Unpublished Newswire
A bout halfway through Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith’s keynote address to Web Summit Vancouver in May, as he expounded on how AI might benefit humanity, things took an abrupt turn. Responsible AI, he said, “means, for us, building data centres . . . that are powered by carbon free energy, like the renewal of Three Mile Island . . .”
The four iconic cylindrical towers of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the site of America’s worst nuclear accident, appeared on a giant screen above the standing-room-only crowd...
October 1, 2025 - 06:29 | Christopher Pollon | Walrus
Two months before American right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 13 while addressing an audience at Utah Valley University, twenty-eight-year-old Caroline Stout felt compelled to post a video to her social media accounts. In it, she reflected on her time with Turning Point USA, the non-profit conservative campus organization Kirk co-founded.
“I felt strongly that I needed to speak out against the current administration. And figuring out my own experience would be the best place to start,” Stout tells me from her home in Amarillo, Texas. Stout began working for...
October 1, 2025 - 06:29 | Caroline Stout | Walrus
Ontario's minimum wage is now set at $17.60 per hour, an increase of 40 cents.
October 1, 2025 - 06:19 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Ontario's minimum wage is now set at $17.60 per hour, an increase of 40 cents.
October 1, 2025 - 06:19 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
A frail women in her late 80s with dementia received MAID after a family member “brought forward” a request for an assisted death, a new report reveals.
The woman’s life was ended after a MAID provider deemed the woman had given her final expressed consent to proceed, based on her ability to repeat a question and squeeze the provider’s hand.
The case is among half a dozen flagged in the latest report from the Office of the Ontario Chief Coroner’s MAID Death Review Committee. Together they’re raising questions around how MAID is being approved for people with dementia, including...
October 1, 2025 - 06:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
Five provinces are increasing their minimum wage today to support workers amid affordability issues.
October 1, 2025 - 04:04 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
