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When O'Leary (of Dragon's Den fame) first announced the project a year and a half ago alongside municipal and provincial representatives, they described the project as "the world's largest AI Data Centre Industrial Park." The project is slated to need about 7.5 GW of power when fully built.

That's roughly seven times the amount of electricity generated by the Site C dam in northern BC.

Much of that power is poised to come from natural gas. The company's initial announcements about the project claimed it would use geothermal power and gas. However, emails _Canada's National Observer _obtained through a Freedom of Information request from the municipality where the project is located suggest O'Leary's company rapidly ditched plans for geothermal power in favour of exclusively using natural gas.

If the project is entirely powered by natural gas and doesn't capture any of those emissions, it will set Canada back 20 years in carbon emissions reductions and wipe out the reductions gained by phasing out coal, according to Will Noel, senior analyst with the Pembina Institute's electricity team.

Ottawa's decision to roll back federal climate rules for Alberta's AI industry comes after intense lobbying efforts by Capital Power, an Alberta electricity company building a gas-powered AI data centre. And Evan Solomon, Canada's AI minister, has only met with mining and energy companies about the environmental impacts of AI data centres


but so far has ignored environmental groups.

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced recalls due to possible listeria contamination affecting products including salads, cheese and meal kits.

The agency says Co-Op brand creamy garlic and spinach salad, sold in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan with best-before dates between March 24 and April 4 are recalled and should not be consumed.

Numerous cheese products sold nationally, including Bothwell shredded three-cheese nacho blend in 400-gram and one-kilogram quantities, Goldstream cheddar style shredded processed cheese product, and Paradise Island brand Asiago shredded cheese are also among the recalls over listeria concerns.

Complete lists of affected products are available on the CFIA website.

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On Nov. 11, 2024, Ontario’s policing oversight body, the Special Investigations Unit, or SIU, reported that a Hamilton police officer and another man were injured after an “exchange of gunfire.” But this later turned out to be false. There were two police officers, both of whom fired a barrage of reportedly 24 bullets that struck Erixon Kabera several times, killing him, and injuring one of the other officers.

I’ve kept up with the subsequent reporting on this incident, and I constantly find myself in awe of the extent to which the Hamilton Police Service and the SIU projected a degree of normality in the face of this calamity. This was the response of an SIU spokesperson, commenting on the agency’s retraction of an earlier statement about an “exchange of gunfire,” as quoted in a CTV News story:

“Based on the information that the SIU initially had, a news release was issued with preliminary details,” [SIU spokesperson Monica Hudon] said. “As the investigation proceeded and as further information came to light, we made it a priority to transparently release that updated information as quickly as possible via email, social media and our website.”

In this quote from a CBC story, Kabera’s family said in a statement: “We find that reversal of crucial facts, a full day after telling the entire world otherwise and painting an image of violence for our very own, to be deeply outrageous and unnerving.”

In a quote from a CP24 story, a Hamilton MP and a Hamilton member of the provincial parliament asked: “Why did the Chief of Police allow false information to be released about Erixon carrying a weapon? Why was the Chief of Police so quick to highlight the gun-related injuries to his officers, when according to the SIU report, Erixon did not shoot at police?”

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The Middle East war is impacting something most Canadians may not have expected: the cost of some mortgages.

Last month, three- and five-year fixed mortgages increased by 0.5 per cent in just three weeks, said Marshall Tully, a Toronto-based mortgage broker.

"Unfortunately, it's possible that trend could continue," Tully said.

According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), 1.4 million mortgages will be renewed by the end of the year, representing about 23 per cent of all mortgages. Many of those would have received much lower rates from 2021.

“Many people are coming into their renewals totally blind and thinking that rates just keep coming down or holding," he said.

Tully said fixed-rate mortgages have risen particularly quickly because they are backed by bond yields, which can fluctuate in response to world events like wars. And U.S. President Donald Trump's prime-time address on Wednesday offered little new insight on how long he expects the conflict to last.

