It is incredibly discouraging that online discussion of important matters of public interest involving government spokespeople are more often than not completely misleading. Exhibit 1: This is simply not true and bad faith discussion:

https://twitter.com/supriyadwivedi/status/1773364052929950157

Exhibit 2: Caught being full of it, pivots to denying that their bill does exactly what their bill does because it will not be permitted to do what they have written it to do.

https://twitter.com/supriyadwivedi/status/1773417727140430232

Let’s take a moment and reflect on what has let to this abomination of an #OnlineNewsAct. Depending on your age, this may be ancient or contemporary history. In the olden days, people had newspapers delivered to them. Some big cities actually had two editions of the daily paper: one you read over breakfast (it was at your front door at 6:00 am) and one you read when you got home from work.

Re-upping this thread. Once news was scarce and advertising space was scarce. That's no longer the case. Basics of supply and demand mean the market value of quality news has dropped far below the social value of quality news, and is unsustainable.

https://twitter.com/privacylawyer/status/1522343145513660416

If we as a society want to support quality Canadian news, then we as a society should financially support Canadian news. But we should be very careful not to destroy the entrepreneurial entrants in digital news who are creating viable business models in this new environment.

There is so much that is just bad and dumb about the Online News Act, Bill C-18. Why don’t the media just say “our business model used to make us a lot of money when news and advertising space were scarce. Now that it’s not scarce, but we think we should still get lots of money." The premise is fundamentally flawed. Newspapers and magazines used to have a monopoly on advertising. They charged disproportionate sums to advertisers for space on their pages, in their classified ads, want ads and obituaries.

If you're wondering how the Canadian #COVIDAlert App works without collecting any personal information (including your location), it's actually super-clever. If you install and activate the app, it will run in the background broadcasting random numbers at regular intervals using Bluetooth and listening for other phones that are also chirping out their own random numbers.

Saddened that I have to say this: The Charter still prevails in Nova Scotia as the ultimate law and any provincial law or rule or order that is inconsistent with the Charter is of no force and effect.

https://twitter.com/HfxRegPolice/status/1249380645261971459

The Health Protection Act order is deficient in a number of ways and can easily be remedied to enforce social distancing in a rational way to flatten the curve.