Roundup: It’s auto theft summit day

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It’s the big auto theft summit happening in Ottawa today, and it’s more than just federal and provincial governments and police who are meeting—it’s also insurance companies and auto manufacturers, because part of the problem are the ways in which auto companies have made unsecured RFID technology with key fobs and so on part of the recent lines, which means thieves can capture the frequency of your fobs and steal your card by cloning said fobs. Insurance companies could wield their might in insisting on these changes, which could make a measurable impact. As a down-payment of sorts, Dominic LeBlanc announced a $28 million boost to CBSA’s ability to detect stolen vehicles with more detection tools and analytics.

Meanwhile, as Pierre Poilievre tries to insist that this problem can solely be attributed to Justin Trudeau because of certain legal changes around conditional sentencing and bail (which were in response to Supreme Court of Canada decisions, it must be stated), he’s also made a bunch of specious correlations about how car thefts were lower in the Harper era in order to back up this claim. Except, that’s mostly not true either. But then again, facts, logic or honesty are never really in play when Poilievre is speaking, and this is no different.

Ukraine Dispatch:

Ukrainian forces downed 11 out of 17 drones in the early morning hours of Thursday. Russia launched massive attacks on Kyiv and other cities over the day yesterday, which killed five and wounded more than thirty. The mobilisation bill has now passed first reading. Here’s a look at the corps of retired Colombian soldiers fighting for Ukraine

Good reads:

  • Mark Miller says he’s “pissed off” that family members of Palestinian-Canadians who have visas to come here are being blocked from leaving Gaza.
  • Arif Virani says that the government plans to include criminalizing sexually explicit deepfake images in the forthcoming online harms legislation.
  • Mark Holland says fixes to healthcare will take time, as he continues to negotiate the strings attached to the new federal funds being sent to provinces.
  • The National Post got some data on gender-affirming surgeries and just how infrequent they are, while similar procedures are common for other reasons.
  • The federal housing advocate is warning provinces and municipalities that converting hotels into transitional housing won’t solve the homelessness crisis.
  • Convicted RCMP spy Cameron Ortis was given a fourteen-year sentence, but seven of those will be considered time served for how long he was in remand before trial.
  • A group of anti-Black racism advocates were disinvited from speaking to the Supreme Court of Canada after certain pro-Palestinian tweets were flagged.
  • Unsurprisingly, representatives of web giants went to committee to complain that proposed AI regulations were too “ambiguous” and costly for them to enforce.
  • Pierre Poilievre is siding with Danielle Smith on the subject of puberty blockers, and is leaning into the moral panic while trying to use it to wedge Justin Trudeau.
  • Jagmeet Singh is trying to sound tough by insisting that the March 1st deadline for pharmacare legislation is a red line for the Supply and Confidence Agreement.
  • Quebec plans to extend their use of the Notwithstanding Clause for their so-called “secularism” law for another five years.
  • Doug Ford is keeping away from any of the gender policies of other conservative premiers, and his education minister has backed off of pronoun policy musings.
  • Kevin Carmichael talks to Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem about the state of the economy, productivity growth, and getting back to two percent inflation.

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