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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/61935655

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War is no longer confined to battlefields. It is waged through supply chains, trade corridors, energy dependencies, and the quiet alignment of nations that claim values they are no longer prepared to defend. Like Achilles, the archetype of the great warrior whose strength defined the battlefield, yet whose vulnerability determined his fate; modern states project power while exposing their weakest points. Today, those vulnerabilities are not found in armour, but in dependence: on adversarial economies, compromised supply chains, and the erosion of moral clarity.

From Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, the world is dividing along familiar lines. Democracies on one side, authoritarian regimes on the other. Yet in this moment of global fracture, Canada continues to speak in contradictions.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has chosen a curious line of defence when pressed on forced and child labour that such abuses exist “throughout the world.” It is a statement that sounds balanced, even reasonable until one understands what it is designed to do.

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It dilutes. It deflects. It equalizes the unequal and this is part of the Liberal governments communications strategy on selling China to Canadians. The state broadcaster has been granted access to China and now presents glowing accounts of the brilliance of Chinese engineering, automation and its green initiatives. (Still the biggest emitters of Green House Gases, 2025.).

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When everything is a problem, nothing is a priority.

This moral relativism has become the intellectual cover for an increasingly visible reality: Canada’s “all-in” strategy with the People’s Republic of China. A strategy that, notably, did not include any meaningful public confrontation on human rights during Carney’s recent visit with Xi Jinping according to a readout from the Privy Council Office but rebuked by the Prime Minister’s Office.

Not a word of consequence on Uyghur forced labour. Not a signal that trade would beconditioned on human or labour rights values. Silence, in diplomacy, is never neutral. And yet, at the same time, Canada continues to approach India a democratic partner with hesitation, some friction, and with strategic ambiguity.

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Prior to the PM taking the podium, I had a chance to talk with Minister Hodgson. “Tim, I am confused about the India vs China trade deals or opportunity,” I said plainly. “The India trade MOUs are more comprehensive and see a much wider swath—including nuclear energy, technology, AI and critical infrastructure.

“Well let me be frank, China engagement comes with red lines: technology transfer restrictions, limits on ownership, and tight controls on critical minerals.”

I said, “why call the China engagement a ‘Strategic Partnership’ if this is this case? If so you should signal this to Canadians, India and the United States because China is not a panacea and their record on forced labour, technology transfer and undermining democracies are clearly not in our interests and yet your government seem to be all in on China.”

Hodgson said, “Perhaps we can do better on this front.”

It is a simple observation, but one that cuts to the core of Canada’s current incoherence.

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During a recent parliamentary Industry committee hearing, Liberal MP Michael Ma aggressively challenged China expert Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, dismissing evidence of Uyghur forced labour as “hearsay.” The exchange was not merely clumsy; it was extremely revealing about the governments communications operation to somehow normalize forced labour.

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Abbas stated, “Mr Ma’s tactic of dismissal has been amplified by pro-CCP trolls questioning China’s ongoing Uyghur genocide. By that logic, every dictatorship could erase its crimes simply by hiding them well enough. Calling Uyghur genocide and forced labor anything else is ignorance at best and a defense of the CCP at worst. I am a firsthand witness to this genocide. My sister, Dr Gulshan Abbas, has been imprisoned for almost eight years in retaliation for my advocacy as an American citizen.?”

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War, trade, and values are no longer separable. They are intertwined realities shaping the next global order. And while we don’t know the outcome of the Iran war, American foreign policy aims to stabilize the Middle East by ridding the world of a terrorist regime striving to be a nuclear power and backed by the very regime we are strategically partnering with. We all hope this is the outcome given the economic disruption we are collectively facing.

Canada cannot condemn genocide in one breath, dismiss its evidence in another, fail to enforce its own laws, and deepen economic dependence on the very system it claims to oppose.

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The Liberal government's second attempt at giving police and spies easier access to Canadians' information includes what's anticipated to be costly demands on a range of private businesses to to change how they manage their data.

But the government says it doesn't yet know how much the companies — or Canadian taxpayers — would have to pay.

"The costs are potentially huge," said Michael Geist, the University of Ottawa’s Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, and a vocal critic of the bill.

"That has competition-related effects in terms of who bears those costs. Will they exempt certain providers? It gets very messy very quickly."

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