Wow. America being put in the same negative, unsavory context as Russia. Really demonstrates how soured the American reputation is in Canada - just a shade short of being declared ’number one enemy of Canadian democracy’.
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Opinion piece by Philip Mai, Co-director and Senior Researcher, Social Media Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University; and Anatoliy Gruzd, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Privacy-Preserving Digital Technologies, Toronto Metropolitan University.
Canada … is sanctioning an additional 23 individuals and five entities involved in the violations against Ukrainian children. These measures build on the sanctions Canada has already imposed. Canada has sanctioned over 80 individuals and entities for their involvement in violations of the rights of Ukrainian children in Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
She thinks the relationship with Ottawa can get back on track after a 10-year trainwreck when the only light at the end of the tunnel was a train headed straight for a collision with Alberta.
There are important distinctions politicians and people are glossing over when they talk about banning children from social media.
https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/how-to-disengage-from-propaganda?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true
As Canada prepares to accept more Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country, a U.S. senator is warning that although Canada-U.S. ties are strained, Canadian officials should be cautious when making agreements with China’s government.
Millennium Challenge was the name of a $250 million (US) war game, perhaps the most expensive in history, organized in 2002 by United States Joint Forces Command. It was designed to evaluate the new generation of American military technology—weapons, sensors, battlefield systems—in which the United States fought against a Middle Eastern adversary, either Iran or Iraq.
A new research tool that tracks cell phone activity has found a 42% drop in visitors from Canada to big metropolitan areas in the US that is much higher than official border-crossing data, suggesting Canadians during the second Trump administration are avoiding US cities in particular.
According to flight data, WestJet replaced the aircraft scheduled for Vanderwilk’s route with a different plane — one that had already been grounded for two days.
Alberto was recruited in Mexico by a Canadian window cleaning company and promised a steady job in Canada, with his flight and work permit costs covered. But shortly after he arrived in Toronto, more than $11,000 was illegally deducted from his pay, leaving him in debt, working more than 10 hours a day for about $300 a week and relying on food banks to survive.
Canada’s north has an outsized presence on the list of infrastructure proposals referred to the federal major projects office so far, all while Ottawa looks to spend big on bolstering the country’s military presence in the Arctic.
Christine Tootoo had to spend weeks in a hotel, far from home, while she awaited the arrival of her second baby. Tootoo lives in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, and since there isn’t a birthing centre close by, she had to fly to Winnipeg ahead of her due date earlier this year (a distance of approximately 1480 kms).
Five years after the federal government announced it would restrict vaping flavours nationwide, Canada’s health minister won’t say when or even if it will still happen — despite widespread expert advice that a ban could help curb the country’s staggering youth vaping rate.
“Like Mexico, Canada remains open to deeper integration, including options for fortress North America in (certain) sectors. And to be clear, those offers are on the table,” said the prime minister.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada’s ongoing work to secure the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russian officials shows how Ottawa is trying to work with a range of countries to advance practical, humanitarian goals.
The small community of Arviat, Nvt., has reportedly been selected to host the main campus of Inuit Nunangat University, the first Inuit-led university in Canada. The institution is expected to open in 2030.
A petition with more than 300,000 signatures — well over the required threshold — seeking such a referendum was submitted to Elections Alberta on May 4.
The number of Canadians connected to a hantavirus outbreak that began on a polar expedition cruise has grown to 10 as federal officials report three more people — two from Alberta and one from Ontario — may have had contact on a flight with someone infected.
Seven families of victims killed or injured in a mass shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in a California court, accusing him and the company of ignoring the shooter’s troubling interactions with ChatGPT.
The Hate is Intersectional: Xenophobic Technology-facilitates Gender-Based Violence (TfGBV) against Racialized Women and 2SLGBTQIA+ People in Canada exposes a playbook of toxic tropes and tactics spreading across social media as anti-immigrant rhetoric rises both online and offline.
Chris came back from his winter break feeling energized. Ubisoft’s Halifax studio, where he worked, had recently unionized with 74 percent support, joining CWA Canada. On January 5, employees returned from vacation eager to prove that unionization would make them stronger workers. But two days later, it all came crashing down.
Three more N.W.T. schools have been discovered to have elevated concentrations of lead in drinking water, amid ongoing testing of educational facilities across the territory.
Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says he does not think it was an accident that his personal information was allegedly compromised after learning it may have been exposed during an online meeting hosted by a pro-separatist organization.
Trump admin seizes US$120,000,000 owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as stake in an offshore wind project, demands that it be invested in fossil fuel development instead.
Canada’s Fisheries Department says a grey whale that was hit at high speed by a Sea-Doo in front of a horrified Vancouver crowd on Monday appeared in “good condition” the next day.
Costa Rica has become the thirteenth member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership … It becomes the second nation to accede to the CPTPP outside the original membership, following the United Kingdom.
The government just introduced Bill C-22 — a sweeping surveillance proposal that would force collection of vast quantities of Canadians’ private data, on every digital service and device we use. Internet providers, messaging services, and other online services will be obligated to store a year’s worth of metadata about who we’re talking to and where we’re travelling, build surveillance backdoors to access that data into their services, and even hand foreign governments a faster path to that information. This isn’t about catching criminals. It’s a framework for mass surveillance that leaves every Canadian exposed.
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