Daniel Schwartz

Former producer based in Toronto and Barcelona. Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

What Andy Burnham’s Westminster past reveals about him https://t.co/iFmtpyrajo via @ft

[Alex Tapscott @alextapscott]

Today, @dtapscott and I published a guest essay in the @globeandmail based on our new report for the @blockchainRI -- Rebuilding Canada for the New Technology Order.

Canada faces two defining forces: a new geopolitical order and the rise of AI.

Our challenge isn't a lack of talent, capital, entrepreneurship, or resources. It's that we've failed to build a digital-first architecture for economic growth, productivity, and national power.

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[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

https://t.co/oomwkVpEeO @DesrosiersME @Fromagehomme

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

#PapaLeónXIV departs Sant Agusti: https://t.co/n770JJ4TwV

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

#PopeLeo / Papa León/ Papa Lleó XIV arrives at Sant Agusti Church, Barcelona https://t.co/JOOtSGyGzN #PapaLeónXIV

[Ronen Bergman @ronenbergman]

The strike on the compound in Tehran was emblematic of the muddled reality of the war’s first week: a withering air campaign by American and Israeli forces against an overwhelmed enemy, but few answers about what victory might look like. Iran, its government still in place, has remained defiant and expanded the battlefield across the region, inflicting the first American casualties of the conflict.

Even as senior administration officials in the United States spent the week trying to narrowly cast the war’s goals around denying Iran any chance of gaining a nuclear weapon, President Trump has bounced between wildly divergent explanations for what he hopes to achieve.

W\ @MarkMazzettiNYT @tylerpager @farnazfassihi @EricSchmittNYT @ErikaSolomon and @julianbarnes
via @nytimes

https://t.co/tdEC6glxtY

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

"Tehran’s Shi’ite proxies in Iraq... Insiders tell Reuters how the decimation of other pro-Iran regional groups, & the pursuit of political power & money, have kept the Iraq-based groups largely muted & divided."
https://t.co/eVC4vTAOYS

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

https://t.co/EcqmW95XR8

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

“Shy,” the first single from Jennifer Foster's new album, Powerline, is officially out today:
https://t.co/YH8BGCsy3O

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

"...there’s some surprisingly small companies involved who have really strong connections and ties to Trump, his campaigns and people in his orbit."

[FT Data @ftdata]

Transcript: Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown https://t.co/TxRDvvlu8W

[Lauren O’Neil @laurenonline]

This is now officially the snowiest day on record for Toronto! https://t.co/ujrk3Ug4KZ

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

@BarackObama From what the videos show, it looks like ICE are Pretti Good killers. #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Minneapolis #ICE

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

From what the videos show, it looks like ICE are Pretti Good killers. #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Minneapolis #ICE

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

By Gustavo IndartOpinion | The underlying cause of Canada’s affordability crisis — and the obvious solution
Toronto Star
"the underlying driver of the affordability crisis: wages have not kept pace with the soaring cost of living."
https://t.co/800NJCZ6b9

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

My 2013 bio of #Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro https://t.co/nwOYZZB6Gm

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

Many impressive, incredible, important photos here: 2025 in Reuters Pictures https://t.co/4vPqRVAgwN via @SpecialReports

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

"Canada remains the top preferred destination for younger American women looking to leave." - @Gallup https://t.co/JgLvjUDsic (Canada is #1 on Gallup's Migrant Acceptance Index, although that was 5 years ago.)

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

Read this, and then read this by @deanbaker13 of @ceprdc : https://t.co/16TfTNCLjw

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

AI Empowers Grieving Family to Slash Exorbitant Hospital Bill.

They were ripped off from an all too common hospital scam.

A grieving family recently used AI to reduce a staggering $195,000 hospital bill down to just $33,000. The incident, stemming from end-of-life care for a relative who suffered a fatal heart attack, highlights the opaque and often exploitative nature of U.S. healthcare billing practices.

The story unfolded after the family's relative passed away following only four hours in intensive care. With the patient's medical insurance having lapsed two months prior, the hospital presented an enormous bill lacking transparency. Undeterred, the family—posting under the handle "Nthmonkey" on Threads—persisted in demanding an itemized breakdown, overcoming initial delays blamed on "upgraded computers." Once obtained, they turned to Claude AI to dissect the charges.

The AI acted as an impartial forensic analyst, scrutinizing the billing codes for irregularities. It identified several critical errors: duplicative charges where the hospital billed for both an overarching procedure and its individual components (amounting to roughly $100,000 in overcharges), improper coding distinguishing inpatient from emergency services, and violations in billing for ventilator use on the day of emergency admission—practices that would typically be rejected under Medicare guidelines.

As Nthmonkey explained, "the hospital had billed us for the master procedure and then again for every component of it," underscoring how the institution "made up its own rules, its own prices, and figured it could just grab money from unsophisticated people."

Armed with these insights, the family leveraged Claude to draft a professional dispute letter. The correspondence cited each violation meticulously and escalated the pressure by referencing potential legal action, negative publicity, and even testimony before legislative committees. Initially, the hospital suggested appealing to charity for relief, but the family's persistence paid off. The bill was ultimately reduced by 83%, with Nthmonkey emphasizing a principled stance: "Nobody should pay more out of pocket than Medicare would pay. No one."

This anecdote, while unverified independently, resonates amid widespread frustration with healthcare costs.

Hospitals, insurers, and legal entities often thrive on complexity that overwhelms individuals, but AI tools provide everyday people with compliance-level leverage. As Nthmonkey concluded, "Let’s not let them get away with this anymore."

AI is often feared for job displacement, cases like this reveal its role in dismantling excuses for inefficiency and unfairness, empowering consumers to fight back.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://t.co/ple5slwnqc

[Daniel Schwartz @danielcbc]

Worth reading: @jakesugarman in @newrepublic on #Argentina & Trump administration efforts to rescue the Milei govt. https://t.co/lVFtmwazfs