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Apr 4 2023

Interference poll. Police plea. King crowned.

Apr 4, 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
Sincere effort or ‘cover-up?’ Canadians split on interference probe intentions: poll
The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found 52 per cent of those surveyed think the probes, and the appointment of a special rapporteur to oversee them, are genuine. [Global]
Canada's police chiefs are calling for an urgent meeting with Canada's premiers after losing nine officers — eight of them to violence — in the last six months. [Global]

"...we present a case study of real estate transactions in Toronto, finding that the increased investment in residential and multi-family housing worked to the detriment of marginalised populations." [Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society]

Committee Report No. 6 - House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women.
From the provinces
P.E.I. premier King promises 'positive politics' after opposition cut to five seats
P.E.I. Premier Dennis King's decision to go to the polls early paid off with a massive win for his Progressive Conservatives on Monday night. [CP]
With 502 votes, Liberal Leader Sharon Cameron has lost her race in New Haven-Rocky Point.Cameron took on incumbent Green Leader Peter Bevan-Baker. [Saltwire]

Video made public last week that captured a phone call believed to be in January between the Premier and street preacher Artur Pawlowski, a vocal critic of COVID-19 public health measures. [Globe and Mail]
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Elsewhere
Italy’s government wants to ban English, with fines up to $150K
The proposed law targets the rise of "Anglomania" in Italy and argues that the use of English words "demeans and mortifies" the Italian language. [Global]

For days, former President Donald Trump has been on a tear on social media, railing against District Attorney Alvin Bragg's hush money investigation, his former lawyer Michael Cohen, prosecutors and, more recently, the judge presiding over the historic case. [NBC]

Finland is joining NATO. It will become the 31st member of the military alliance on Tuesday. Turkey, the last country to have ratified Finland’s membership, will hand its official texts to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the afternoon, as NATO foreign ministers gather in Brussels. A flag-raising ceremony to add the Finnish flag to those of the other members will take place at NATO headquarters. Russia has already warned that it will bolster its defenses near their joint border if NATO deploys any additional troops or equipment there. [AP]

The swift advance of artificial intelligence in politics is already blurring the boundaries between fact and fake. [NYT]
Media

“The history of Niagara as recorded by the journalists and photographers at the St. Catharines Standard and the Niagara Falls Review has a new home. The newspapers’ archive files — decades of clippings of stories, notes, photos and microfilm used by reporters when researching stories — has been donated to Brock University’s library and for the first time will be available to the public.” [St Catharines Standard]
We can all learn from how today’s young people evaluate truth online. [MIT Technology Review]
Tech

Apple has designs on a future AirPods case featuring a built-in touchscreen display that would enable users to control audio sources and interact with apps associated with the connected device, according to a newly published patent. [MacRumors]
Issued this day ...
Issued this day in 1997: Sc # 1638: Québec en Fleurs. Design: Claude A. Simard.
Issued to celebrate the international horticultural exhibition, Québec en Fleurs, held at Quebec City, Apr 4-13, 1987.
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