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Victim of growing tuition scam knew exactly where her $37K went — but no one would help her get it back | CBC News A new scam is emerging across Canada: fraudsters who claim to give students a tuition break, but rip them off using stolen credit cards. When a Vancouver woman discovered $37,000 in fraudulent charges...

I’m a little surprised that having bank accounts full of stolen money isn’t a more urgent problem for some of the bigger names mentioned here. www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...

09.03.2026 14:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Passer-by tried to tackle Glasgow vape shop fire which led to inferno Lamin Kongira told BBC Scotland News he had been walking past when a shopkeeper ran out saying "fire, fire".

“An eyewitness has told the BBC that he tried to tackle a fire at a vape shop next to Glasgow Central station but had to abandon the attempt after a series of explosions.” Fair.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

09.03.2026 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Spring ahead. Hate it.

08.03.2026 16:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What we’re learning about the West Sixth mass shooting suspect The FBI and Austin police released limited details about Ndiaga Diagne as public records reveal the alleged gunman's move from New York to Texas, 2022 divorce.

A dash of @greatdismal flavour, I feel: “…a folding chair was positioned outside the front door…On the chair was a Ruko security camera equipped with a speaker. When a reporter knocked on the door, a male voice said through the speaker, ‘Get off the property.’” www.statesman.com/news/crime/a...

07.03.2026 23:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A grid of nine linoleum patterns arranged in a grid of squares. The patterns contain a wide range of alternating shapes and colors, bright or muted, most symmetrical. Most suggest marble or tile.

A grid of nine linoleum patterns arranged in a grid of squares. The patterns contain a wide range of alternating shapes and colors, bright or muted, most symmetrical. Most suggest marble or tile.

Selected patterns from “Linoleum & Felt-Base: Spring Season - 1932”
Sloane-Blabon Corp., New York

Image: Avery Library Architectural Trade Catalogs Collection (Columbia Univ.) via @archive.org; archive.org/details/lino...

07.03.2026 14:25 👍 272 🔁 70 💬 2 📌 7
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Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a U.S. airstrike Satellite images, expert analysis and information released by the U.S. and Israeli militaries suggest an explosion that killed scores of Iranian students at a school was likely caused by U.S. airstrik...

www.ctvnews.ca/world/mideas...

06.03.2026 23:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cross Circuits with Waubgeshig Rice Join us for a Cross Circuits talk with celebrated Anishinaabe writer and journalist Waubgeshig Rice!

Toronto! I'm coming to visit The Power Plant Gallery this Saturday afternoon to talk about how my recent books and life experiences connect with two current exhibits by artists Jeneen Frei Njootli and Lucy Raven. It's free and open to everyone! www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on/cal...

05.03.2026 21:34 👍 55 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1
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Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan Gavalas

“…as Gavalas continued to have prompt-and-response conversations with the chatbot, Gemini gave him instructions on what he must do next: kill himself, something the chatbot called ‘transference’ and ‘the real final step’…”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

04.03.2026 21:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

“The global economy must be reordered to ensure it serves ordinary people around the world rather than the ‘frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich’, according to a leading UN figure.” I’m sure that the ultra-rich will get right on that for him www.theguardian.com/environment/...

04.03.2026 03:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’ Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.

“If the intelligence was up to date enough to spare a clinic that had been open for only one year, how did it fail to identify an elementary school that had been separated from the military complex […] for more than 10 years?”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

04.03.2026 00:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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❄️Winter bump? Rolling trackers from Nanos and Liaison now mirror online firms, reinforcing a broader consensus in favour of the Liberals.

📊My latest → www.338canada.ca/p/polls-alig...

03.03.2026 21:54 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3
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'Frustrating' lack of answers as owner plans to reopen partially collapsed parking garage | CBC News The owner of the downtown Ottawa parking garage where a large section came crashing down just over a year ago says it plans to rebuild and reopen the facility — though it remains unclear what caused t...

“The owner of the Ottawa parking garage where a large section came crashing down just over a year ago says it plans to rebuild and reopen the facility…” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

03.03.2026 18:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
HONOR Robot Phone. Prototype? No. Reality.
HONOR Robot Phone. Prototype? No. Reality. YouTube video by HONOR

There’s something very 20th century about this concept: a cellular phone with a little robot buddy camera gimbal on it. youtu.be/uiaHf2j2b5g?...

03.03.2026 14:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

I think that these stories of chatbot-induced psychosis really do with being read in the context of Serial Experiments Lain (1998), and its subplot about the purported God of Cyberspace talking people into killing themselves. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

28.02.2026 16:36 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A landscape view of the Rideau River in winter. Figures are standing far away on the ice, and four blasts of ice are taking place.

