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The AI Era: CEOs Trumpet Smaller Workforces as a Sign of Corporate Health

Big companies are getting smaller—and their CEOs want everyone to know it.

The careful, coded corporate language executives once used in describing staff cuts is giving way to blunt boasts about ever-shrinking workforces. Gone are the days when trimming head count signaled retrenchment or trouble. Bosses are showing off to Wall Street that they are embracing artificial intelligence and serious about becoming lean.

After all, it is no easy feat to cut head count for 20 consecutive quarters, an accomplishment Wells Fargo’s chief executive officer touted this month. The bank is using attrition “as our friend,” Charlie Scharf said on the bank’s quarterly earnings call as he told investors that its head count had fallen every quarter over the past five years—by a total of 23% over the period.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Singh Transport Motoring Along

6 re-VINed trailers found at Caledon storage facility; Brampton man charged

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"Diversity Crime", WTF?

Oopsie! Lame Colbert Protest Makes Paramount’s Point

Remember that hoary question from Philosophy 101 — If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a noise? Well, we now have a television equivalent.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•Hollywood

Catholics a poor third in Hate Crime Derby

In 2024, of the 1,343 reported hate crimes that were classified as motivated by religion, those targeting the Jewish community accounted for 920, or roughly 68 per cent.

The next largest number of religiously motivated hate crimes were those targeting Muslim Canadians, with 229 reports in 2024, up slightly from 220 incidents in 2023 and 109 in 2022.

For Catholics, 61 hate crimes were reported in 2024, compared to 49 in 2023 and 52 in 2022.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•hate crimes

Nolte: Disgraced ‘Fact Checker‘ Glenn Kessler out at Washington Post

During his first term in office, Barry Obama did not visit Israel. He didn’t. Obama jetted all over the Middle East, but never bothered to visit Israel. That’s a fact. And so, during the 2012 presidential election, Obama’s Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, ran a campaign ad pointing out Obama did not visit Israel during his first term, and Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler still called Romney a liar.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"Journalists"

China takes out newspaper ads issuing warnings to Canada on Taiwan

OTTAWA — Taiwan’s ambassador to Canada has dismissed a series of full-page newspaper ads taken out by the Chinese Embassy as little more than sabre-rattling over the communist regime’s claims over the east-Asian nation.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Taiwan

Delta Air Lines co-pilot arrested by Homeland Security on charges of child sexual abuse material

A Delta Air Lines co-pilot was arrested by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents on charges of child sexual abuse material, a senior federal source confirmed to Fox News.

The dramatic arrest happened at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday night, according to reporting by The San Francisco Chronicle.

The outlet reported that the flight from Minneapolis landed around 9:35 p.m. after being delayed on approach twice due to heavy fog.

More …

‘Drunk’ Female Delta Pilot Hauled Off Plane at Last Minute – The Daily Beast https://t.co/9g7smGvuQ1

— Wojtek Wysocki (@wojtek1425) July 24, 2025

h/t Hermes

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•WTF?

From killings to rape, the heinous crimes that could get you less jail time than a Freedom Convoy organizer

Last week, Crown prosecutors announced they were seeking jail sentences of up to eight years for Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two organizers of the Freedom Convoy protest.

Both were convicted of mischief, but the Crown is seeking a minimum sentence of seven years in jail for Lich, and eight for Barber, who was also found guilty of counselling others to disobey a court order.

The Crown has argued that the disruptiveness of the Freedom Convoy blockades warrants the harsh sentence, but in a statement this week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said courts are throwing the book at Barber and Lich while simultaneously giving free reign to “rampant violent offenders” and “antisemitic rioters.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

WTF?

Let the celebrations begin! pic.twitter.com/2BuZTWx11u

— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) July 28, 2025

H/T Patti Jo

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•WTF?

Armed hero, Marine veteran Derrick Perry praised for confronting Michigan Walmart mass stabbing suspect in dramatic showdown

Dramatic video shows a heroic Walmart shopper armed with a gun confronting a knife-wielding maniac moments after he allegedly stabbed 11 people inside the Michigan store on Saturday night.

In wild cellphone footage shared on X, the brave man, identified by family members as Marine veteran Derrick Perry, is seen yelling at the suspected attacker to drop the weapon in the parking lot of the superstore in Traverse City, about 255 miles northwest of Detroit.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"Mass Casualty Event"

Andrew Richter: Keeping supply management is economic suicide

We are approaching the end game of the current round of negotiations between Canada and the U.S. on a new comprehensive trade deal.

The outcome of the talks is still very much uncertain. While it appeared early on as if progress was being made, President Donald Trump has made no secret of the fact that several major obstacles remain. Favourite targets of his have been our banking rules and regulations and our protectionist digital and cultural sectors (in addition to non-trade irritants like our border policies).

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 27, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Does this look like a real woman? AI Vogue model raises concerns about beauty standards

There’s a new supermodel in town. She’s striking, stylish… and not real.

In August’s print edition of Vogue, a Guess advert features a flawless blonde model showing off a striped maxi dress and a floral playsuit from the brand’s summer collection.

In small print in one corner, the ad reveals that she was created using AI.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

If a 15% tariff is the ‘new normal,’ would that be a ‘bitter pill’ for Canada?

Fifteen per cent seems to be the new magic number being bandied about for a U.S. tariff rate after Japan and the Americans announced a trade deal, with the European Union now signed up too and South Korea apparently headed in the same direction.

… If 15 per cent is the “new normal” as Stretch wondered, what does that mean for Canada?

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Trump says he’s going to give Putin 10 to 12 days to end war in Ukraine — reducing 50-day deadline

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Monday he’s looking to reduce the 50-day deadline he gave Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the war in Ukraine to just “10 to 12 days” from now.

“I’m going to make a new deadline of about 10 to 12 days from today,” Trump told reporters in Scotland after meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Trump said he was “generous” to first give 50 days on July 14 before he would levy secondary sanctions on Moscow, but “we just don’t see any progress being made.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"Ukraine - Russia", USA

What does no politics in the classroom mean? TDSB worried ̷P̷o̷g̷r̷o̷m̷s̷ programs may have to be Cancelled!

What does no politics in the classroom mean? Ford government’s directive has created fear and confusion, say parents and teachers

A temporary ban on students sharing their family’s culture in class. A parent-organized Pride event moved outside school hours. Teachers afraid to answer students’ questions around the Israel-Hamas war.

Over the past academic year, Toronto parents and teachers say activities and discussions that would typically be normal to have in the classroom have suddenly become a source of fear and confusion — and they pin the blame on an edict dropped by the Ontario government last September.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"Oct 7 2023", TDSB Scandals, TDSB Toronto District School Board