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Nov 20, 2023
David Akin's Roundup
Clippings of #cdnpoli, #media, and #tech content aimed at those with an interest in Canadian politics and policy. And sometimes Canadian postage stamps.
Canada
Blair pushing PMO, Finance for more defence spending ahead of mini budget
If Canada were to be embroiled in a major conflict, the military would run out of ammunition within “days,” according to the country's chief of defence staff. [Global]
Jagmeet Singh took political swings at his two leadership counterparts during a speech to more than 700 delegates in Victoria. [Global]

Loblaw also reported a roughly 12 per cent jump in profits in its latest quarterly update. Loblaw called out "large global suppliers" for continuing to jack up prices despite an industry push to address inflation. [TorStar]
The Canada Revenue Agency has denied or adjusted $458 million in funds disbursed to employers through a pandemic-era wage subsidy program as a result of a partially completed. [CP]
From the provinces
Quebec's treasury board president implored unions on Sunday to table a counter-offer to the government's last contract proposal as a week of planned, provincewide public sector strikes is set to get underway. [CP]
Cible de critiques internes, le chef du Parti conservateur du Québec, Éric Duhaime, a promis à ses militants de « faire beaucoup mieux dans l’avenir ». Il a dû se contenter de l’appui de 77,48 % d’entre eux à l’issue d’un vote de confiance au congrès de sa formation, dimanche.
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Elsewhere
Canadians with loved ones trapped in the embattled Gaza Strip are still waiting to learn whether the 135 people cleared to leave the territory on Sunday were able to get out. [Global]
Heavy fighting has erupted around a hospital in northern Gaza where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks. Israel pressed an offensive Monday that it says is aimed at eradicating Hamas and uprooting their militant infrastructure. [AP]

Meta and YouTube are crafting disclosure policies for use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in political ads as the debate over how the government should regulate the technology stretches toward the 2024 election. [The Hill]

Andrés manuel lópez obrador, Mexico’s president, is no globetrotter. His trip to San Francisco on November 15th to attend the summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation, an economic club of 21 countries, was only his seventh foreign jaunt in five years in office. And he used part of that time for a one-on-one meeting with PM Trudeau. [The Economist]
Media

The European Commission’s communications department has asked all EU executive services to stop running adverts on X, the social media platform, over ‘widespread concerns relating to the spread of disinformation.’ [Politico]
John Scalzi: Elon Musk, the most unfathomably insecure and pathetic billionaire the world has ever seen, has gone mask-off antisemite, and that means that while I had already reduced my participation on the former Twitter, now I'm off it entirely. I'm keeping the account so that no one can swoop in and take a screenname that's been… I am very close to making the same decision as Scalzi [Whatever]
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Sci/Tech
Microsoft has announced that it's hired Sam Altman and another architect of ChatGPT maker OpenAI after they unexpectedly departed the company days earlier in a corporate shakeup that shocked the artificial intelligence world. [AP]
The Calendar
  • 800 ET: Trois-Rivieres, QC - Innovation Min François-Philippe Champagne speaks about clean technology.
    1100 ET: 135B, - NDP MP Randall Garrison Blake Desjarlais and Lisa Marie Barron speak about 2SLGBTQi+ issues
    1130 ET: Edmonton, AB - Employment Min Randy Boissonnault makes a funding announcement.
    1200 ET: Vancouver, BC - CEDQR Min Soraya Martinez Ferrada makes a funding announcement.
    1230 ET: Ottawa, ON - Environment Min Steven Guilbeault speaks about regulations for the trade of wildlife items.
    1330 ET: West Block, - PM Trudeau meets with Prairie mayors.
    1800 ET: Richmond, BC - Mental Health MIn Ya'ara Saks makes a funding announcement.
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