- A recent Angus Reid poll has found that 53% of respondents across Canada believe that Alberta premier Danielle Smith has betrayed her country by engaging with the likes of Ben Shapiro, who supports the Trump regime's desire to annex Canada. The article doesn't give a regional breakdown; I'd be interested to see what percentage of Albertans think Smith is a traitor. Notably, 67% of those who still plan to support the Conservatives think she is "defending her country by keeping an open dialogue with Americans".
- The UK parliament has passed emergency legislation that compels British Steel's parent company to keep the furnaces burning even if they aren't making money, or face criminal penalties for their executives. Despite this, there is still no guarantee that the two facilities in Scunthorpe will be kept open; a shortage of raw materials looms. And due to the nature of the process, it's extremely difficult to restart a blast furnace once it's gone cold. The company that manages the country's railway tracks has already been making contingency plans; they've been stockpiling rails for the last year just for this eventuality.
- Billionaires are all of a sudden uncomfortable about what Donald Trump is doing to their investments. Of course, they were fine with everything else he's done, or at least not sufficiently bothered to think the other stuff outweighed the wealth that they thought Trump was going to bring them.
- ChatGPT is supposed to have safeguards to limit its ability to make fake images of real people. CBC journalists tested this on Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre, though, and found that the right prompt can trick the AI into generating stuff that it's not supposed to, including potentially harmful disinformation.
- The daughter of Deepak Obhrai, who served as a Conservative MP from 1997 until his death in 2019, is running for the Liberals in Calgary East. Priti Obhrai-Martin says that her father spoke very highly of Mark Carney's work as a central banker during the 2008 economic crisis and she has decided to join his team.
- New information on the Hudson River helicopter crash calls the mast bumping theory into question. A new video shows the aircraft in straight and level flight before suddenly yawing to the right and breaking up; it also shows something, perhaps part of the main rotor gearbox, hanging from the rotor assembly as it spins downwards. More details, including an interview with a Bell 206 test pilot, here. I wouldn't want to be the last mechanics to work on that helicopter, that's for sure.
- A Toronto woman was meditating next to Peru's Pachitea River, which is heated by natural geothermal heating to around 90°C, when she apparently passed out and fell into the river; she got out but sustained severe burns and died in hospital.
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