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Canada is united 🇨🇦 | Never 51| Elbows Up | Part-time stoic, full-time foodie | Pro-science & common sense | 80s music vibes | 519 roots | 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[🇨🇦 MissCanuckaroo 🇨🇦 @MissCanuckaroo]

A little Canadian humour regarding the US trade war LOL!

https://t.co/VSmJMjA0GW

[Jaxson Khan @jaxson]

I am going to keep reposting these as I haven’t seen anything like it before in Canada. Huge investment numbers being announced.

[Ravi Parmar @rparmar_BC]

Mexico, you have truly shown up for us this wildfire season. 

Over 300 wildfire personnel came to our aid when we needed it most. On behalf of all my fellow British Columbians, thank you.

A true North American partner. 

#BCWildfire

[Sigurdur Nordal @essenviews]

Same as they always have

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1939, Canada declares war on Nazi Germany. More than one million of the country's 11 million citizens will serve in uniform in the Second World War. They will fight on land, in the air and on the seas. 45,000 of them will not return.

[John Bourassa 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bourassa3232]

Canadians and Europeans now have a clear vision together. We are a powerhouse, with the right leadership we should be able to hold the 3 hegemonies accountable. All we ever had together was each other. In times of war we stood together even if apart we still always came together. That is our superpower 🇪🇺🇨🇦

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: Snowbirds, for the love of country, resist the siren call of U.S. travel https://t.co/bkcZzno7vq

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

My first appearance on German television. https://t.co/iWgVNRIZla

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

Can’t sleep… I love his perspective.
Had to share!

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

🟥 WOW…

Prime Minster Mark Carney’s video today “Forward Guidance”, to rally Canadians, is one of the best addresses by any world leader, ever, to their citizens. 🍁

It is an eloquent and inspiring ‘call to arms’ for our national participation in economic renewal, prosperity building, and sovereignty protection.

It is undeniable.
We have the right leader, at the right time. 👌🏻

🔳 “Our forebearers understood that building this improbable country in an inhospitable land wouldn't always be easy.

But they also knew they could rely on one of Canadian's strongest traits: Resilience.

Canada Strong isn't about just withstanding this crisis, it's about coming out of it stronger, more resilient, more independent than when we started.

It's about ensuring that no country can hold us hostage. And that we can live how we want to live.”

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

#NEWS: The EU and Canada are set to announce a partnership agreement on September 16th. The agreement is expected to take their relationship as far as the law permits, without Canada becoming an EU member.

[Bloomberg @business]

Exclusive: The EU is set to announce plans for a far-reaching partnership with Canada, including on trade, security and supply chains https://t.co/zm4mXE9V3e

[Artur Wilczynski @Arturmaks]

The question isn’t what’s wrong with Trump. It’s what’s wrong with the USA?

Many of us outside the USA are asking what is wrong with your system of governance. How does a deranged thief continue governing unchecked? No constraints by the legislature or the courts.

[Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943 @DimitrisSoudas]

When Canada talks to China, some MPs are outraged.

Yet that same outrage is never expressed toward Washington in the midst of this trade war.

Meanwhile, the United States is now resuming military-to-military talks with Beijing.

I assume the outrage is coming any minute now.

Cue the outrage, please.

https://t.co/KKt52m8Gbh

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

America is attacking Bombardier now?

Cancel ALL the F-35s. Trump doesn’t respect any agreements so we shouldn’t either with him.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Carney: "Every time we choose to buy Canadian, travel in Canada, we're sending a message: Nobody in this country is in the stands. 40 million of us are on the ice."

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“To defy the stupid, to oppose the malicious is no easy thing. Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened but do not be silenced.”

— Bertrand Russell

[J Hunter🍁 @MrJoKeR604]

Choose Gripen.

Open the Saab production facility in Canada.

Work with allies. Sensible, trustworthy allies.

[Paul Vieira @paulvieira]

Canadian exports to the US fell 6.6% in July, the biggest % decrease since April 2025. Canadian exports to non-US markets rose 7.4% in July, a third consecutive monthly increase and marking a record high of C$25.6 billion. https://t.co/LAEqMskO6k

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

I order a lot of secondhand and vintage books online. This year the prices jumped and I chalked it up to inflation. I was wrong.

The reason behind the spike in prices is what AI companies euphemistically dub "destructive scanning." That is when they buy millions of second-hand books in bulk and send them to enormous warehouses across America. There, automated assembly lines cut the pages from the spines and then feed the pages into huge industrial scanners.

Those books are being harvested for their text to expand the database for the LLM models. The physical pages? Later discarded. Some of these are the last remaining editions of historical and collectible works — once they're cut and scanned, they're gone.

Booksellers across the UK, Germany, New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. are reporting the same thing: bulk, random, non-fiction orders. Orders have ranged from 1,000 books to as many as a million in a single purchase. Just one vendor contract called for scanning 500,000 to 2 million books.

Anthropic ran this under an internal name, Project Panama, and tried to keep it quiet. Some booksellers noticed something was odd. A Devon bookseller, for instance, got an odd order this summer for books on subjects as disparate as Cornish pioneers in South Africa, cheeses of the world, and Hong Kong jewelry — from a "shipping company" near Heathrow. Her suspicions grew fast. It turned out to an AI run office.

I should have seen this coming. I'm one of the author-plaintiffs in the Bartz et al. v. Anthropic class action — a different kind of theft. Anthropic had trained Claude on more than seven million digitized books, sourced from pirate websites, without paying a penny to authors or publishers. Mine included, seven of my thirteen. There are 120,000 individual authors and rightsholders (representing 447,576 eligible works out of 482,460 total listed books).

A federal judge approved the $1.5 billion settlement this summer. It was the court documents from that litigation that exposed Project Panama. I missed it until the story recently hit the Washington Post and Daily Mail and other outlets.

Having learned an expensive lesson from its class action payout, Anthropic is now going after physical books a different way — and legally, this time. Under the first-sale doctrine, established by the Supreme Court in 1908, once someone buys a physical book, they can do whatever they want with it, including destroying it.

So Anthropic attorneys have determined that buying and scanning a physical copy sidesteps the piracy problem. And once that book is shredded, any future Claude user can draw on its contents for free — the original gone forever.

Some call this a modern-day book burning. The Nazis destroyed books to erase what was in them — these companies destroy books to steal the information and then essentially sell it back to you. I am still angry this is somehow legal.