LeslieMaggie🇨🇦🍁

@lesliemaggie.bsky.social

Idealist who believes we can do better but at odds with current reality! 🇨🇦She/Her

How will the Fossil Fuel Industry be dismantled? Legal Divestment Leadership Governance Democracy Grassroots heroes like you all. Don't give up. Truth will win. Millions of people are working on the problem. You are making a difference. Join us. canada.citizensclimatelobby.org/laser-talk-h...

How will the Fossil Fuel Industry be dismantled?

How will this industry that will not cooperate, listen to experts, nor play by the rules be dismantled?

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Canada and US trade tensions are pushing grocers to offer more Canadian-made products.. My question is why were they not offering more Canadian made products before? I can only speak for myself but I will buy a Canadian product first because I am supporting my country. 🇨🇦

. Canada has signed 12 trade and security agreements on four continents in six months By treating Canada like a possession, the US president may be doing something no Canadian government could have managed: convincing Canadians that dependence is a liability www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/6...

No surrender, no swagger, Canada fights back

Canada's trade war with the United States has entered a new phase. Ottawa's latest counter-tariffs, covering C$27.6 billion ($20 billion) of US goods, took effect this week after talks collapsed.

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After Ontario replaced the Endangered Species Act, ministry biologists were told they couldn't review developers' plans. We found that over 12 have since left, feeling their jobs "stopped feeling meaningful." Here's our latest investigation: thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan... #onpoli

Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal

‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act

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Two AI experts are warning that AI is getting too smart, too quickly. One former employee accuses Anthropic and OpenAI of 'gambling with our lives.' A current Anthropic safety executive said he thinks there's a ten per cent chance AI kills all humans within a decade. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Chance AI kills all humans within a decade, Anthropic insider warns

Two AI experts are warning that AI is getting too smart, too quickly. One former employee accuses Anthropic and OpenAI of 'gambling with our lives.' A current Anthropic safety executive said he thinks...

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Here we have a FFS Danielle Smith a friend of mine who needs a brain scan just received her booking for an MRI. It is in August 2028 two years from now. This is what Dani did by allowing the rich to book non referred Diagnostic appointments. Screwing over Albertans again www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta moves to allow private diagnostic tests without a doctor’s referral | CBC News

Bill 29, if passed, would allow Albertans to self-refer to private clinics across the province, later this year.

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Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.

Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

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Did speeds shoot up without the cameras? Yes — a lot! Now look at the data from months before the cameras were removed: it trends steadily downward. If this were just a "cash grab" that trend would be a flat line. But the cameras were delivering *fewer* tickets; people were becoming better drivers.

To make matters worse, the trend before Ford’s ban was clear: speeds at most of these sites were following a downward trajectory. Now the trend has reversed. And with Ford offering little except giant signs and some money to eventually install some speed bumps, it’s up to Toronto city hall and other municipal governments to figure out a way to deal with the rise in speeding traffic near school zones and other places where pedestrians and cyclists will be put at risk.
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 4mo ago

Opinion: It's been six months since Premier Doug Ford's ban on "cash grab" speed cameras, and the data is in, writes @graphicmatt.com. All of us get to say it: we told you so. #onpoli

The Associated Press says it will continue to refer to Lake Ontario by its original name, and not Lake America. It says that as a global news agency, it must ensure place names are easily recognizable to broad audiences, noting Canada has said it /1 thread halifax.citynews.ca/2026/09/08/t...

The Associated Press says it will still refer to Lake Ontario, not Lake America

The Associated Press says it will continue to refer to Lake Ontario by its original name, and not Lake America.

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Anonymous - Trump offers a bribe of $5,000 in exchange for votes, the bribe is promoted as a dividend and would cost $1.2 trillion dollars. This is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 597, bribing someone to vote a certain way is a federal crime punishable by prison. #cdnpoli

There seems to be a false binary around this anxiety. I think we can be worried about AI's biased algorithms AND also take seriously the concerns of the engineers who are shrieking about potential civilizational doom. They're related!

Instead of rushing to jump on the bandwagon there are options! Renzetti’s article below. “It is still possible, as Geoffrey Hinton has said, for countries to work together, take a step back and try to protect themselves. At that point, a pause won’t seem like losing, but the only way to win.”

Liz Renzetti@lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 2d ago

A few weeks ago I wrote about the Hugging Face hacking incident, and how Canadian politicians are misreading public sentiment around AI. Maybe that's changing this week? www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...