- Mark Carney has appointed Mark Wiseman to take over as ambassador to the US, replacing Kirsten Hillman who announced her resignation earlier this month. Wiseman has previously served as chair of several investment funds, including that of the Canada Pension Plan, as well as having served as a manager at BlackRock. The choice has raised alarms in Quebec, though, because Wiseman has questioned the merits of supply management in the past, and there are thus fears that he might cave too easily to American demands on the matter. Carney, for his part, insists that supply management is safe on his watch; we'll have to see how that goes.
- The website for Global News, which has a brand licensing agreement with CBS for 60 Minutes, briefly hosted the segment that was spiked on the orders of CBS news chief Bari Weiss. The segment was removed from Global's website after about two hours. Global hasn't said why, but my guess is legal threats from CBS. In any case, screen recordings of the segment were taken by some users; a clip may be seen here.
- Security upgrades at a troubled Manitoba Housing complex in inner-city Winnipeg seem to be paying off, with a drastic drop in police calls to the building. Two years ago the police were attending daily and the place was so bad that no further placements were being made at the building and residents were getting their mail sent offsite due to the amount of theft. The controlled entry has no doubt helped, though one resident is ambivalent - even though he recognizes that things are much safer now, he says it "kinda brought me back to when I was in a residential school where we had more rules". Unfortunately tradeoffs like this are inevitable when trying to bring about a short-term solution to crime.
- The Kinew government plans to address differential pricing for groceries such as that used by third-party delivery service Instacart. The service, for their part, say that they aren't a retailer and don't control base prices; they've now also announced that they're stopping the practice that they say they never did before anyway.
- An AI weapons detection system recently installed at Lawton Chiles Middle School in Oviedo, Florida sent the school into a lockdown after mistaking a band student's clarinet for a gun.
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