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Canada's taken a principled position against fully autonomous lethal military weapons: decisions to kill must go through humans, says DND.
What happens if our adversaries—or even our allies—don't live by the same rule?
Here's my best attempt at finding out.
thelogic.co/news/the-big...
The abstract and introduction *average out* to one readily understandable English paragraph.
If you're in government and you FA too much with FOI officers, you'll FO shortly.
Also, it's hard to maintain broadcasting-level excitement around a hearing that starts when it starts (maybe when it's scheduled? maybe not?), includes participants you're not that interested in, refers to documents you can't see, and takes breaks of arbitrary length!
If it's feeling to you like it writes itself, I think that means you're the person to write it.
There are whiffs of things vaguely like this (but not really) in paragraph 28 of this: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...
and in U of T’s account of the visit: www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-dee...
Maybe AI-generated slop that has just been repeated and iterated?
The hyphen will haunt me. There’s so much else wrong with the typesetting, but the hyphen is a sign of a diseased mind.
Also, though the importance of oil tends to drown this out, the Middle East is a major exporter of fertilizer.
That's infinitely sweet.
* The first except for Bertha Wilson, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Beverly McLachlin, Louise Arbour and Marie Deschamps.
This is why journalists should not be friends with the people they cover. It‘s embarrassing for all concerned.
www.tvo.org/article/anal...
Would you send Bruno to shoot a public meeting or a charity dinner? Not if you could help it.
But you also wouldn’t choose your A1 art until you’d seen what Bruno had filed that day.
Many journalists are hard to work with, and they’re pretty much never good enough to justify how impossible they are. Bruno was.
A lovely obit of Bruno Schlumberger, a photographer so many of us had the pleasure of working with as reporters. Thanks, Bruce Deachman. @ottawacitizen.com #ottnews ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
The Ottawa Citizen building.
From an urbanism perspective, this kind of thing makes infinite sense. The property is underused and connected to the LRT by a new pedestrian bridge. Build housing!
It was my professional home for a long, long time, though, and that it'll be torn down makes me sad.
The likeliest scenario for a very hypothetical Canadian involvement would be a navy task group to help protect shipping in the Gulf.
Last call for the Rideau Canal Skateway! 📞⛸
After an amazing 56 days on the ice and more than one million visits, the time has come to say goodbye. The Rideau Canal Skateway will close tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4, at 10 pm.
Second, and seriously, it's the Centre of the Universe thing.
First, the mean joke: "Yes, that's because more people have been to Toronto."
I ask people who think about the future of work in an AI world what a junior job will look like and I have never had a satisfying answer.
Most often they say they don't know; sometimes they say yes, that part worries them.
The best response I've had yet is that mentoring will be really important.
Mixed news there.
On the one hand, no, it's way down. On the other, I guess we can have a proper Epstein investigation now.
TAX INCREASES HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY LOW, SHANNON.
Anyway, this and a thousand other things like it are why local media matters. Pushing for answers, sustaining pressure, dishing out public shame, diligently keeping a professional eye on things is how problems get fixed and people in power don’t get away with ineptitude or worse.
A bit early for engagement farming.
All the provinces have to agree to let in a new one and there’s no way Quebec will tolerate this.
People keep saying that this goes against the Davis speech. It does not. Carney said the rules based international order was always hypocritical, is now dead, and we live in a time of rupture. I disagree with support but this is not against what he said. The sign is gone. GONE GONE.
I'm quaking just *imagining* it.
I make style mistakes. I've made style mistakes just today. Thank goodness for copy editors. But you're supposed to at least try to minimize what they have to do.
"Asked for comment, the copy desk replied with incoherent screeching."
