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Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, on the rupture of the old world order:
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/01/20/principled-and-pragmatic-canadas-path-prime-minister-carney-addresses
He goes righ…

“Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
Thank you, Larry.It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints.

from my link log —
A tour of safe tracing GC designs in Rust.
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe-tracing-gc-designs-in-rust/
saved 2021-06-19

Loons… #HeatedRivalry I’m reading GC and gotten to the heart-wrenching PLAYOFFS sequence. The wrenching is actually good. Heartbreak feels good in a place like this! 🤣

Beautiful.ai, which makes AI tools to design presentation slides, raised $45M in non-dilutive financing from GC's Customer Value Fund and says it is profitable (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/20…

Exclusive: Beautiful.ai gets $45M from General Catalyst's CVF
The company is one of several presentation startups looking to gain market share.

Good luck neighbours! It looks like basement flooding season will start with a bang over the next few hours.
#dlws

Andy Allo singing a Prince classic, with Prince on acoustic guitar. Amazing track.
#Prince

#canada

Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech for managed service providers, raised a $70M Series B led by GC, bringing its total funding to $95M (CJ Fairfield/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/2026

BCDR Firm Slide Raises $70M Series B To Fuel Global MSP Expansion: ‘The Train Keeps Rolling’
With new funding, Slide plans to expand into Europe, adds new platform capabilities.

Good Morning #Canada
Apparently the earth moved last night but I didn't feel a thing. An earthquake, a magnitude 3.7 to 4.1 depending on different reports, was reported in my neighbourhood near Orilla Ontario last night. The epicenter was across Lake Simcoe, approximately 35km away from my home and 5km deep. Maybe the lake reduced the impact and we do have a pretty good mattress.
There are 4,000 ish earthquakes measured in Canada annually but most are minor. Perhaps 40 might be large enough or not remote, and people will feel the ground shaking. That's about 1 every 8 days. Most of our earthquakes occur along the West Coast, the High Arctic, and lower frequency along the eastern seaboard. Earthquakes are monitored by the National Seismograph Network with approximately 100 seismographs distributed across Canada.
I know you're wondering about the 10 largest earthquakes ever felt in Canada. I got you covered...
#CanadaIsAwesome #Seismology
https://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pubs/GF-GI/GEOFACT_largest-earthquakes_e.pdf

Dear Canadians.
Send a message to our Prime Minister!
pm@pm.gc.ca
This is what I just sent.
Dear Prime Minister,
I am shocked and deeply disturbed by your inaction and inability to call out the President of the United States who is using the rhetoric of a madman.
Canada should call in the USA Ambassador, close our airspace to USA forces on Iran-related flights, and denounce in public this clearly criminal and suicidal rhetoric.
Sincerely
Chris
You can also fill in this contact form: #IranUSAIsraelWar #Iran #USA #TheAmericanFascist #CanPoli #CdnPoli

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
GC OConnor:
🎵 Love on High
#GCOConnor
https://gcoconnor.bandcamp.com/track/love-on-high
https://open.spotify.com/track/40c8Q7ZPPffBTIOCQEUMfh

Do you know what happens when you write C Qt code with web dev experience? Your mental model for memory management (which is non-existent because JS has GC), leads to memory leaks.
It's so bad I had to:
1. rewrite most of the init code for member variables in almost all widgets so the expectation of "WidgetA" from "child C" of MainWindow is available when "WidgetB" emits a signal.
2. currently debugging memory leak when MainWindow is clos…

Bengaluru-based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross-border payments, raised a $16.6M Series A led by GC at an $85M valuation, bringing its total raised to $32M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/stripe-p…

Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India's Xflow to fix cross-border B2B payments | TechCrunch
Stripe and PayPal Ventures have participated in Xflow's $16.6 million round that gives it a post-money valuation of $85 million.