Mark Carney has been working assiduously to marry high finance with arms production. The relationship may be consummated at his upcoming CEO summit. yvesengler.com/2026/07/31/b...
Big finance and war to renew their vows in Toronto - Yves Engler
Mark Carney has been working assiduously to marry high finance with arms production. The relationship may be consummated at his upcoming CEO summit. As part of massively increasing military spending,…
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Artificial Intelligence – Socialist Project socialistproject.ca/2026/08/arti...
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) covers a broad range of technologies. But there is only one that dominates the news and financial markets – the multimodal generative AI systems produced by leading tech…
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Proof positive that Canada is second to none in growing terrible human beings with too much money and too little sense.
Shopify CEO publicly calls for greater concentration of power in the hands of the wealthy
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke proposes disenfranchising many Canadians, including those on a government pension.
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Some thoughts about Anthropic’s new cryptanalysis results
Some thoughts about Anthropic’s new cryptanalysis results
Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…
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The Left Is Rising, So Centrist Dems Are Cynically Woke Again
The Left Is Rising, So Centrist Dems Are Cynically Woke Again
The Democratic establishment said it was getting rid of the grating, cynical style of wokeness it blamed for its 2024 loss to Donald Trump. Then the Left began winning primaries, and those same…
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Wealthy want oligarchy; people need economic democracy - Yves Engler
Wealthy want oligarchy; people need economic democracy - Yves Engler
The rich want to extend their one dollar one vote capitalist principles throughout society. But rather than simply defend “democracy” from Tobi Lutke, we need a vision that eliminates capitalism’s…
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AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
AI doesn’t just learn stereotypes from its training. It can cook up new ones, too.
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A proprietary American AI created the crisis. An open-weight Chinese AI, GLM 5.2, had to be used to reconstruct the attack because commercial frontier models refused to analyze the logs under their own safety restrictions. buff.ly/6H9bEoL
The Hugging Face Breach
A Wake-Up Call for Governments and How They Think About AI
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Toronto: where speech is a crime but support for genocide isn’t - Yves Engler
Toronto: where speech is a crime but support for genocide isn’t - Yves Engler
The racist double standards are outrageous. Many Canadian Jewish organizations provide huge sums of (taxpayer subsidized) assistance to a genocidal military, yet a Palestinian Canadian activist is…
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Canada not for sale — let’s send message to summit CEOs - Yves Engler
Canada not for sale — let’s send message to summit CEOs - Yves Engler
Capitalists are salivating at the prospects offered by Mark Carney’s wealth concentrating, ecocidal policies. With his upcoming Canada Investment Summit set to consolidate the prime minister’s…
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Where is the Carney government's promised Youth Climate Corps?
Where is the Carney government's promised Youth Climate Corps?
Update on federal budget's YCC pledge.
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Trump Attacks Socialism Because He Knows Americans Want It
Trump Attacks Socialism Because He Knows Americans Want It
The current freak-out by Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and other right-wingers about democratic socialism is quite rational. In socialism, they see a formidable foe.
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It would be much easier to have special or exceptional protections for children if the 'normal' web were safe by design. It's not, which is why children's safety initiatives will be difficult, if not impossible, to realise without massive privacy implications for everyone.
News release: Privacy Commissioner of Canada strengthens international cooperation at the 2026 G7 Data Protection and Privacy Authorities Roundtable - Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
June 26, 2026
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A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: The Trouble With Canada's Quiet Decision to Sign the UN Cybercrime Convention - Michael Geist
A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: The Trouble With Canada's Quiet Decision to Sign the UN Cybercrime Convention - Michael Geist
Last week, the government announced that Canada has signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, with Ministers Anita Anand, Gary Anandasangaree and Sean Fraser touting the treaty’s child…
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Think twice: A citizen’s guide to artificial intelligence in Canada | CCPA
Think twice: A citizen’s guide to artificial intelligence in Canada | CCPA
Canadians need to think twice about the promise and inevitability of artificial intelligence and be prepared to push back on the AI industry
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Your Opt-Out Button Might Not Be Doing What You Think It Is
Your Opt-Out Button Might Not Be Doing What You Think It Is
In response to the increasing number of state data privacy laws and to address a wave of claims under state wiretap laws, most businesses have spent the last several years posting online privacy…
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Consent Defense Rejected: Google and Meta Face Discovery Over Prescription Pixel Data
Consent Defense Rejected: Google and Meta Face Discovery Over Prescription Pixel Data
Meta Pixel health data privacy lawsuit takes a significant turn as a federal judge refuses to dismiss claims against Google and Meta over prescription data collected via tracking pixels on telehealth…
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The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?
The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?
Psychologist Candice Odgers has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years. She fears the current debate around smartphones obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact…
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Anti-tracking fashion: Startup makes clothes to thwart AI cameras
Anti-tracking fashion: Startup makes clothes to thwart AI cameras
Face-like prints, special cuts and shielding smartphone pockets: Urban Privacy wants to hinder surveillance, while police increasingly rely on smart cameras. #EuropeNews
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Consumers claim Meta misleads them about the privacy of AI smart glasses
Consumers claim Meta misleads them about privacy of AI smart glasses
Last month, a Swedish newspaper reported that a subcontractor in Kenya reviews footage captured by the smart glasses.
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The antifa terrorism threat the Trump administration describes does not exist
The antifa terrorism threat the Trump administration describes does not exist
Antifa is a scattered movement of local collectives that opposes fascism. It has no leader, command hierarchy, funding structure or record of deadly attacks.
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This Week in Canada: Why a Social Media Ban Isn’t the Answer
This Week in Canada: Why a Social Media Ban Isn’t the Answer
In the latest This Week in Canada newsletter, Carney’s latest attack on the technology industry might feel good, but it won’t solve the online problems that actually hurt teenagers, writes Rupa…
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EU Financial Institutions Leak Data Through Cookie Trackers
EU Financial Institutions Leak Data Through Cookie Trackers
European banks transmit customer data to companies like Google, Meta, and TikTok via tracking pixels, seemingly inadvertently, according to new research.
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It is not too late to put the public interest first in the AI era, but it will require a different approach.
Think twice: A citizen’s guide to artificial intelligence in Canada | CCPA
Canadians need to think twice about the promise and inevitability of artificial intelligence and be prepared to push back on the AI industry
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Is Doug Ford planning to axe elected public school boards in Ontario? buff.ly/0HwuVxy
Is Doug Ford planning to axe elected public school boards in Ontario?
Communities fear the province may soon eliminate trustees in Ontario, impacting disabled, First Nations, and other marginalized students.
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