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Graphic artist, M.Des — Art direction and editorial design. Teaching and research on mandatory positivity and its effects on freedom of expression, architecture media, and smart cities. Invited to McGill, UQAM, Harvard. michelechampagne.com
A photograph of Quayside in the 1960s by Roy Mitchell, the “smart” city site proposed by Google’s Sidewalk Labs in the late 2010s. The Victory silos are at centre top. City of Toronto archives, Alexandra Studio Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 5657.
Ford said “his idea” to allow jets “has the support of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government”.
I’d love to see the Porter deck justifying runway expansion for jets destined for Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Miami when Canadian travel to the States is down 30% from before Trump's tariff war.
This gov is trying to reorient Canada away from U.S. trade. But also: spending $30m to speed U.S. flights for 4% of Toronto passengers.
Elbows up, or whatever
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Tired: Pictures of buildings.
Wired: Turning cities into Stasi-like surveillance games so that we don’t have to pay the pizza delivery guy, ever again!
– cc @greglindsay.org
“The research concluded that chatbots had become an ‘accelerant for harm’”.
As previously reported by The Logic, the Carney government is “mulling” a workaround to pass an online harms bill that would not directly tackle “AI” like this.
“As I was getting ready to ask Larry [Summers] questions, I called up Mark Carney and said, ‘What do you talk to Larry about?’ And he said: ‘I don’t really talk to Larry about things. I just listen to Larry because he’s so smart ... I want to hear what he has to say.”
– Chrystia Freeland, 2011
Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI
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New from me: Remember pocket-sized mass-market paperbacks? Indigo is trying to bring them back from the dead – one Canadian non-fiction book at a time www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
I remember, @joshokane.bsky.social, but my paperbacks used to fit in small purses—in Hoi Bo stitches, Arket clutches, and Ölend shoulder bags.
Doug Ford Sr., then his sons Rob Ford and now Doug Ford have had a thing about hating on and crushing Toronto. It would be great to see journalists report on this context whenever they put out a story about a single airport, wellness spa, science centre, et cetera.
The ultimate double book review from Andrew O’Hagan for the exquisite @lrb.co.uk typeset in Quadraat, a typeface drawn by Dutch designer @fredsmeijers.bsky.social. This is why readers subscribe to it en masse.
Two books:
– Entitled, by Andrew Lownie
– Nobody’s Girl, by Virginia Giuffre
Unleashing utter hell, and not even having a clue why www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
They're going to poison a city with 17 million people
Rapid sports trading and betting is bad. This is worse.
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
(🎥 Vahid Online)
The oil depots in Sohanak, northeast of Tehran, Iran, are severely struck. Videos are showing massive fires all over the place.
C’mon, people. Look at your Kremlin style guide. The phrase is “special military operation.” Not all of you are getting this right.
Humour comes in many forms.
The struggle is making him look bad and he knows it. Hence this lapse:
Carney has also been struggling with the Parliamentary Budget Officer who keeps popping his communications bubbles: on the true cost of F-35s, on overall housing cuts, and more.
And yet Evan Solomon is merely requesting things, then taken under consideration by Sam Altman, and Canada still “does not have overarching AI legislation, nor does it have a set of rules that apply specifically to chatbots, unlike some other jurisdictions.”
