Afternoon front page: Eby’s hypocritical ‘Buy B.C.’ message; young Canadians keep getting more Conservative; and more

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Twice this week, B.C. NDP Leader David Eby has appeared in public wearing non-Canadian clothing brands while promoting a “Built in B.C. and Canada” campaign message.“It may seem somewhat trivial to pick on Eby’s clothing, but it is a physical manifestation of his failings on serious issues — namely, sincerity, authenticity and trustworthiness,” Pankratz writes.

Youth are now the single most Conservative demographic in Canada and an election decided exclusively by voters under 30 would be an easy Tory victory, according to new polling figures. The survey also found that Canadians over 60 are endorsing the Liberals at a near record-high of 59 per cent. “It wasn’t too long ago that Canadian electoral demographics followed the more conventional pattern of young people favouring progressive options while older people favoured conservative ones,” Tristin Hopper notes.

North Dakota and Montana are most exposed to the impacts of the trade war, with Canada accounting for 77 per cent of each state’s total goods trade. They are followed by Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, South Dakota and Oklahoma, according to a conservative public policy organization founded by former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.

The former employee is seeking more than $400,000 in damages from TD Insurance, alleging she was wrongfully dismissed after tagging “I am HIS ✝️” on to the end of her email signature in a stand against a company policy that she says “only allowed for gender/sex identification and allowed no room for other identities.”

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, or once did. But the idea that AI could wipe out humanity has suddenly become impossible to ignore, as even the industry behind the technology warns of a possible apocalypse. But it’s really not that far-fetched, those predicting AI doom insist.

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