Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is firing back at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for saying his approach to everything is 'cuts and be angry,' challenging Trudeau on Tuesday to take responsibility for Canadians' anger. [CTV]

Canada's immigration system is broken, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre charged Tuesday, as he sidestepped questions about whether he would change current targets. [CP]

“Personally I see being a member of party is a bit like being a marriage — 95 per cent of the time you agree with your partner, but 5 per cent of the time you don’t agree with your partner. And I think in those 5 per cent of the times, it’s nice to be able to say what you think. And as a backbencher, you can say what you think, [but] as a cabinet minister, you don’t have that flexibility [or] freedom.” Been a big fan of Powlowki, a former emergency room physician, who has definitely been an among the most independent minded members of the government's backbench. [Fort Frances Times]

Meta has begun the process to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada in response to a legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers. [Global]

An environmental advocacy group and a New Brunswick MP are publicly blaming Irving Oil for a recent hike in gas prices, while arguing that “they should pay, not you.” Environmental Defence Canada has launched a radio ad campaign addressing Ottawa’s clean fuel regulations. Meanwhile, Fredericton Liberal MP Jenica Atwin has pointed to the ad as saying it “sets the record straight” on what’s behind the rising price of gas.  [Telegraph-Journal]

Small businesses are pushing to extend the payment deadline for COVID-19 pandemic relief loans, but the federal government does not appear to be budging on the year-end deadline.  [Global]

Newly minted Veterans Affairs Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor says she expects to play a part in reforming the culture inside the Canadian Armed Forces as the Trudeau government grapples with sexual misconduct allegations in the country’s military. [Telegraph-Journal]

[The only Liberal] MP [in Calgary] George Chahal calls for a pause in funding until responsibility, accountability and justice for the victims is brought forward. [Calgary Herald]

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is touring Atlantic Canada in an effort to highlight affordability issues — and flip two Liberal seats in the next federal election. [CP]

The vaccine policy, which was created in November 2021, required Canadian Armed Forces members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face release. [Global]

Nova Scotia's chief electoral officer has ordered the Liberal campaign in Preston to take down signs and stop using material that she has judged misleading about the PC government's involvement in a proposed dump in the riding. Wow. This is some, er, bold intervention by a CEO. [CBC]

The constituency has, in the last two races, come down to a matter of 150 to 300 votes in the decision of who wins the seat. [Regina Leader-Post]

Yasir Naqvi is confronting the potential for racial or religious prejudice in the contest to become the Ontario Liberal Party’s next leader. [TorStar]

Federal MP says he would reverse the 'damaging' decisions Premier Doug Ford made to open up the Greenbelt lands. [Hamilton Spectator]

Support for foreign intervention in crisis-racked Haiti has grown, but civil society groups warn of past abuses. [Al Jazeera]

Former President Trump was indicted on charges stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Just about any news organization has this as one of its top stories today. But if Fox News is not a regular visit for you, you may wish to click through and compare how Fox -- worried about losing audience to Tump cheerleaders like NewsMax -- reports on this and the compare it to the more comprehensive files from the likes of the NYT, NBC, or WaPo. [Fox News]

Andrew Coyne: "... decisions about what appears on the platforms – how to balance a commitment to free speech with responsibility for the results – must ultimately be theirs. What’s needed is not censorship but editorial judgment, enforced not by the government but by the spectre that haunts every editor: losing readers. That can’t happen so long as the platforms have their users, in effect, under lock and key.How to free them? Let people keep their followers when they leave. " Love seeing the work of an old friend, Cory Doctorow, cited here. Cory's pretty sharp. [Globe and Mail]

The Marshall Project requested, examined, and analyzed state corrections department’s publication policies across the United States. These policies establish rules and procedures governing what published materials people who are incarcerated are permitted to read, including dictating which books are banned. This post details our work on this project, expanding on how we leveraged generative AI to produce summaries of the policy documents.. [Generative AI in the Newsroom]

To generate a series articles, multiple prompts are sent to OpenAI’s GPT-4 model to (1) analyze the research papers and extract particular pieces of information, and then (2) write a summary based on those bits of extracted information. By breaking this process down into two steps, authoer was able to better control the information that would be included in the final summary articles.rative. [Generative AI in the Newsroom]