Big tech companies continue to spend massive amounts of money building ever more powerful generative AI (artificial intelligence) systems and ever larger data centers to run them, all the while losing billions of dollars with no likely pathway to profitability. And while it remains to be seen how long the companies and their venture capital partners will keep the money taps open, popular dislike and distrust of big tech and its AI systems are rapidly growing.
Article by Véronique Sioufi, racial equity researcher and policy analyst, BC Policy Solutions
Well beyond New York City’s boroughs, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani has captured public attention with a comprehensive, unapologetically socialist mayoral platform.
Paramedic and CUPE Ontario executive board member Katherine Grzejszczak fights for reinstatement to her job. She was fired by York Region for an anti-war comment she made on Facebook.
‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call
An all-too predictable pattern has emerged in US-Canada relations. US President Donald Trump makes Canada ‘an offer it can’t refuse’. What follows is a national gnashing of teeth, flag-waving, businesses and politicians going patriotic. The Canadian government then caves, lamenting we had ‘no choice’.
6-minute video summarizes an unfolding nightmare for many Canadians and immigrants/refugees. Relief at keeping Poilievre from becoming PM is revealed as an illusion.
-- Gene McGuckin
Jun. 19, 2025
Mark Carney’s first 100 days a blitz of pro-corporate, Trump-friendly moves
Carney has seized on Trump’s tariff crisis to push through a pro-corporate agenda that attacks Indigenous peoples, workers, and the environment
Now, it’s up to social movements to respond as quickly.
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