Canada
Over half of Canadians don’t want an early election: Ipsos poll
The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found Canadians want opposition parties to work with the government despite persistent low approval for the Liberals.
Indigenous Services told tribal council to use a bunny picture to prove Indigeneity
Indigenous Services told tribal council to use a bunny picture to prove Indigeneity
Trudeau, other officials set to reappear at foreign interference inquiry
A new provisional witness list for the coming weeks indicates senior government bureaucrats and members of national security agencies will also testify.
Brookfield takes heat over Mark Carney's ties with Trudeau
Poilievre went on to criticize Brookfield directly, calling it a “large multinational corporation that’s moving investment to China” and stating that the firm buys stakes in international fossil fuel
Qui a peur de Mark Carney?
La nouvelle recrue et conseiller économique spécial du Parti libéral du Canada est placé sous les feux de la rampe et personne ne peut l’ignorer.
Judge orders full hearing for union's case against public service return to office order
On September 9 most public servants are supposed to be back to their offices three days per week. The court hearing will force the government to show why it matters.
The Provinces
No more PST on children's clothing, NDP's Beck promises
The NDP says the PST paid by Saskatchewan families has increased by more than 40 per cent since Scott Moe became premier in February 2018.
N.B. election: Leaders make campaign pitches to city councillors
The leaders of New Brunswick’s three political parties in the legislature are delivering special presentations to municipal councils across the province, in the lead-up to a fall provincial election writ being issued.
“She inspired us”: How Manitoba is remembering Grand Chief Cathy Merrick
Manitobans have gathered to pay their respects to Cathy Merrick, grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC), who died suddenly at age 63 after collapsing outside the Winnipeg courthouse. Merrick was the first woman to lead the AMC and is now the first woman to lie in state the Manitoba legislature. On Global National, Melissa Ridgen explains how Merrick is being honoured and remembered as a trailblazer.
Elsewhere
Haitian Americans fear for their safety after Trump repeats false claims about immigrants
Republican candidate falsely said immigrants were eating household pets.
Canada working on military AI; Blair says as he endorses international agreement
The meeting in South Korea followed an inaugural summit in the Netherlands last year at which countries, including Canada, supported an earlier document. The "blueprint" from this week’s event says AI "holds extraordinary potential to transform every aspect of military affairs," but also warns military use of AI could pose humanitarian, societal and ethical risks.
Science and tech
Google says it’s made a quantum computing breakthrough that reduces errors
One major challenge has been that quantum computers can store or manipulate information incorrectly, preventing them from executing algorithms that are long enough to be useful. The new research from Google Quantum AI and its academic collaborators demonstrates that they can actually add components to reduce these errors.
How to webscrape in R
In this lesson you will learn the basics of webscraping with the rvest R package. To demonstrate how it works, you will extract three speeches by Adolf Hitler from Wikipedia pages and analyze their word frequencies.
