Canada isn't a progressive place. The majority of Canadians support neoliberal economic ideology that makes the working class poor and funnels our tax dollars up to the rich.
We don't have left-wing mainstream media in this country and the majority of Canadians are right-wing.
Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
Yeah, nothing will go wrong with this. Sure.
"RCMP say AI is being used to write police reports on everything from traffic tickets to serious offences."
https://t.co/FCQYKkfTmT
Avi Lewis: And now 3k people killed in Lebanon in war crimes of now a significant scope and not to mention the global destabilization of its attack on Iran which by many accounts it dragged the United States into. This is a rogue state, Israel.
Alberta separatists say they'd clamp down on immigration and limit social services for new residents.
Calgary Mayor @JeromyYYC corrects the record on what new Canadians contribute to the province. Thoughts?
👀 FULL: https://t.co/FBPY0JKaZc
🎧 FULL: https://t.co/nI15MkYNPK #yyc
Wow crazy that the three guys ( @nickfrosst@aidangomez@1vnzh ) who started the AI company that got a quarter billion in federal money think the governments national AI strategy is an “incredible step forward” lol
Huge violent riots explode across Italy to demand their government boycotts israel.
Be like Albania and be like Italy and get israel fucked all the way off out of our nations!
If 9 Israelis had been burnt alive yesterday, they’d have called it a barbaric & savage antisemitic massacre.
When Israel burns alive 9 Palestinians to death, they call it a ceasefire.
Under NATO, Canada bombed Libya into rubble, then walked away as open slave markets appeared in the ruins. Canada’s entire mythology runs on reputation management, performative virtue signalling, and sickly sweet diplomatic maple syrup — projecting benevolence abroad and at home to anesthetize its domestic audience into swallowing the fairy tale of “peaceful, polite Canada."
Strip away the saccharine myth, and the genocidal anti-Indigenous colonial project collapses like the house of cards it always was — Indigenous youth killing themselves at several times the national rate while dozens of reserves still have no reliable piped water.
The maple glaze runs thick because it is the glue holding this rotten imperial anti-Republic together.
never forget how the US used agent orange during the Vietnam War: sprayed on civillians, contaminating land, damaging ecosystems, and generations later kids are still born with disabilities linked to dioxin exposure. The US never issued a formal apology and paid compensation
I honestly don't know how rich people end up committing crimes. If I had just $500K, I would live so peacefully, mind my own business, take walks, wear my little outfits, read books, and just feed birds.
The Liberal government might as well have called its AI strategy “All in for AI”.
This is a document that is heavy on hype, but light on the right guardrails that we need to protect people – and to ensure that the benefits of the technology don’t just flow to a handful of tech giants and investors.
It proposes a massive boost to business adoption of AI, with no concern for the consequences this will have for workers, especially young workers who are already watching careers vanish before their eyes.
This government is imposing a world-changing technology on all of us without any public debate. Instead of putting in place strong regulations to safeguard workers, youth, privacy, and our water and energy supply, they prefer to “move fast and break things” as the Silicon Valley motto goes.
That’s why before rushing ahead, with no brakes, we need a robust regulatory framework. Every other industry in this country, from forestry to banking, is regulated. Yet somehow, when it comes to generative AI that is controlled by MAGA-aligned billionaires, the usual rules don’t apply.
New Democrats support the development of cutting edge technology. For AI, that looks like responsible machine learning with small, contained datasets and targeted applications.
We’re calling for a humans-first AI strategy. One that protects Canadian jobs, data and natural resources. Not a strategy that mimics the worst tendencies of AI chatbots: hallucinating benefits and flattering big tech CEOs by telling them exactly what they want to hear.