Censorship – Canadian Indians

Google parent subpoenaed by House Republicans probing censorship under Biden-Harris

Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) on Thursday was given a subpoena by the House Judiciary Committee, seeking all relevant communications to investigate “how and to what extent the Biden-Harris Administration coerced or colluded with companies and other intermediaries, including Alphabet, to censor lawful speech.”

The subpoena was sent by Ohio Republican and judiciary chair, Jim Jordan.

“Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, admitted that it was wrong to bow to the Biden-Harris Administration’s demands, publicly committed to restoring free speech on its platforms, and reformed its policies. Alphabet, to our knowledge, has not similarly disavowed the Biden-Harris Administration’s attempts to censor speech, Jordan wrote in the letter to tech giant CEO Sundar Pichai.

In his letter to Google’s top boss, Jordan said his oversight committee found that YouTube “was a direct participant in the federal government’s censorship regime.”

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4418182-google-parent-subpoenaed-by-house-republicans-probing-censorship-under-biden-harris

Federal Indigenous spending almost tripled to projected $32 billion—but modest improvement in Indigenous living standards due to unrelated federal child benefit

An Avalanche of Money: The Federal Government’s Policies Toward First Nations

Since 2015, the federal government has significantly increased spending on Indigenous Peoples.

The annual Indigenous budget has almost tripled from 2015 to 2025, growing (in nominal dollars) from roughly $11 billion to more than $32 billion.

In addition, class actions have been settled without litigation, with estimated liabilities reaching $76 billion in 2023, while specific claims have been settled at a rate four times higher than by the previous government, leading to a significant transfer of land and money to First Nations.

From 2016 to 2021, the gap in Statistics Canada’s Community Well-Being index, which measures the socio-economic well-being for communities across the county, between First Nations and other Canadian communities was reduced from 19 to 16 points. This reduction was due chiefly to an increase in reported income of First Nations people living on Indian reserves.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/an-avalanche-of-money-the-federal-governments-policies-toward-first-nations