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Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI | CBC News The mother of Maya Gebala, a 12-year-old who remains in hospital after the shooting on Feb. 10, alleges the tech company failed to alert authorities to prompts from the shooter related to violence.

Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

10.03.2026 01:10 👍 113 🔁 55 💬 9 📌 12

Based on how people reacted to my talks years ago...this is unsurprising.

CPL routinely, it seems, disregards actual human experience, for whatever bullshot their leadership has latched onto.

A culture of chasing the in thing, whilst disregarding people with expertise, or legitimate capability.

08.03.2026 23:18 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

$50 an hour for a Sloperator?

How about you hire real artists instead?

08.03.2026 15:52 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Ummm WTAF?

Calgary folks. Call the library and stop this nonsense. #yyc

08.03.2026 15:49 👍 43 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 0
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Why is my local city and public library looking to pay $50/hr to an AI Artist Residency? The Calgary Public Library is offering $8,000 for an AI Artist Residency while Canadian artists face funding cuts and 16% grant acceptance rates. There are programs like this around the world. Why?

what in the world, Calgary Public Library??

brennan.day/why-is-my-lo...

08.03.2026 15:41 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3

this is a kind thing to say ☺️

05.03.2026 19:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Article 5

The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Artile 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.

Article 5 The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Artile 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area. Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.

"such action as it deems necessary" lot of off ramps in the NATO treaty, not the least being Article 7, which says we don't have to violate our UN obligations. what if a Prime Minister with courage said "it's actually necessary not to escalate things, we're assisting by sitting on our damn thumbs"

05.03.2026 19:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Carney says Canadian military participation in Middle East war can’t be ruled out - National | Globalnews.ca Carney said the question around Canada's potential future involvement is a "fundamental hypothetical," adding the conflict can spread very broadly.

If I were Prime Minister of Canada I would simply rule out participation in an illegal war.

globalnews.ca/news/1171706...

05.03.2026 15:43 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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#Canada’s favourite Premier #WabKinew of #Manitoba who supports peace, understands the fears of war and worries of people impacted.

#mbpoli #cdnpoli

04.03.2026 16:42 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Thumbnail of an Instagram reel. It has a photo of Mark Carney speaking at a podium, edited to appear in front of smoke plumes amid a city. The text reads: "I'm all for international law 'theoretically'".

Thumbnail of an Instagram reel. It has a photo of Mark Carney speaking at a podium, edited to appear in front of smoke plumes amid a city. The text reads: "I'm all for international law 'theoretically'".

1/ This is utterly incoherent.

What Canadians need to hear from our Prime Minister right now is simple: call for a ceasefire and immediately withdraw your misguided support for Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war.

www.instagram.com/reel/DVcJjIP...

04.03.2026 00:16 👍 235 🔁 76 💬 6 📌 6
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AXWORTHY: "The United States and Israel committed an act of aggression against the UN charter, that the evidence supporting it was not there, there was no imminent threat."

03.03.2026 23:19 👍 36 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 3

this could have been us Alberta smdh

03.03.2026 02:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A still from the NFB animation, "Neighbours." Two men sit in lawnchairs, reading newspapers. One headline reads, "Peace Certain If No War." The other reads, "War Certain If No Peace."

A still from the NFB animation, "Neighbours." Two men sit in lawnchairs, reading newspapers. One headline reads, "Peace Certain If No War." The other reads, "War Certain If No Peace."

同胞に親切なれ
親善鄰居
आपके पड़ोसी से प्रेम पूर्वक व्यवहार कीजिए
اپنے ہمساءے دوستانی برتاؤ کرؤ
اَحِب قَرِيبَ
וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ
Любите ближнего своего
Amu vian najbaron
Elsk din nabo
Ama a tu prójimo
Liebe deinen Nächsten
Amate il prossimo
Aimez votre prochain
Love your neighbour

24.02.2026 18:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

my feelings exactly

bsky.app/profile/gone...

02.03.2026 03:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lloyd Axworthy remains undefeated in terms of forcing fellow Liberals to face their own shitheeledness

02.03.2026 03:38 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

*if THEY are lost ... you know what I was saying

01.03.2026 21:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I cannot convey with words the profound peace and beauty of walking through the ancient hardwoods stands of Eastern PEI. if we are lost the very soul of PEI would be diminished. please consider supporting

01.03.2026 21:02 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Calgary coffee chain accused of unionbusting The workers have been trying to unionize since last month.

Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social

Calgary coffee chain accused of unionbusting

The workers have been trying to unionize since last month.

albertaworker.ca/news/calgary...

27.02.2026 11:54 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East Canada’s position remains clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world’s worst human rights records, and must ...

Not a single word about international law—these attacks are clearly, unambiguously illegal.
Not a single word about sovereignty—Carney’s supposed bedrock value, as claimed in Davos.
No concern about Iran being attacked by the US while pursuing diplomacy—as Canada embarks on existential USMCA talks.

28.02.2026 14:14 👍 161 🔁 69 💬 4 📌 10

Carney's enthusiastic embrace of a lawless US compares very unfavourably with Jean Chrétien's decision not to follow the US to Iraq or embrace BMD after 9/11. The fear in some quarters (e.g., the CD Howe Institute) was the same then as now: that the US would punish Canada for getting out of line.

28.02.2026 18:57 👍 79 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 1

RIP Democracy you would have loved prosecuting all these freaks

28.02.2026 23:41 👍 104 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can even passibely take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"

- Marco Savio

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can even passibely take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" - Marco Savio

brb going to find some gears and some wheels

ushistoryscene.com/article/free...

01.03.2026 00:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

c'mon man

01.03.2026 00:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To this I'd add that Carney isn't just responding to Trump; he's showing the next US president -- Democratic or Republican -- that Canada, or at least Carney's Canada, has no red lines, no principles worth defending, and no guts for a real fight if push comes to shove (and it will).

28.02.2026 18:30 👍 67 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 0

Bravo to the team at @broadviewmedia.bsky.social for a wonderful 100th anniversary of the United Church issue. This anniversary means so much for Canada and isn't likely going to get the attention that it deserves, so at least we have Broadview!

11.05.2025 23:22 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Tech guru: “Three possibilities are before us: Heaven on Earth, total annihilation, or nothing much happens. So anyway, don't worry about sinking the entire economy of the planet into this one thing.”

26.02.2026 15:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

presumably a cell tower covers about 5km, whereas the VHF Weatherradio transmitters cover about 60 km?

26.02.2026 00:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#cdnpoli #Canada
Contact your MP!

This is important.
Weather Radio is vital for Canadians everywhere, and particularly Canadians driving on the highways across the vast stretches of rural Canada with spotty cell coverage.

www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

25.02.2026 23:55 👍 49 🔁 42 💬 0 📌 0

very disheartening

25.02.2026 23:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a screen shot of a map depicting cell towers, roughly centred on St. Peter's, PEI. there are four towers in the village of Morell, and another tower a few kilometres east of St. Peter's.

a screen shot of a map depicting cell towers, roughly centred on St. Peter's, PEI. there are four towers in the village of Morell, and another tower a few kilometres east of St. Peter's.

e.g. my experience in this area is, unless you are in the village of Morell, there's nothing (and even then not great).

another thing I'm not hyped about, Weatherradio is a public service, cell service is not

25.02.2026 23:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0