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Apr 19 2024

Flawed elections. Pension treasure. Israel attacks: The Roundup

Apr 19, 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
Conservatives ask interference inquiry judge to rule elections were flawed
In its most definitive statement yet, the Conservative Party says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ignored warnings of Chinese foreign interference for partisan gains. [Global]

Diaspora groups challenge Ottawa's insistence foreign meddling did not impact elections. [Global]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is a "fraud" for portraying himself as a friend of the working class, the head of the country's largest labour organization said Thursday, urging unions to do everything they can to expose him before the next federal election. [CP]

Of the 2,000 respondents who immigrated within the past decade, 42% say the Liberals' new immigration plans are too permissive. [National Post]
From the Provinces
Hundreds turn out to discuss state of CPP, Alberta pension plan
CPPIB Senior Managing Director Michel Leduc characterized the Canada Pension Plan as a "public policy success story" and "national treasure". [Edmonton Journal]
General practitioners are warning patients could soon be without access to primary care services, if the Quebec government doesn't reach a deal with its union by the end of May. [Global]
Saskatchewan’s education minister has apologized in the legislature for rhetorically asking if he should give up his first-born child when speaking to a mother whose daughter had died. [Global]
Elsewhere

U.S. officials declined to comment as of early Friday, but American broadcast networks quoting unnamed U.S. officials said Israel carried out the attack. [AP]
India votes in gigantic election as Modi seeks historic third term
India votes on Friday in the world's largest election as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a historic third term in office on the back of growth, welfare, his personal popularity and Hindu nationalism. [Reuters]
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Media

Newsweek has joined competitors like Business Insider in taking a relatively bullish view on the technology. “Newsweek believes that AI tools can help journalists work faster, smarter and more creatively,” reads the updated standards page. “We firmly believe that soon all journalists will be working with AI in some form and we want our newsroom to embrace these technologies as quickly as is possible in an ethical way.” [Nieman Journalism Lab]
Science and Tech
AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources, requiring the industry to change its approach to the technology, according to Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas. [Yahoo Finance]
Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°
[Researchers] find that we're already committed to warming that will see the growth of the global economy undercut by 20 percent. That places the cost of even a limited period of climate change at roughly six times the estimated price of putting the world on a path to limit the warming to 2° C. [Ars Technica]
The Calendar
  • 1230 ET: Toronto - Deputy PM and Fin Min Chrystia Freeland speaks about Budget 2024.
  • 1300 ET: 025-B West Block, - Special Committee on the Canada–People’s Republic of China Relationship (CACN) | Meeting 38 - Canada–People’s Republic of China Relations
  • 1300 ET: Victoria - PM Trudeau and Citizen Services Min Terry Beech speak about Budget 2024
  • 1400 ET: Waterloo, ON - Health Min Mark Holland and LPC MPs Bryan May, Valerie Bradford and Bardish Chagger speak about Budget 2024.
  • 1415 ET: St Peter's Bay, PE - Agriculture Min Lawrence MacAulay speaks about Budget 2024.
  • 1445 ET: Hamilton , ON - Crown-Indigenous Affairs Min Gary Anandasangaree , International Development Min Ahmed Hussen, and FEDDEV Min Filomena Tassi speak about Budget 2024.
  • 1530 ET: Calgary, - Justice Min Arif Virani speaks about Budget 2024.
  • 1530 ET: Winnipeg, - Mental Health MIn Ya'ara Saks speaks about Budget 2024.
  • 1600 ET: Saskatoon, SK - Employment Min Randy Boissonnault , Labour Min Seamus O'Regan and LPC MP Terry Duguid speak about Budget 2024.
  • 1600 ET: Vancouver - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh joins a rally for food service workers.
Issued this day ...
… in 2004: Scott #2032: Home Hardware. Design: Ron Mugford. 
Issued to mark the 40th anniversary of Home Hardware. Hard not to assume the Home Hardware folks lobbied for this after Canada Post issued a stamp in 1997 marking Canadian Tire’s 75th anniversary.

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