Michèle Champagne

C’mon, people. Look at your Kremlin style guide. The phrase is “special military operation.” Not all of you are getting this right.

Humour comes in many forms.

Opinion: Mark Carney ties his own foreign policy in knots Instead of reconciling principle and pragmatism, the PM made a mess of both

From art and culture to housing, defence, diplomacy, and international relations, Carney’s incoherence is becoming more apparent. At least to those who watch closely, because Carneymania is still very real.

The struggle is making him look bad and he knows it. Hence this lapse:

Carney has also been struggling with the Parliamentary Budget Officer who keeps popping his communications bubbles: on the true cost of F-35s, on overall housing cuts, and more.

And yet Evan Solomon is merely requesting things, then taken under consideration by Sam Altman, and Canada still “does not have overarching AI legislation, nor does it have a set of rules that apply specifically to chatbots, unlike some other jurisdictions.”

AI Minister tells OpenAI Canadian experts must assess flagged ChatGPT conversations Chief executive Sam Altman agreed to the change, Evan Solomon says

Think of what he could have accomplished had he not wasted an entire year as an mandatory “A.I.” positivist—executing on puff pieces in the press, setting up tech bro panels, and undermining civil society with ill-advised public consultations.

Globe editorial: The Liberals have muzzled the federal fiscal watchdog After 18 years, the Parliamentary Budget Officer is without a voice, until the government gets around to naming a permanent successor

Even the OECD has flagged this as a problem. Canada needs a new and strong Parliamentary Budget Officer, and now.

Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print | Alexander Hurst From hefty literary magazines to thriving book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter die, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

The solution to screen fatigue.

Vague, endlessly verbose, self-pitying: John Tory’s statement. He’s not running.

Lest we forget:

With Trudeau and Wynne, he helped launch Google and Sidewalk Labs‘ attempt to fully privatize the governance of Toronto’s Quayside. With glee!

A few things I will remember John Tory for:

Violent, militarized encampment evictions.

Undermining local democracy by requesting 'Strong Mayor' powers from Doug Ford.

The failure of SmartTrack and the closure of the Scarborough LRT.

Denying shelter to refugees.

Doug Ford’s new Science Centre: How the architects came up with the design of the $1B building Doron Meinhard, one of the partners at Toronto’s Hariri Pontarini Architects, said the building will be the "embodiment of science."

How many times will @thestar.com repeat this false number about the Ontario Science Centre? It is not 400,000 SF. It is less than 300,000.

The old building is 568,000. This is aggressive and transparent spin from the government.

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CETA was in principle signed in 2016, but is not fully ratified. Therefore is still not yet in effect.

In 2015?

I never said any one reporter—or another—was being dishonest.

The Star is lost. It’s misinterpreting Carney and foreign policy. Repeating faux stats from Ford on the new Ontario Science Centre—see Bozikovic. It’s also paraphrasing press releases from visual art galleries withoug question. What is going on with its editorship? Do you know?

Competition Case Against Google Moves Forward | Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project CAMP statement in response to Competition Tribunal's rejection of Google's constitutional challenge in online advertising case.

Big news in Canadian competition policy today as the Competition Tribunal rejects Google's argument that new monetary penalties are unconstitutional. antimonopoly.ca/canadas-comp...

This “it’s not a war but a special military operation” is very Kremlin March 2022. As is the propaganda that we are not starting a war but ending one. As is the confusion of oligarch media as it tries to be faithful in the confusion…

Propaganda, Disinformation and Truth YouTube video by The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda)

Propaganda now is “about deconstructing the other side ... disrupting Western narratives of any sort. There’s a steady stream of disinformation whose purpose seems to be to undermine the very idea that ‘truth’ is provable.”

– @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social in
– @metahaven.bsky.social's The Sprawl

If Canadian public broadcasters, producers, editors, and journalists want to understand this, they should talk to those who understand contemporary propaganda:

– @timothysnyder.bsky.social
– @marcishore.bsky.social
– @metahaven.bsky.social
– @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social

What a saga this is—and a pity, but no surprise.

New: the Art Gallery of Ontario's deputy director + chief curator, Julian Cox, is leaving in April. No reasoning given, but worth noting AGO is under deep scrutiny over its governance re the Nan Goldin saga, and it hasn't begun searching for a replacement
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Right. In North York. The view is great.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

How to be a man.

I had no idea there was skiing near Toronto.

Ce que l’on sait sur le bombardement présumé d’une école en Iran Les autorités iraniennes rapportent autour de 150 morts. Ni Washington ni Israël n’ont confirmé leur responsabilité.

Quelle horreur.

Bras de fer au monastère de Berthierville Un promoteur qui souhaite démolir l’ensemble monastique persiste malgré ses revers en justice.

Notre patrimoine.

Tell me more about medieval Marxism!

We talk about Baby Boomers not wanting to leave the stage, but here we were worried they would come back!