Author: Blazingcatfur

Mandatory national service in Canada? Amid AI’s rise, that’s making more and more sense

In a recent interview, Geoffrey Hinton, the University of Toronto computer scientist often called “the godfather of artificial intelligence,” warned that AI will gain “the capabilities to replace many, many jobs.” Last year, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said AI “could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10 to 20 per cent in the next one to five years.” This fall, a clear majority of Canadian workers surveyed said they believe such an outcome to be at least somewhat likely.

Even if some uncertainty remains about AI’s job-market impacts, Canadian policymakers should treat this challenge as what it is: the single most serious risk to people’s livelihoods in memory.

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A CCC type agency is what the author calls for. Maybe it will be necessary.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Bondi Beach gunman complains about prison conditions

The gunman accused of killing 15 people in the Bondi Beach terror attack is enduring “very onerous conditions” in prison, his lawyer said on Monday.

Naveed Akram appeared in an Australian court via video link in his first public hearing since the Dec 14 attack.

The 24-year-old faces 59 charges including terrorism and murder over the massacre, which targeted Jews celebrating Hanukkah on the beach in Sydney.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence

Anti-feminist ideology ‘increasingly relevant’ to national security: CSIS

But this is OK.

Senior officials at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) say anti-feminist ideology is becoming “increasingly relevant” to Canada’s national security landscape and may lead to radicalization and violent extremism, but added that the ideology alone does not yet rise to the level of a security threat.

The comments came during testimony last week to the House of Commons standing committee on the status of women, which is conducting a study on the anti-feminism movement that has sprung up in some online circles and advocates for regressive roles for women in society and relationships.

OMG the witnesses names were withheld to protect their identities. No doubt they felt stupid.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Jesse Jackson dead at 84

Jesse Jackson was there in the vast throng gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park on the night that Barack Obama was elected US president in November 2008. He had tears streaming down his face, and why not? Growing up in deeply segregated South Carolina in the 1940s, the illegitimate son of a teenage mother, he could never have dreamt that he would one day see a black American winning the highest office in the land; or that he would have been the man who, as much as anyone else, had blazed the trail for Obama’s victory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPassings

Canada Chooses to Dump Milk Rather Than Lower Prices

In November 2025, Canada’s supply management system deliberately destroyed millions of litres of perfectly good milk in Ontario, even as grocery prices remained high and food banks reported record demand.

That destruction was not an accident or a processing failure. It was the predictable outcome of policy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

RI hockey shooter Robert Dorgan threatened to go ‘BERSERK’ in trans-rights rant day before mass shooting

Robert Dorgan – the sick man who shot up his own family

The crazed transgender dad who shot up a high school hockey game in Rhode Island threatened to go “BERSERK” in a trans-rights rant just a day before he massacred two family members and injured three others.

Robert Dorgan, who also identified as Roberta Esposito, killed himself after opening fire at the Pawtucket ice rink where his son was playing on Monday afternoon — less than a week after another transgender gunman shot up a school in one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", Big Tranny

Canadian immigration officers investigating hundreds identified by extortion task force

Next election cycle

Canadian immigration officials are investigating hundreds of foreign citizens identified by B.C.’s anti-extortion unit, according to new figures released to Global News.

The Canada Border Services Agency said it had launched probes into 296 people who were “brought to our attention by B.C Extortion Task Force partner agencies as persons of interest.”

The latest statistics, which are as of Feb. 4, represent a sharp increase from just a month ago, when the task force said that just over 100 CBSA investigations were underway.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", "Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Pro-Palestine activists are accused of waging ‘campaign of intimidation’ by going door-to-door asking people to boycott Israeli products

Police are investigating after a group of pro-Palestine canvassers were accused of engaging in a ‘Jew hunt’ as they went door-to-door asking locals to boycott Israeli products.

Campaigner Jean Hatchet and her partner confronted members of the Sheffield Apartheid-Free Zone (AFZ) campaign on Sunday as they went canvassing in the Woodseats area of the northern city.

The altercation turned ugly as Ms Hatchet and her partner yelled ‘Jew Hunt’ at the trio of men. One of the men appeared to headbutt Ms Hatchet’s partner.

That’s a bit Brown-Shirty I’d say.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", WTF?

Foreign aid groups urge Canada to maintain funding for abortion, LGBTQ+ advocacy

OTTAWA — Feminist and development groups are urging Canada not to turn its back on funding reproductive health and gender initiatives, as Canada focuses its foreign aid cuts on global health programming.

“A bold diplomatic voice is really crucial,” Oxfam Canada executive director Lauren Ravon told a panel she hosted on Parliament Hill earlier this month.

“It’s easy to get into a scarcity mindset. We think ‘Well, we can’t afford it, so let’s cut out the work on LGBTQ+ rights, let’s cut off the work on abortion and just stick to the life-saving pieces.’”

Foreign aid is racist I declare.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

US build-up of warships and fighter jets tracked near Iran

BBC Verify has confirmed the location of US aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln near Iran using satellite imagery, as Washington continues to put pressure on the country over its military program and recent deadly crackdown on protesters.

US and Iranian officials are set to meet in Swizerland on Tuesday for a second round of talks. Iran says the meeting will focus on its nuclear programme and the potential lifting of economic sanctions imposed by the US. Washington has previously indicated it wants to discuss other issues as well.

The Abraham Lincoln, which leads a strike group with three guided missile destroyers, carries 90 aircraft including F35 fighters, and 5,680 crew, was reportedly deployed to the Gulf region in late January but has not been seen in satellite imagery until now. It has been located off the coast of Oman, around 700km from Iran.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

BERNARDO: RCMP ‘clarification’ — will the Liberal government use the military against its own citizens again?

The RCMP Communications team emailed CSSA last week to “clarify” the RCMP’s role in the Liberal government’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme.

That clarification confirmed everything we said about them in our commentary, “Ottawa Flips the Switch on Gun Confiscations, Hands Control to the RCMP.”

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights