plan changes to our labour laws that ignore the voices of workers, the @NDP is saying loud and clear: no more attacks on workers’ rights. As the government teams up with big CEOs to roll back fundamental rights, we need working class communities across Canada to resist corporate-backed authoritarianism. That starts with passing #BillC247 to repeal Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code. thestar.com/politics/feder…
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Civics Project@civicsproj·
@MoreNeighbours That’s a great question. Currently it’s just using the background documents. Would including the public correspondence and deputations would be useful to you?
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More Neighbours Toronto
More Neighbours Toronto@MoreNeighbours·
@civicsproj Neat! Assuming that opponent and proponent views are AI summaries of the public correspondence that's been sent in? Or does it also include deputations, if any.
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Civics Project@civicsproj·
Happy 156th birthday to Manitoba 🎉 !
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Dan Seljak
Dan Seljak@anotherglassbox·
Two Daniels, both unalike in integrity, In fair Toronto, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
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Nathaniel Arfin
Nathaniel Arfin@ArfinNathaniel·
On why Team Nate is appealing: "Our Chief Scrutineer, Andreas Katsouris, has 25 years of experience working with political campaigns and promoting democracy....Here are his words, not mine:"
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Civics Project@civicsproj·
We support every Canadian province with the exception of PEI who limits access to legislation more than any other province. @InfoPEI @RobLantz, help us make government accessible for every Islander!
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Civics Project@civicsproj·
Canada is setting rules for rockets. C-28 creates permits for launches and re-entries, require operators to carry financial coverage for damages, give Ottawa power to halt launches for safety, and allow zoning controls near launch sites. civicsproject.org/regions/canada…
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House Of The People
House Of The People@HoTPOfficial·
There is no way of knowing how often Parliament votes against what the public actually wants. Until now. houseofthepeople.com tracks every bill going through Parliament. You vote. We compare it to how your MP voted. The gap speaks for itself.
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Civics Project@civicsproj·
We thought updating MPs would be a quarterly or bi-annual thing when we started building.
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Civics Project@civicsproj·
Our mission!
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy

Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments. Historically, it is the governments that act to make society legible (e.g. "Seeing like a state" is the common reference), but with AI, society can dramatically improve its ability to do this in reverse. Government accountability has not been constrained by access (the various branches of government publish an enormous amount of data), it has been constrained by intelligence - the ability to process a lot of raw data, combine it with domain expertise and derive insights. As an example, the 4000-page omnibus bill is "transparent" in principle and in a legal sense, but certainly not in a practical sense for most people. There's a lot more like it: laws, spending bills, federal budgets, freedom of information act responses, lobbying disclosures... Only a few highly trained professionals (investigative journalists) could historically process this information. This bottleneck might dissolve - not only are the professionals further empowered, but a lot more people can participate. Some examples to be precise: Detailed accounting of spending and budgets, diff tracking of legislation, individual voting trends w.r.t. stated positions or speeches, lobbying and influence (e.g. graph of lobbyist -> firm -> client -> legislator -> committee -> vote -> regulation), procurement and contracting, regulatory capture warning lights, judicial and legal patterns, campaign finance... Local governments might be even more interesting because the governed population is smaller so there is less national coverage: city council meetings, decisions around zoning, policing, schools, utilities... Certainly, the same tools can easily cut the other way and it's worth being very mindful of that, but I lean optimistic overall that added participation, transparency and accountability will improve democratic, free societies. (the quoted tweet is half-ish related, but inspired me to post some recent thoughts)

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