Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite

The nation’s largest employers have a new message for office workers: help not wanted.

Amazon.com said this week that it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs, with plans to eliminate as much as 10% of its white-collar workforce eventually. United Parcel Service said Tuesday that it had reduced its management workforce by about 14,000 positions over the past 22 months, days after the retailer Target said it would cut 1,800 corporate roles.

Earlier in October, white-collar workers from companies including Rivian Automotive, Molson Coors, Booz Allen Hamilton and General Motors received pink slips—or learned that they would come soon. Added up, tens of thousands of newly laid off white-collar workers in America are entering a stagnant job market with seemingly no place for them.

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

Mark Carney could cut billions by letting Trudeau-era programs expire, report says

OTTAWA—A new report suggests Mark Carney’s promised spending cuts could come from the expiry of billions in Trudeau-era programs, as it remains unclear how the Liberal government will pass its upcoming budget next week and avoid plunging the country into a sudden election.

In an analysis released Thursday, economists with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives identified short-term funding for disaster responses, fighting climate change, improving access to health care and programs for women, veterans and Indigenous Peoples as the bulk of federal spending that is set to expire in the next three years, shedding light on the potential “sacrifices” the prime minister has said would be necessary to transform the economy amid the trade crisis caused by U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Ben & Jerry’s Palestine flavor blocked by parent company

Ben Cohen, co-founder of the iconic ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s, says that parent company Unilever prevented the company from launching a new flavour intended to show solidarity with Palestine, BBC reports.

Cohen announced that he will move forward independently with the project, creating the flavour as part of a personal series highlighting social causes that he claims Ben & Jerry’s has been barred from addressing publicly.

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UK mosque suspends imam after acknowledging Jewish history in Israel in Tommy Robinson interview

Imam out of a job

UK-based Imam Umayr Mulla was suspended from Masjid Khazra in Nottingham after stating he “had no issue with Israel,” and recognized Israelis’ history in the Middle East while appearing in an interview in Jerusalem with British anti-immigration campaigner Tommy Robinson last week.

h/t MP

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islamization of the West, WTF?

If Ford wants to help Canada stand up to Trump, there’s only one thing for him to do

It’s time for Doug Ford to focus on being the premier of Ontario. He’ll be sad to hang up the Captain Canada cape, but the best thing he can do to help this country stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump is to make sure our most populous province is running at peak efficiency. Right now, it isn’t.

Let’s get something out of the way right off the top: I don’t blame Ford for the breakdown in trade relations between Canada and the United States. The blame for that lies entirely with Trump. He blew up the last deal, and he could ram a new one through if he wanted. He doesn’t. The commercial that has so angered the president makes for a convenient excuse. Absent that, he’d have found another one.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Muslim grooming gangs targeted ‘tens of thousands’ of children ‘because they are White’

Award-winning broadcaster, writer, and former politician Sir Trevor Phillips has said that Muslim grooming gangs have targeted “tens of thousands” of White children across Britain, describing the abuse as “industrial” in scale and protected by political fear.

Speaking to Times Radio, Phillips said the ongoing grooming gangs inquiry has been hindered by authorities’ reluctance to confront the link between race and sexual predation.

h/t kiki9

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Muslim Rape Gangs

John Ivison: Canadians can’t wait much longer for Carney to accomplish something

Veteran British journalist Andrew Marr offered a dystopian view of the U.K.’s politics in this week’s New Statesman magazine. It’s an article that should probably be viewed as a cautionary tale by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government.

Marr said that Britain has become ungovernable and the postwar political establishment is collapsing, with the Conservatives and Labour parties haemorrhaging votes, while Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party soars in the polls .

“The nation’s patience has snapped,” he said, with repeated failures bringing an end to the politics of management and the emergence of the politics of outrage and disgust.

Ouch.

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Troubling claims made by Zohran Mamdani after story about Muslim aunt being too scared to ride subway after 9/11 turned out to be false

New York’s socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani is battling a credibility crisis after admitting he lied about a family story tied to 9/11 – and is now facing mounting questions over a series of other controversial claims about his background, identity and finances.

On Monday, Mamdani, 34, was forced to clarify his widely publicized story about a Muslim ‘aunt’ who, he claimed, stopped riding the subway after the 2001 terror attacks because she feared harassment.

The Assemblyman, who is the favorite to become New York City mayor in next Tuesday’s election, admitted that the woman was not his aunt at all.

UPDATE: Zohran Mamdani faces criminal referrals to DOJ over alleged illegal campaign donations from foreigners

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Trump says he won’t talk with Carney at APEC summit in South Korea

Donald Trump is playing down the chances of talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney at a South Korean summit this week after he broke off trade talks with Canada and threatened to hike punitive tariffs on Canadian imports by 10 per cent.

Both leaders are in South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and were scheduled to attend the same dinner Wednesday.

UPDATE: Carney had ‘very good’ conversation with Trump, he says

I don’t believe Carney.

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US kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats in Pacific

US forces have killed 14 people in strikes on four alleged drug boats in the Pacific, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

Mexico’s navy says it is still searching for a lone survivor approximately 400 miles (643km) from the Pacific coastal city of Acapulco.

It is the latest in a series of attacks on boats the US says have been carrying drugs in both the Pacific and Caribbean.

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