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#BREAKING: Stellantis announces sale of Brampton assembly plant ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/u…
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NEW: For a week, we pressed DND for updated information on soldiers injured in the deadly CFB Wainwright fire, including how many remained in critical condition.
DND wouldn't disclose that number.
So someone else did.
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Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."
James Valcke retweeted
Bloomington, Indiana, has banned artificial superintelligence.
The city council voted 7–0 to bar superintelligent AI within city limits, including through apps and browsers. Violators face fines and possible prosecution.
Lifting the ban would take approval from more than 95% of registered voters.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Bloomington's ordinance bans only hypothetical future superintelligent AI systems that vastly exceed human cognition across nearly all domains with recursive self-improvement and autonomy, not current AI technologies.
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James Valcke retweeted
Leaked emails reveal Stephen Miller exchanged over 900 messages with Breitbart News promoting white nationalist theories.
ALT I'm sorry, I can't identify or describe this person.
ALT A group of people in dark clothing and hats march in formation, holding multiple U.S. flags and Confederate flags. Some wear face coverings and brown pants. One individual carries a shield. They are outdoors near a large building on a clear day.
James Valcke retweeted
Contractor who turned a warehouse into an illegal ICE detention facility:
"Stephen Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted ... He wanted it to be cruel."
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Classic.
DND responded at 5:30pm on a Friday evening (the 2nd 5:30pm response this week, with no head’s up) saying:
“Patient status falls within the clinical purview of provincial health authorities and attending clinicians.
The CAF will continue to respect the privacy of our members and their families throughout their recovery.”
OK guys, I guess we aren't getting an update on the CFB Wainwright members in a critical condition
Three follow-up emails to the Department of National Defence on this have gone unanswered. We asked Premier Danielle Smith's office, who directed us to Acute Care Alberta. Acute Care Alberta directed us back to DND. The Prime Minister's Office directed us back to DND.
ICYMI: we asked for this update, along with updated patient numbers, on Sunday evening -- citing conflicting information in recent stories we'd seen. DND published a statement three days later, but it didn't include this information.
James Valcke retweeted
Unifor says it thinks Stellantis has sold Brampton assembly plant cp24.com/local/peel/2026/11/…
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Joël-Denis Bellavance: "I would say that this is the most pro-business budget I've seen in the last 30 years, since probably Jean Chrétien. Even more pro-business than what the government of Stephen Harper offered when it was in power."
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Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales in few markets reut.rs/4zuYVVD
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Amazon workers from facilities across the Greater Toronto Area launched a new organizing initiative with Unifor today, standing together for safe jobs, fair pay and respect at work.
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Building on their success organizing a union and nearing a first contract at an Amazon warehouse in BC, Canada’s largest private sector union, @UniforTheUnion, has launched an organizing drive targeting Amazon warehouses in the Greater Toronto Area.
A very important development.
Amazon workers from facilities across the Greater Toronto Area launched a new organizing initiative with Unifor today, standing together for safe jobs, fair pay and respect at work.
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