Google filed a patent for a machine-learning tool intended to detect so-called mis- and disinformation but the company’s history of leftist bias does not inspire confidence in the new tool which could easily be abused for censorship.
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Feds push back release date of foreign interference inquiry report
The first report from the inquiry into foreign interference in federal elections is now set to come out two months later than originally planned.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced Thursday the federal government has granted Justice Marie-Josée Hogue an extension on her interim report on foreign interference in federal elections.
According to her terms of reference, Hogue was set to deliver an interim report by the end of February and a final report by the end of 2024.
Guess they need more time to destroy evidence.
Ukraine war: Three ways the conflict could go in 2024
The conflict in Ukraine is about to enter its third calendar year. The front lines have hardly moved in the last few months but could the course of the war change in 2024?
President Volodomyr Zelensky has admitted his country’s spring offensive has not been the success he hoped. Russia still controls about 18% of Ukraine.
We asked three military analysts how they think events may unfold in the coming 12 months.
TERRAZZANO: Trudeau planning to hike taxes again in the new year
Brace for impact, taxpayers.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be reaching deeper into your pockets in the new year with payroll tax hikes, a carbon tax hike and alcohol tax hikes.
Nova music festival survivor reunites with man who saved her life as she admits she’s safer in Israel than US
A Jewish New Yorker who survived Hamas’ attack on the Nova Music Festival reunited with the man who saved her life — but admits she’s still nervous in the US.
Natalie Sanandaji, 28, of Long Island, returned to Israel for the first time last week since surviving the Oct. 7 massacre to reunite with Israeli hero Moshe Sati.
Sati, alongside his son, saved more than 100 festival-goers by driving into the terrorist attack and carting people out of the festival grounds by the truck-full more than 10 times.
In Canada, What Kind of Screening Will Be Done of New Arrivals From Gaza?
What kind of screening of these Gazans will be done? Will those applying for visas to be admitted to Canada be asked, for example, about their view of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7? Of course, they will claim to be just as horrified as anyone else. But we have the results of a Palestinian opinion poll conducted in December, in which 82% of Gazans expressed their support for the October 7 attacks (the percentage was even higher in the West Bank, where 85% of the Palestinians supported those attacks).
The Last Vestige of the ‘Summer of Love’ Is Flattened
Let’s look into the big sack of goodies Santa brought to the West Coast, Messed Coast™ this year. Any Christmas miracles in there? Why yes, yes there are. This week, in the quiet aftermath of Christmas (read: while no one was looking), the last vestiges of Seattle’s fiery but peaceful “Summer of Love” were finally scraped away like dried dog drool from the living room rug.
In 25 years, up to half of Canadians may identify as racialized or visible minority, report finds
Canada’s demographic revolution is running at a furious pace, with population growth outstripping even the boldest predictions, mostly due to immigration, with important implications for Canadian identity as much as demography, according to a new poll by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies.
Canada’s population surpassed 40 million people this summer, earlier than predicted. Statistics Canada reported recently that Canada’s population grew by more than 430,000 in the third quarter of this year, for a total of 40.5 million.
‘Europe Doesn‘t Know How to Fight Wars‘, Chides Ukraine
Western defence is too fragmented, too slow to respond, and will be attacked by Putin’s Russia if it doesn’t do more to help Ukraine, their foreign minister says in a rebuke of Europe’s response to the Russian invasion.
Canada’s navy doesn’t just have a recruitment crisis. It also has a retention problem
Earlier this year, Gen. Wayne Eyre, the Chief of the Defence Staff, told the media that about one in 10 positions in the Canadian Armed Forces sits empty, with potential consequences for readiness. And last month, taking his boss’s lead, Vice-Adm. Angus Topshee, the Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, went public about the navy’s “critical state” in a remarkable and blunt YouTube message on the RCN’s official account.
Hamas’ philosophy: All civilians, all children are tools of war
Much of the world continues to condemn Israel for waging its war against Hamas.
As the casualty figures on both sides grow, Israel is facing the usual calls for a ceasefire.
A call which this country has rightly not joined in.
He Won Election to Canada’s Parliament. Did China Help?
The newcomer landed in a district of northern Toronto and announced his bid for Canada’s Parliament. Though few knew him, an important factor helped offset his lack of name recognition — the backing of prominent local Chinese-Canadians.
“I’m very happy that I feel very well supported, surrounded by friends,” the candidate, Han Dong, said at a news conference.
About that last post…
The ink was barely dry (so to speak) on “Way too many black kids, way too many crime guns“, my post about the shootings in Pinellas County, when I received a complaint from another useful idiot that I put too much emphasis on the blackitude of the perps and their victims. Why did I keep pointing that out, they cried. Why couldn’t I have been like Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, and used the word “black” (or “Black”, as the wokesters write it now) only once?
Housing Affordability Reaches Worst-Ever Level In Canada
It has never been so unaffordable to own a home in Canada.
Rising ownership costs, including high mortgage rates and home prices, pushed RBC’s national aggregate housing affordability measure up 2.8% in Q3, to 62.5%.
The increase, which is outlined in a new report from Robert Hogue, Assistant Chief Economist at RBC, follows two consecutive quarters of decline, and has propelled the measure above the previous all-time high of 61.2% that was reached in Q3 2022.
WARMINGTON: Tent city in same neighbourhood as million dollar condos
No rent, no mortgage, no property taxes, no rules in Clarence Square Park homeless encampment
A walk through Clarence Square Park on Spadina — but a warning, it isn’t pretty. pic.twitter.com/ozBR6z3i51
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) December 28, 2023
WHO quietly announces controversial gender guidance
A few days before Christmas, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it would be developing guidelines on “the health of trans and gender diverse people”, with a focus on access to hormones and surgeries (what it calls “gender-inclusive care”) and legal recognition of gender self-identification.