The Americans are always either having or about to have an election, so this makes a great all-purpose blustering point for them any time anyone does anything. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/us-ambassador-warns-canadian-politicians-keep-your-nose-out-of-american-politics/
“On Trade, and in other ways, also, they are among the worst Nations in the World to deal with.” Completely unbelievable nonsense, as usual. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-canada-tariffs-autos-metals-rcna594108
“The passenger vehicle had to slow abruptly to the truck turning in front of it,” say the OPP, charging the pickup truck driver. But the passenger vehicle almost stops and sits there for a couple of seconds before the transport behind it runs out of road. https://www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ontario/article/video-captures-transport-driving-into-ditch-to-avoid-hwy-69-collision/
Having vacationed somewhere immediately beside GO tracks, I can confirm that trains passing at line speed are An Experience. It’s pretty reasonable to wish that they were electric (they’ll still be loud). https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/municipalities-transit-and-infrastructure/metrolinx-told-them-the-trains-on-their-doorstep-would-be-quiet-and-electric-it-didnt-say-when-12231710
“Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in bitcoin…” It takes a lot longer than a few seconds to confirm a Bitcoin transaction, so let’s hope that’s not literal. https://futurism.com/future-society/iran-demanding-bitcoin-payments-pass-strait-of-hormuz
Same steps! Drill down a mile, fool around a bit, hope that the water mostly stays put. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dry_rock_geothermal_energy
“…a 15-megawatt (MWe) small modular reactor (SMR) designed to operate a mile beneath the Earth’s surface.”
Geothermal is, literally, right there.
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-firm-deep-fission-6000-ft-well
They hope you think their chatbot, which can’t even summarize a news story correctly, is good enough to steal.
“Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train its Gemini AI models.…This week, the company accused ‘commercially motivated’ actors of trying to clone its Gemini AI.” https://futurism.com/future-society/google-copying-ai-permission
At least this breakdown was with the old equipment. :/
“Community Fibre Company said the actions of Hydro One escalated a billing dispute in what it believed was a criminal manner.…brought the matter to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to request an immediate stay…”
“Hydro One said the removal of the telecommunications equipment from the electricity poles was due to safety issues.…since 2017, it had repeatedly asked the internet provider to remove the unauthorized and unsafe telecommunications equipment.” https://www.insideottawavalley.com/news/lanark-based-internet-provider-claims-hydro-one-cut-rural-lines-the-energy-company-says-the/article_c811d50d-132a-541c-8884-537cfab7bad7.html
“Papers, please,” is unthinkable commie dictatorship stuff right up until an Angry Canadian notices a foreigner.
(I haven’t checked, but I’m pretty sure that we’re not, since it costs money.)
“US space agency Nasa has blocked Chinese citizens with valid US visas from its facilities - a move that effectively bars them from working at one of the most respected space research centres.” Well, heck, if Canada were serious about its space rogram…https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wd5qpekkvo.amp
“Now, with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government narrowing the field to two finalists…This Conservative government must ask itself…”
Write your article in the spring for publication in the fall and this sort of search-and-replace error will happen.
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/canada-must-go-german-for-its-new-submarine/
#OttWeather air quality: smellably bad.
“The company building the Hurontario LRT, also known as the Hazel McCallion line, appears to have hit major financial hurdles…the LRT no longer has an official opening date…” https://globalnews.ca/news/10810909/hurontario-lrt-credit-rating-construction-delays/
“Not wanting to pay the going rate for labour is emphatically not the same thing as a shortage of labour.” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-fraud-in-the-temporary-worker-program-isnt-the-problem-the-rules-that/
“In an unrelated incident in 2023, Bent was charged with second-degree murder after 24-year-old Shacquan Harrison was stabbed in Etobicoke. He is expected to stand trial later this year or early next year.”
Let’s hope a different crew worked that one.