Tomorrow, their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla are visiting #OttCity! Expect traffic and transit delays in certain parts of Ottawa. Check out our interactive traffic map for live updates: traffic.ottawa.ca/map Planned impacts: bit.ly/4ka1QLG

‼️ FYI to friends & colleagues ‼️ Alliance Canada Hong Kong ACHK's archive was updated- linktr.ee/alliancecana... All of our past reports, issue briefs, training materials and other submissions were uploaded for public access. I hope you find these resources helpful 💛 in solidarity

Back to back dingers from Robert Deniro and Liev Schreiber in the area of Hollywood tough guys shrugging their shoulders going “yeah why wouldn’t I love my child?”

This memorandum drives home how the "censorship" narrative has ALWAYS been a project to "prove" Trump's Big Lie in 2020. For researchers, platforms, and gov folks caught up in censorship accusations, no amount of ducking & covering was ever going to stop them. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Librarians changed my life. So I’m so glad we can honour them. Here’s Toronto librarian Frances Trotter leading story time at a branch in 1935.

U.S. tariffs could utterly destroy the terms Canada thought it was getting when it agreed to buy 88 F-35 fighter jets. thelogic.co/news/trump-t...

New: The 19-year-old technologist who has become one of the best known members of Elon Musk’s US DOGE Service was providing digital infrastructure to a cybercrime ring as recently as two years ago. www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

Ottawa’s English-language public school board is holding a virtual consultation tonight on a major change to elementary schools, except without any capacity for parents to provide feedback. So calling a Q&A a consultation. And have referred a couple of times to amendments coming Friday.

"why does the American public not understand what's happening in their own country" I shout over the hedge fund dessicated corpse of local journalism

The U.S. Army and Defense Department removed a mention of the Navajo code talkers from its website. They are a group of Navajo U.S. marines who were essential during the Second World War for developing a code using their native language.

Health officials highlight accelerated #MMR vaccine guidance in response to #measles outbreak areas of Ontario, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #pediatrics #vaccination

The Prime Minister and the President highlighted the launch of a new bilateral partnership on intelligence and security. The partnership will focus on enhancing cybersecurity and intelligence sharing on significant threats. LES DEUX YEUX 👀 www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/read...

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.” - Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

Canada's cyber intelligence agency is warning that countries including China, Russia and Iran will "very likely" lean on artificial intelligence to try and interfere in the upcoming federal election and mislead voters. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Ah, yes, here is our daily ritual of my son telling me he has no clean underwear and me telling him to check the pile of clean laundry that we still haven’t folded

Governments of the United States’ chief adversaries in cyberspace, especially Russia, have increasingly been relying on cybercriminals and their tools to advance their goals, according to a Google report published Tuesday. via @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/u-s-adversar...

Camp registrations, constant news-related stress and 40cm of snow coming as of tomorrow night. That primal scream you hear in Ottawa is all the parents realizing that they now have to add swimming registration tonight, on top of everything else

A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Rude 🧵

SCOOP: Shopify support staff were told to give “no comment” and to end online chats if customers asked about the company’s technology being used by the musician Kanye West to sell a T-shirt bearing a Nazi swastika. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

i want to be a bookstore cat in my next life

All of this 👇 theconversation.com/beyond-birth...

THREAD: How to check if the screenshot of a social media post is real or fake? Fake screnshots of online posts regularly mislead people. So, here's a simple guide on how you can quickly check if a screenshot of a post attributed to an account is genuine or fake before falling for or sharing it.

This is a big deal: The National Counterintelligence and Security Center, FBI, and four other US agencies are jointly warning US defense companies to bolster security precautions in anticipation of possible Russian sabotage. Not an alarm to hit snooze on.

Yesterday we took our kids to the Canada Science and Tech Museum. Not only did they have a blast with all the hands-on exhibits, but this am my 4yo told me she wants to be a scientist when she grows up

"I can't believe that, in 2024, we still have defend the contribution of women to defence and security," says Gen. Jennie Carignan, Canada's Chief of Defence staff. In a jab to incoming defence secretary Pete Hegseth, Carignan says women in the military is not some kind of "expirement."

The Supplementary Estimates (B), tabled yesterday, show CSE 2024-25 budget increased to $1.127 billion, up $85M from the original $1.042B, including $26M carried forward from the previous FY and $48.4M added "to invest in Canada as an effective cyber power". www.canada.ca/en/treasury-...

A commercial boom around using AI in the classroom is creating a slew of privacy and safety hazards well before Washington grapples with the fast-moving technology.

Irwin Cotler under 24-hour police protection due to threat to his life

Re. the current wildfires, something I learned last year while researching building codes and climate change: Canadians are particularly vulnerable. As urban sprawl expanded residential zones into forested areas, we have a lot of wildland urban interface (WUI). (a thread)

BREAKING: Elon has blocked Catturd

One factor in Barbie's success that I feel is being overlooked is how starved audiences are for a film that's bright enough to actually see what's on screen.

maybe the machines ARE trying to kill us. don’t use AI recipe generators for the love of god https://gizmodo.com/paknsave-ai-savey-recipe-bot-chlorine-gas-1850725057