Running Replit... vibe coding... as the kids would say.

Statistics #Canada said meat prices have risen by the following amounts since January 2025!! - striploin is up 34.2 per cent - top sirloin 33.7 per cent - rib cuts nearly 12 per cent - pork rib cuts and chicken breasts have each risen 5.9 per cent Middle class is getting priced out of meat and fish in their regular diets.

CTVNews

‘A luxury item’: Canadians may need to budget for barbecue season as meat prices soar

As summer approaches, Canadians will be wanting to fire up the barbecue, but the reality of rising meat prices might mean fewer backyard cookouts t...

Nothing online is really private, but Canada’s Strong Borders Act (Bill C-2) makes it worse: This bill doesn’t just target border security or cash transactions—it quietly expands government surveillance powers over everyone’s digital life. Buried in its 140 pages are “lawful access” rules that let law enforcement demand information from your internet or phone provider—like who you are, what accounts you use, and when and where you connect—without a warrant, just on “reasonable grounds to suspect” any offence. It also gives police sweeping new rights to access data held by telecoms, and even allows authorities to require service providers to install or operate equipment that could enable interception or monitoring of communications. On top of that, the bill makes it easier for government agencies to share your personal and immigration information across departments and even with foreign governments, all in the name of “border security”. Privacy experts warn that these changes go far beyond what’s needed to secure borders—they undermine Canadians’ digital privacy and set dangerous precedents for warrantless surveillance. If you think your online life is already exposed, Bill C-2 takes it to a new level. Also, remember that in theory the government could make the same demands on a Nostr node operator and ask for data the node collects on IP addresses, etc.

Taxes are too high in #Canada. Our government spends too much money on things that are not necessary. Inflation and the cost of living are getting out of control. It is getting more complicated to run a business. Many online businesses (SaaS platforms, gig workers etc.) are increasingly using USD for their goods and services. Those payments will increasingly be made outside traditional banking with the rise of stablecoins. Stablecoins are a gateway to Bitcoin. Just sayin…

What is the best way to buy Sats on the lightening network in Canada?

Just remembered how good Brave browser is at blocking ads after using Safari for a bit…

Any Canadians out there to follow? #Canada #Canucks

#Canada needs some big ideas, feels like we are discussing how to rearrange the deck chairs on the titanic in this election.

Ok — but shouldn’t we be specific on the type of manufacturing we want to bring back?

The White House should really reserve these images for the Bitcoin memes.

I sometimes dream of full self-sovereign mode — running your own Bitcoin node, BTC Pay Server to sell products and services, Nostr to build a market. Next up, open source AI agents off on the web — interacting with the world in Sats.

That sovereign wealth fund they announced a couple weeks ago is sure getting a discount today.

The White House

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Orders Plan for a United States Sovereign Wealth Fund

DELIVERING A PLAN TO CREATE A UNITED STATES SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order calling for the creat...

Our Lady Peace & Collective Soul brought it hard in Victoria last night. #tunesrt #Canada #rock

Seems like #gold could be manipulated forever — until people with paper gold started asking for physical delivery.

Guys, with an @Umbrel ☂️ you can: 1. Run Deepseek R1 (and other open source models) locally, and even train the model on your own data. 2. Host a Wordpress website locally (they just launched a Wordpress app for Umbrel) and connect it to the web/custom domain using a Cloudflare tunnel. 3. Run your own Nostr relay integrated with Damus. 4. Run a Bitcoin Node. 5. Run a Lightening node. Now they are rolling out a nice clean file directory -- Seriously considering setting up Umbrel on a clean MacMini for power.

This was just launched by a Bitcoin Core dev and looks super interesting. A #VPN that by design doesn’t have any logs of your internet traffic. You can also pay in Sats! Balaji is an investor.

Obscura

Obscura VPN | Privacy that’s more than a promise

Available for Mac. Download today.

Sam Cooper is the last standing real journalist in Canada. Every Canuck should follow his work.

The Bureau | Sam Cooper | Substack

Investigative Journalism. Anti-Corruption. Whistleblowers. Sunlight. Click to read The Bureau, by Sam Cooper, a Substack publication with tens of t...

#Canada