Actors apologize for being racists because they laughed at an inappropriate joke about a black person or didn’t do anything when someone said something insulting about a black person.
These are personal situations we have all faced and we deal with them in our own way.
Geoffrey Hinton, the "Godfather of AI," explores the fascinating parallels between artificial and biological intelligence. This lecture delves into neural networks, comparing their learning processes to biological brains. Hinton examines how AI learns from biological intelligence and its potential to surpass human capabilities.
According to the Canadian Election Study, men were more inclined to vote Conservative, while women leaned towards the Liberals and NDP.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. I was 13 at the time. My family had just moved to a new city, and I had just started high school.
Everything in my world felt new and unsettled — new streets, new faces, new routines, and that strange feeling you get when you’re trying to find your place in a place that doesn’t yet feel like yours.
Then history shattered all of it.
The Internet Archive crawls the public internet to collect and archive web pages. Over the years it has created a permanent digital library. Anyone with internet access can perform a search of its content. When you enter a website URL, IA returns what it has found for that site.
Philip Morris International (PMI) has launched a global campaign promising “a future without cigarettes.” At first glance, it sounds like a radical transformation — a tobacco company vowing to end cigarette sales. But does the evidence match the promise? Apparently the company promises a cigarette free world by 2030. Wouldn’t the billions of people addicted to nicotine rejoice. Surely this is too good to be true.
Bob Dylan’s music continues to impact generations. One of my favourite songs is 1979’s “Gotta Serve Somebody.”
An Angus Reid poll on PM Mark Carney’s first five “national interest” projects saw media headlines frame the public reaction as “mixed reviews.” The phrase sounds neutral, almost reassuring — as if Canadians are cautiously on board.
But a deeper reading of both the poll and the article itself tells a very different story. What’s presented as balance is, in reality, public ambivalence, regional division, and dissatisfaction on the government’s most pressing files.
CBC is a Crown Corporation and Canada’s national public broadcaster. It has a huge budget largely paid for by taxpayers. Most people who watch CBC News believe it is accurate and objective. Let’s see if this is true. According to CBC’s page devoted to corrections.
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Government-wide financial statements receive clean audit opinions. Yet the federal public service has systemic weaknesses in financial management and control. Could that be true? You better believe it’s true. Let’s take a look at some examples of mismanagement.
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