Take the University of Toronto’s Akwasi Owusu-Bempah as a clear example. Owusu-Bempah is quoted by the Star as one of the «Black voices» who reject Chief Ramer’s apology. He complains in one article that «there’s nothing new in this news.» However, just a year ago, Owusu-Bempah told CTV News that an apology for racism […]
LaMDA, it would appear, has passed Lemoine’s sentimental version of the Turing test. Lemoine, who calls himself an ethicist, but whom Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel contended is a mere «software engineer,» voiced his concerns about the treatment of LaMDA to Google management but was rebuffed. According to Lemoine, his immediate supervisor scoffed at the suggestion of LaMDA’s […]
The recent outbreak of price inflation with the jump to an annual rate of 8.6 percent in May 2022 came as a surprise to the US central bank . Central Banks Don’t Fight Inflation Failing to apply countermeasures in time, the Fed is now faced with the hard job of bringing down […]
Elizabeth Warren is leading the way. She recently introduced a bill that outlaws «price gouging,» which in her definition involves a seller increasing prices for reasons that Warren would consider to be unjustified. While at least Warren is not calling for criminal penalties, she would empower the Federal Trade Commission to investigate such […]
Vettel drives a car that has a monstrous appetite for fuel, travels a lot by jet, and is sponsored by Saudi Aramco. I’m just trying to draw up a list of machines that rival a Formula One race car in their dependence on good old fossil fuels. His name is […]
Don Cherry, he who reigned so long as the Emperor of Coaches Corner, now for some time in what I will term a kind of forced retirement. I do not think it can be challenged that for as long as he so briskly issued his wisdom on the national game […]
Many people are suspicious about CBAs, which they think are created by ‘money-minded’ economists who put a ‘value’ on life – something people believe is an impossibility. And indeed, the life of our family members and our friends, cannot be valued on any known metric. We don’t have an infinite […]
I was three years old when my dad, Denis, took me to skate at the local rink in Aneroid for the first time. He said I got halfway around the rink, turned around and headed back to him, handing him the chair he’d given me for balance. Hockey has always […]
In the shadow of Russia’s appalling war against its peaceful neighbour, misguided efforts to revive the U. -Iran nuclear deal have continued. The dangerous naiveté among Western leaders that left Ukraine outside NATO also underlies efforts to make deals with Tehran. We should hope that negotiators do not return to Vienna and that the […]
On May 2, in a landmark judgment, India’s Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, ruled that «no one can be forced to be vaccinated» and that «bodily integrity and personal autonomy» are protected under the law as a constitutional right. Citing emerging scientific opinion «which appears to indicate that the risk of transmission […]