Montreal activist Yves Engler officially looking to enter NDP leadership race www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Montreal activist Yves Engler officially looking to enter NDP leadership race
The outspoken activist is hoping to join the race in time to take part in the first formal debate on Nov. 27.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Montreal activist Yves Engler officially looking to enter NDP leadership race www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
Political Sovereignty and Elbows Up – Socialist Project
Political Sovereignty and Elbows Up
How lucky were the Liberals when the last federal election season began? Very. Twin perceived threats came to their assistance. Like all parties in trouble, they dumped their leader, Justin Trudeau,…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Political Sovereignty and Elbows Up – Socialist Project
The Canadian government is not interested in preventing nuclear war
The Canadian government is not interested in preventing nuclear war
Canada has been in lock-step with the US in opposing international agreements aimed at eliminating nuclear weapons.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Canadian government is not interested in preventing nuclear war
A deficit paid by workers and a bailout for the wealthy
A deficit paid by workers and a bailout for the wealthy
Canada’s deficit is projected to rise by $17 billion, yet ordinary Canadians face cuts to essential services while the ultra-wealthy and multinational corporations avoid billions in taxes. Closing…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A deficit paid by workers and a bailout for the wealthy
Common Crawl Is Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work - The Atlantic
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November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Common Crawl Is Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work - The Atlantic
5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected
5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected
You wouldn’t know it from the hype, but the results fail to impress.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected
How the Liberal and Conservative Parties Have Quietly Colluded to Undermine the Privacy Rights of Canadians - Michael Geist
How the Liberal and Conservative Parties Have Quietly Colluded to Undermine the Privacy Rights of Canadians - Michael Geist
It hasn’t received much attention, but the government and official opposition - ie. the Liberals and Conservatives - have been quietly working to pass legislation that undermine the privacy rights of…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
How the Liberal and Conservative Parties Have Quietly Colluded to Undermine the Privacy Rights of Canadians - Michael Geist
Employment Inequalities Will Persist Until More Industries Unionize www.readthemaple.com/employment-i...
Employment Inequalities Will Persist Until More Industries Unionize
Fundamentally, addressing poor employment quality requires that more workers gain greater access to collective bargaining.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Employment Inequalities Will Persist Until More Industries Unionize www.readthemaple.com/employment-i...
Balancing Privacy, Dignity and Expression: The Case Against Google Search Results
Balancing Privacy, Dignity and Expression: The Case Against Google Search Results
Privacy reform in Canada has been advancing slowly. However, the recent appointment of Evan Solomon as Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Inno...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Balancing Privacy, Dignity and Expression: The Case Against Google Search Results
The AI Boom is Fueling a New Gilded Age graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-boo...
The AI Boom is Fueling a New Gilded Age
The AI bubble is making the rich richer - but when it bursts, ordinary Americans will have to pick up the tab.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The AI Boom is Fueling a New Gilded Age graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-boo...
Faking Receipts with AI - Schneier on Security
Faking Receipts with AI - Schneier on Security
Over the past few decades, it’s become easier and easier to create fake receipts. Decades ago, it required special paper and printers—I remember a company in the UK advertising its services to people…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Faking Receipts with AI - Schneier on Security
Jeffrey Epstein's documented interest in eugenics and transhumanism was not an isolated eccentricity but rather reflects an ideology "endemic to the Big Tech oligarchs." buff.ly/XpWNa3i
Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech
In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhumanism, or neo-eugenics — a philosophy that ha…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Jeffrey Epstein's documented interest in eugenics and transhumanism was not an isolated eccentricity but rather reflects an ideology "endemic to the Big Tech oligarchs." buff.ly/XpWNa3i
Canada is now something of a poster-child for the settler colonial framework. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Settler colonialism: What’s in a name?
Once a radical breakthrough, settler colonial theory now dominates Canadian scholarship. In his review of On Settler Colonialism in Canada, Bryan D. Palmer welcomes its moral clarity but warns that…
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November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Canada is now something of a poster-child for the settler colonial framework. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Canada currently devotes 17 times more to the Department of National Defence and Veterans Affairs than to Environment and Climate Change Canada. But the climate crisis and ecological collapse are far greater security threats to Canadians.
Coming climate inferno ignored in favour of war spending - Yves Engler
Mark Carney is fear mongering about faraway countries while downplaying a security threat driving an ever-greater number of Canadians from their homes. In the recently released federal budget…
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November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Canada currently devotes 17 times more to the Department of National Defence and Veterans Affairs than to Environment and Climate Change Canada. But the climate crisis and ecological collapse are far greater security threats to Canadians.
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
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November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
While traditional data collection involves tracking what you like, follow, or buy, AI chat data goes deeper. It is conversational, contextual, and often emotional. It may reveal mental health struggles, relationship issues, or financial worries.
Meta’s Chatbot Data Grab Sparks Privacy Alarm
Privacy advocates urge the FTC to block Meta’s plan to use chatbot conversations for "tailoring" content and ads served.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
While traditional data collection involves tracking what you like, follow, or buy, AI chat data goes deeper. It is conversational, contextual, and often emotional. It may reveal mental health struggles, relationship issues, or financial worries.
Is AI Cognitive Colonialism?
Is AI Cognitive Colonialism?
We can drift toward a future where a few powerful AI systems homogenize human thinking, or fight for intellectual sovereignty and AI systems that expand human wisdom.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Is AI Cognitive Colonialism?
Early colonial powers extracted gold, spices and resources from distant lands while giving little back to local communities. Today's AI operates on a similar model, but instead of mining minerals, it's mining minds.
Is AI Cognitive Colonialism?
We can drift toward a future where a few powerful AI systems homogenize human thinking, or fight for intellectual sovereignty and AI systems that expand human wisdom.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Early colonial powers extracted gold, spices and resources from distant lands while giving little back to local communities. Today's AI operates on a similar model, but instead of mining minerals, it's mining minds.
Rain starting to fall on Big Tech's parade
Rain starting to fall on Big Tech's parade
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November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Rain starting to fall on Big Tech's parade
Canada in focus: Data protection and AI in Canada (via Passle)
Canada in focus: Data protection and AI in Canada (via Passle)
Canada is an essential market for both United States and international businesses, with data privacy remaining a significant concern for government offi...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Canada in focus: Data protection and AI in Canada (via Passle)
Internet Identity Workshop XLI Report
Internet Identity Workshop XLI Report
Summary: IIW XLI brought 287 people together at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View for three days of dynamic sessions on identity, personal agents, and the agentic internet.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Internet Identity Workshop XLI Report
The Regina Manifesto’s unfinished business: the case for public banking
The Regina Manifesto’s unfinished business: the case for public banking
Canada’s banks no longer serve the real economy. Decades of private lending have fuelled housing bubbles, record household debt, and economic instability. Revisiting the CCF’s Regina Manifesto, James…
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November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Regina Manifesto’s unfinished business: the case for public banking
Could a Conservative government persecute Canadians for holding the Palestine flag? — The Canada Files
Could a Conservative government persecute Canadians for holding the Palestine flag? — The Canada Files
Editor’s note: The Canada Files is the country's only news outlet focused on Canadian foreign policy. We've provided critical investigations & hard-hitting analysis on Canadian foreign policy since…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Could a Conservative government persecute Canadians for holding the Palestine flag? — The Canada Files