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When you meet the Queen of Indian Cuisine, Actress, Author, Silver Bear winner, and a @beardfoundation Hall of Fame inductee, the one and only @madhurjaffrey at the @ROMtoronto and she recognizes you from your tweets, you are honoured.
A moment of a lifetime!
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The lawsuit by plaintiffs ages 17-25 is part of a growing global movement among environmental activists seeking to use courts to force government accountability on climate protections.
Canadian youth seek climate action in landmark trial ctvnews.ca/climate-and-envir…
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Pour la première fois en deux décennies, les premiers ministres du Canada et les dirigeants des Premières Nations se réunissent. Notre objectif est clair : déterminer ce que nous pouvons bâtir et réaliser ensemble.
De grandes infrastructures. Plus de logements. De meilleurs soins de santé. Des communautés plus sûres. Une meilleure préparation aux situations d’urgence.
Bâtir un Canada plus fort, plus équitable et plus inclusif pour tout le monde.
ALT Le premier ministre Carney rencontre les premiers ministres et les dirigeants des Premières Nations à Ottawa, en Ontario.
ALT Le premier ministre Carney rencontre les premiers ministres et les dirigeants des Premières Nations à Ottawa, en Ontario.
ALT Le premier ministre Carney rencontre les premiers ministres et les dirigeants des Premières Nations à Ottawa, en Ontario.
“Despite these efforts, Modi appears more vulnerable than at any time since he was first elected prime minister.”
Must read piece by @lpolgreen
I spent a week in Delhi, watching an extraordinary protest movement unfold. Here's what I saw, and what I think it means for India, and the world. nytimes.com/2026/10/26/opini…
Modi’s Plan to Stop India’s Protests
The Indian leader, facing a volatile youth uprising, appears to be deliberately drawing into the fray a political rival he’s beaten before. @kbennhold
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nytimes.com/2026/10/25/world… via @NYTimes
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The most enduring image of Randall Sequeira among tribal communities in the bauxite-rich hills of southwestern Odisha is that of a bearded, bespectacled, lanky doctor on a Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle travelling between far-flung villages to treat the sick, @Ayaskant_Das writes about him
"Doctor Babu is like a mobile hospital. He lives in a tiled hut. He visits households & provides free treatment"
Odisha police arrested Randall Sequeira, a doctor who serves Adivasi communities & supports the anti-mining movement. @Ayaskant_Das has this profile
Link👇
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77% of Latino registered voters who support a Democratic candidate for their district in the House of Representatives say it really matters who wins control of Congress.
About half of them say they are extremely motivated to vote.
ALT Chart showing Latino registered voters who say it really matters which party wins, have not thought about the election or are really motivated to vote by party.
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A student collective will rule Serbia.
as.ft.com/r/e83f64be-6d3e-4a…
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Gorgeous poem by my friend Howard Altmann in yesterday’s Atlantic, if anyone craves a reprieve from the daily cascade of the ugly and dreadful: theatlantic.com/books/2026/1…
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“I am a math professor, and my field is in crisis,” @stevenstrogatz writes of the introduction of AI into mathematics. He argues that his field is as much an expression of the human spirit as music and literature: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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NEWS: The @NYTimes is launching a new way to understand the American electorate.
Times Voter Trends will surface detailed data in a form that allows readers to explore it like never before, the culmination of multi-year investments in data journalism:
nytco.com/press/the-new-york…
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I spent a week in Delhi, watching an extraordinary protest movement unfold. Here's what I saw, and what I think it means for India, and the world. nytimes.com/2026/10/26/opini…
The research from scientists at Columbia University shows that when water is exposed to tiny microplastics, it releases highly reactive chemicals. These chemicals, known as reactive oxygen species (ROS), are known to contribute to heart disease, cancer, diseases like Alzheimer’s.
A devastating finding. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
This article proves that the elite in India are desperate to get elite status in society.
On the outskirts of Chandigarh city in India's north-western Punjab state, a 473-year-old legacy British public school opened its first all-girls international campus earlier this year. @Nik_Inamdar
bbc.com/news/articles/c6vgx1…
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On the outskirts of Chandigarh city in India's north-western Punjab state, a 473-year-old legacy British public school opened its first all-girls international campus earlier this year. @Nik_Inamdar
bbc.com/news/articles/c6vgx1…
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How Defiant Youth Are Testing India’s Idea of Democracy
India’s democracy is facing its biggest test in a half-decade. Its signals are worth watching at a time of democratic backsliding in so many corners of the world. @SominiSengupta
nytimes.com/2026/10/24/world… via @NYTimes
“Cathedral’s ability to penetrate sensitive programs at one of the companies leading the global AI race comes amid mounting concern that U.S. AI firms are the target of overseas intelligence agencies andgrowing alarm that AI can make it easy for malicious hackers to break into..”
EXCLUSIVE: In less than 12 hours, a group of ex-DOGE cyber researchers were able to penetrate Anthropic’s systems using AI agents — including Slack channels where the most sensitive models are discussed.
This is just weeks after
Anthropic whistleblower Joseph Coxon charged the company w/launching “a hubristic gamble” from a “private company’s Slack.”
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A century ago, a French school in Damascus bet on nonconfessional, coeducational, bilingual learning. Its recent decision to separate boys and girls has Syrians asking what that wager still means, writes @smoubayed in @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/essays/a-cha…
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EXCLUSIVE: In less than 12 hours, a group of ex-DOGE cyber researchers were able to penetrate Anthropic’s systems using AI agents — including Slack channels where the most sensitive models are discussed.
This is just weeks after
Anthropic whistleblower Joseph Coxon charged the company w/launching “a hubristic gamble” from a “private company’s Slack.”
Read our story here (gift link):
wapo.st/4smNlsC
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Ukraine is taking back territory, and Trump is trying to bail out Putin — the one assignment he has always taken seriously.
(Note: this essay by Phillips O'Brien is from last week. See his page for this week's update as well)
phillipspobrien.substack.com…
