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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s attempt to block the federal government’s budget bill from passing earlier this month is the latest example of government spending coming under scrutiny amid high inflation.
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High government spending means more inflation? It’s complicated, economists say

Employees who regularly use artificial intelligence systems have a higher chance of experiencing loneliness, which can result in insomnia, according to a new study
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Loneliness, insomnia associated with frequent use of AI systems at work:

Employees who regularly use artificial intelligence systems have a higher chance of experiencing loneliness, which can result in insomnia, according to a new study.
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Loneliness, insomnia associated with frequent use of AI systems at work: study

For as long as she has worked, Marie Chevrier Schwartz has paid into Canada’s Employment Insurance program. Yet when she eventually needed to collect the benefit, she was denied support.
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‘I didn’t have the energy to be upset’: Entrepreneurs struggle with parental leave

In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps — and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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Microsoft says early June disruptions to Outlook, cloud platform, were cyberattacks

The strain facing traditional TV news organizations is well-established but a swath of layoffs that cut several of CTV’s best-known news personalities was a surprise to many, including national reporter Joyce Napier.
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BCE cuts raise questions about future CTV news strategy, highlight tech pressures

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Binance have reached an agreement in court that lets the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange continue to operate in the United States as it battles SEC fraud charges.
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Under court deal, Binance can continue U.S. operations as it battles SEC fraud charges

TD Bank Financial Group says a technical issue affecting some customers’ abilities to send and receive direct deposits has been resolved.
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TD says it has resolved its direct deposit delay issues

If you hopped on Reddit to scroll through your favorite forums this week, you may have encountered ‘private’ or ‘restricted’ messages. That’s because thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company’s plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.
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Despite widespread protest, Reddit CEO says company is ‘not negotiating’ on 3rd-party app charges

Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and accessibility.
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The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting third-party app charges