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After 15 years as a TV reporter with Global and CBC and as news director of RDTV in Red Deer, Duane set out on his own 2008 as a visual storyteller. During this period, he became fascinated with a burgeoning online world and how it could better serve local communities. This fascination led to Todayville, launched in 2016.

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UK Government Dismisses Public Outcry, Pushes Ahead with Controversial Digital ID Plan

Published on October 3, 2025

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By Ken Macon

Over 2.7 million signatures couldn’t move the needle on a dystopian plan already set in motion.

A UK government plan to introduce a nationwide digital identification system is moving ahead, despite a public backlash that saw more than 2.7 million people sign a petition urging its cancellation.

The proposal, first announced by Labour in September, would provide a digital ID to every UK citizen and legal resident aged 16 and above.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed the new system would help strengthen border enforcement and reduce illegal employment, describing the ID, dubbed the “Brit Card,” as a tool to “make it tougher to work illegally in this country, making our borders more secure.”

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The public response was overwhelmingly opposed. Warnings about centralized data collection, privacy intrusions, and increased state surveillance flooded public discourse.

Descriptions of the proposal ranged from a “dystopian nightmare” to fears of a gateway to “digital control.”

Not long after Labour’s announcement, a petition was created on the official UK Government and Petitions website.

It quickly gathered enough signatures to qualify for parliamentary debate, a 100,000-signature benchmark, and within days surged past two million.

Despite reaching over 2.7 million signatures, the government issued a formal response rejecting the petition and restating its commitment to the scheme.

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According to the response, published by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the new ID system is part of Labour’s wider aim to modernize public services.

“We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies. We will consult on details soon,” the government wrote.

Although a formal consultation process is expected in the coming weeks, involving employers, unions, and civil society organizations, the government made it clear that legislation to support the digital ID system is on the way.

Over time, it is expected to serve as a single access point for government services like benefits, tax records, and other official interactions, potentially eliminating the need for physical documents or multiple logins.

The government’s decision to push ahead with a national digital ID comes in the shadow of the recently enacted Online Safety Act, which has already laid the groundwork for sweeping identity checks across the internet.

That law, marketed as a way to protect children from harmful content, gave regulators broad authority to demand age verification for accessing a wide range of online services.

The result is an emerging digital framework where proving who you are, even just to browse or communicate, is becoming a condition of access.

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Carney government refuses to make tough decisions to avoid larger deficit

Published on October 3, 2025

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From the Fraser Institute

By Jake Fuss and Grady Munro

In a recent news conference, Prime Minister Carney said this year’s federal budget deficit will be larger than last year’s deficit of $48.3 billion. While the prime minister was quick to pull out a laundry list of reasons why, he left out one critical reason—his government refuses to make the tough decisions necessary to avoid more red ink.

It’s been clear for months the government plans to run a larger deficit than last year, it’s simply taken this long for the government to say the words out loud. In fact, Carney’s election platform in April outlined a deficit of $62.3 billion this year, and since then his government has promised billions more in new spending.

To justify the large deficit, the prime minister points to U.S. tariffs, Canada’s response to the tariffs, increased “investments” and higher defence spending. Of course, these factors will help drive up the deficit this year—for example, new defence spending will total $9.3 billion this year. But even making the generous assumption that all the new spending is necessary (which is assuredly not the case), the Carney government could still lower spending elsewhere to avoid plunging deeper into the red.

For example, the Carney government inherited record-high levels of federal spending, including in areas of provincial responsibility and/or where government shouldn’t be involved in the first place (e.g. national pharmacare, national dental care, national daycare). There are also many examples of federal programs that are inefficient and not achieving their stated objectives—in other words, low-hanging fruit for any government looking to reduce wasteful spending and move towards budget balance.

Over the summer, the government did launch a half-hearted attempt to find savings over the next three years—which has led the prime minister to describe the upcoming budget as one of “austerity”—but this spending review will likely fall well short of actual austerity. Why? Because the government is excluding large swathes of the budget from the review, and basing its savings targets on projected levels of spending that are higher than today’s spending levels. Consequently, the review will simply slow the pace of spending increases rather than actually cut spending.

Actual austerity requires a decrease in year-over-year spending, smaller deficits and a reasonable path back to budget balance. Despite the rhetoric, the government’s upcoming budget on Nov. 4 will deliver the opposite—higher spending, larger deficits and more debt accumulation. And future generations of Canadians with face higher taxes, fewer services or some combination of both to pay for this profligate spending. Ignore the fresh new spin and promises of a different approach; the Carney government is on track to deliver a budget no different from what Canadians could expect from the Trudeau government.

Prime Minister Carney’s recent confirmation that his government will run a larger deficit this year than in 2024 surprised no one familiar with federal finances. Like his predecessor, Carney refuses to make the tough decisions to meaningfully cut spending. And Canadians will pay the price.