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MAGA MAPLE declared that a youth that asked a question at a public event should be "spanked."
Danielle Smith accused the school board of being "viciously compliant" when they released the list of books the MAGA morons were trying to ban.
In Alberta, the kids are alright.

中秋節快樂!
Jung chow jit fai lock!
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Five out of six measures of identity and solidarity with U.S. people of color are equivalent across English and Spanish interviews As the US continues to racially diversify, researchers are increasingly investigating the prevalence of self-identification as – and feelings of solidarity with – people of color (PoC). Prior resea...

Our job as mentors is to identify our students' strengths and areas that can be developed. My PhD student (psych), Sydney Tran, has deep substantive interests, but also enviable methodological range. Her first, first-author publication is tagged below.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I Just Stood Up And Clapped After Merriam-Webster Said This In Their New Ad "In a world of AI slop, be a Merriam-Webster."

"There's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence."

www.buzzfeed.com/bellaarnold/...

ANALYSIS | What is the Supreme Court going to say about the notwithstanding clause? | CBC News Last month, Justice Minister Sean Fraser stood accused by a Bloc Québécois MP of wanting to rewrite the Constitution. "On the contrary, we do not want to change the Constitution," Fraser said. "We wan...

Regardless of the result, I imagine it's going to be controversial.

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Quebec durable goods law comes into effect | Globalnews.ca Quebec measures targeting retailers when it comes to sustainability of goods and planned obsolescence of products comes into effect today.

"The federal Economic Development and Environment Departments completed an online consultation on the issue last September, noting at the time that other provinces were considering adopting similar rules."

...seriously, why haven't we?

globalnews.ca/news/1146531...

Property owners return to court to challenge short-term rental rules The owners argue that the rules should not affect anyone who was lawfully operating a short-term rental before the new legislation came into effect.

I hear that investment is inherently risky.

Political risks are part of that - if you hoover up additional properties in the midst of a housing crisis, I don't think you should get to whine about stuff like this.

www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p...

That awkward moment when you meme yourself.

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Parents, children rally against Ford's planned speed cam ban | CBC News Concerned parents gathered with their children by a speed camera near Bloor and Dundas streets Saturday afternoon to protest a plan from Premier Doug Ford’s government to end automated speed enforceme...

OF COURSE SPEED CAMERAS WORK! There’s clear evidence of that. They save lives, and removing them will costs lives, including KIDS’ LIVES. The narrative of “cash grab” is a political tactic. Every dollar raised by such cameras is evidence of too much deadly speeding and the need for such cameras.

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Wait. So Alberta’s federal income taxes don’t belong to Canada but BC’s coastline belongs to Alberta?

What in the When It Suits Us kind of Trumpian thought pretzel is this now?

Hi, Gen Z. I'm a millennial. I have terrible work life balance, and here's the thing: I don't want that for you. Leave that shit job. Prioritize your mental and physical health. Tell that rude boss to go suck an egg. If you have that ability, do it. Take it. LIVE.

I’m sorry but I’m going to laugh so hard if a Canadian team wins this year’s World Series

I love them so much :D

"Unfortunately, I'm not pretty enough to be considered a hot mess, but I do identify as a room temperature inconvenience. 09/29/2025." The background image is a smirking brunette woman labelled Prilidiano Puereyydo's (1865) 'Portrait of a Lady' with a watermark reading 'MEME ME rdgs <3'

Poilievre chooses word carefully when asked about ostrich cull, May calls for re-testing | CBC News Federal leaders in Ottawa have been asked to weigh in on the fate of a flock of ostriches facing a cull due to bird flu in Edgewood, B.C. In response, Pierre Poilievre has pointed a finger at the Libe...

This ostrich farm seems oddly well-connected.

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YouTube video by Tourisme Cantons-de-l'Est Come hug it out in the Eastern Townships

(Sane) Americans will always be welcome :)

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Disillusionomics: the US economy isn’t serving gen Z | Alice Lassman My generation is struggling for stability in a system that no longer feels fit for purpose. It’s time to take that seriously

I'm just old enough to "remember a version of the economy not defined by crisis," while not being old enough to have ever meaningfully participated in it.

It's immensely frustrating to see the struggles of two different generations met with lazy platitudes.

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AI bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says A research firm is arguing not just that AI is in a bubble, but that it is 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble.

I'm no economist, but it sure looks to me like we'll soon be in the midst of the stupidest recession possible. (And not just because images generated of it will have too many fingers).

www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

Number of B.C. drivers travelling to the U.S. drops for eighth consecutive month British Columbia residents told CTV News they’re not inclined to visit their neighbors to the south.

“I was not expecting it to be so dramatic or so prolonged.”

I've said it before and I'll no doubt say it again - ordinary Canadians are way out in front of their political leadership, as well as most of the intelligentsia, on this one.

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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illustration showing a room with a shadowy ghost hiding behind open double doors that lead to a gloomy hallway and staircase. A small grey cat looks up at the ghost.

just passing through

Would not be surprised if UPS is randomly up-charging people just because they think they can get away with it. That's certainly been my recent experience with them.

Came here to say this. I'm Canadian and they charged me for tariffs on items I *know* are supposed to be duty-free. (Their story as to why I was charged keeps changing, too).

B.C. Conservative Party staffer fired after comments on orange shirts | CBC News B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is facing calls to denounce a statement by a caucus staffer who called the Survivors' flag — which commemorates the deaths at residential schools — a “disgrace” an...

Apparently, Shepherd had been an elected member of the BC Conservatives' board since 2022.

I'm surprised she managed to last that long without embarrassing the party in a sufficiently newsworthy way, given her history.

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Province considering setting standard, mandatory code of conduct for municipalities to curb bad behaviour - BC News

Good.

www.castanet.net/news/BC/5753...