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George Brown College Hosts Historic Congress 2025 Panel on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanities Graduates

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Jun 03, 2025, 14:43 ET

Artificial Intelligence (AI), ethics, and the evolving role of social science and humanities in a tech-driven world take center stage at the landmark academic event

TORONTO, June 3, 2025 /CNW/ - For the first time in its 94-year history, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences – Canada's largest academic gathering – is being held at a college rather than a university. Toronto's George Brown College (GBC) is the proud host of this year's event, marking a significant milestone in its rise as a hub for innovative education and public scholarship.

The Big Question: Where Do Humanities Graduates Fit in an AI World?

At a workshop held at GBC's Waterfront campus on May 31, the focus turned to one of the most urgent questions facing post-secondary education: What future awaits humanities and social science graduates in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence?

Titled "A.I. Ethics and Disruption – Future of Work for Graduates in Humanities and the Social Sciences," the panel brought together students, academics, and thought leaders for a robust discussion on AI's impact on ethics, employment, and education.

Experts Emphasize the Need for Critical Thinkers in Tech*

"Do We Jump on the Train?": Engaging with AI Responsibly*

Emerging Careers at the Intersection of AI and Humanities*

Gunaratne highlighted several emerging career paths where humanities graduates will be essential in the AI economy:

• Human - AI Collaboration Facilitators
• Algorithm Explainers
• Inclusive Design Specialists
• AI Policy Analysts

Ethics, Advocacy, and Action in Academia and Industry

• Engaging with ethics committees and algorithmic audits
• Participating in policy development and public consultations
• Contributing to industry standards and advisory councils

George Brown College: At the Forefront of AI and Ethical Innovation

As AI continues to transform industries, George Brown College is leading the way in preparing the next generation of tech professionals through its innovative - Applied A.I. Solutions Development program - one of the first of its kind offered by a Canadian college.

About George Brown College

- www georgebrown ca -

Yes, George Town College in Toronto welcomes international students, including those from the United States. They offer a wide range of programs, and international students can apply through their dedicated online portal. George Brown has a significant international student population, with nearly 30% of the student body coming from various countries. 

 

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Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! I pray The Great Spirit be with you 🙏 🌅

Now it's not clouds, 🌫, so I thought, possibly a haze from the fires in the East. They were calling for that possibility with the shift in air pressure; the jet stream is finally moving ever so agonizingly slowly toward the East. But the only problem with that is it will also shift the downward flow of the smoke from the fires, including the few we have in northern Ontario, right over the southern part of Ontario.

When I first went out into my green space to take a better look, at first, I thought it was just another gloomy, cloudy day, until I looked to the East and saw the hazy, yellow orb over the trees in a greyish sky. Smoke? Checked the air quality, which indicates: The current air quality index (AQHI) is 2, indicating a low risk, and the air quality is considered ideal for outdoor activities. 🤔 So it seems we've been exempted one more day, and it's cool out, so the sagging scrotum 🫁 is not completely moved on yet. It's like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place, and I'm the bug in between. 🪨 🐜 🪨

What?? ELON MUSK'S BIG BEAUTIFUL ROCKET 🚀 went to the potty 🚽 again. Elon paid the dime, and the big, beautiful Starship just sat there and farted. I'm just here to watch the show, hey man! Hand me another joint, will ya! And I promise I'll stay to watch the next show, just let the fireworks go! I even brought me shades 😎 and a box of popcorn🍿 with me, man! Maybe I should bring the weenies 🌭 too, to be sure there will be plenty of fire in the hole. 🧛‍♀️ . Peace, Man, and sisters. ☮️

I bet someone else is probably laughing over his beer 🍺 right about now. Hint, he also has a big, beautiful rocket, 🚀 , a low profile, and is successfully building his next big, beautiful rocket by avoiding the same mistakes as Elon did.

OK, that is about it from the Newsroom for today. I'm doing fine physically and mentally, as usual, restless and a scatterbrain. There's always commotion in the ocean 🌊 going on in the wild blue yonder inside my cranium. 🧝‍♀️ 🚀 🙀 🧶 -> 💀

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

CONTROL OF THE FUTURE

Do We Control The Future?

- Google Search -

Is Our Future Beyond Our Control?

The outcome is beyond our control! Our fate is shaped by our decisions, actions, and what we learn (good or bad). It's entirely possible that luck could override all of our efforts, making our deeds seem irrelevant. Similarly, we might work hard and still be too unlucky to see the rewards.

Allow me to elaborate on this part of this summary:

It's entirely possible that luck could override all of our efforts, making our deeds seem irrelevant. Similarly, we might work hard and still be too unlucky to see the rewards.

