Why is the Canadian government Interfering with Google?

Google is not stealing news publishers’ content.
News Media Canada has accused us of stealing news content, but how Google Search connects people with news articles is no different than the way we connect you to any other website online. We don’t provide the content, just a link and sometimes a small extract of the article to give users a preview. And news organizations can opt-out of being included, keep the links but remove the previews, and more.

This is how other search engines and the Internet at large works. While publishers receive traffic from many different sources, we sent more than 5 billion visits to Canadian news publishers last year – at no charge – helping publishers make money by showing their own ads to those visitors or converting people into new paying subscribers. This traffic drove an estimated $500 million worth of value.

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Let’s talk about Revenue Sharing on Google

We built Google Ad Manager to help publishers monetize their content and grow revenue. Over the years, we’ve continued to invest in innovations that improve our technology, so news companies can earn more from digital advertising and create sustainable businesses. Alongside our product enhancements, our dedicated news team partners with publishers of all sizes to uncover new ways to adapt and grow their business with advertising. This helps keep the best of the internet open and free for all of us.

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The bureaucrats need to get down from their lofty towers and do some reading. I do not mean textbook reading they did to possibly earn a degree. Google has posted information about revenue sharing for two decades. Canadian media have earned large sums of money from this gift from Google. More laws in Canada aimed at masterful and complicated rules will hurt the media far more than help.

Dennis Cambly

Full Transcript: President Kennedy’s Peace Speech (June 10, 1963)

What kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.

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Inspirational speech on speech by President John F. Kennedy just months before his assassination. Has any President equaled it before or since? Please read it and you be the judge. – rjc

What kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.

Source: Full Transcript: President Kennedy’s Peace Speech (June 10, 1963)

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Carry Pride With You

Standing in the checkout line where these Pride bags were being sold, I witnessed no child suddenly becoming confused about their gender or sexual orientation upon seeing these rainbow-colored totes. No parents gasp in fear at the message this was sending, covering their child’s eyes in fear and boycotting the store.

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Unlike Target, my local Shoprite supermarket had no fear of offending their customers and expressing their support for the LGBTQ community and Pride Month.

Standing in the checkout line where these Pride bags were being sold,  I witnessed no child suddenly becoming confused about their gender or sexual orientation upon seeing these rainbow-colored totes.  No parents gasp in fear at the message this was sending, covering their child’s eyes in fear and boycotting the store.

But subliminally maybe it sent a message to be proud of who you are. Check out yourself and feel pride.

Be Your Self. That’s a message I’d be happy to tote with me anywhere.

Somewhere over the rainbow, tolerance waits for us all.

#HappyPride

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U.S. Army: 0 — Internet: 1, by David Swanson

Replying to @USArmy
My step-dad served as a sniper and still has ptsd from it. From a young age I learned not to touch him if he’s sleeping because he might lash out and hit me. When we go to restaurants we have to sit so that he can see the door, He still won’t talk about it

good boy@goodboy11112222 3h
Replying to @USArmy
I have a friend whose father was a military doctor in Iraq. He has since retired to the UK now on antidepressants n screams at night, says he sees mutilated bodies of Iraqi children in his nightmares. Despite being a Moslem he drinks a bottle a night to keep the demons at bay.

Chel Bell@BellseaChel 5h
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My dad has PTSD and is now suffering through chemo cuz of the shit he was exposed to in the gulf war. The VA is making it impossible for him to get benefits even though 1/3 of the vets from that war have weird health issues; too many for it to be a coincidence.

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The Intensity of PTSD Image by Truthout.org via Flickr

by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
Originally posted May 26, 2019
May 29, 2023

The U.S. Army tweeted a harmless rah-rah tweet and got hit with a burst of reality never encountered on corporate-controlled media. Score one for the internet.

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A Mouse In The House

But perhaps my favorite mouse, besting even Mickey was Topo Gigio the adorable puppet on Ed Sullivan who found a place in my heart and a genuine Maria Perego doll version in my home.

When Topo Gigio the little mouse descended on The Ed Sullivan Show in December 1962 no one could have predicted that the little Italian puppet would become such a memorable act. I would watch in fascination how he could walk and talk roll his eyes wiggle his ears and toes without visible strings.

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Even Minnie Mouse is in a tizzy because a little rodent is in her pristine kitchen. Has Minnie looked in the mirror lately? Last I heard she’s a mouse too! Vintage Mickey Mouse cartoon

While Ron DeSantis is duking it out with Mickey, I’ve got a mouse problem of my own.

