AI: The Biggest Heist in World History

Davos, Big Tech, and the quiet looting of everyone’s intellectual property.

What do you get when you combine Big Tech, a Bill Clinton fixer, Davos, the architect of the Hunter Biden laptop disinfo, and “Artificial Intelligence”? The biggest heist in world history. A forced income transfer worth trillions of dollars, siphoned from the public, headed to a small sliver of the 1 percent.

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Conservatives put pressure on Carney to clarify his position on forced labour in China

The Conservatives have written to the Prime Minister to demand that he clarify his position on the forced labour of the mainly Muslim Uyghur minority in China after a Liberal MP was accused of attempting to cast doubt on the existence of the practice.

Michael Chong, the Conservative foreign affairs critic, wrote to Mark Carney Friday asking him if his assessment is “that Uyghur forced labour has and is being used” in China.

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More Man Than Ape

A recent book challenges humans’ common ancestry with primates.

Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature from apes and monkeys, the primates with which we share common ancestry. Chimpanzees, in particular, our closest living relatives, are likely to reflect many features of our early primate nature given that we and they shared a common ancestor who lived some 7 million years ago, not so long on evolution’s time scale.

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Jesse Kline: Tell me again why Air Canada must be officially bilingual

The horrific crash at New York’s LaGuardia airport last weekend, in which an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck on the runway, has been described by Canadian politicians as a “crisis” that’s completely “unacceptable.” Only they weren’t talking about who may be to blame for an accident that killed two pilots and injured 40 others. Oh, no. This is Canada, where a crash landing sparks a discussion not about aviation safety, but about language “rights.”


It’s silly to eliminate non-speakers of French from jobs in their own government.

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The War on Civilization: ‘Israel Cannot Outsource Its Survival’

A Conversation with Pierre Rehov

“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism.” — Zoheir Mohsen, late PLO senior official, Trouw, March 31, 1977.

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GUNTER: Feds’ attack on notwithstanding clause an attack on Canadian federation

It’s too bad federal government lawyers were at the Supreme Court this week arguing against Quebec’s use of the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause in conjunction with that province’s controversial 2019 law, Bill 21. Also known as the secularism law, Bill 21 forbids the wearing of religious symbols at work by any public servant including teachers, nurses, police officers, even clerks.

It’s a Carney power grab.

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More Craziness in Portland As Anti-ICE Mob Finds Out It’s Not a Good Idea to Break Open ICE Facility Gate

My colleague Bob Hoge wrote about some of the craziness at the Portland ICE facility in the wake of the No Kings protests Saturday night.

They were throwing projectiles at the federal agents, and one even tackled a federal officer in a wild brawl.

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Federal government pulls funding for Grassy Narrows fake grave search

Unless something changes, the former McIntosh Indian Residential School (IRS) will not be searched any further for unmarked graves.

Representatives from Grassy Narrows First Nation say they have been informed by federal officials that funding for searching for graves at the area IRS has not been approved ahead of the end of the current fiscal year, leaving those who were hopeful for the search with little to no recourse.

“This decision places at risk work that has already revealed more than a hundred unmarked burials at the site, with more graves expected to be found, and work that has provided former students, survivors, and families with critical information about children who never returned home,” the Wiikwogaming Tiinahtiisiiwin Project said via media release following the decision.

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Republic of Somaliland Asks U.S. to Extradite Ilhan Omar There to Face Justice

After official confirmation that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) did, in fact, commit immigration fraud, the Republic of Somaliland — which has good reason to be bitter at the crimes of Omar and her Somali family — offered to be the hammer of justice if the United States would extradite Omar there.

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Cost of living hitting food banks so hard in Carney’s Canada that visits are limited to once a month

Food banks across the country are being forced to scale back services at a time when Canadians need them the most, due to limited supplies.

In southern Saskatchewan, the Moose Jaw & District Food Bank plans to limit households to just one visit a month instead of the usual two, beginning April 1. They will also reduce the amount of food handed out to each visitor.

“Our resources aren’t keeping up with the demand,” said executive director Jason Moore in an interview with CTV Newsthis week.

h/t Patti Jo

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Indian Migrant Arrested After Driver Rammed Into Several People in Derby

An Indian national has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly ploughing a car into pedestrians in Derby city centre on Saturday evening.

The English cathedral city of Derby was struck with horrific scenes as at least seven people were injured in the Friar Gate downtown area at around 9:30 pm when a black Suzuki Swift was driven into a crowd of people. Fortunately, all seven people did not suffer life-threatening injuries.

h/t Patti Jo

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Federal loan to Nova Scotia wind farm managed by firm owned by Liberal MPs family members being investigated

At hearings in Ottawa on Wednesday, the head of the Canada Infrastructure Bank refused to state the interest rate on the $206-million loan to a wind farm project that’s being managed by a company owned by the family members of three former Liberal MPs and a former Nova Scotia Liberal Party leader.

The examination of the deal by the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities was launched after The Chronicle Herald revealed that Roswall Development Inc., parent company to Renewall Energy, which will be selling the power from the Mersey River wind project, has deep Liberal connections.

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Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran

The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, U.S. officials said, as thousands of American soldiers and Marines arrive in the Middle East for what could become a dangerous new phase of the war should President Donald Trump choose to escalate.

Any potential ground operation would fall short of a full-scale invasion and could instead involve raids by a mixture of Special Operations forces and conventional infantry troops, said the officials. All spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss highly sensitive military plans that have been in development for weeks.

Such a mission could expose U.S. personnel to an array of threats, including Iranian drones and missiles, ground fire and improvised explosives. It was unclear Saturday whether Trump would approve all, some or none of the Pentagon’s plans.

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