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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid speaks out against N.S. arts cuts: ‘The arts are why I live in Nova Scotia’ Artists and arts-industry workers have issued warnings after the province axed $130-million in provincial grants

'The proposed cuts would be devastating, and would drive even more talent out of the province....Please don’t do this”
Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid speaks out against arts cuts: ‘The arts are why I live in Nova Scotia’ @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
#defendnsbooks

New: the Art Gallery of Ontario's deputy director + chief curator, Julian Cox, is leaving in April. No reasoning given, but worth noting AGO is under deep scrutiny over its governance re the Nan Goldin saga, and it hasn't begun searching for a replacement
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Fitch Downgrades Paramount After Warner Bros. Deal Announcement The $81 billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery is highly complex and poses credit risks, Fitch Ratings said.

After Warner Bros. deal, Paramount's debt has been downgraded to junk status

Basically, the ratings agency thinks the combined entity faces a ton of competition & there's a risk the entire enterprise fails -- debt attached to it is therefore high-risk

www.wsj.com/business/med...

Nova Scotia budget cuts publishing grant in blow to sector Program’s end is a major blow to independent publishers trying to carry the torch of Canadian storytelling

'It’s a huge loss to future generations of Nova Scotians who won’t hear their stories'
N.S. budget cuts publishing grant in blow to sector
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
#DefendNSBooks @theglobeandmail.com @writersfedofns.bsky.social @afterwordsliterary.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social

Nova Scotia budget cuts publishing grant in blow to sector Program’s end is a major blow to independent publishers trying to carry the torch of Canadian storytelling

New: The elimination of Nova Scotia’s publishing funding has left the book sector reeling in a province that often depends on its independent houses to preserve its history and tell its stories.

Some worry it could set a precedent for other provinces www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Ford government unveils designs for proposed Ontario Science Centre despite opposition Cost for planned facility on Toronto’s waterfront is about $1-billion, including a 30-year maintenance contract, premier says

My confusing day: Government claims the new, smaller proposed building will actually have more "exhibition space" than its shuttered predecessor, despite releasing numbers showing it in fact has less -- and then couldn't explain itself.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Wonder how TIFF feels about Doug Ford calling the Metro Toronto Convention Centre “one of the worst convention centres anywhere in the world,” as the festival stakes its upcoming multi-million-dollar content market on ... the attractiveness of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

Canadian authors, remember to register your books for the PLR program by May 1! For the first time, you are no longer required to mail things in—you can do it online.

Arts and culture in Nova Scotia left reeling from 'unprecedented' cuts - Halifax Examiner "It's going to be absolutely devastating."

Arts, culture and local publishing in Nova Scotia left reeling from 'unprecedented' cuts
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...

Sechs Betriebe auf dem RAW-Gelände fürchten das Aus Mehrere Betriebe auf dem RAW-Gelände fürchten das Aus. Sie haben eine Nutzungsuntersagung vom Eigentümer erhalten. Hintergrund ist ein Streit um die Zukunft des Areals an der Warschauer Straße.

Hmm, wonder where local mag The Berliner got this reporting about clubs under threat at RAW Gelände: www.the-berliner.com/english-news...

Oh wait they (apprently?) just ran rbb's story through google translate, removed citations and gave no credit for exclusive quotes: www.rbb24.de/politik/beit...

Failed Nan Goldin acquisition raises questions about art gallery volunteer committees: What kind of power are they supposed to have? Industry professionals weigh in on how these committees work and the role they play

New from me: The AGO's failed Nan Goldin acquisition raises questions about art-gallery collections committees. What kind of power are they supposed to have?
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

It’s a struggle raising money for the arts. Just ask Contact Photography Festival As high-profile sponsors pull back from the sector, arts organizations look for other funding and places to cut costs

New: Contact Photography Festival is hosting its first-ever fundraising gala tonight, two years after Scotiabank stopped sponsoring it, which threw it into financial peril

Today, philanthropy + sponsors are still hard to come by, but there's mild optimism www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Alberta Premier defends fall referendum plans Danielle Smith stumbles when asked about costs of providing health care and education to newcomers; NDP says referendum proposals designed to inflame

Premier Danielle Smith said she doesn't know how much newcomers cost Alberta’s health care and education systems, despite scheduling a referendum to ask whether social services to those residents shd be limited b/c of cost

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @mattscace.bsky.social and friend

B.C. health workers breached privacy of Lapu Lapu festival attack victims, privacy commission says Report finds 35 health authority workers engaged in the snooping, as well as one worker at a doctor’s office

BC privacy commissioner: 16 ppl sent to medical facilities after Vancouver Lapu Lapu Day festival attack had privacy breached. Investigation found "71 incidents of snooping by 36 health care workers across Fraser Health, PHSA and VCH"
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

Riding the Eglinton LRT for the first time and it appears to just be….. two streetcars stitched together??

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm album cover. Largely white, with lettering in grey and some sparse trees as glimpsed in a snowy landscape.

"I must have been 16 when this album came out and it was such a soundtrack to my youth. There are lots of other records from around that era that define that time for me, but I think as a body of work it’s pretty much flawless."

Jamie Campbell Bower on Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

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A GPS tracker. Attempted insurance fraud. Alarming new allegations emerge in the Toronto police corruption scandal One cop arrested in Project South is accused of helping an associate install a GPS tracker on a woman's vehicle so she could be followed.

From the Star’s Jennifer Pagliaro, @fxplante.bsky.social and me:
www.thestar.com/news/investi...

Really lovely surprise this month: I won both the Outstanding Review and Outstanding Critical Essay categories (plus runner-up for review! what!) for the Nathan Cohen Awards this year.

Very, very grateful to my editors @heypereira.bsky.social and Rebecca Tucker at @theglobeandmail.com.

Canadian programmer abruptly exits high-profile arts role at London’s Barbican Centre Centre did not give reason for Devyani Saltzman’s departure, heralded the cultural leader for her work

Lots of questions about this! www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 11, Episode 5