Kate White

Pres aParent Corp
Climate Solutions, Gender Equity, Inter-Gen Sharing, Risk Mgmt
VP @WFUNA, Former Pres UNA Canada: Support UN SDGs
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[Jim Stanford @JimboStanford]

Trump's 'deal' with Iran was another fake, gas prices are heading back up. In today's @TheTyee I ask the obvious question: why is there NO connection between the cost of producing gasoline in Canada, and what it sells for: https://t.co/YpZc3ilzfP. #cdnecon #canlab /2

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The ongoing World Health Assembly is bringing countries together to address global health challenges.

@WHO is at the centre of these efforts, delivering urgent health support in multiplying emergencies.

We need a strong, independent & well-financed WHO.

[Kate White @KateWhiteCanada]

Fascinating look @2026MetGala from the most engaging economist. Hmmm....is it a societal good? Or comical fashion?

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

What if I told you the Met Gala isn't just fancy fashion, but also a fascinating economic phenomenon?
Today's video explores the thread running through the Met gala, luxury economics, peacocks, realtors and the social good
My conclusion surprised even me! https://t.co/0sRo4BR3LQ

[Dr. Peter A Singer, OC @PeterASinger]

I agree. This will also serve as an important case for learning and improvement. Here is what I am watching for:
1️⃣ clear evidence of human to human transmission
2️⃣ related genomic changes in the virus
3️⃣ how quickly the genomic sequencing can be turned into rapid tests and an mRNA vaccine
4️⃣performance of WHO and national authorities

[Kate White @KateWhiteCanada]

@jmontforttx Are we fully awake to this yet?

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

The massive Utah data center, called the Stratos Project, will be as big as 2,000 Walmarts, will need 9GW of electricity to run, and will generate the heat equivalent of 23 atom bombs detonating every single day in Hansel Valley. The expected impact of wildlife is catastrophic.
https://t.co/pZjrpcTaIe

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Oh, by the way, did I mention that the global sea-surface temperature hit a preliminary record daily high yesterday, beating the previous record daily high set in 2024?

Here are the updated global SST color-stripes:

[Kate White @KateWhiteCanada]

Brilliant appointment as Canada's next @GGCanada. Mme Arbour was a courageous leader of @ohchr Also Global Citizen laureate of @UNACanada @WFUNA

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

I am very pleased to announce that, on my recommendation, His Majesty has approved the appointment of the Honourable Louise Arbour as the 31st Governor General of Canada. Across more than five decades, she gave voice to those whose dignity was denied, held institutions to account, and changed lives through her service.

As Canada’s next Governor General, Louise Arbour will represent the best of Canada to our citizens and to the world — a Canada clear-eyed about the challenges we face, and steadfast in the values we uphold.

[Kate White @KateWhiteCanada]

On #worldpressfreedomday a reminder that veritas needs trained courageous journalists. This but one example of the risks of the profession.

[UN Human Rights Palestine @OHCHR_Palestine]

“Israel’s war in Gaza has become a death trap for the media. My Office has verified the killing of nearly 300 journalists since October 2023, with many more injured.”
Volker Türk, UN Human Rights Chief

[Paul Stewart II @PaulStewartII]

Patrick Lennox, Former RCMP Intelligence Manager, on Alberta’s election data breach:

That data—the full names, addresses, and phone numbers of almost 3 million voting age Albertans—circulated for at least a month in the Maple MAGAsphere, but has almost certainly been captured by state based authoritarian adversaries including Russia, China, and the United States.

This poses a massive public safety risk and exposes the October 19th referendum process to profound levels of foreign interference from the global far right. Alberta is completely exposed. All of our elections data is in the far right wind.

https://t.co/JKJJks7gCu

[Kate White @KateWhiteCanada]

A significant investment in health promotion. Stigmatise vaping while you're at it. Cda should too!

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

I commend @wesstreeting, Secretary of State at @DHSCgovuk, and the @UKParliament for taking decisive action to protect the next generation from tobacco. This is a significant victory for the health and wellbeing of young people across the #UK.

I encourage other countries to follow this example and take similarly bold steps to safeguard their children from addiction to this harmful product.

[Kate White @KateWhiteCanada]

For every researcher...and citizen. Thx for making this accessible @VoiceOfFranky

[Frank Graves @VoiceOfFranky]

Shared via PowerPoint on Android.

[Kate White @KateWhiteCanada]

As it should be. Thank you.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and I had a warm and productive first conversation today.

I shared the NDP’s concerns about the cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians, including the creepy practice of surveillance pricing.

I raised the urgent need to stop the privatization of health care by dusting off and actually enforcing the Canada Health Act. And I reiterated our position that Canada must take a clear moral stand against illegal wars (and the countries that start them) in this age of impunity.

It was a forthright and friendly exchange — and it made me feel encouraged about the prospects of a little old school respectful political debate in this country.

Maybe I’m just nostalgic for the kind of politics I've watched my parents practice throughout their lives — always soft on people, hard on the issues. I think that’s what the country needs right now.

But honestly? I don’t see politics in terms of access to the powerful. Making the changes we need depends on how much momentum we can build behind solutions that confront power and benefit the 99%.

That’s the real work. And it’s going to take all of us.

[UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs @UNDPPA]

.@khiari_khaled: “Only diplomacy, dialogue & the full implementation of the UN Charter & Security Council resolutions can lead to a sustainable peace for all. This is the pathway to spare communities on both sides of the Blue Line more needless suffering” https://t.co/qGVZcrDV3i

[Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel]

Gift Article - “It is the activities of the three lesser-known Trump allies mentioned in the Danish news report, though, that seem to have most alarmed the Danes. Asked about the three men, the White House declined to comment on its relationship with them or their activities. Instead, the White House said in a statement provided to The Times that it was working with Greenland and NATO on an agreement that will be “be amazing for the U.S.A.”

https://t.co/1LaMzWZQoG

[SheLeads Coalition @SheLeadsHQ]

Official: Chile 🇨🇱 withdraws its nomination of Michelle Bachelet for UN Secretary-General. But with Brazil 🇧🇷 & Mexico 🇲🇽 backing her, her candidacy stands strong and so does the global support behind her. #BacheletAlaONU #Bachelet4UNSG 🇺🇳

[UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs @UNDPPA]

On 24 March, Secretary-General @antonioguterres and members of the Security Council visited Lehman College in the Bronx, where the first Council meeting on United States soil was held on 25 March 1946. See the meeting record from 1946 here: https://t.co/VR6q0VyA85

[Kate White @KateWhiteCanada]

Do better Canada.

[IMF @IMFNews]

Excise taxes on smoking, drinking, and sugar can raise revenue and improve health—if they keep pace with new products and align with actual harm, Christoph Rosenberg and Marius van Oordt write in F&D magazine. https://t.co/OjfH7YO58r

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The CEO of Palantir just said the quiet part out loud.
Alex Karp — whose company builds surveillance and defense technology for the U.S. government — just openly stated that AI will deliberately shift economic power away from highly educated, often female, Democratic-leaning workers and toward vocationally trained, working-class, often male voters.

He then admitted these technologies are — his word — “dangerous” and “suicidal,” and that the only justification for deploying them is the military argument: if we don’t, our adversaries will.

So let’s be clear about what was just said on the record: A defense contractor CEO told you AI is being built to restructure the American class system, that it will destroy the economic power of an entire political demographic, and that the only way to sell it to the public is to wrap it in national security.