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Jul 30 2025

The Roundup: Harper's talk. Weaponizing femininity. Climate rollback.

WED JUL 30 2025
David Akin's Roundup
Harper's talk. Weaponizing femininity. Climate rollback.
Canada
How Canada-U.S. trade talks could shape the potential recession risk
Economists are divided on whether the current state of affairs could push Canada into a recession, but say a lot depends on the contents on Canada's trade deal with the U.S. [Global]
Paul Wells: Stephen Harper on Canada-US relations — and on Stephen Harper. 

Government threat agency says extremist are embedding hardline ideology in everything from home finance videos to 'mommy blogs.' [Global]
Independent candidate Bonnie Critchley pointed out in her closing statement that several candidates, including Poilievre, won't be able to vote in the byelection because they don't live in the riding. "I firmly believe that Mr. Poilievre is too busy with his personal ambitions to give a rat's backside about us,"  Critchley said in her closing statement. [CP]

The agency announced Monday it was changing how the Aug. 18 byelection will be conducted after more than 200 people registered to run. [Global]
“As exporters, we expect each other to treat each other like we want all the markets, our customers, their customers, we want science-based trade rules everywhere, and we want to see them walking that talk as well — so it’s nice to see that happen,” says general manager Ryder Lee at the Canadian Cattle Association. [Global]
Ministers are expected to discuss the situation in the Middle East after the government announced Monday that it's adding $30 million to its humanitarian funding for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and $10 million to "accelerate reform and capacity-building for the Palestinian Authority." [CP]

The newly minted MP has accepted a precarious portfolio: promoting the power of artificial intelligence without letting it annihilate us all. [Toronto Life]

Le Violon, recently named Canada’s Best New Restaurant, confirmed the outing to Global News, saying Trudeau and Perry arrived at the restaurant during regular service hours and “were seated like any other guests, alongside other patrons.” [Global]
The Provinces
Provinces’ deficits could shrink in coming years despite trade war: report
Most provinces have put up contingency funds in this year's budgets to support workers and critical industries through the tariff dispute. [Global]

On social media, Smith and Justice Minister Mickey Amery said earlier Tuesday that Albertans should be able to embark on gathering signatures "without needless bureaucratic red tape or court applications slowing the process." [CP]

Ontario Health atHome was told by one of its vendors about a cyber incident on April 14, according to new information. It waited until June 27 to begin telling patients. [Global]

The Centre for Law and Democracy last year ranked New Brunswick's freedom-to-information system as one of the two worst in Canada, along with Alberta's. [CP]

In a statement released by the CNE, they say they’ve already received a record-breaking 54,000 online applications for more than 5,000 seasonal positions, marking the highest number in its history. [Global]
Aurora
Elsewhere
In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding
The proposal is President Trump’s most consequential step yet to derail federal climate efforts. It marks a notable shift in the administration’s position from one that had downplayed the threat of global warming to one that essentially flatly denies the overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change. [NYT] (🎁 link)
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou took to social media to criticize the deal, which would see an across the board 15 per cent tariff on most goods from Europe. [Global]

New research confirms what election experts have said all along: Noncitizen voting occasionally happens but in minuscule numbers, and not in any coordinated way. [NPR]
... you want that campaign to be a part of this larger mosaic of what people are doing across the country. This is what we're seeing in states all over. This is what is energizing Democrats. But it can't be national politics all the time, right? [Campaigns and Elections]
Media
Nonprofit news sites are built to generate impact — but these are also generating audiences
In markets large and small, these nonprofit news organizations are achieving traffic numbers that many commercial outlets would envy. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United States. [Nieman Journalism Lab]
Science and Technology
How AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours
Researchers ..  looked into 1 million text-based conversations between users and [AI chatbot] Claude at the end of 2024 and categorized each conversation into either an augmentative or automated task. They then mapped these tasks to more than 700 distinct occupations based on work characteristics. The data show that, on average, AI (in this case, Claude) was already either automating or augmenting some 25 percent of the day-to-day tasks across all jobs by the end of 2024. We are all in for an era of disruption. [WaPo] (🎁 link)
The Calendar
  • 0830 ET : Conception Bay South, NL - LPC MP Paul Connors makes a funding announcement
  • 0930 ET : Toronto, - AI and FEDDEV Min Evan Solomon makes a funding announcement
  • 1030 ET : Clark's Harbour, NS - LPC MP Jessica Fancy marks the service of a new Canadian Coast Guard vessel.
  • 1400 ET : Ottawa, - PM Carney chairs a virtual meeting of his cabinet.
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… in 1953. Sc 331. Queen Elizabeth II - Karsh Portrait. Coil Stamps. Design: Herman Herbert Schwarz. Photograph: Yousuf Karsh.

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