Sunshine
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Sunshine@piefed.caOPto
British Columbia@lemmy.ca•MLA wants to scrap B.C.'s Human Rights Code. Some constituents want her gone insteadEnglish
3·9 hours agoTara Armstrong needs to get kicked out of her seat. The riding deserves much better than a scammer.
Sunshine@piefed.caOPto
British Columbia@lemmy.ca•MLA wants to scrap B.C.'s Human Rights Code. Some constituents want her gone insteadEnglish
1·9 hours agoArmstrong was elected as a B.C. Conservative in October 2024, founded the OneBC party with fellow MLA Dallas Brodie eight months later, then split from Brodie and OneBC in December.
Now sitting as an Independent, Armstrong unsuccessfully tabled a bill last month to repeal B.C.'s Human Rights Code, which protects against discrimination based on sex, gender, race and disability among other categories.
That was in response to a $750,000 fine imposed by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against former school trustee Barry Neufeld, in a finding that he violated the code by publishing hate speech against LGBTQ+ people.
The campaign’s website says a petition application will be filed on April 20. If it’s approved by Elections BC, organizers would have 60 days to collect the necessary 18,000-plus signatures from eligible voters in the riding.
Elections BC says a recall petition must be signed by more than 40 per cent of the voters who were registered to cast a ballot in the riding in the last election.
“We have got already a volunteer team of over 100 people, and we have got locations already being offered for signing locations,” he said. “We have got over 50 people offering to be canvassers so far, and we haven’t even got a recall application in yet.”
Sunshine@piefed.caOPto
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Slovakia to block EU loan to Ukraine if Orban loses Hungarian election, Fico saysEnglish
4·5 days agoIt’s the same issue with the presidential system where one power hungry politician can halt all progress.
Sunshine@piefed.caOPto
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Slovakia to block EU loan to Ukraine if Orban loses Hungarian election, Fico saysEnglish
32·5 days agoThis opportunist needs to lose his position too.
Sunshine@piefed.caOPMto
Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•ZEV sales grow to 12.1 per cent market share for Q4 2025: S&P GlobalEnglish
4·5 days agoBritish Columbia led the provinces in ZEV market share with a big jump to 22.5 per cent in Q4, up from 16.7 per cent in Q3. Quebec finished Q4 with 21.3 per cent market share, up from 20.2 per cent in Q3.
Sunshine@piefed.cato
United Kingdom@feddit.uk•British female athletes forced to pay for sex tests to competeEnglish
1·5 days agoStop listening to stupid politicians attempting to manufacture a “problem”
Women face enough harassment and barriers to sport.
Sunshine@piefed.cato
Privacy@programming.dev•RED ALERT: The US house of reps is making a lot of progress toward their goal of mass surveillance with complete KYCEnglish
1·6 days agoKnow your customer.
Sunshine@piefed.caOPto
Green Party UK@feddit.uk•Greens overtake Starmer’s Labour in new UK pollEnglish
12·10 days agoA quarter (25 percent) of those surveyed who backed the Labour Party in the 2024 general election said they will now back the Greens. A third (37 percent) said they would continue to support the governing party.
The study found that the Greens, whose membership numbers have surged since Zack Polanski became leader last September, are the most popular political party in all age categories under 50. Nearly half (49 percent) of 18 to 24-year-olds and just over a quarter (27 percent) of 25 to 29-year-olds said they would back the party.
Four days ago, for the first time in Canadian history, a member of a legislature proposed a bill to repeal an entire Human Rights Code. And 36 other members of said legislature voted for the same. BC MLA Tara Armstrong attempted to introduce Bill M233, the Human Rights Code Repeal Act, which outright repeals the B.C. Human Rights Code and abolishes the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
It’s fortunate that this bill didn’t make it anywhere close to third reading. Yet, what this bill entails is horrifying. This would mean that an employer could refuse to serve someone for being Black (just like in Christie v. York Corporation, a 1939 Supreme Court of Canada case upholding “freedom of contract”). It would mean that a business owner can refuse to sell their business to a woman because they are a woman. It means that a landlord can refuse to rent to someone because they’re Indigenous. And of course, it would mean that dehumanizing speech against trans people — speech that can make a workplace untenable or even lead to incitement to genocide, as exemplified so well in Chilliwack Teachers’ Association v. Barry Neufeld (No. 10) — will face no sanction by the State.
the notwithstanding clause is a five-alarm fire, this is even more unprecedented. It means regressing back to a vision of Canada consisting solely of a white, male, able-bodied, cisgender and heterosexual class that gets to participate in society, and everyone else, left by the wayside.
Yet, this isn’t isolated. The callous disregard for human life and human dignity can be seen across the world. Last week, Kansas (USA) took away the drivers’ license and birth certificate of every single one of its trans citizens, only permitting said IDs to contain sex assigned at birth — an obvious marker of transness — officially making trans people second-class citizens, akin to how the Nazis did so with Jewish people’s passports in 1938. And just over the weekend, the United States and Israel decided to launch an offensive war against Iran — one obviously motivated by imperialist interests more than anything else.
Sunshine@piefed.caMto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Can Europe break free of Visa and Mastercard? MEPs stall digital euroEnglish
5·12 days agoEt tu Blaze? Posting euronews 😭
Sunshine@piefed.cato
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Pic removed from the pic community, no reason why (Bloody backpack of Iranian girl killed in US-Israeli attack on Iranian elementary school)English
13·12 days agoPTB: the moderator permanently bans critical vegan voices.
Sunshine@piefed.caOPMto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Taiwan investment in EU grows 650% over decade amid closer trade tiesEnglish
10·13 days agoGo Taiwan! 🇹🇼
Sunshine@piefed.caOPto
Privacy@programming.dev•Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety lawsEnglish
2·13 days agoWe need to all use f-droid instead!
Sunshine@piefed.cato
Technology@beehaw.org•Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” CheckEnglish
27·15 days agoI hope people learn that this how age verification trend is a massive Trojan horse for tyranny.
Sunshine@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.zip•Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacyEnglish
11·15 days agoThe only way to use VPN with how things are going at this rate is through mail in cash or Monero.
Sunshine@piefed.cato
Privacy@programming.dev•Twitch is requiring new affiliates to give their government ID and a separate photo to PersonaEnglish
3·15 days agoPeertube is implementing streaming!
Sunshine@piefed.cato
Privacy@programming.dev•And Then? Mullvad’s anti-surveillance TV ad blocked in the UKEnglish
1·17 days agoLabour Party is full of tyrants.
Sunshine@piefed.caMto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Dumping US tech giants within 5 years is realistic for banks, insurers, pension funds, according to the Dutch Central BankEnglish
9·17 days agoDump all American products and services!
Sunshine@piefed.cato
Privacy@programming.dev•Minister: Estonia does not support EU's private chat monitoring policyEnglish
3·20 days agoThey understand tech!
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