Toronto Star- Canada Pension Plan investment board to spend estimated $300 million-plus on its lavish new office at CIBC Square
The money to pay for the move will come out of returns on the reserve fund for the Canada Pension Plan, which more than 22 million Canadian workers must contribute to by law.
Telegram is not just a popular text messaging app; it is an ecosystem that also includes news and expert channels, photo and video sharing, and online communities of all kinds—from local to professional to hobbyist. The app offers encrypted communication that is impossible to crack. The feature seems to be attractive to criminals and terrorists. But regular people—almost 1 billion of them around the world—also enjoy Telegram. To compare: X/Twitter has about 340 million monthly users. Telegram is used by 45% of online users in India, almost 40% in Brazil, 34% in Mexico, and so on.
There is one more specific category of users that particularly values encrypted messaging: political dissidents and protesters. Telegram played a significant role in the 2017-2018 Iranian protests, as more than half of the population there uses the app. The 2020-2021 anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus were even labeled the “Telegram Revolution,” mirroring the “Twitter revolutions” of 2009-2011.
But there is also another big player in the field: the state. The state wants to know what criminals and terrorists are doing, but also what protesters and regular folks are up to. And so do corporations. As the latest memes go, “Mark Zuckerberg sells people’s personal information, and he is a free man. Pavel Durov doesn’t, and he is in the jail.”
Blacklock’s- Migrant Labour Is No Model
Employers should not rely on migrant labour as a business model, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said yesterday. Cabinet is restoring 2014 regulations introduced by then-Employment Minister Jason Kenney that limit foreign workers to 10 percent of payroll.
“At the end of the day, if you as a business think you need more we have some real concerns about your business model,” Freeland told reporters.
Yesterday evening, Thursday August 29, saw the end of sentencing hearings for Tony Olienick and Chris Carbert at Court of King’s Bench in Lethbridge, Alberta. Those hearings lasted four days, with both the Crown and Defense presenting various arguments for what they believed would be appropriate sentences regards the minor charges both men were found ‘guilty’ of in relation to the major charge of ‘conspiring to murder police officers’, for which they were found NOT GUILTY.
Final sentencing has been adjourned until September 9th, as briefs were submitted by the defense late on Wednesday evening, to my mind possibly related to the very concerning rhetoric of Justice Labrenz which was heard on Tuesday.
Comrade Kamala’s America: California is a center of political corruption. Dr. Phil interviews Trump. California or Florida. Kamala’s racist pastor.
Blackie’s Canada: Pro-Hamas Liberals in Montreal. Pierre taunts Justin’s lapdog.
Today In Islam: Jewish festival cancelled. Islamic outreach. The dictator of Turkey.
Global Warming Scam News: A shocking claim. Your morning bit of humour.
Including the removal of earwax and other objects; a suboptimal situation; a spa day takes a turn; a bold attempt at pilfering; and the thrill of phone mites.
This evening, we present a 1953 film called Stalag 17.
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Wow! @NicoleShanahan just dropped a BRUTAL public service announcement on TDS.
This is amazing! pic.twitter.com/TzusQfiDI1
— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) August 29, 2024
Telegraph- Boss of ‘Europe’s answer to Tesla’ quits after sales slump
His resignation comes after sales of the Swedish company’s upmarket electric cars slumped. Global volumes fell 40pc in the first quarter of 2024 to 7,221, down from 12,076 the previous year.
The carmaker, headquartered in Gothenburg in Sweden, lost close to $1.5bn over the course of 2023.
Op-Ed: Deidra Garyk’s Bill C-59 submission to Competition Bureau
Energy advocate Deidra Garyk made the following submission to the Competition Bureau regarding Bill C-59, which came into law in late June. That law is an egregious assault on free speech in this nation, and Pipeline Online vehemently opposes it, as should you.
Also:
Crown land sale shows interest in three areas, but none in the fourth. Hate to say it, but it looks like southwest Saskatchewan is withering on the vine.
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story. – Michael Moore
Over a shockingly short period of time, Hollywood intentionally abandoned a one-hundred-year-old system for making, releasing and profiting from the theatrical distribution of motion pictures that had served it and its audiences very well.
This was a system that generated billions of dollars, created an army of jobs and ancillary businesses, exported American cultural soft power across the world and made a lot of people extremely wealthy… and it was abandoned, all for a technological pipe dream of captured audiences mindlessly pressing “renew” on their subscriptions with the glassy eyes of the permanently zombified.
Now that the chips of that capricious decision have begun to land where they may, it has become clear that the new streaming model is a failure in almost every way. An ocean of ink has been spilled analyzing why streaming is bad business, but I want to approach the problem from a different perspective.
Grab a beverage. Read the whole thing.
In almost all the investigations as far as money laundering, we’d seize their phones, and see Canada light up like a Christmas tree”: State Department official on US banking investigations.
The Canadian Independent- WATCH: Ontario farmers and concerned citizens protested at the township council building this evening over Waterloo Region’s attempt to acquire 770 acres of precious farmland for reasons that remain unclear.
h/t Scott
Featured Comment: Moh danga
America used to be a consistent beacon of freedom. Then Trump came onto the political scene and that all changed.
More from Mike Benz can be found here.
How to reinvent Kamala Harris. – Victor Davis Hanson
Comrade Kamala’s America: The CNN interview. Obama betrays Biden. Whiteless privilege.
Blackie’s Canada: Only progressive views allowed in Justin’s Canada. Liberal MP accuses Blacklock of stoking racism.
Woke World: If I were a Marxist. How to destroy a nation. And luxury beliefs.
Your morning meme.
A tale of intersectional complication:
After employees had gone unpaid, they were left with a dilemma: notify law enforcement about the founder of their company – which has a goal of abolishing the police – or handle it internally.
This evening, we present an interesting documentary entitled B-29 Air Raid Bombing in Tokyo, narrated by Ronald Reagan.
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