A landscape view of the Rideau River in winter. Figures are standing far away on the ice, and four blasts of ice are taking place.

Reminder: Ice blasting on the Rideau River will start Saturday, February 28.

Ice breaking operations will create dangerous conditions of open water and unstable ice.

Please stay off all cleared ice.

More info: https://bit.ly/3NXjyH9

26.02.2026 19:30 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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These 1920s Film Photos Sat Undeveloped for 100 Years, Until Now It might be the oldest roll of film ever developed in the U.K.

Very funny to go through the trouble of developing and scanning 100 year old film and then just let ChatGPT hallucinate all over them.

26.02.2026 22:38 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
the-unflappablewolf
Who would you trust more?
total stranger in a star trek shirt?
94.5%
total stranger in a star wars shirt?
5.5%
99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden
thebaconsandwichofregret
No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

No but this is entirely correct

27.02.2026 00:03 👍 5238 🔁 1120 💬 98 📌 176
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Singer D4vd named 'target' in investigation into killing of girl whose body was found in car in Hollywood | CBC News Singer D4vd is the target of a Los Angeles County grand jury investigation of the killing of a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was found last year in an apparently abandoned Tesla registered to...

“…body was found last year in an apparently abandoned Tesla…”

Of all of the personal vehicles to involve in your gruesome crime, a Tesla is surely the most likely to be instrumented and monitored in a way that you weren’t hoping for.

www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

26.02.2026 22:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cuban forces kill four people aboard a Florida-registered speedboat | CNN Four people in a Florida-registered speedboat were killed by Cuban forces Wednesday morning, Cuba’s interior ministry said.

I was sternly informed that killing people on boats was Freedom™, actually. www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/a...

26.02.2026 00:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Something absolutely inexorable about wearing a white shirt that makes me desperate to cook with turmeric.

22.02.2026 22:03 👍 604 🔁 20 💬 31 📌 1
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Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

22.02.2026 16:24 👍 9977 🔁 2277 💬 65 📌 112
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Armed man shot and killed after entering secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, Secret Service says An armed man drove into the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's resort in Palm Beach, Florida, before being shot and killed early Sunday morning, according to a spokesman for the ...

“He said his cousin didn’t discuss politics.…‘We are big Trump supporters, all of us. Everybody,’ Fields said, but his cousin was ‘real quiet, never really talked about anything.’”

Maybe less of a fan, then.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

22.02.2026 20:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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JPMorgan concedes it closed Trump's accounts after Jan. 6 attack JPMorgan Chase now confirms it closed Donald Trump’s bank accounts after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“Trump and other conservative figures have alleged that banks cut them off from their accounts under the umbrella term of ‘reputational risk’ after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.” Financing domestic terrorism does look pretty bad.
apnews.com/article/trum...

22.02.2026 03:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Picture via a CNN reporter of a banner with Trump’s face going up on outside of DOJ building

Picture via a CNN reporter of a banner with Trump’s face going up on outside of DOJ building

Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building

19.02.2026 18:28 👍 14578 🔁 4279 💬 1636 📌 1019
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Corridor Train Alliance lobbies for rail service along Highway 401 New community group to provide unified voice for groups opposed to high-speed rail proposal.

Town with major transportation arterial demands major transportation arterial.
www.thewhig.com/news/corrido...

20.02.2026 16:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Many of you.

18.02.2026 22:07 👍 1041 🔁 396 💬 8 📌 21
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IDF says it dug up Canadian soldiers' graves to destroy Gaza tunnel | CBC News The Israel Defence Forces have given CBC News an official explanation for the destruction of a cemetery holding the remains of 22 Canadian soldiers who died serving as peacekeepers in the Middle East ...

“A small plot attached to the Gaza War Cemetery also held the remains of 22 Canadian soldiers who lost their lives during the UN peacekeeping mission in Egypt following the Suez Crisis in 1956. That plot appears to have been completely destroyed.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

18.02.2026 19:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kremlin official says Russian navy to stop West’s seizure of merchant ships Russian official says Western powers seizing sanctioned vessels carrying Moscow's oil commit 'piracy-like attacks'.

Don’t laugh, perhaps the fearsome assets of the mighty Russian navy could be towed around by the very sanctioned tankers they want to protect.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

18.02.2026 19:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux joins Liberal caucus | CBC News Edmonton MP Matt Jeneroux has crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party, nudging Prime Minister Mark Carney closer to the line of a coveted majority.

“Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux, who said last year that he planned to leave politics altogether after his name circulated as a potential defector, announced Wednesday he is joining the government after all.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

18.02.2026 17:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0