Though I may not be standing on a chair screeching “Eek a Mouse,” while stomping my feet, and clutching the hem of my dress until the scurrying rodent is captured, I’m not too happy either.

It seems in the dark of night as I slept, a stealth mouse has been feasting on a bowl of fresh fruit I keep on my kitchen counter.

For the past three mornings, I’ve stumbled into my kitchen startled at the sight of several Fuiji apples with huge chunks of flesh chewed off.

I needed to eliminate suspects.

I confirmed the bite marks weren’t…

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Finian Cunningham and Clara Mattei: The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

Austerity forces the vast majority to accept unacceptable conditions that are otherwise shockingly anti-democratic. The precariousness and insecurity of employment, the widespread denial of social services, deprivation and poverty, and the relentless abuse of taxes and resources that are fueling insane militarism and war.

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Fascism Image by Henrik Ström via Flickr

by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
April 13, 2023

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Western liberal democracy and its ubiquitous “austerity economics” is a euphemism for fascism. And the charade is finally coming to an end.

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New York Times Is Now Telling Bigger Lies Than Iraq WMDs and More Effectively, by David Swanson

Then there’s this lie: “The Biden administration touts the size of its $842 billion budget request, and in nominal terms it’s the largest ever. But that fails to account for inflation.”

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Occupy Portland: How is the War Economy Working For You? Banner Image by Lynn Friedman via Flickr

by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
April 12, 2023

The New York Times routinely tells bigger lies than the clumsy nonsense it published about weapons in Iraq. Here’s an example. This package of lies is called “Liberals Have a Blind Spot on Defense” but mentions nothing related to defense. It simply pretends that militarism is defensive by applying that word and by lying that “we face simultaneous and growing military threats from Russia and China.” Seriously? Where?

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How All this Tennessee Talkin’ Made this Boomer Homesick For Davy Crockett

Must Read: Though the symbol of a self-sufficient frontiersman was pure catnip to cold war America sensibility, the reality is slightly different. Ironically there is no definitive proof that Davy Crockett-the real man- ever wore a raccoon hat. According to most American historians, Davy Crockett was “ merely a legend created by commercial American pop culture.

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1950's boys in coon skin caps

Suddenly Tennessee is all over the media. Expulsions and bannings and shootings, oh my!

There hasn’t been so much attention paid to Tennessee since the Davy Crockett craze of the mid-1950s.

It’s made me nostalgic for my hand-me-down coonskin cap.

Vintage Walt Disney Book 1956 As one Detroit retail buyer solemnly told Time, “Davy Crockett is bigger even than Mickey Mouse.”

Thanks to Walt Disney, in the summer of 1955 America went c-a-crazy over Tennessee legend Davy Crockett the coonskin-capped, bear wrestling, folk hero, who was never caught dead without his reliable  “Old Betsy” 40-caliber rifle.

Baby Boomers were positively obsessed with an American frontiersman who died more than 100 years before they were born.

The Davy Crockett coonskin cap that millions of boys and girls lusted after was inspired by the fur headgear worn by buckskin-clad,  actor Fess Parker as the fabled 19th-century frontiersman, in a series of five programs that were broadcast as…

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I Can’t Imagine Maine Without Moose, by Rivera Sun

He shifts into reverse and pulls out of the parking lot, leaving me with my retort hanging on the tip of my tongue. Yes, nature corrects itself. But that failsafe is crumbling, rapidly. The size of the changes caused by fossil fuels vastly outstrips the autocorrect function of our beautiful planet. When Earth resets from these impacts, human beings may not like the corrections it makes. It will likely not include our species. Or thousands of other species we know and love … like moose.

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A Maine moose in the wild! Image by Dana Moos via Flickr

by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 5, 2023

At the post office, my neighbor rolled down the window of his pick-up truck to chat. As is typical in Northern Maine this time of year, we praised the sunlight, warmth, bare patches of ground, and eyed the shrinking snowbanks with delight.

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The Real Paul Makinen? by David R. Yale, Reviewed by Diane Donovan

The Real Paul Makinen? is presented not just in several parts, but many layers. It is not a read for those who expect quick, pat resolutions and the usual coming-of-age growth story, but takes the time to explore the social, political, and psychological complexities buffeting a young man’s life and changing the course of his future and interests.

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The Real Paul Makinen by David R. Yale Screenshot by Dandelion Salad via Flickr

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Sent to DS by the author, David R. Yale

by Diane Donovan
Midwest Book Review Bookwatch, Aug. 10, 2022
April 3, 2023

The Real Paul Makinen?
By David R. Yale

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