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Jan 8 2024

Blunt talk. Teachers return. Scandinavian pact. The Roundup

Jan 8, 2024
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

Retired Canadian military commanders say its a good thing current leadership is talking about resource and personnel challenges, and add that there is no easy fix. [Global]
Davie Shipyard suing Ottawa to prevent disclosure of shipbuilding deal
The company hopes to stop the government from releasing any of the agreement that made it eligible for billions in federal contracts. [National Post]

The Japanese automaker is looking at multiple potential sites for the plant, including next to an existing automobile factory in Ontario, Nikkei said. [Global]
From the provinces
While many say they are glad the strikes are over, even as the outcome remains uncertain, some continue to question whether their working conditions will noticeably improve. [Global]
With the by-election campaign officially underway in Conception Bay East-Bell Island, NDP candidate Kim Churchill held her campaign launch on Sunday. Nominations formally closed on Sunday with a fourth candidate coming forward. Darryl Harding, who recently quit as PC district association president, is running as an independent. [NTV]
Elsewhere
Blinken seeks to head off wider war as Israel pursues Gaza offensive
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was holding talks on Gaza in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Monday before heading on to Israel, seeking to kick start concerted peace efforts that he says are needed to avoid a wider conflagration. [Reuters]

Wary of Russia, the three Scandinavian countries each signed a defense cooperation agreement with the US last month. [World Politics Review]
Media
A historic paper waves an old banner
Reviving The Gazette’s old logo sends a rallying signal to anglophones. [Globe and Mail]
Compared to their counterparts in communities without an election, monthly web traffic to local newspaper websites does not increase as mayoral elections approach. [Nieman Journalism Lab]
The daguerreotype made its debut on this day in 1839, sparking the dawn of our pictorial age. A century later, Virginia Woolf – whose aunt was a pioneering photographer – reflected poignantly on the fate of every technology, presaging Instagram [The Marginalian]
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Sci/Tech
Just over half of AI researchers recently surveyed considered a five percent chance of humans being driven to extinction. [Futurism]

Microsoft Teams is finally coming to Android Auto next month, nearly a year after being announced by Google. The details are still a bit scant, but you’ll be able to make and accept calls via your Teams account.
The Calendar
  • 830 ET: St John's - LPC MP Joanne Thompson makes a funding announcement. 
  • 1000 ET: Rideau Hall  - LPC MP Steven MacKinnon will be sworn in as Government House Leader (Karina Gould begins a maternity leave that will extend until July 31)
  • 1530 ET: Toronto  - PM Trudeau , Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Foreign Affairs Min Melanie Joly, Transport Min Pablo Rodriguez and Women and Gender Equality Min Marci Ien commemorate the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 tragedy.
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