Freelance journalist. Author. Nigellavangelist. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars/Trek. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Dale Smith
For the morning crowd, my latest episode on what we mean when we talk about a "post-national country" (while right wing reply guys melt down online about it). #cdnpoli
Here’s my initial post on Digital Safety bill: government is taking a kitchen sink approach by throwing everything into Bill C-34 and leaving many key details to future regulations, many to be decided by a Commission that doesn’t exist yet. This will take years.
www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/ever...
Explained in this clip here: (2/2)
It can't work like that. There is a "home base" for all referees in Florida, and there is no real capacity, logistical or otherwise, for certain referees to only stay in Canada. 1/2
Here is the Privacy Commissioner's report on Grok's sexualized deepfakes.
For the morning crowd, my Loonie Politics column: Arbour makes a key point about diversity #cdnpoli
The government tabled Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, earlier today, marking its third attempt at online harms legislation after the failed 2021 consultation and Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act ...
New post: Reversing themselves on age verification #cdnpoli
ICYMI, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social: Chief Justice commends colleagues for speaking out against judicial attacks #SCC #cdnlaw
For the late/west coast crowd, my latest episode on what was meant by "post-national country" that a lot of people on the right are still having meltdowns about #cdnpoli
Dale Smith
Because clearly, it's preferably for fifteen year-olds to shoot up in an alleyway and overdose and die there.
And it's not just Hopper (who is warped). You have certain Conservative MPs making this same argument in QP.
CANADA COMES TO THE RESCUE OF SOMALIAN REFEREE OMAR ARTAN! 🇨🇦🇸🇴
David Eby, Premier of British Columbia, has announced that his province would welcome Omar Artan. He stated that Artan should be allowed to referee World Cup matches within his jurisdiction, specifically in the host city of Vancouver.
