Curious where the marketing / storytelling potential is for companies who do NOT use the various forms of AI, especially given the myriad of issues (water & resources, excuses to cut staff, further enshitification of customer service) etc etc. I bet some smart folks could really do good storytelling around this on brand recognition etc #AI#canada#marketing#cdnpoli
After weeks and months of chanting for violence against Jews worldwide, and calls for "Long Live October 7th" and "Intifada", at the protests, an attack on a synagogue in Vancouver
Here's some footage of the Vancouver "Pro-Palestinian" protests. I put Pro-Palestinian in quotes because I don't think that calls for violence against Jews help the Palestinian cause. I think they merely perpetuate war.
It's also notable that the speaker is Khaled Barakat, a leader of Samidoun, an organization that is designated a terrorist organization in Germany.
I'd argue that calls for attacks on Jews is a form of terrorism, and this person should be arrested for inciting violence.
My biggest gripe, as someone who is living in Canada and paying taxes in Canada, is seeing how incredibly biased the #CBC is.
I've watched or listened to CBC news since the 90s. I've seen their coverage of Israel for decades, and now inside Canada I've seen their coverage of the war in Gaza, and I've seen their lack of coverage of #antisemitism .
They simply bury the issue of antisemitism, not covering stories of antisemitic attacks or policies, or they use scary air quotes when discussing it, such as "Jewish groups claim" or they couch antisemitism in terms of Israel's actions- which is itself an antisemitic trope.
Unlike even the Canadian postal service, Canada Post, the CBC is a direct arm of the Canadian government as a Crown Corporation, and yet it continues to directly and indirectly propagate antisemitism through biased reporting and or deliberate omissions in coverage.
It's one of the things I find most shameful about how my tax dollars are used here in #Canada.
Vancouver comics festival bans Jewish artist Miriam Libicki over past IDF service By Andrew Lapin May 30, 2024
"...In her own statement, Libicki, who explores Jewish identity in her work, called the ban “illegal” and said it was “bad for all artists of all political orientations and backgrounds.” She added, “I have consistently, publicly been pro-peace” and supportive of the establishment of a Palestinian state.
“Because of the vulnerable populations I work with, I prefer not to discuss my specific political views in public,” she wrote in a statement shared...by Jesse Brown, a Canadian Jewish publisher and journalist. “I believe all policing of artists’ personal identities and nationalities is wrong.”
But after the CJN article was published on Wednesday, the festival deleted its “Accountability Statement.” It has not responded to a JTA request for comment..."
Last night Mr. Laffy, the twins, and I celebrated:
1- May 34th #TrumpGuilty
2- Finding a townhouse to put an offer on …in our preferred complex, exactly where we wanted to buy
3- Being together again, in #Canada for realsies
4- The rule of law working as it should
Today I woke up (I actually didn’t sleep much) under the weather… which started yesterday but was trying to ignore. So, no Champagne today.
Today, in The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same:
A robot has replaced the person with the lawnmower on Citadel Hill National Park, but even so, it's still a Federal government gig, so one does the work and one, inset, stands there supervising.
Let me stop #cdnpoli now from the run-away American-inspired narrative that only Trudeau can save us from Poilievre. We don’t have a two party system and Trudeau is turning #Canada into an unaffordable police state. So get over that Singh is in a turban and vote for someone who actually represents your long-term interests.
Trudeau has let all the Premiers run roughshod over the Health Canada act and just approved Ford’s plan to run an unnecessary highway (as studies have shown, it is a make work project) and #climate disaster through ecogically sensitive farmland after buying a pipeline that went 30x over budget for his oil buddies. Then Prime Minister mcDreamy got on board with a genocide. Launch 🚀 him into the sun. #cdnpoli#Canada
And don’t tell me how PM mcDreamy is protecting my bodily autonomy while access to abortion has DECREASED not increased under his rule. It is a load of malarkey! No one serious should vote for Pierre but Justin ain’t it. And his harem Cabinet of ghouls can go with him, starting with Freeland who is a nazi. #climate#cdnpoli#Canada