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Distillation can be a legitimate research technique, but American officials and AI executives have long complained that the volume and targeted manner of Chinese distillation campaigns against US firms amount to stealing.

Iceland has summoned the US ambassador after US President Donald Trump posted an image on social media showing the island and other countries covered by the American flag, local broadcaster RÚV said.

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A new comparative survey of nearly 150 career civil servants (66 in the U.S. and 82 in Brazil) probed differences in bureaucratic responses to democratic backsliding among civil servants who served under U.S. President Trump and Brazilian President Bolsonaro.

Libraries have until October 1 to restrict young people’s access to transgender-related books or face a state funding freeze.

The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity.

According to the document, the full value of the contract remained outstanding as of 31 December 2024 – meaning nothing had been paid that year – and the engagement is expected to conclude in 2027.

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Designating a collective that has been active for over twenty years in the European civil and digital rights movement—and has always operated openly—as a terrorist organization is part of the technological war that the United States is waging against anyone who asserts autonomy over digital networks and infrastructure […]

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Avoiding US goods and services – from tech to whisky to air travel – has forced many to find a new way of living

The New York Times said in a statement that denying American journalists access to an event in the U.S. is “not just another disturbing effort by the administration to undermine independent journalism, but a blatant attempt to evade public scrutiny.”

The ambassador is William Long

Some Canadian websites, including for the federal government, displayed maps with Lake Ontario renamed as Lake America on Sunday, a day after Google Maps announced the change to align with an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Guard the Leaf is a Canadian who (used to be?) in Malaysia who got so incensed about the USA’s unprovoked attack on Canada that he started a YouTube channel to rant about it. (It was demonetized, naturally, since apparently telling people the truth about the USA and Canadians’ feelings about it is against community norms. While rampant racism is protected speech.)

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Think about this given what happened this week with the fascist US government designating Autistici/Inventati – an anti-fascist Italian .org providing internet support to activists – as terrorists, sanctioning them, and knocking them off the Internet (solely by weaponizing Executive Order 13224 which was established shortly after 9/11 to target ruthless assassins)

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks, saying officers would use them to control detainees and protesters who resist.

So I write letters when I am grumpy with organizations, I got grumpy with the CBC and wrote them and the ombudsman of CBC letters.

Trump is the big dumb, I guess I am going to need to break and make sure Google Maps does not change the name at least not here in Canada.

Pearl Milling is a Product of Canada. The others are Product of USA. I’ve been using Pearl since the first wave of tariffs (it’s just as good). I have returned to turning Product of USA products upside down.

After more than a year of getting the cold shoulder from Canada, the American booze industry is feeling the heat. Exports of booze from the US to Canada were less than half in 2025 than they were a year earlier.

The best time to have made Canada digitally sovereign would have been before an American president announced his intention to annex Canada and began explicitly deploying America’s tech companies to attack his geopolitical adversaries.

Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level

On issues like evolution, vaccine requirements, and GMO foods, American public opinion has long been out of step with the scientific community.

The fascist empire wants to harm victims Aurora Rush and Shae Sanders. Protect them and accept them into Canada for healing.

Citizens here hold more faith in their nation. Global partners are lining up.

The research comes amid an increasingly contentious political debate over transgender participation in sport in the United States. A growing number of states have introduced restrictions on transgender athletes, while professional sporting bodies have also adopted policies limiting participation. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February targeting transgender participation in women’s sports and directing the federal government to prioritise Title IX enforcement against schools that allow transgender women and girls to compete.

In 2025, more than 2,000 trans women were incarcerated in federal jails in the US.[7] A 2007 study of Californian prisons found that 59% of trans inmates were sexually assaulted while incarcerated compared to 4% of all surveyed inmates; and 41-50% of the trans inmates surveyed reported rape, compared to 2-3% of the all inmates surveyed. Trans inmates described sexual assault as a “fact of prison life” while incarcerated.[8] Trans inmates also reported more assaults had taken place outside of their cells compared to the cisgender inmates. Furthermore, trans inmates were disproportionately denied medical attention following a sexual assault compared to other inmates.[8] A 2022 study in the same state found that 69% of trans women were forced into performing sexual oral practices against their will in all-male prisons—and that 58.5% of trans women reported being sexually assaulted.[6]

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks is facing criticism from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who call it unnecessary and cruel.