ICYMI: Paul Godfrey alleged Premier Ford's office exerted "political leverage" over his son's company by promising it government funding while also seeking a favour from Postmedia, which the elder Godfrey used to run. Godfrey's full sworn declaration is here & @Thetrilliumca.

The human body wasn't built for opening Microsoft Authenticator 47 times a day just so you can log into Microsoft Teams

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall and it took me a second to realize they meant autumn and not the total collapse of society.

We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date. It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them. We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons from them to strengthen our safeguards. Where appropriate, we also shared what we found with authorities and other AI companies. These cases are not typical: we’re highlighting some of the most sophisticated misuse we’ve seen. But they’re especially important to discuss, because they show us where AI misuse is headed, where our safeguards work, and where they need to improve. We’re publishing this report so others can spot the same activity on their own platforms, and so we can give the public a clearer view of how emerging threats develop. Read the report: anthropic.com/threat-intelli…

A modern-day Trojan Horse. Beware of geeks bearing gifts.

Free, independent, and pluralistic media are foundational to a healthy, transparent democracy. This disdain for journalism is, at its core, a disdain for democracy.

16 years ago Google pulled its search engine out of China because they wouldn’t submit to an authoritarian government. Today, they’re renaming lakes to appease one.

We are aware that Lake Ontario is being correctly labeled on our map.

Canada Forever 🇨🇦. This is us.

Dolly Parton never bought a fucking yacht for $800 million or flew into space. She bought books for kids.

We’re not changing it.

I was given my name by the Iroquois Nation many hundreds of years ago. By 1660 my name was printed on maps by the Europeans as they accepted the Native name which means Beautiful waters. In 1867 the Canadian government decided to use my name for their providence.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”. The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

François-Philippe Champagne: "When the United States of America asked too much and offered too little, we made a choice. We chose Canada. We chose to defend our workers, our businesses, our culture, our official languages, and our ability to decide what our future will be. Because we are the true north, strong and free."

Tim Hodgson: "We have a red line on sovereignty. We will not let another nation tell us which countries we can do trade deals with. We have a red line on the fact that we are a bilingual country and that French is a founding language in this country. That is a red line. And we have a red line around competitiveness of our manufacturing sectors."

“It’s an absolute tragedy that politics is overtaking doing what’s right for 🇨🇦: Jivani negotiating without any credibility, Pierre saying he has better plan, Danielle Smith saying we need to get back to the negotiating table right away. It’s abhorrent.” youtu.be/MBp5jYJT0CE?si=DbhQ…

Pendant plus d’un an, le Canada a travaillé sans relâche et en toute bonne foi avec les États-Unis en vue de négocier un nouvel accord commercial global. Nous avons été pragmatiques, patients et persévérants. Notre objectif a toujours été d’obtenir le meilleur accord possible pour les Canadiennes et les Canadiens. Il n’a jamais été question de signer un accord à tout prix ou à l’intérieur d’un délai donné.   Tard hier soir, j’ai ordonné à nos négociateurs de rentrer à Ottawa. Nous ne pouvons pas accepter ce que les États-Unis nous offrent, et nous refusons de leur accorder ce qu’ils nous demandent.    Le Canada appliquera des droits de douane équivalents, au dollar près, à ceux imposés par les États-Unis, et ce, pour protéger les travailleurs, les agriculteurs, les familles et les entreprises du Canada.    Dans les prochains jours, nous dévoilerons les détails de ces nouvelles mesures tarifaires, qui entreront en vigueur le mardi suivant la fête du Travail.

For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.   Late last evening I instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa. We cannot accept what the U.S. has offered, and we will not give what they have asked.    Canada will match the U.S.’ new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families, and businesses. We take this step confident that it is in the best interests of Canada.    In the coming days, we will release the details of these new tariff measures, which will come into force the Tuesday after Labour Day.

We will always defend the French language and culture in Canada.

feeling a very protective sibling-like relationship to quebec bc like i can chirp quebec all i want as a canadian but americans wanna lay hands on my little french brother and i will throw hands