Canada's already into our 2nd worst wildfire season in recorded history & Albertans will AGAIN breathe historically WILD smoke hours in the 100s, so can we REALLY be talking about more #Pipelines in 2025? Hub co-founder #JoeVipond on the latest! #yyc https://www.podcastics.com/episode/370425/link/ #MarkCarney #Wildfires #Smoke #SmokeYYC #Climate #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli #Pipelines #ElbowsUp #CostOfClimate
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Canadian citizen dies while in U.S. ICE custody in #Florida
« The Canadian, identified as 49-year-old Johnny Noviello, was found unresponsive Monday at the Federal Detention Center in #Miami and was attended to by medical staff, but was pronounced dead the same day, #ICE said in a statement Wednesday. »
https://globalnews.ca/news/11262681/canadian-dead-ice-custody-florida/
US company to build methane gas turbine plant fueled by US-based fracked gas to power provincial power utility for 25 years. All in order to operate 7% of the time in case of dips (yeah right). This will be in the middle of the only animal migratory route connecting Nova Scotia to mainland North America and on the Atlantic fly way — a major north-south flyway for migratory birds in North America.
"98% of Canadian households tracked receiving social assistance live below poverty line: report
73 per cent of households tracked were living in “deep poverty,”
“It’s not just that people are poor, it’s that they are deeply poor,”
“I don’t think people really understand the depth of poverty that people who are on social assistance have to live with,”"
keeping in mind, it took me 3 years to get on #Disability #ODSP and it only pays $522 for housing max
More Canadians avoiding U.S. goods, travel amid #Trump trade war: poll
“… 75% of Canadians surveyed say they intend to avoid travel to the U.S. — up 10 points since February
— while the number of people avoiding U.S.-made goods has risen five points to 72 per cent.”
Wowza… Canadians really do not tend to agree on much. Those numbers are high!
https://globalnews.ca/news/11264980/ipsos-poll-canada-pride-us-goods-travel-trump/
A best-selling Vancouver author has launched a class-action lawsuit against Nvidia, claiming the multi-trillion dollar tech company illegally used his and other Canadian writers' works to train artificial intelligence large language models (LLM). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-author-leads-class-actions-against-ai-giants-1.7595962
J.B. MacKinnon is named as the representative plaintiff in the claim, which says his books, The 100-Mile Diet and The Once and Future World, were part of a 196,640-book dataset that Nvidia used without paying a licensing fee or securing consent to acquire or use the works. #cdnpoli #copyright #AI