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New FOI data: majority of Ontario students are rejecting the Ford government’s e-learning mandate. 70% of the first graduating class opted out or were exempt. The province calls it a tool for digital literacy. Critics say it's a cost-cutting measure: thetrillium.ca/news/education…

The Pope has weighed in: AI isn't magic. It is produced by a currently deeply exploitative, extractive supply chain. It challenges human dignity; it could fuel a new colonialism. And among the greatest challenges of our time will be to redirect its path of development.

🚨🇨🇺🇺🇸”We are demanding that you end the oil blockade, lift the sanctions on Cuba, and allow the Cuban people access to the most basic resources they need to sustain life on the island”.👇👇 cbc.house.gov/news/documents…

Day 9 of the general strike in Bolivia. People are composing protest songs while doing night shift at the barricades 🎶

TORONTO! Join us on Friday, June 5th from 6:30pm - 10pm at United Steelworkers Hall (25 Cecil Street) for: On the Edge of Catastrophe FROM GAZA TO HAVANA Imperialism and the Struggle for Humanity’s Struggle

An Inside Look at Cuba’s Medical Mission in Italy We traveled to Calabria, Italy, to see how Cuba’s medical missions actually work. Join us June 4 at @PeoplesForumNYC for a special screening of From Cuba to Calabria: Medical Missions in Times of Crisis.

Marco Rubio posted a video to Cubans claiming there’s no oil blockade. Needless to say, it didn’t land well with Cubans who are living through blackouts that became far worse after the U.S. began stopping oil from getting to the island.

US media keeps using the phrase “heightened tensions with Cuba” to describe what is in reality unilateral US aggression, with illegal sanctions and threats of illegal invasion, against innocent people who repeatedly say they just want to be left alone.

NO WAR ON CUBA! We must raise the banner across the country: the peoples of the world must join forces to defend Cuba's sovereignty against US imperialism. NO WAR ON CUBA!

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AI investments are contributing to a surge in Toronto office leasing. Will it last? trib.al/Y8hzAo8

Imagine the state instead bought these and turned them into rent to own - we could live in a different world, how are we organizing to get there?!

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Something exciting is happening at our Orchard Pavilion… 🍎🔨 We’ve been busy transforming the space and we can’t wait to share it with you✨For now, let’s just say things are about to get a little sweeter😉 Can you guess who/what it is? 👀Post your guesses below!

they want us to believe it’s a national security emergency to fall behind china on Ai but falling behind china on high speed rail, renewable energy and childhood nutrition is a-OK.

At over $29 million, the total cost to the public for @fordnation's Gravy Plane fiasco is $21 million more than incorrectly issued OSAP payments.

Media bias is often less about outright falsehoods and more about framing. Calling Cuba a “regime” instead of a govt subtly delegitimizes it, while saying Cuba “rejected humanitarian aid” erases the possibility that the dispute was over the conditions attached to the aid.

🚨 Cuba advierte sobre "catástrofe humanitaria" ante posible agresión militar de EE. UU. 🔴El canciller cubano, Bruno Rodríguez, alertó que una agresión militar de Estados Unidos contra Cuba provocaría una "verdadera catástrofe humanitaria" y un "baño de sangre", con pérdidas de vidas cubanas y estadounidenses. 🔴 Rodríguez señaló que solo "políticos que no envían sus hijos y familiares a las guerras" apuestan a un conflicto. 🔴 Enfatizó que "no existe la menor razón, ni siquiera el menor pretexto" para que una superpotencia agreda a una pequeña isla que no representa ninguna amenaza. 🔴 Las declaraciones surgen tras las afirmaciones del presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, de que podría tomar Cuba "de inmediato" y su intención de enviar el portaaviones USS Abraham Lincoln a la isla.

Special bonus episode of MOTHER COUNTRY RADICALS from @CrookedMedia out today. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts

NEW: An emerging AI tool used by doctors to take notes during an examination is at risk of providing physicians with inaccurate information and hallucinations, Ontario’s auditor general has found. globalnews.ca/news/11844349/… #onpoli

To the people of Tenerife, My name is Tedros, and I serve as the Director-General of the @WHO, the @UN agency responsible for global public health. It is not common for me to write directly to the people of a single community, but today I feel it is not only appropriate, it is necessary. I want to speak to you directly, not through press releases or technical briefings, but as one human being to another, because you deserve that. I know you are worried. I know that when you hear the word “outbreak” and watch a ship sail toward your shores, memories surface that none of us have fully put to rest. The pain of 2020 is still real, and I do not dismiss it for a single moment. But I need you to hear me clearly: this is not another COVID-19. the current public health risk from #hantavirus remains low. My colleagues and I have said this unequivocally, and I will say it again to you now. The virus aboard the MV Hondius is the Andes strain of hantavirus. It is serious. Three people have lost their lives, and our hearts go out to their families. The risk to you, living your daily life in Tenerife, is low. This is the WHO’s assessment, and we do not make it lightly. Right now, there are no symptomatic passengers on board. A WHO expert is on that ship. Medical supplies are in place. Spain’s authorities have prepared a careful, step-by-step plan: passengers will be ferried ashore at the industrial port of Granadilla, far from residential areas, in sealed, guarded vehicles, through a completely cordoned-off corridor, and repatriated directly to their home countries. You will not encounter them. Your families will not encounter them. I also want to say something else, something that goes beyond the science. I personally thanked Prime Minister @sanchezcastejon for #Spain’s decision to receive this ship. I called it an act of solidarity and moral duty. Because that is what it is. I want you to know that the WHO’s request to Spain was not made arbitrarily. It was made in full accordance with the International Health Regulations, the legally binding framework that defines the rights and obligations of countries and the WHO when responding to public health events of international concern. Under those rules, the nearest port with sufficient medical capacity must be identified to ensure the safety and dignity of those on board. Tenerife met that standard. Spain honoured it. Nearly 150 people from 23 countries have been at sea for weeks, some of them grieving, all of them frightened, all of them longing for home. Tenerife has been chosen because it has the medical capacity, the infrastructure, and the humanity to help them reach safety. And because I believe that so deeply, I will be there myself. I intend to travel to Tenerife to observe this operation firsthand, to stand alongside the health workers, port staff, and officials who are making it happen, and to personally pay my respects to an island that has responded to a difficult situation with grace, solidarity, and compassion. Your humanity deserves to be witnessed, not just acknowledged from a distance. As I have said many times: viruses do not care about politics, and they do not respect borders. The best immunity any of us has is solidarity. Tenerife is demonstrating that solidarity today. The ship’s captain, Jan Dobrogowski, crew and the company operating the vessel have shown exemplary collaboration at this challenging time. On behalf of the World Health Organization, and on behalf of those passengers and their families around the world, I thank the people of Tenerife and everyone else involved. Please take care of yourselves and of each other. Trust in the preparations that have been made. And know that the WHO stands with you, and with every person on that ship, every step of the way. With respect, care, and gratitude, Tedros