Caroline O’Neill

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This is one of the best listener-mailbag podcasts I've ever listened to! Lots of helpful advice and anti-doomer pep talks for the nerve-racking times we're suddenly living in.

You can subscribe for $5! Their entire back catalog is worth bingeing

Canada report on foreign interference: no evidence of ‘traitors’ in parliament Commission finds democratic institutions ‘robust in the face of foreign interference’ but some MPs behaved ‘naively’

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To Fight Misinformation, We Need to Teach That Science Is Dynamic Science is a social process, and teaching students how researchers work in tandem to develop facts will make them less likely to be duped by falsehoods

More on teaching the social processes of science.

Commissioner won’t name parliamentarians allegedly collaborating with foreign powers Marie-Josée Hogue is leading the inquiry that will make classified recommendations to government about MPs and senators accused of aiding foreign governments

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Outages rapidly mount as 90+ km/h gusting winds blow through Quebec - The Weather Network Widespread winter warnings continue to be in effect for a burst of rough conditions, and a dangerous travel risk across Quebec into Tuesday

Widespread power outages rapidly rose to over 100,000 across southern Quebec as fierce winds continue to rage across the province through Monday night. #QCstorm #QCwx

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I wrote the Vulture obituary for David Lynch, one of the great American artists of our lifetimes.

Trump says an External Revenue Service will come Jan 20. Canadian lawmakers have their work cut out for them in the next week.

More people should be looking to the Canadian news ban.

I mean the government will argue it doesn’t have an issue with the platform itself.

Does the federal government think Meta has engaged in foreign interference by restricting Canadian news availability?

Read nowhere as much as I wanted to in 2024 but read some good ones all the same. Highlights: Doppelgänger, Big Little Lies, North of Nowhere and Lessons in Chemistry.

What an absolute pleasure it was to take part in Reimagining Political Journalism: Perils, Possibilities & What Comes Next last weekend.

The panels served up some meaty food for thought. I was fortunate enough to share some of my thoughts in a plenary session.

The Problem With a Life of "Yes" Always being told you're right breaks your brain.

This was from 2023 but it’s still an extremely relevant piece about how never being told No breaks people’s brains:

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Trump Says He ‘Shouldn’t Have Left’ White House in 2020 at Pennsylvania Rally Donald J. Trump, who sought to overturn his loss of the 2020 election, also joked that he didn’t mind if reporters were shot.

Donald Trump told supporters at a rally on Sunday that he “shouldn’t have left” the White House after the 2020 election. He also joked about reporters being shot.

You might be stressed but it does look delicious!

New Brunswick’s first female premier, Susan Holt, to be sworn in on Nov. 2 The Liberal Leader announces a transition team as she prepares to take the reins of the province

New Brunswick’s first female premier, Susan Holt, to be sworn in on Nov. 2

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A map of Paris depicting revenues per kilometer of omnibus lines. The lines are of different colors and thicknesses - reds, blues, greens, oranges. A chart shows revenue collected and numbers of passengers.

“Receipts of Omnibus Lines of Paris in 1879,” Émile Cheysson for the French Ministry of Public Works, 1881

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This is sad to hear.

www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7364860

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation | HKS Misinformation Review Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, genera...

We're so fucked.

"Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."

Gotta love democracy!

Liberals’ national campaign director tells Justin Trudeau he is quitting Jeremy Broadhurst privately told Trudeau last month he is leaving, according to several Liberal sources.

Wow.

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Hunter Biden will change plea in tax case, lawyers tell judge Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, was convicted in June of crimes related to buying a handgun while being a user and addict of illegal drugs.

I will be interested to see whether Hunter Biden gets Special Counsel David Weiss to allow him to preserve the right to appeal whether the original agreement (which fell apart after the botched plea hearing in Delaware) precluded this prosecution.

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I’m teaching a third year civics class this semester. Obviously, want to keep it Canadian focused but I would say it will be hard to just outright ignore our Southern neighbours.

Trump campaign was hacked, campaign says The campaign suggested Iran was to blame. POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation.

NEW: Trump campaign says it was hacked (they speculate by Iran) after Politico receives leaked documents via anonymous e-mails, including a 271-page vetting packet on JD Vance, including a section marked "POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES" (which I have to assume just says "c'mon")

Jimmy Carter’s next goal is voting for Kamala Harris for president Former President Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 on Oct. 1, is “more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza” in recent days, his family says.

“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Jimmy Carter told his son Chip this week, according to his grandson Jason Carter

Living the dream.

Before Alice Munro’s husband sexually abused his stepdaughter, he targeted another 9-year-old girl. ‘It was a textbook case of grooming’ Jane Morrey says family friend Gerald Fremlin exploited her just a few years before he sexually assaulted his stepdaughter Andrea.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigns after assassination attempt against former President Trump at rally.