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Poilievre: "Conservatives are the party of Sir John A. Macdonald.
The party that created Confederation.
The party of Canada."

Nope. The Conservative Party of Canada was created in 2003. Trying to claim to be the party of Confederation is stolen valour.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

Poilievre would sell the CBC stations to a Kevin O’Leary type who would destroy independent journalism.

When money is scarce, every choice counts: Bank, cash, or credit? Palestinians in Gaza struggle to manage their daily lives amid shortage of cash caused by war.

Palestinians in Gaza struggle to manage their daily lives amid shortage of cash caused by war.

Drax to stop burning controversial Canadian wood within next year Yorkshire plant has been criticised for taking material from some of British Columbia’s most environmentally important forests

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National pharmacare program to begin in B.C. on March 1, expanding access to diabetes, hormone drugs | CBC News B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne says the funding is a game changer and will benefit more than half a million residents who are living with diabetes and about 160,000 people with menopausal symptoms...

Hey, BC, in case you missed the memo:

All hormone replacement therapy, contraceptives, AND diabetes medications will be 100% free in British Columbia starting March 1.

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Swiss government tasked with developing strategy for Long Covid The Swiss government is to draw up a national strategy to improve the medical situation of people suffering from Long Covid following a Senate vote.

"The 🇨🇭Swiss government is to draw up a national strategy to improve the medical situation of people suffering from #LongCOVID.

While the 🇨🇦 Canadian Government does NOTHING -

@mark-carney.bsky.social
#MarjorieMichel
@jossreimer.bsky.social

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"We will not sit back and watch as this government lays out the welcome mat for making Alberta the 51st State in breach of our Treaties."

Mikisew Cree First Nation has filed a lawsuit for Danielle Smith’s flagrant disregard for Treaties.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

After years of headlines about India's involvement in threats, surveillance of top politicians, and even a murder of Sikh Canadians, the government has news for us ahead of Carney's trade mission to India.

It's actually all good, dude. Nothing to see here!

The experts I spoke to aren't buying it:

COVID as a neurovascular brain problem. A new study shows impaired regulation of cerebral blood flow during mental exertion. In patients with long COVID, this finding was associated with worse cognitive performance🧵

🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on XTwitter, on Feb 22:

"COVID as a neurovascular brain problem. A new study shows impaired regulation of cerebral blood flow during mental exertion.
In patients with long COVID, this finding was associated with worse cognitive performance"

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I'm working on a story related to Carney's trip to India/government officials recent claim that "India is no longer linked to violent crimes," and one thing that really frustrates me is the repeated erasure of Sikh Canadians lived experiences.

They all know how unreliable, erroneous and destructive to humanity AI can be.

This one just happens to have been born with a conscience and foresight and wants to be able to sleep at night. The next CEO they ask might not.

Counter proposal: weed out the fascists in the CAF because WTF?!

Donald Trump is at risk of launching a war without purpose A conflict with Iran without a clear objective would be recklessly dangerous

By preparing the means to punish the regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Donald Trump is bringing this crisis to a head. This is both a moment of jeopardy and a test of his credibility

NDP MP Jenny Kwan Urges Govt Help for Palestinians with Relatives in Canada At a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Jenny Kwan, the NDP critic for immigration and citizenship, calls on the federal government to reform its Special Immigration Measures program to ass...

At today’s press conference on Parliament Hill, I urged fed govt to urgently reform & accelerate the Special Immigration Measures program to help Palestinians reunite w/family in Canada.
Joined by affected families—enough is enough. Loved ones are still in danger. www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

Not sure why this is hard for so many to grasp, but "The Conservatives are worse" does not mean "The Liberals shouldn't be pushed to be better".

19 years after it was first conditionally approved, all levels of government have finished signing off on the necessary steps to build a school in Vancouver’s Olympic Village.

A final year of debate and planning was required to raise the number of floors for the school from 3 to 4.

CSIS is antifa 🤷‍♀️.

Because, uh, fascism is bad and, uh, being anti-fascism is a good thing, actually.

You utter clowns in the CPC.

#cdnpoli #canpoli

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the most notable part of the far right buying up legacy news media is that liberals generally always trusted legacy media far more, aside from places like fox news. the downstream effect of this, maybe intentionally, is to have more people distrust media. misinformation will spread easier

The BC Conservatives helped push forward a bill to abolish the Human Rights Code.

These politicians use threats on the rights of marginalized British Columbians to divide the working class. We won’t let them.

The only minority making life harder for British Columbians is the ultra-rich. #bcpoli

An Hour Ago: Pakistani military aircraft bombed and destroyed an ammunition depot belonging to the Afghan Taliban.

Ukraine news: IMF approves $8.1 billion loan for country The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said its executive board had approved an US$8.1 billion, four-year loan for Ukraine, of which $1.5 billion would be disbursed immediately.

