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Feb 19 2023

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Feb 19, 2022
David Akin's Roundup
Clippings of #cdnpoli, #media, and #tech content aimed at those with an interest in Canadian politics. Still in beta ... 
Canada

Your Sunday read, if you dare: The Final Report of the POEC is 5 volumes and runs 2,083 pages long. The Executive Summary is Volume 1 and is only about 247 pages.
The notwithstanding clause allows provincial and federal governments to pass laws that circumvent parts of the Charter for a period of up to five years.
From the provinces
‘Thunder Bay’ series from Ryan McMahon looks at systemic racism, police in the city
The Anishinaabe writer uses his docuseries, "Thunder Bay," to examine a movement that supports the reallocation of funds from police departments to community and social services.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith worries some professional regulatory organizations may be overreaching when they deal with complaints.
Elsewhere

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Saturday that the European Union is partly to blame for prolonging Russia’s war in Ukraine, doubling down on his government’s insistence that supporting Kyiv was a mistaken strategy for Europe.

Wang Yi also says China is preparing to outline position on Russian war against Ukraine
We have covered it before: school districts across the United States are increasingly censoring books that don't align with conservative, white-washed visions of the world.
Media
Twitter has made text-based 2FA an exclusive feature for members paying for its Blue subscription service..
Musk’s Twitter is getting worse.
Mr. Lemon’s assertion that the presidential candidate Nikki Haley is not “in her prime” roiled the network and put a harsh spotlight on its struggling morning show.

New York Times: Lisa LaFlamme was dismissed after a decades-long TV career, not long after she stopped dyeing her hair, setting off debates across Canada about sexism, ageism and going gray.
Jonathan Chait: The ‘Columbia Journalism Review’ recently published a long critique of the mainstream media’s coverage of the Russia scandal by Jeff Gerth. ‘CJR’ commissioned a story on ‘The Nation’’s coverage of Russia, but killed it amid a conflict of interest. #LongReads

On Slack, Gen Z uses emojis, memes, GIFs, and TikToks to convey a message to their colleagues. Usually, they're used in the place of words to communicate a deeper message.
Tech
The 44TB offerings ship in RAID 0, but you can opt for a RAID 1 configuration.  44 friggin' terrabytes of storage for less than 2 grand?? Nuts.

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