“The directive did not offer a reason for the gathering next Tuesday of senior commanders of the one-star rank or higher and their top advisers at the Marine Corps base in Quantico.”

They're turning people away at packed Toronto launch event for @avilewis.ca for NDP leader campaign tonight at Tranzac club. Very encouraging. I've known and respected Avi for decades and he would make an excellent prime minister. An accomplished communicator with exciting ideas, how's his French?

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“Foreign broadcasters and organizations that fight foreign propaganda are a bargain. They cost very little in comparison with the billions we spend on defense. They have the potential to produce huge benefits. So why cut them?”

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Interesting report on media economics in Canada.

A national General Strike may be one of the few tools left.

“They’re training us, the audience, to get used to the AI look and eventually view it as normal.”

“This government is a big believer in the value of … local news and the importance of ensuring that that is disseminated as widely and as quickly as possible. So, we will look for all avenues to do that.”

“When listings began to disappear, many imagined that the internet would simply fill the void—that artists and their fans (as well as nonprofit institutions and their audiences) would find new ways to connect.”

The bottom line, according to one person close to Stephen Colbert, is that "The Late Show" is a "casualty of the merger." Here's what that means: www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/m...

“Ukrainian officials say Russia is now producing more than 5,000 of the long-range drones and decoys each month, with some able to fly 2,500 kilometers to their target.”

Reminds me of the adage: To be pro-free speech is to stand-up for the viewpoints you don’t agree with. Otherwise you are just pro-your side.

“The proportion of news-related searches that don’t result in any click-throughs to publisher websites has jumped to nearly 69 per cent.”

Finally some good news. 🙌

“This is the Parliament that Canadians want to see, a place where MPs respect each other rather than erode the institution by turning into a content studio for creating snarky partisan social media posts and decontextualized attack ads.”

“Following Poilievre’s disastrous showing on election night, there’s a crack at the top of the federal Conservatives and a minority Liberal government precariously holding power.”

Can’t wait! 😻

An industrial strategy for uncertain times.

It’s a fair treatment. Definitely worth watching the documentary.

Might be useful as a teaching resource.

NEW REPORT: Russia's state-backed hackers have a new trick. In collab w/ Google Threat Intelligence Group, we investigated an attack against prominent Russian expert @keirgiles.bsky.social & uncovered an elaborate attack targeting App-Specific Passwords (ASPs). citizenlab.ca/2025/06/russ...

Keir Giles has been targeted *again* by allegedly Russian hackers — this time using a clever new trick intended to bypass 2-factor authentication. Over the years I’ve written about Giles an unusual amount, and I have an idea about why. First, the coverage: www.reuters.com/technology/s...

Regime change is now looking like the objective.

Available now!

I'm back down to only 10 open tabs on my laptop and it feels great. 🗂️

Despite all the criticism of the Trudeau era, you’ve got to admit they got this right.

Greenwashing doublespeak at its finest. 🙌

“In the last two-and-a-half years, the media sector has cut 482 Unifor members in broadcast television, most in local news, with the loss of 376 members in the past year.”

“We are now in a race to mass. Wars of the future will be won by those who can deploy at scale, not by those with the most sophisticated single asset.”

First batch of Google’s $100 million is paid. @brishti.bsky.social reports on who won big and who didn’t:

Speech from the Throne > State of the Union address

“He had some missteps in all of the agencies, which would have been fine because everyone acknowledges that when you’re moving fast and breaking things, not everything is going to go right. But it’s different when you do that and you don’t even have the buy-in of the agency you’re setting on fire.”

“People in 2025 are going to have a real difficult time with misinformation. People in 2100 won’t know which parts of history were real.”

Some impacts of AI on direct website visits.

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Great read. Looking forward to the book.

Facebook is uninterested, X is deranged, TikTok doesn't do text. So how does news get discovered? Used to be Google. www.status.news/p/daily-dot-... Now: "Executives have privately sounded the alarm to me about sudden traffic drops tied to unexplained algorithmic changes." —@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

“Canada does not have the luxury of dismissing White House rhetoric as trolling. Canadians are imagining the unimaginable because they have to.”

Nice to see #NiagraFalls lit up blue for #WorldPressFreedomDay 2025. Props to @inkstainedcamp.bsky.social for their advocacy.

A strong, independent, and free press both defines and defends our values as Canadians. Now more than ever, we need to protect our public forums and defend strong and reliable Canadian voices. #WorldPressFreedomDay

“Silencing and capturing universities and the free press—both of them crucial sources of knowledge essential to democratic self-governance and more—have long been at the top of the authoritarian to-do list.”

“We may be moving off the populist period to an era of politics in which erudition, knowledge and statesmanship, are prized, and respected more so than the divide-and-conquer pugilism offered by the Conservative Leader.”

Still a full hour before the earliest of polls close in Canada and there are thousands of people in this page at this moment. Interest in results is very, very high newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/fe...

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I walk the line. 😎 @votecompass.bsky.social

“The cancellation was another black eye for the Leaders’ Debate Commission, which has been heavily criticized this week after dropping the Green Party from the debates at the last minute and giving press accreditation to a number of reporters from right-wing outlets.”

“Day after day, the administration works to create a world where ruthless people can thrive. That means destroying any institution or arrangement that might check the strongman’s power.”