IMF approves $8.1 billion loan for Ukraine, with $1.5 billion to go immediately

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Dear Minister Solomon, The events in Tumbler Ridge are an unspeakable tragedy, and our hearts remain with the victims, their families, and the entire community. Thank you for convening Tuesday’s meeting, and thank you for the frank discussion you led along with Ministers Miller, Anandasangaree, and Fraser, as well as Parliamentary Secretary Noormohamed, on how to help prevent tragedies like this in the future. Today, we write to offer immediate steps OpenAI is taking in response to what we have learned in the wake of these events. We remain committed to cooperating with law enforcement authorities on the investigation into the Tumbler Ridge tragedy, and we are committed to an ongoing partnership with federal and provincial governments. As we shared with you and with Canadian law enforcement, in June 2025, OpenAI made a decision to shut down a ChatGPT account of the perpetrator of the Tumbler Ridge tragedy after detecting a violation of our usage policy. OpenAI’s automated system detected the account, and it was subsequently sent to human review to determine whether our usage policies were violated and whether the account warranted referral to law enforcement. Based on what we could see at that time the account was banned in June 2025, we did not identify credible and imminent planning that met our threshold to refer the matter to law enforcement. OpenAI works continuously to identify potential warning signals of serious violence, while also protecting the privacy and security of the vast majority of people who use our tools responsibly. We seek to identify and take action to address critical harm risks on our platform, which include threats to human life. We also must ensure our products are secure and private, and can be safely used by hundreds of millions of users across the world. OpenAI requires that all development and deployment of our models advance both human safety and human rights.

Over the past several months, we have taken steps to strengthen our safeguards and made changes to our law enforcement referral protocol for cases involving violent activities, but our conversation with you this week underscored that Canadians expect continued concrete action and we heard that message loud and clear. In our meeting, you and the other Ministers stressed that no community should have to face this tragedy. We agree. OpenAI will: ● Continue to Strengthen our Enhanced Law Enforcement Referral Protocol. Referrals to law enforcement based on conversations with ChatGPT involve complex, challenging decisions as we strive to protect our users' privacy while also taking action when needed for public safety. That's why we continue to make ongoing improvements to our referral protocol. Several months ago, we partnered with mental health, behavioural, and law enforcement experts to help us refine our criteria for when conversations cross the line into an imminent and credible risk, meriting a law enforcement referral. Mental health and behavioural experts now help us assess difficult cases, and we have made our referral criteria more flexible to account for the fact that a user may not discuss the target, means, and timing of planned violence in a ChatGPT conversation but that there may be potential risk of imminent violence. With the benefit of our continued learnings, under our enhanced law enforcement referral protocol, we would refer the account banned in June 2025 to law enforcement if it were discovered today. Today, we commit to working with the Canadian government and experts to continue strengthening our enhanced law enforcement referral criteria based on the Tumbler Ridge tragedy and the Canadian context. This will include continuing to analyze how imminent and credible risk is assessed and transparency regarding our reporting to law enforcement.

● Develop a Direct Point of Contact with Canadian Law Enforcement. Per the request of the Ministers, we will establish direct points of contact with Canadian law enforcement authorities to ensure that we provide information expeditiously to Canadian authorities in cases where we make a law enforcement referral based on the potential for real world violence. Embed Country and Community Context in our De-escalation Work: Our models should respond appropriately when users are in distress or pursuing prohibited behavior, with an emphasis on de-escalation and user safety. When ChatGPT recognizes that users need help, we want to help our users f ind localized support in their own communities. We will expand on our commitment to directing users to relevant support resources, such as local helplines when a user’s location is known, ensuring assistance is specific to the user’s country or region. ● Enhance our System to Detect Repeat Policy Violators: OpenAI has a system in place that seeks to identify repeat policy violators, including those who have had their ChatGPT accounts shut down for violating our violent activities policy, and then seek to create a new account. Despite this detection system, after the name of the Tumbler Ridge perpetrator was released publicly, we discovered that the perpetrator had used a second ChatGPT account. We shared the second account with law enforcement upon its discovery. We commit to strengthening our detection systems to better prevent attempts to evade our safeguards and prioritize identifying the highest risk offenders. We further commit to periodically assessing the thresholds used by our automated systems for detecting potential violent activities.

OpenAI has released a public statement on what it says its next steps will be following news it opted not to flag RCMP about prompts used by the teenager who would go on to kill multiple people in Tumbler Ridge.

Russia says it has handed over 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers' bodies Russia's announcement comes as Ukraine's top negotiator met US peace envoys in Geneva.

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The road humbles everyone eventually. Some sooner than others.

I complain about CBC, because it’s not perfect, and fair criticism is allowed and appropriate. But seriously, thank God for CBC in Canada. It needs to be protected.

This is so bad.

Support independent journalists, folks. They're all that's left.