Besides having AI Pretendians We News lets you select "my state" where you can choose which province's news you want to read.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/artificial-intelligence-indigenous-journalists-9.7345554
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hometown 4.5.10+hometown-1.2.1Retired Parliamentary Indexer. Socialist, political observer and sometime activist with HBA in Political Science, Laurentian University, 1973. Outdoorsperson, environmentalist, cyclist and former mountain biker. Amateur photographer and mapmaker.
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Some Albertans want to Remember The Alamo. They really should be remembering BREXIT.
All other American Presidents had one thing in common. They wanted a better America for the American people. Their ideas of a better America may have varied greatly and some may have been the opposite of that but it is what they believed. Trump is different. He wants to make America "great again" in a way that is inextricably tied to his ego and has nothing to do with the welfare of the American people.
I wonder how many Brexit proponents are thinking now that they might have been better able to deal with their sovereignty concerns by negotiating some sort of associate membership in the EU rather than a messy divorce.
#IdleChatter Anyone think that Carney might be similar to another wartime Conservative Prime Minister (not Canadian) with horrible conservative ideas but a pretty good wartime Prime Minister nonetheless.
Jean Chretien at Gander Today
Full Speech https://youtu.be/AO-Yx-59jFA?si=fFHRQMwXo2HBKdew
Excerpt https://youtu.be/wMTO8h5v4h0?si=h7CXJFya_IHYJr4d
A poor man's utopia is a rich man's hell.
Moving west to east, ONTARIO it's your turn.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/daylight-time-manitoba-9.7347844
Donald Trump Inspires Canada in Song
http://the5thc.blogspot.com/2026/09/donald-trump-inspires-canada-in-song.html
#CanadianPatrioticSongs
IF you are going to do #AI, this is the way to do, it using an actually verified #knowledge base not using everything any yahoo has ever said on the #Internet. Of course it is still not #intelligence just #information retrieval.
"The museum says MUSEO operates within a closed language model using only museum-approved research and exhibition materials rather than searching the open internet. Staff members regularly monitor and update the system, according to the museum."
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/canadian-museum-of-history-ai-chatbot
Genocide is now 'humanitarian purgatory'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-ceasefire-millions-in-humanitarian-limbo-9.7255970
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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca
The market does a great job of allocating resources where the profits are highest but a lousy job of allocating them where the need is greatest. #capitalism
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@shawnhooper/116952886639539628
Carney government seeking to buy/rent office space to replace free office space provided by Public Servants that they won't let them use.
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@BrianJopek@mastodon.world
He's going after transcendental meditation after he bans public transit.
Work from home allowed as long as you are crossing a picket line.
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/bank-of-canada-labour-dispute
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
Marketing mantra: Invent it and we will create a need in the consumer's mind.
Is it really a political party if a change of leader alone can change the direction of the party radically or is it just a cult with an elected leader.
"“I find that the defendant has demonstrated that to continue with the trial, considering this kind of misconduct, would be an affront to societal norms of fair play and decency and serve to undermine the integrity of the justice system,” Ontario Court Justice Kevin McHugh said Wednesday in a London courtroom as he stayed all charges against the now-22-year-old man, including kidnapping, uttering threats and pointing a firearm."
He kidnapped a man at gunpoint, but his charges were thrown out because police beat him and lied about it
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-toronto-man-who-kidnapped-a-man-at-gunpoint-in-london-has-charges-thrown-out-after-police-beat-him-during-his-arrest-and-lied-about-it-in-court/article_d1a7ee4e-34a3-43f8-98a9-ae8d7b6e1585.html
For Canada developing nuclear weapons has never been a technical question but a moral one and I trust it will stay that way.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-remains-antinuke-road-to-bomb-getting-shorter-9.7283194
The biggest failure of Canadian democracy at the moment is that we no longer see elections as a time to elect Members of Parliament to represent us in Parliament on a daily basis but as a time to choose a dictator to rule over us for the next 4-5 years.
http://the5thc.blogspot.com/2018/10/ondemocracy-whata-better-way-to-restart.html
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@cheriecreationstruck@birds.town
cool shot
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@fsinn@mas.to @dyckron@cosocial.ca
Trump does not have to win he just has to be able to tell his cult followers he won
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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca
Having an ear in the room might be a good thing, but beyond that ...
So essentially the delay in the Gordie Howe Bridge opening was Canada figuring out what little thing they could do to make Donald Trump think he won while making no significant concessions.
Wondering are there #PredictionMarkets on what stupid thing Trump is going to say next. Seems like an opportunity to make a bundle.
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@PaulBusch@cosocial.ca
MEN: "It's not that we're bad at following instructions we just don't need them"
Greenbelt Pathway July 1, 2026 Storm Damage Slideshow
Now posted on my blog with further information
https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2026/07/greenbelt-pathway-july-1-2026-storm.html
RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/117008797474566619
We found it - the quote that beats Trump for the Noble Bullshit Prize
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From the website of the company that’s destroying books to feed them into the ravenous AI maw.
“A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one.” https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/ai-labs-buy-scan-shred-millions-of-rare-books/news-story/0c3b45a67093ab462a587a0348538ce9
Open quoted postSlideshow of Ottawa, Ontario NCC Greenbelt Pathway damage from July 1, 2026 storm
"Kersten said that allowing Netanyahu to overfly Canada sends a dangerous message and sets a precedent that other foreigners may seek to take advantage of."
Unfortunately this has to be balanced by taking into consideration the international impact of shooting his plane down if it came to that,
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/netanyahu-flight-canadian-airspace-9.7288211
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Missed river or ocean, I guess I should have just said natural water source
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@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
If they let you have books you might have the wrong books.
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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca
Fact checking from AI, no no no
When you see "literally " what do you think.
When you see "literally " what do you think.
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@CalmPresence@mstdn.so
Because obviously the country with the most guns and the most imprisoned people will always be the safest.
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@CalmPresence@mstdn.social
Trumpesque
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
That would not happen in Canada but you would probably have to weight longer for knee or hip surgery.
So Trump has gone from not wanting to renegotiate a trade deal with Canada to agreeing to intensify trade talks with Canada. So Trump's tariff threat appears to have forced Trump to change his position. #???
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-trade-response-trump-9.7277862
Waiting for Trump's announcement that US is withdrawing from NATO in 2036
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/03/trump-nato-alliance-support-ridiculous-ahead-of-summit
America thinks its might military could easily defeat Canada's smaller military. But it will not talk a military to defeat the US, just enough resistance fighters with enough dynamite to blow up dams, pipelines and transmission lines.
RE: @glynmoody@mastodon.social
True American Exceptionalism
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
We can see where this is going, a few investors spend a ton of cash establishing a paper value for the company, Issue an IPO and recover twice, or much more, their investment, and then wait for the company to go bankrupt.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
You should have just nailed it to the wall and you would have been rich.
"Three months into his leadership, Lewis has emerged as one of Canada’s most prominent critics of what he describes as the Carney government’s “all on board” approach to AI."
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/mark-carney-is-fumbling-on-job-killing-technologies-avi-lewis-charges/article_e93461df-5867-41cc-909d-4e1244e4da6e.html
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Think of the work the maintenance guy had to do to train him self to say that rather than what comes naturally in such situations.