AI’s come for our carmakers

AI’s come for our carmakers

During the first half of this year, Chinese carmakers achieved a feat of hyper-production that sounds less like industrial manufacturing and more like a plague of locusts. In just six months, they unveiled 650 new models – an average of four brand-new cars every day. At the same time, on the other side of the Pacific, Elon Musk abandoned Tesla’s car assembly lines. He retooled the entire factory to mass-produce the Optimus humanoid robot.

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GUNTER: Tough to stop soaring prices on groceries in Canada

GUNTER: Tough to stop soaring prices on groceries in Canada

According to Blacklock’s Report, the federal department of agriculture paid for a survey of 3,000 Canadian shoppers and found the typical Canadian family can no longer afford to follow Canada’s Food Guide diet — half of the plate fresh fruits and vegetable, one-quarter whole grains and another quarter protein. (AgCanada suggests mostly plant-based proteins, but that’s a political and ecological fantasy.)

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Security for Prince Harry’s visits to Canada topped all internationally protected persons

Security for Prince Harry’s visits to Canada topped all internationally protected persons

Canadian taxpayers spent more to protect Prince Harry over five years during his visits to Canada than any other internationally protected person over the same period, CBC News has learned.

According to a document obtained by CBC News under Canada’s access to information law, the RCMP spent at least $539,575 to provide security between 2014/15 and 2019/20 when Prince Harry travelled to Canada for events like the Invictus Games and to date his future wife, Meghan Markle.


They did nothing to merit special treatment.

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How Mexican drug cartels have outsourced meth labs to Nigeria

How Mexican drug cartels have outsourced meth labs to Nigeria

The Nigerian judge was formally dressed, the lawyers maintained legal decorum and protocol was followed – but this hearing was not in the comfortable confines of a Lagos courtroom, it was inside an alleged illicit drug laboratory in the thick of a dense forest.

Three Mexicans and seven Nigerians were paraded in handcuffs, as Justice Musa Kakaki inspected the chemicals and equipment they were accused of using to produce the harmful illegal synthetic drug, methamphetamine, commonly known as meth, crystal meth or, locally, ice.

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MANDEL: Grieving Ontario family wants answers — including name of Brampton driver in crash that killed 5 kids

MANDEL: Grieving Ontario family wants answers — including name of Brampton driver in crash that killed 5 kids

They still don’t even know the name of the Brampton driver who allegedly ran a stop sign and slammed into their van, killing their five children.

It’s been more than six weeks since the deadly crash at the intersection of 4th Line and Wellington Rd. 12 in Mapleton Township, which claimed the lives of five Doerksen siblings — Susy, 4, Maggie, 6, Sara, 8, Helena, 10 and Peter, 12. Their parents, their 15-month-old brother and friends Peter and Elizabeth Bartsch sustained serious injuries.

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GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno goes off on Fauci: ‘Who the f–k do you think you were?’

GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno goes off on Fauci: ‘Who the f–k do you think you were?’

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) went off on Dr. Anthony Fauci Wednesday, blaming him for COVID lockdown mandates and asking: “Who the f–k do you think you were for doing that?”

Moreno began his round of questioning during the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee by ripping into Fauci’s attorney and scolding the former White House COVID-19 czar for his handling of the pandemic.

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Canada urged to welcome Haitians fleeing U.S. deportations as Trump ends protected status

Canada urged to welcome Haitians fleeing U.S. deportations as Trump ends protected status

Montreal refugee advocates say they are hearing from a growing number of Haitians in the United States who are considering coming to Canada after the Trump administration moved to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people.

“They’re real stressed. They don’t go out. They stay in their apartment,” said Thierry Jean-Baptiste of the Bureau de la communauté haïtienne de Montréal (BCHM).

“They order groceries. They are in fear of ICE.”

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Immigrants to Canada have adopted the country’s low-fertility rates, new research finds

Immigrants to Canada have adopted the country’s low-fertility rates, new research finds

Economic migrants, who make up the bulk of Canada’s immigrants, have adopted their new country’s behaviour in one significant area — they have very low fertility rates, new research suggests.

“Immigrants are feeling the low-fertility pressure of Canada here, like everyone else,” says demographer and sociologist Rachel Margolis, a professor at Western University, and one of the authors of a new paper on immigration and fertility.


I doubt anyone has accurate data on how many foreigners documented or not currently reside in Canada.

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Mamdani publishes hit list of celebrities facing hiked property taxes

Mamdani publishes hit list of celebrities facing hiked property taxes

Some of Zohran Mamdani’s biggest celebrity backers have been named on a list of homeowners who may have to pay his controversial new “pied-à-terre tax”.

Anna Wintour, former editor-in-chief of Vogue, is on the list of people whose second homes will face surcharges, which could cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

Cynthia Nixon, the Sex and the City star, also features on the list released by the New York City department of finance.


Oh I’m sure a reduction will be made for the luvvies.

More … More Fraudulent Votes Cast Than Margin of Mamdani’s ‘Victory,’ Says Election Auditor

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Average Canadian family paying $21K for ‘free’ system, new report says

Average Canadian family paying $21K for ‘free’ system, new report says

OTTAWA — While Canadians like boasting of their “free health care,” a new report shows hidden tax bills related to Canada’s struggling medical system are climbing faster than household earnings.

Released this week by the Fraser Institute, the study entitled The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2026 shows the average Canadian family of four earning an average household income of $202,885 will spend an estimated $21,115 in health-care costs.

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A Small Band of Socialists Is Sowing Panic in the Democratic Party

A Small Band of Socialists Is Sowing Panic in the Democratic Party

Megan Romer likes to spend her free time sewing costumes for school plays, picking blackberries in her backyard in rural Cayuga County, N.Y., and watching her partner play the fiddle in folk bands.

In her day job, she is seeking to overthrow capitalism.

Romer, 42 years old, is the national co-chairwoman of the Democratic Socialists of America, the far-left organization whose candidates have swept to victory in several recent high-profile races by preying on Democratic incumbents. The next showdown comes next Tuesday, when Congressional primaries in Missouri and Michigan again pit Democratic socialists against incumbent Democrats.

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