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Elect a central banker, get austerity politics. Huh. Who'd a thunk it?
#cdnpoli

"says Carney is bootlicking Trump”
Lloyd Axworthy with the first Truth to Power statement from a former Foreign Minister.
YUP
#CanPoli #CdnPoli

OK, now do a story on how scapegoating international students hasn't solved the housing crisis please.
#cdnpoli

International student visas for Canada plummet | CBC News
Permits for students from abroad to study in Canada plummeted in the first half of this year, with nearly 90,000 fewer issued than a year earlier, when the federal government introduced a cap on international student visas.

Replaced article(s) found for physics.app-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.app-ph/new
[1/1]:
- A Polarimetry-based Field-deployable Non-interruptive Mirror Soiling Detection Method
Tian, Rafique, Chidambaranathan, Brost, Small, Novick, Yellowhair, Yao

ChatMyopia: An AI Agent for Pre-consultation Education in Primary Eye Care Settings
Yue Wu, Xiaolan Chen, Weiyi Zhang, Shunming Liu, Wing Man Rita Sum, Xinyuan Wu, Xianwen Shang, Chea-su Kee, Mingguang He, Danli Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19498

ChatMyopia: An AI Agent for Pre-consultation Education in Primary Eye Care Settings
Large language models (LLMs) show promise for tailored healthcare communication but face challenges in interpretability and multi-task integration particularly for domain-specific needs like myopia, and their real-world effectiveness as patient education tools has yet to be demonstrated. Here, we introduce ChatMyopia, an LLM-based AI agent designed to address text and image-based inquiries related to myopia. To achieve this, ChatMyopia integrates an image classification tool and a retrieval-aug…

For some reason, today is crappy, all kinds of progress on 10 projects, but all are blocked by small problems that aren't easy to fix. Maybe I should follow #Floki's example, and sleep in the box of cat toys while high on #catnip.

The Cassandra Cat (Vojtěch Jasný, 1963)
#caturday #essentialcinema #catmovies
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6NSoSFWf_U4&si=SCaU63hNFAZhB07B

THIS IS A LIE
"Brian Kingston, president and CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association, told CBC News on the way to the meeting that "the targets that have been established cannot be met" given current market forces.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #EV #Cars

Make no mistake. This is a USA automaker and oil company hit job on the independence and sovereignty of the Canadian economy.
They are trying to reverse the inevitable so they can continue their own businesses as usual for as long as possible.
It can't be allowed to happen. Canada is already lagging far behind other nations. Our Economy and our Society and our burning forests, will suffer if our government gives in to this pressure.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #EV #Cars
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/zev-mandate-climate-1.7576456

““In response to the question of why they were fishing there then, the accused, Jack, answered, ‘because it’s my river’,” recounts court records from the case… the court supported Jack’s Aboriginal right to access fish”
The Hashilthsa newspaper from Nuuchanulth territory has produced a fantastic article detailing the history and current status of the relationship between DFO and First Nations.
It's still not great.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #DFO #FirstNations #IndigenousRights
https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2025-06-27/relations-federal-department-indicate-clash-worldviews