🇨🇦 Phones seized, power protected

A judge just blessed police searches of podcasters’ phones and computers because they went after people tied to the Alberta Health Services procurement mess. Very comforting. When establishment players orbiting a public scandal are involved, the state suddenly discovers urgency, teeth, and broad appetite for digital fishing expeditions, as reported. David Wallace and James Di Fiore were accused of running a no-holds-barred campaign against a potential witness. Fine, deal with actual intimidation. But let’s not pretend this isn’t also a warning shot to anyone outside the approved media cartel.

Canada’s institutional reflex is always the same: protect the apparatus first, liberty second, maybe never. Bureaucracies bungle procurement, insiders circle the wagons, and independent voices get the full forensic treatment. Funny how the regime that shrugs at border chaos, crime, and social breakdown becomes hyper-competent when dissent gets too close to power. This is what managerial Canada looks like now: fragile elites, compliant courts, and a growing assumption that your devices belong to the state the moment you embarrass the right people.

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