US politics is completely dominated by billionaires and their campaign financing.
Here in Canada, we should continue to protect the strict rules on campaign finance & donations.
At all levels, max donation is typically $1500-1750, and in BC donations cannot come from corporations or unions.
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
RIP to one of the great voices of women’s rights and liberation in the Middle East. Murdered by unknown assailants.
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The trio of clouds 😍
It's amazing people will claim "Canada and the USA have the same culture" and then on something as fundamental as "do you trust your fellow citizens to be good" we are further apart than any other two countries
Appreciate and agree with this analysis. Sim’s cavalier response makes me wonder if this isn’t the first time he’s spread disinformation in Chinese…
Inquiring minds want to know their response …
kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
Anyways.
The spawn is on! 🐟
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Support for wetlands, bats, pollinators, electric fences for farmers to deter grizzly bears & more: way to go, Central Kootenay Regional District!
Your face isn’t public property.
BC’s Court of Appeal just ruled against Clearview AI for scraping billions of social media photos to build a facial recognition database without consent.
Big win for digital privacy in Canada. Consent still matters.
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With every AI digestion & embroidered regurgitation of its sibling’s hallucinations we’re descending from peak internet toward seas of slop. Sad
If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise
Adventure ahoy… going to take advantage of the free water taxi which lands in Mansons and walk about on Cortes today 🌊🌞⛴️ #funinthesun #islandhopping
Last week, for the first time in 20 years, a man died from a treatable snake bite on my home island of Martinique. He had asked chatGPT what to do instead of going the hospital. He missed the 6 hours treatable window.
Evergreen reminder: hug your people.
Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that
More of this please.
As prime minister, Poilievre says he would go into the CUSMA review asking for an end to tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos and softwood lumber.
Damn why did no one else think of that www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Thank you for shining some light on this!
Congrats! New EA Director alert!
after failed military incursion, us government responds with economic sanctions
Protein Pop-Tarts
We've completely lost the plot
Really incredible in the worst way, that employee concerns dismissed and OpenAI failed to report to RCMP.
My assessment after listening to the six o’clock news: Evan Solomon sounds like a weak tech bro unlike David Eby, demanding accountability and regulatory change 💪
Vancouver council is meeting today, which means they will once be providing text updates *only* for subscribers of a website under investigation by multiple countries for child exploitation
Staff were told by council months ago to post elsewhere, but haven't
And they're doing it for 12 accounts
MLA for Cowichan Valley, Debra Toporowski (Qwulti’stunaat) rose in the House today to speak against residential school denialism. Thank you for sharing your and your family's truth, and for your powerful words.
It's one thing to have big, bold ideas. But we also have to show up.
Physically go to every riding. Say hello, sit down, listen. No matter how small the community.
This is the critical work of rebuilding. We have to show up for each other.
#ndp #cdnpoli #votetanille #atlanticcanada #ruralcanada
UBC studies highlight the importance of forests in flood, drought prevention (BC)
This may be my favourite stat of this Olympics
