Notices by Mike Fraser (mike@thecanadian.social)

@evan Got kind of depressed when I typed "TheCanadian" into google recently and gander.social appeared. I had to type "TheCanadian Mastodon" to even get a hit. What that tells me is that I need to do a better job marketing my instance as do we all. I think a lot of this approach running and instance as a hobby when we really need to seriously think of it as a mission to bring people into a better way of doing social media.

🇨🇦 One surprising take away from the Prime Minister's press conference was that one of last minute demands from the United States was to be able to limit Canada's ability to make trade agreements with other countries. Obviously a hard no. #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong

The government of Canadas AI strategy should focus less on funding big Telco data centers and more on funding local compute for small to medium sized businesses to run their own models and thus actually innovate their own solutions for their expertise domain.

The AI revolution will not be borne out of the enterprise it will come from empowering small teams to innovate.

@johannab @tchambers As you've already pointed out it's all about the definition. If your definition is the ability to autonomously solve problems and reason then we're already there. Then there's the classic movie definition "self aware" and I think we're also already there in many respects.

Three days after carrying the torch at the Canandiens game Claude Lemieux passes away at age 60. #HNOM https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/article/former-nhl-player-claude-lemieux-passes-away-at-age-60/

@robkay Welcome!

@alterelefant @evan This was my thought. On pachli I can organize multiple followed hashtags into feed. Not sure why I need this tool.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/116529286039026063

This worries me. Especially since the Ukrainians have reported Russia has not implemented a cease fire, continuing operations as normal. This feels like a setup.

Let's not forget that a month ago the straight of Hormuz was open for business. So the US government has waged war, killed many people and destroyed all sorts of infrastructure just to get back to where it started. Except now Iran has a clear signal that it absolutely needs to develop a nuclear bomb to ensure its security. It's been said countless times but the US electorate put incompetent assholes in charge and now we all get to reap what they've sown.

This TACO docterine is really giving me an ulcer. Looks like the Pakistanis managed to broker something here. https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-07-2026

RE: https://thecanadian.social/@Bowreality/116269803889595569

Welcome to The Canadian. https://thecanadian.social/about

@tchambers @Vivaldi A little more than a year ago I decided to leave Google behind. I immediately jumped into Firefox only to be disappointed. Vivaldi turned out to be a next level replacement, it's my goto browser.

As you know we've taken over administrator of journa.host and newsie.social, two instances focussed on journalists and news outlets.
We've put together a news app that combines the feeds to give you the latest. It's a work in progress but you can find it at https://dispatchnews.net #news #journalism #journa #newsie

1/ Announcement: So today being a news day I might as well announce that the team at TheCanadian.Social has officially taken ownership of https://journa.host and https://newsie.social. We have also moved these instances to our facilities in Canada. These are two important instances hosting a large portion of the fediverse's journalism accounts. We felt it important to keep them going as the previous stewards were considering shutting them down. #fediverse #fediadmin #journalists

:hockeycanada2: We're sorry.. #HNOM #olympics

@taylorlorenz You own your timeline. Like the early days when social media worked.

Looks like the UK does not have our back:

"Keir Starmer rejected his Canadian counterpart’s call for mid-sized countries to band together in the face of unpredictable global powers — and insisted his “common sense” British approach will do just fine."

Like I said, we'll find out who our friends are.
https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-mark-carney-no-new-world-order-united-kingdom-canada/

You ever notice how little ICE enforcement is happening in Red States? This is a manufactured crisis.

🇨🇦 As a Canadian I'm fully ready to support the Prime Minister in calling Trumps bluff and frankly that's probably the only course forward. If Canada backs away from its deal with China over US threats we effectively lose our sovereignty. #ElbowsUp

@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty Could I ask you to put our banner image up with our listing under microblogging.