I believe this is where the power of positive thinking and negative thinking have a lot to do with deciding if your proposition even gets born, let alone given life. I know this from personal experience.

I had the drive, the inventiveness, interest, and the ambition to move forward, but my greatest nemesis was money. Something substantial, which some were, still to this day, was quite innovative to say the least. Maybe it was the 'substantial' that was not meant to be.

I had a very good friend back in the seventies who was not only a good friend but a mentor to me. He was the one who told me that maybe the 'substantial, what I'm hanging onto' was not meant to be, and it was time to move on. I was fortunate to have had many mentors along my journey to where I am now.

So, if one balloon deflates, keep blowing up more, and the right one will come along, which may not be the color or size you were looking for, but still turns out to be a discovery of who the inner self is and is not.

Thank you for your attention.

BREAKING NEWS:

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattles Turkey, causes panic and injuries

A strong, early morning earthquake shook coastal communities in Turkey and Greece, leaving dozens injured and one teenager dead from related causes.

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook southwestern Turkey early Tuesday morning, sending residents running into the streets and injuring dozens in a panic, according to Turkish authorities and the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake struck at 2:17 a.m. local time (7:17 p.m. EDT Monday), with the epicenter located in the Mediterranean Sea roughly 3 miles south of Ä°çmeler, near the resort town of Marmaris. Tremors were also felt in neighboring regions, including the Greek island of Rhodes.

While no major structural damage has been reported, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency said at least 70 people were injured, many of them after jumping from windows or balconies in fear. A 14-year-old girl died after being taken to a hospital for what officials described as an anxiety attack... Read More:

Updated Jun 3, 2025 10:11 AM EDT - httpswwwaccuweather com -

Ukraine strikes bridge connecting Russia to Crimea with underwater explosives

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Watch: Ukraine says it has struck a bridge connecting to Crimea with underwater explosives SBU

Ukraine said on Tuesday that it had hit the bridge connecting Russia and the occupied Crimean Peninsula with explosives planted underwater, in its third attack on the vital supply line for Moscow’s forces since the full-scale war began in 2022.

Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, said on Telegram that its agents had mined the piers of the road and rail Crimean Bridge, also called the Kerch Bridge, and detonated the first explosive at 4.44 a.m. Tuesday. The whole operation took several months, it added.

The agency said it had used 1,100 kilograms of explosives which “severely damaged” the underwater pillars supporting the bridge.

Traffic on the bridge was suspended early Tuesday morning, then again mid-afternoon, before resuming shortly before 6 p.m. local time. Although the scale of the damage was not immediately clear, Tuesday’s attack is the latest example of the SBU’s attempts to blindside Moscow and demonstrate that there are costs to continuing its war.

Updated 11:07 AM EDT, Tue June 3, 2025 - CNN -

Trump privately complains about Amy Coney Barrett and other Supreme Court justices he nominated

President Donald Trump has privately complained that the Supreme Court justices he appointed have not sufficiently stood behind his agenda, according to multiple sources familiar with the conversations. But he has directed particular ire at Justice Amy Coney Barrett, his most recent appointee, one of the sources said.

The behind-closed-doors grievances have been wide-ranging, and while many have been about Barrett, Trump has also expressed frustration about Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, the sources familiar with the matter said. The complaints have gone on for at least a year, the sources said.

The president’s anger, sources said, has been fueled by allies on the right, who have told Trump privately that Barrett is “weak” and that her rulings have not been in line with how she presented herself in an interview before Trump nominated her to the bench in 2020...

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Published 9:00 AM EDT, Tue June 3, 2025 - CNN -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Pimicikamak chief frustrated with residents refusing to flee wildfire, says arrests should be made

'We'll be rounding those people up with RCMP and security and safety officers': David Monias

Pimicikamak Cree Nation leaders are still working to get the final few community members to safety as emergency crews fight an out-of-control wildfire, and Chief David Monias is exasperated with residents who've refused to leave.

"We had to really get people out now, because it's really hard to focus on the strategies for fighting this fire when you have to worry about lives, that the people that are still here," he said Tuesday morning.

"They want to bunker down and think that they can survive it, but if those fire embers come in … they don't understand the dynamics of what the fire does and how it behaves. They feel like they're saving their homes."

There are two fires, one on either side of the community, about 520 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

The fire about 13½ kilometres southwest of Pimicikamak is approximately 3,300 hectares and out of control...

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Posted: Jun 03, 2025 10:11 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

- CBC -

Liberal legislation to further tighten Canada-U.S. border expected today

Canada Border Services Agency will be given new powers to examine goods destined for export

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is expected to introduce a bill today spelling out the federal government's next steps on border security.

