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Bots and Indian TV push fake news about Canada in wake of Hindu temple clashes - CBC News discovered hundreds of suspicious accounts boosting misleading information from Canadian influencers
A wave of misinformation about Canadian institutions is being amplified by suspected bot accounts on social media and by pro-Modi news outlets in India, raising concerns it could imperil relations between Sikhs and Hindus in Canada.
CBC News reviewed hundreds of posts on X and dozens of hours of footage streamed on YouTube in the days before and after clashes outside Hindu temples in Surrey, B.C., and Brampton, Ont., in November.
The analysis identified several posts containing misleading and inflammatory comments about the Khalistan movement — which advocates for an independent state for Sikhs — and Sikh Canadians in general that were recirculated by suspicious accounts.
Climb aboard Ottawa's new and improved Trillium Line
Ottawans will soon be able to ride the rails on the Trillium Line for the first time since May 2020.
The expanded north-south light rail line, including a new extension to the Ottawa International Airport, will officially open to the public on Jan 6.
Canada Post says workers to return Tuesday after labour board ruling
Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon on Friday directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the 55,000 picketing employees back to work if a deal wasn't doable before the end of the year.
Canada Post says the board determined negotiations between the Crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are at an impasse after two days of hearings over the weekend.
Police investigating Utah mom-fluencer after online uproar over video she posted of her son
Posting your whole life on line in an attempt to monetize it has some drawbacks, as many people on the internet turn out to be idiots. Mistakes made on both sides. Any lessons leaned, though?
The Utah mom influencer behind the viral "17 diapers" trend is being investigated by police after an internet uproar over a video that appeared to show her son flinching.
TikToker Hannah Hiatt, previously known online as Nurse Hannah, has since deleted the video, which was filmed in a grocery store and appeared to show her toddler startling and briefly hiding his face as his father walks up to him. As People Magazine reports, the video sparked hundreds of comments from people concerned for the boy's well-being.
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She further explained that the video people are "freaking out about" shows James and his father playing, something she says they often do by scaring each other."Nothing is going on," Hiatt said tearfully.
#sharenting #internet #tiktok #youtube #instagram #CBC #news
Memorial to Victims of Communism finally unveiled, but controversy lingers
They got it done, at long last, well sorta…
Air Canada ordered to pay $10K after couple endures 'horrendous experience' - The couple had saved up 3 years to go on first vacation without their kids
Just a horrible story:
A small claims court has ordered Air Canada to pay a couple $10,000, after an overbooked flight resulted in the two being sent to multiple Canadian airports under the promise of a replacement flight that never materialized, ruining a vacation that had been planned for years.
Renowned novelist says London board's teaching ban of his book is like 'burying our heads in the sand'
Note that the book is written by a black author and is about slavery:
A prominent Canadian novelist is speaking out after a local high school teacher was ordered to stop teaching one of his award-winning novels in class because of its use of the N-word.
Lawrence Hill said the teacher, who works for the London District Catholic School Board (LDCSB), was told to stop teaching The Book of Negroes and that "under no circumstances am I to teach a novel using" the word.
"Although it may be well intentioned … my concern is that it essentially excludes, completely excludes, Black voices from the curriculum," Hill told CBC Radio's Afternoon Drive on Tuesday.
Seasonal closure of new Rideau River footbridge confounds users, councillor
River ward Coun. Riley Brockington said he's frustrated he "can't get a clear answer" from the city about why the bridge had to be closed.
"It's just very frustrating that we, with much fanfare, open these great connections and then close them when the first snowflake hits the ground. I don't support that at all," Brockington told CBC on Monday.
A huge hack of U.S. phone companies means your text messages may not be safe
Stephanie Carvin, an associate professor at Carleton University and a former national security analyst, says the hack demonstrates just how large and well funded Chinese espionage operations directed at the West are.
#CBC #News #USA #cellphone #China again
Trump's quip about Canada becoming 51st state was a joke, says minister who was there
Just for the record:
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who was with Trudeau at the intimate dinner at Mar-a-Lago, said Trump's quip was quite clearly a joke — and not some sort of signal of a serious plan to annex Canada.
"In a three-hour social evening at the president's residence in Florida on a long weekend of American Thanksgiving, the conversation was going to be light-hearted. The president was telling jokes, the president was teasing us, it was, of course, in no way a serious comment," LeBlanc said.
"The fact that there's a warm, cordial relationship between the two leaders and the president is able to joke like that, we think, is a positive thing," he said.
More and more places are asking for tips. Hidden cameras reveal who is and isn't getting them
a hidden camera investigation involving 100 businesses has exposed there's no guarantee the tip you leave is going to the person it was intended for.
Canadian news organizations, including CBC, sue ChatGPT creator
A group of Canadian news outlets, including CBC/Radio-Canada, Postmedia, Metroland, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press have launched a joint lawsuit claiming copyright infringement against ChatGPT creator OpenAI.
The lawsuit was filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Friday morning and is looking for punitive damages from OpenAI, along with payment of any profits that the company made from using news articles from the organizations.
Missing hiker found alive after more than 5 weeks in remote B.C. park
This is gong to be quite a story, when he is recovered enough to tell it. May be he will write a book?
A hiker who went missing in B.C.'s backwoods has been found after surviving more than five weeks in a remote park in B.C.'s northeast as snow fell and temperatures plunged.
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Sam Benastick, 20, was first reported missing after failing to return home Oct. 17 from a 10-day camping trip in remote Redfern-Keily Provincial Park, about 250 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John.He started his hike on Oct. 7, which means he was in the outdoors for 50 days.
Canadian MPs among social media users pivoting from X to Bluesky in the wake of U.S. vote
Seems to be a stampede now!
Some experts are concerned X or its owner Elon Musk could influence the next Canadian election
New Democrat MP Charlie Angus decided he had enough.
"I have tried three times to get off X because it is a dismal, toxic, hole of disinformation," said Angus, who used to regularly post to his 47,200 followers on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"After seeing what went down with the Trump election, the belligerent role of Elon Musk in undermining democracy, there is no way that I can be part of that."
A few days ago, Angus opened an account on Bluesky, a social media platform that began as a research project at Twitter before cutting ties with Twitter after Musk acquired the company and rebranded it as X.
"I had no idea what to expect," Angus said. "I thought I would end up with 10 followers and be just calling out in the wilderness. It has been a phenomenal experience. I feel like I have woken up sober after a month on a bender with rot gut."
She was careful online, but this Toronto teen was still targeted with deepfake porn
This is an interesting problem, since anyone, anywhere in the world can create nude deepfakes of anyone else, using any (fully clothed) photo as a starting point. In #Canada at least distributing these images of children is a crime, as they are child pornography, but in this case it was not distributed, just emailed to the victim as part of what may have been a #phishing scheme. It looks like police did nothing from what the story says.
You might get the police to act if the image was of a child and it was posted online and they can identify who did it and the person is in the same country, otherwise forget it. Overall I suspect that police are not going to be effective in these cases. Our national facility, Cybertip.ca received complaints about 4,000 of sexually explicit deepfakes in the past year, so I doubt they took any action. It does seem from the article that there is nothing that can be done to prevent this, and hard as it may be, the best course is probably just to treat it like a scam phone call and ignore it.
I suspect we are going to see a lot more of this, particularly if it upsets people. Also this seems to be something that is going to victimize younger people far more than old people. There might yet be some advantage to getting old.