Avi Lewis demands Mark Carney ban stores from using personal info to set prices Businesses have reportedly been able to hike prices and maximize profits by using artificial intelligence and algorithms to set prices based on things like a customer's search history and demographic

I hope the NDP just takes the whole last section of Enshitification and just runs with it as a series of policy proposals.

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This planetarium at U of T was created as a gift to citizens. Decades later, it’s being demolished The Royal Ontario Museum opened the McLaughlin Planetarium in 1968, welcoming more than six million visitors in its 27 years of operation.

Booooooooooooooo! I said boooo.

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Connecticut isn’t very connnectedcut.

It was a real question. If the goal is transparency and equity, then let’s go the Norway route. If the goal is to shame or tame public service, then I don’t think $100k is the right level.

I work at a hospital, so my salary is public, as is all of my peers. As far as I can tell, this has had the effect of driving up salaries overall as people point to inequalities across pay bands. So, I suppose the question is what effect one is going for by publishing this information.

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I “heard” it sucked.

Although I think we can all agree that Frankenstein not being awarded for Sound is a direct attack, and hateful attack.

Thousands take to streets to protest cuts to N.S. arts grants | CBC News About 2,000 people gathered outside Province House in Halifax to let the Houston government know cuts to arts, tourism, culture and heritage sectors would cause irreparable harm to their industries.

Thousands take to streets to protest cuts to Nova Scotia arts funding
Premier Tim Houston defends cuts in budget, says 'something has to give'
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#defendnsbooks

As an EV driver and heat pump adopter, all I can say is FINALLY I get to experience an oil crisis.

“A series of tubes”

I just read the story: I think they’ve revised that quote out of there, and instead describe it as a somewhat awkward response. (They also stress that that’s out of character for her.)

Agree in principle, but could do without the casual ageism.

Ontario shut down coal.Now let’s finish the job with solar. ☀️ Ontario shut down coal.Now let’s finish the job with solar. ☀️

Ontario shut down coal.

Now let’s finish the job. ☀️

OPG could triple solar at the Nanticoke site — enough for 15,300 more homes:

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#OntarioEnergy #onpoli #EnergyTransition

Thanks for documenting your trip - I took it today from Yonge and Eg to Oakwood, and it was so fast! This is going to be so nice for the east west commuters!

Man walking towards escalators under a sign that says “5 Eglinton Line”

Facing an LRT train with closed doors, ready to leave the station

The exterior of Oakwood LRT station

For the last 15 year my mom (wynford and eglinton) and I (bloor and Ossington) have been plotting to meet at Yonge and Eg for brunch via the LRT running past her house. TODAY WAS THAT DAY. Brunch was had, light rails were ridden. Flawless execution by all parties. #line5 #ttc #brunchinfrastructure

I find this view completely dispiriting.

Govt sources casually using AI to misrepresent reality is kind of the worst case scenario in terms of having a shared version of reality.

Like, the Overton Window should have shattered at the mention of invading Canada. And yet it didn't, it just slid open, and absorbed it into this rolling, crazy debate that is US politics. It feels crazy making.

@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social When Canada was feeling in the cross hairs, this is how Canadians were talking about it. Watching US pundits debate the issue, even if one side was technically against, felt like it was normalizing something that shouldn't be discussed AT ALL.

Having neighbourhoods dominated by older, smaller, independent businesses serving a particular community get ‘reset’ by extended periods of disruption leave them ripe for investment and takeover by big business and other capital interests. No conspiracy needed, you just don’t stop it from happening.

I have to admit that listening to these stories today reminded me that gentrification isn’t some organic natural force, and there’s a reason bougier areas are more supported and less impacted by infrastructure projects like this.

I appreciate the sentiment- can we please exclude Canada and Mexico from a World Cup boycott? (Actually, maybe just Mexico if Carney gets too much deeper into the Board of Peace colonialism.

I was surprised to see it - also, I should say it was the smallest possible headline format, side by side with another trade related story

It was front page this morning

Canadian Taxpayers Federation has 5 members — why should we care what they think? | CBC News The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation has been around since the late 1980s, selling itself as a populist “citizens advocacy group” looking to cut waste and ensure accountability in government. But does i...

"From time to time, some folks claim the CTF is not a grassroots organization because we have 'five members,'" he wrote.

"The truth is that we sometimes have four, sometimes six and currently we have five.

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This is a valuable new perspective on encountering a cyber truck. Up to this point it had only filled me with repressed rage. But now I can add superiority as a positive alternative.

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

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Weirdly I’ve seen two of these, because I DO NOT typically see horror films, but sinners and 28YL were both excellent (and set me up nicely to enjoy superman and FF as a sweet pallet cleanser)

A collage of four Victorian circus performers standing in front of a circus tent, with flames rising up in the foreground.

The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel.

Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...