Canada
Distribution of the $10B Robinson Huron Treaty past annuities settlement finally begins
More than a year after the announcement was made, community members are finally seeing some of the money their ancestors were promised over the past 170 years.
Canada a terrible place during a nuclear war, scientist says
“Countries like Canada — you think you’re safer because you’re a member of NATO and (American) nuclear weapons will protect you. But you’re actually not,” [expert] says over the phone from New Jersey, where he is a professor at Rutgers University.
Pablo Rodriguez could leave a 'void' for the Liberals in Quebec
Rodriguez confirmed he has been approached 'by a lot of people' about the Quebec Liberal leadership.
The Provinces
NDP staffer who complained about alleged MPP harassment wrongly let go: arbitrator
The constituency assistant who claimed her boss, an Ontario MPP, was sexually harassing her was wrongly terminated by the NDP, an arbitration decision has found.
Jasper residents await re-entry date as wildfire containment improves
"My hope is that knowledge of the pending announcement will provide a bridge and some measure of comfort to those so fraught with anxiety and the desire to know when they may be able to return home,” Ireland said.
Ottawa, facing financial crisis, pleads for 'fairness' from province and feds: mayor
He said Ottawa has received a fraction of the Greater Toronto Area's transit support and suggested the federal government owed millions of dollars in back taxes.
Elsewhere
Inside the Worst Three Weeks of Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign
People around the former and would-be president see a candidate knocked off his bearings, disoriented by his new contest with Kamala Harris and unsure of how to take her on.
Decoding the “Compelling” Attack Ads of the 2024 Campaign
“The Harris campaign will have a couple of uplifting, very positive ads, especially when they announce who the V.P. will be,” Professor Jennifer Lawless says. “But my bet is that this will be a race to the bottom in terms of negativity.”
Are concerns about digital disinformation and elections overblown?
The information environment is as crowded as ever, but there is little evidence that digital disinformation has had a meaningful effect on elections so far.
Media
What feels like news? Young people’s perceptions of news on Instagram
We make an argument for the importance of capturing young people’s affective and tacit understandings of news, by analyzing what feels like news to them on Instagram. These judgments matter because what users understand as news or non-news also affects their assessments of trustworthiness and reliability
It's Now Impossible to Search Old Trump Tweets on X
It's a common practice whenever former President Donald Trump makes a common on a topic to check and see what he said about it before, but if you want to check his old tweets, that's no longer possible on The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter, rebranded as X after Elon Musk's tumultuous takeover.
The X exodus that wasn't
When digging into the data to determine how large the exodus everyone on Threads is talking about actually is, we oddly came up short.
Science and tech
An inside look at America’s aging ballistic missile arsenal
The US has approximately 400 Minuteman III missiles, according to the Air Force, spread across several bases. They must be kept always at the ready so that they are hopefully never used.
The Scariest Hacks, Bugs, and Scams We Saw at Black Hat 2024
AI, terrifying vulnerabilities, and privacy worries abound at the annual cybersecurity conference.
