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The House of Commons has an artificial intelligence strategy for 2025 to 2027 that has never been made public, and its own technology director says the data it stores with Microsoft carries risks under the U. S. CLOUD Act. Both concessions came Tuesday as the Clerk of the House, Eric Janse, and two senior administrators appeared before the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs for its study of AI and Canada’s democratic institutions. A second panel of parliamentary interpreters followed with a warning that machine interpretation is not fit for Parliament.

I’ve looked at nearly every candidate running for municipal election across three cities. A lot of their campaigns look the same. What does it mean for democracy? When you research every candidate running for office in Toronto, Mississauga, and Brampton, after a while, they can start to all blend together in your head. It’s not just that there are more than 600 candidates across the three cities. It’s that many of their campaigns do, in fact, look identical.

When orange, red, yellow, and purple tulips flanked the apartment entryway, that meant my neighbour Ed was back outside in the dirt after a winter indoors. Coming home to the bloom of those small garden plots was the official first sign of spring throughout my 15-year tenure living in a studio apartment a couple of blocks shy of Commercial Drive on Vancouver’s Broadway. As the season progressed, Ed would start planting vegetables and update me on how the potatoes, onions and hot peppers were doing when I stopped to chat on my way home from work.

Dr. Anne Aspler, author of Rise After Silence. As an emergency doctor, Dr. Anne Aspler is very candid about her role in medicine. “Sometimes, I feel like the only life I’ve really meaningfully managed to save is my own. We carry things that feel impossible to let go of. I’ve hidden behind the strong and important label of emergency doctor, but what people don’t know about me is I’m also a survivor of childhood sexual assault.”

The latest book by Canadian journalist and author Carol Off is a deep dive into what makes Canada the place that it is. When I was growing up on my grandparent’s farm on Kootenay Lake, I developed a near-obliterating hatred of trespassers.

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