Where do you find out what is happening in the world? With so much information at our fingertips it should be a simple thing to find out what is happening. A google search should provide us with some answers, however results seem to vary from user to user.
[ June 3 2022 ]
Customized search results may yield different articles depending on where you are from, or what type of profile you have. The narratives promoted by what is considered mainstream news sources are pushed to the front, while other important and perhaps not as well known current events may be pushed aside.
Users are force-fed a particular point of view, calculated and coordinated across stations in a way that attempts to control the perspectives being formed. I don't particularly enjoy the surface level and biased analysis that we are spoon fed.
Google: NEWS - What do you get?
1 https://www.cbc.ca/news
2 https://www.ctvnews.ca/
3 https://globalnews.ca/
4 https://www.cnn.com/
5 https://www.bbc.com/news/world
If your results are different please comment what they are.
So from these 5 sources that are being pushed, what is the news today?
Here is what I see when I look at the
CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
How Doug Ford's PCs won their 2nd straight Ontario election
"Ford has led his Ontario PCs to a bigger victory than in the last election, with 83 seats, leaving the New Democrats and Liberals in his dust and in search of new party leaders. "
Military transfers 62 sexual offence files to civilian police — but half were rejected
"Canadian Armed Forces Provost Marshal Brig.-Gen. Simon Trudeau confirmed the military has attempted to transfer 49 new sexual offence cases to civilian police since November 2021. Police forces accepted 22 of the files and rejected 27. "
For this remote First Nation, installing heat pumps is worth the effort
"Members of the Heiltsuk Nation have been living on this breathtaking land for at least 9,000 years. But in recent years, the community's reliance on fossil fuels to heat their homes has had devastating consequences. "
Facing up to a 'polycrisis' that the Bank of Canada may not have the tools to fix
""Some people call it a polycrisis," said Best on the phone this week. "It's like so many crises together: pandemic, war, inflation, you know, the energy impact.""
Pick one or two of the stories referenced here and let's discuss it in more detail in the comments.
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