Just a week after a resounding leadership victory, Poilievre found himself offside from Stephen Harper. What could he learn from the ‘Godfather’ of his party? Chantal Hébert & Bruce Anderson join. 🔊 on SXM Canada Talks, podcast platforms. 📺 on YouTube: youtu.be/Idm31swmdQs

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

You know there's something wrong in your society when teenagers feel the need to watch government agents work instead of... being teenagers

The teenagers’ names are Sam and Ben, but to the federal immigration agents they interact with daily, the two boys wielding cell phones and taking down plate numbers are a duo known as “the brothers.” https://cnn.it/4aqeBiC

⚜️Le PQ demeure en tête, mais son avance s’effrite. La course à la chefferie de la CAQ s’invite dans l’équation. 📊Le portrait de 2026 devient plus en plus incertain. Ma chronique ↓ www.qc125.ca/p/ca-se-corse

Giving any forms of connected toy, with or without AI, to children is completely irresponsible.

Free speech in America continues its death spiral—just like Trump and MAGAs wanted.

Encore un excellent épisode de #LeCollimateur mais cette fois sous une perspective canadienne.

Obviously...

NEW COLUMN: I thought I understood most of Trump’s foreign policy. But I just couldn’t get the Greenland thing. It turns out I’m not alone: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Snapchat’s parent company settles social media addiction lawsuit before trial

Tellement toujours d'actualité vimeo.com/788590976

Ce pompier qui a essayé de profiter d’un aîné vulnérable pourra garder son emploi

Si aucun algorithme ne décidait de ce que les gens voient sur les réseaux sociaux, je comprendrais ceux qui sont contre l'interdiction, mais en ce moment toute la planète, et les jeunes d'autant plus, ne jouent pas à armes égales contre les algorithmes et il faut agir maintenant.

Déjà problématique, le diabète de type 2 pourrait devenir un enjeu de société majeur dans les prochaines années au Québec, à moins de renverser la vapeur en misant sur la prévention.

Saab wants Canada to buy 72 Gripens and 6 GlobalEyes to fulfil promise of 12,600 jobs. Swedish firm looking to manufacture aircraft for Canadian and international markets www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them. It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Being targeted by sophisticated spyware is relatively rare, but experts say that everyone needs to stay vigilant as this dangerous malware continues to proliferate worldwide. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Une classique hivernale de hockey à Miami, ce n'est pas une "classique" et ce n'est pas "hivernale"... 🤦 #lnh

Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too. www.wired.com/story/us-tra...

Le cœur a ses raisons. Une des meilleures séries de tous les temps.

«Pulp Fiction» et «The Mask»: l’acteur américain Peter Greene meurt à 60 ans

It begins to look like Trumpism...

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Mistral unveils its Mistral 3 lineup, including a frontier model and efficient small models designed for offline, customizable enterprise use—aiming to prove small, fine-tuned AI can beat closed-source giants.

Wikipedia, the online nonprofit encyclopedia, is urging AI companies to stop scraping its pages and to use its paid API instead.

[OPINION] Qu’est-ce que Lucien Bouchard fait au service de la FMSQ? (Antoine Robitaille)

À 72 ans, Marjo fait «sauter le plafond» au Gala de l’ADISQ

The U.K.’s competition regulator has designated Apple and Google with “strategic market status” in their mobile platforms, giving the regulator new powers to enforce competition in areas like app stores, browsers, and operating systems.

World of Cyberpunk dystopia is arriving here, slowly, but still arriving...

Cory Doctorow’s theory of “enshittification” explains how tech platforms rot from within. As AI grows more profitable—and powerful—it risks the same fate.

What could go wrong...

"I don't have anything to hide why should I care about privacy?"

Make America Quarantined Again

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

Bonne décision!