Moments ago in Edmonton on Whyte Ave. Is the truck in the wrong here? pic.twitter.com/f7NRnc3FUt
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) July 29, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Author: Blazingcatfur
Political slogans can create a powerful movement, that can also backfire. Mark Carney be warned
In today’s political landscape, policies and politics alike are increasingly shaped and simplified by slogans. Prime Minister Mark Carney has introduced “Build, Baby, Build” as a rallying cry for his government’s infrastructure agenda, signalling urgency and determination.
While Carney is relatively new to the art of sloganeering, his adoption of this catchier vernacular shows an understanding of how powerfully these formulas land in modern politics.
AI Is Wrecking an Already Fragile Job Market for College Graduates
What do you hire a 22-year-old college graduate for these days?
For a growing number of bosses, the answer is not much—AI can do the work instead.
At Chicago recruiting firm Hirewell, marketing agency clients have all but stopped requesting entry-level staff—young grads once in high demand but whose work is now a “home run” for AI, the firm’s chief growth officer said. Dating app Grindr is hiring more seasoned engineers, forgoing some junior coders straight out of school, and CEO George Arison said companies are “going to need less and less people at the bottom.”
Bill Balderaz, CEO of Columbus-based consulting firm Futurety, said he decided not to hire a summer intern this year, opting to run social-media copy through ChatGPT instead.
Ottawa, B.C. provide $77M to bring high-speed internet to nearly 7,000 households
ARMSTRONG, B.C. — The federal and B.C. governments are providing more than $77 million in combined funding to bring high-speed internet to more than 6,900 homes in the province.
A statement from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada says the funding is part of an agreement struck in 2022 that committed up to $830 million to bridge the high-speed gap in rural, remote and Indigenous communities.
The department says the latest funding will support 15 projects through the Universal Broadband Fund.
Starlink anyone? h/t Mauser
Jewish father attacked by mob at Italian service station
A Jewish father and his six-year-old son were targeted by a mob on Sunday chanting “Free Palestine” and “murderers” at a service station near Milan, with the man eventually pushed to the floor and repeatedly kicked, in the latest of a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents across Europe.
According to the victim – a 52-year-old French Jew who lives in France and gave his name only as Elie– the incident began when a cashier shouted “Free Palestine”, upon noticing that he and his son were wearing kippahs.
An Israeli tourist stopped at a gas station in Milan and this is how the Italians treated him when they realized he was Israeli.
(Resistance Trench) pic.twitter.com/owZ2KhlxbI— Angelsback (@Angelsback01) July 28, 2025
I love this.
Anti-Israel bigots put up signs that said “no Israelis allowed” in Milan and this Italian woman went with her grandson to erase the bigoted signs ❤️
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) June 28, 2025
Trump’s trade deal with Europe is a bad precedent for Canada
Do not break out the champagne. The trade “deal” agreed this weekend by the United States and the European Union bears the familiar elements of President Donald Trump’s evolving vision of trade under Trumponomics.
What’s been announced is better than the worst-case scenario of a trade war, but worse than the status quo.
NY Times: Women Are Tired of ‘Mankeeping’
Never heard of mankeeping? I hadn’t either but apparently it’s the hip new topic after the word was coined last year by a postdoc at Stanford.
Temporary Workers Amount to Nearly 19 Percent of Canada’s Private Sector Workforce
The number of foreign workers in Canada on temporary permits is equivalent to 18.5 percent of the country’s private sector workforce, according to newly released figures from Canada’s immigration department.
The department counted 3,049,277 non-permanent residents in Canada as of Jan. 1, including more than 129,000 with expired work permits, according to a briefing note first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter. The figure represents 18.5 percent of the private sector workforce, which totalled 16.4 million workers, including self-employed Canadians in January, according to the Labour Force Survey released by Statistics Canada.
Tommy Robinson leaves country after being filmed at alleged assault
Police investigating an alleged assault of a man at a London train station are hunting for the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who is understood to have taken a flight out of Britain shortly after video was put online showing him near the injured man.
The video shows Robinson claiming the man had attacked him, and was filmed at London St Pancras station where he had been leafleting earlier in the day. Robinson is 42 and originally from Luton.
