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One morning in October of 2024, Fredericton city councillor Margo Sheppard received an email with the subject line: “The Real Policy Crisis: Prioritizing ‘Nature’ Over People.”

It was polished — almost algorithmically smooth — and it calmly urged her to reconsider Fredericton’s net-zero policies. Over the next month, a flood of similar emails followed, all aimed at getting Fredericton to abandon global climate targets.

Sheppard is used to emails from organizations on all kinds of issues, but not this many, not on this issue — and not so well crafted. She grew suspicious. She was right.

Thousands of councillors in more than 500 municipalities have received these emails.

Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers.

The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “practical environmental protection measures” and “real pollution, not CO2.”

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/investigations/weaponized-ai-chatbot-city-councils-climate-misinformation

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[-] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I'm not Australian, but I think you still have some really good Australian news organizations:

  • The Sydney Morning Herald

  • The Guardian

  • ABC

  • Crikey

I believe the real issue is that many people are attracted to clickbait nonsense.

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[-] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 43 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I'm not a Canadian citizen. I studied in Quebec before moving back to my country. I love Canada and I follow Canadian politics very closely.

Justin Trudeau has done some disappointing things. Bill C-59 is not one of them.

In fact, I believe Bill C-59 is perhaps the single greatest bill adopted under Justin Trudeau's government.

This bill gives enormous new powers to the Competition Bureau:

https://competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/how-we-foster-competition/education-and-outreach/guide-june-2024-amendments-competition-act

https://theconversation.com/canadas-competition-laws-just-changed-heres-what-you-need-to-know-220020

This bill also allows the Competition Bureau to punish companies that knowingly lie about their environmental record:

https://ccli.ubc.ca/bill-c-59-anti-greenwashing/

https://www.torys.com/our-latest-thinking/publications/2024/06/competition-act-amendments-require-companies-to-back-up-environmental-claims

Here is a funny thing that happened. A few hours before Bill C-59 was set to pass, some oil companies started deleting content from their website:

Pathways Alliance, a coalition of Canadian tar sands producers aiming to build a massive carbon capture project in Alberta, scrubbed their website of its content June 19.

In its place is a notice indicating the organization “removed content from our website, social media and other public communications” and that they had done so in response to anticipated changes coming with Bill C-59.

https://www.desmog.com/2024/06/20/pathways-alliance-website-scrubbed-ahead-of-new-greenwashing-law/

It's just outrageous to see Danielle Smith and these CEOs whine like that.

If you don't break the law by knowingly lying, you have nothing to fear.

[-] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Cette ONG fait un travail véritablement extraordinaire :

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2024/10/29/mercure-dans-le-thon-l-association-bloom-denonce-un-scandale-sanitaire-et-une-reglementation-trop-laxiste_6364308_3244.html

Cependant, je ne la soutiens pas.

Je soutiens déja financièrement 3 excellents journaux :

Cette année, j'ai pris la décision d'appuyer aussi durablement des logiciels libres dont Libre Office, VLC, Qbittorrent, et GIMP.

Mes moyens financiers sont limités...

Alors que les besoins sont absolument immenses :/

[-] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You know the worst thing about this story ?

This was published recently 👇👇👇

Alberta paid more than 6 times usual price for pain medications in $70-million import deal

Alberta purchased children’s pain medication from Turkey at a price more than six times greater than what the provincial health authority normally pays for the same volume of product, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail.

The Alberta government explained in 2022 that the manufacturer required a minimum order of five million bottles - or $70-million worth of drugs - to get the deal done. But a briefing note, obtained by The Globe, indicates the health authority could have reduced its total bill by ordering less medicine, albeit at a higher price per bottle.

5 million bottles equated to roughly eight bottles for every child in the province.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-turkish-pain-medication-deal-prices/

[-] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The United States and Canada have the most expensive elevators in the world. Prices charged in North America are at least three times those charged by the same manufacturers in comparable mid-rise buildings in high-income countries in Western Europe.

As a result, the U.S. and Canada have fewer elevators per capita than any other high-income country for which data could be found

Unique North American elevator standards have led to no discernible improvement in safety outcomes compared to those in Europe.

https://admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Elevatorsexecutivesummary.pdf

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