British Transport Police said they were called just after 8.40pm on Monday to reports of an assault. They said the injured man was in hospital “with serious injuries, which are not thought to be life-threatening”.
TOMMY ROBINSON KNOCK OUT MAN WHO AGGRESSIVELY CONFRONTED HIM
– Tommy has a cut above his head as the man attacked him first
FAFO pic.twitter.com/hzuoBTqVsE
— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) July 28, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Trump’s Golden Dome missile-defence push on Canada leaves Ottawa with few good options
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. President Donald Trump wants a Golden Dome of missile defence over the United States, and if you’re thinking this sounds familiar, you’d be right. Back in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, aka Star Wars, also aimed to develop a space-based and layered defence system to knock out any incoming strikes.
It didn’t work out.
Jamie Lee Curtis, a ‘Gender Affirming‘ Surgery Proponent Accuses Cosmetic Surgery Industry of ‘Genocide‘ Against Women
Jamie Lee Curtis, a “gender affirming” surgery proponent, is accusing the cosmetic surgery industry of committing “genocide” against women, hitting back against the trend that has turned so many into the garden variety influencer-esque woman loaded with lip filler. “Generations of women have been disfigured,” the actress said.
“I’ve been very vocal about the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex, who’ve disfigured themselves,” Curtis told the Guardian in a recent interview for which she wore a pair of fake, obnoxiously large lips on the cover in order to drive her point home.
Stephen Harper says he advised Mark Carney’s government to move away from the U.S.
Speaking before a room full of policymakers from midwestern Canada and the United States, former prime minister Stephen Harper said the ongoing trade war with the U.S. is a “wake-up call” for Canada to diversify its trade and export markets.
“I was — I think it’s fair to say — probably the most pro-American prime minister in Canadian history,” Harper said of his tenure from 2006 to 2015.
If the current government asked him a year ago for advice on U.S. President Donald Trump being re-elected and wanting to renegotiate trade, he says he would have thought it was a real opportunity for Canada to deepen its economic and security partnership with the United States.
Police officers ‘also abused’ Rotherham victims
Five women who were exploited by grooming gangs in Rotherham as children say they were also abused by police officers in the town at the time.
One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer in a marked police car. He would threaten to hand her back to the gang if she did not comply, she says.
“In a world where you were being abused so much, being raped once [by a police officer] was a lot easier than multiple rapes [by the gang] and I think he knew that,” she tells the BBC.
Wife of Tamil Tiger terror group ‘member’ backed by public safety minister does not live in his riding: documents
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree’s claim that he was helping a constituent when he lobbied federal officials to let a terrorist group “member” resettle in Canada is contradicted by documents on the case, a Global News investigation has found.
In defending letters he wrote before he joined cabinet that urged border security officials to approve the immigration application of a suspected member of the Tamil Tigers, Anandasangaree has said he assisted the man’s Canadian wife as an MP.
Cat’s and hearing aids
X has a great desire to bat my Rexton Reach hearing aids around. I think he resents that I can now hear his out of sight escapades.
While it’s only been a few days the aids are becoming a welcome part of my routine, they pair easily with my phone.
They fit the ear well and I am told have a robust design so that perilously thin wire that connects the ear bud to the aid body could tow a trailer.
Still experimenting with balance and sound levels though the default set up is pretty good.
Sound level, directional hearing and balance are easily controlled through the Rexton app.
My risk of being run over by a truck is lower as I now can hear them coming again.
The only drawback so far is that no equivalent of a windsock exists so in a stiff breeze you get that irritating crackling wind whoosh. 1st world problem I know.
I barely notice them otherwise as they sit well on the ear without need for adjustment once placed.
I am still hoping to reduce the “tinniness” of my own voice, some of that comes with time, some just from finding that volume/balance sweet-spot and ear bud placement.
At any rate it is not that big a deal as it’s minor and only a sometimes thing.
As it stands I am manually adjusting volume settings etc. from the default each morning when I put the aids in.
However once I find something I like the “Rexton Assist Robot” can make it an automatic setting always with a discard option.
Oh and Mask Mode is a ray gun setting that allows you to fry anyone wearing a mask.
Kidding.
It just helps un-mumble mask wearers.
So far so good. I am happy with the aids so far.