The recent throne speech promised legislation to bolster security at Canada's borders and new tools for police and intelligence agencies to help them stop the flow of deadly fentanyl and its precursors.

The government also said the Canada Border Services Agency will be given new powers to examine goods destined for export to prevent the movement of illegal and stolen products, including cars.

The Liberals have worked to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump that Canada is doing enough to stem the southbound flow of drugs and migrants since he blamed fentanyl and irregular migration to justify tariffs on Canadian imports...

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Posted: Jun 03, 2025 7:31 AM EDT | Last Updated: 28 minutes ago

- CBC -

NATURE'S SOUNDS AND MUSIC TO SOOTH THE SOUL:

🌌~Mother Nature’s tree of life the - In Harmony Within~🌌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dP9VmPGDJc

 

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U.S. -‘BRAIN DRAIN' INTO CANADA 'BRAIN GAIN'- June 30, 2025

The U.S. is experiencing a -"brain drain"- as skilled workers, including academics and scientists, leave for Canada, potentially creating a -"brain gain"- for Canada. Factors like Trump administration policies, funding cuts, and concerns over academic freedom are contributing to this exodus, -CNN- reports. This shift, where more American non-citizen residents are moving to Canada, could be a significant opportunity for Canada to attract and retain highly skilled individuals, The Conversation reports.

Skilled migrants are leaving the -U.S. for Canada- how can the north gain from the brain drain?

Published: April 27, 2025 8.19 am

Skilled migrants and international students are leaving the -United States for Canada- in growing numbers. A March 2025 report by Statistics Canada reveals a sharp rise in the numbers of American non-citizen residents moving to Canada. Reasons given are largely restrictive -U.S-. immigration policies, visa caps and long wait times- for green cards.

This is a shift from earlier decades when American-born citizens dominated the trend. By 2019, nearly half of those making the move were U.S. non-citizen residents.

Since -U.S. President Donald Trump’s- election win and early days in office, Google searches by American residents on how to move to -Canada, New Zealand, and Australia- have surged.

• Global competition for talent

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-Canada- at a crossroads: Understanding the shifting sands of immigration attitudes

• A more cautious approach
• Australia visa rules slow things down
• Working in jobs far below qualifications
• Learning from each other: -Canada and Australia-
• Build future-ready migration systems

And More: - theconversation com - skilled migrants

 

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Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! I pray The Great Spirit be with you 🙏 🌅

It's a sunny morning here, but I think the scrotum must have moved to the east for the time being, because now I can see the haze from where those forest fires 🔥 were. Just checked it out:

The most significant wildfire activity is in eastern Canada, Ontario-Manitoba border, at the moment. The Kenora 20 fire is particularly large, covering 35,151.7 hectares and not under control, according to - Ontario ca -

Maybe now that the scrotum-jetstream is moving eastward, maybe that will bring up warmer temperatures from the south, bringing up warm, moist air from the gulf, maybe, we can only pray 🙏 it will = rain. 🌧 According to the weather pattern of my day, that was the way it usually worked; you could almost count on it, the farmers still do. Winter comes in like a screaming banshee with talons of ice that can chill you to your soul. Then came the lamb.

Then we get the benefit and joy of the lamb for a few seasons before the return of a screaming banshee from a hellscape of ice and darkness.

At least with modern-day science, we could predict and prepare. Now the orange dick has taken away much of the essential scientific research, discovery and development in technology. The universities, the teachers of sciences and medical sciences, have been thrown them the shitter. Greed and war walk hand in hand, destruction, and destroying people's lives by their tin god dictators who think they are G-d. Maybe Taiwan has the right idea.

**We, the People**: To serve, protect, defend, and keep order in a world of confusion, despair, and disarray.

That was my opinion only, just for the record, remember, now on to Today's Discussion.

Infinite Potential & Quantum Physics

*Continued:*

- Google Search -

Infinite Potential & Quantum Physics.

It's not as if human potential is a new subject; there is a whole movement built around it. For most people, when it comes to achieving their full potential, they have barely begun to scratch the surface. The potential in you is part of a cosmic potentiality that exists in every particle of the universe. It exists as a field of states of what is possible in the world, and it is as real as gravity.

• Don’t Let Your Language Wash Your Brain:
• The Cosmic Nature of Your Inner Images:
• Quantum Physics as a Kind of Spirituality?:

However, we should have the courage for an enlightened and liberated science that does more than serve stockholder equity. We must make an effort to understand the nature of all levels of physical reality: the empirical and nonempirical, the material and spiritual.

(Excerpt from the introduction of Lothar Schäfer’s book “Infinite Potential: What Quantum Physics Reveals About How We Should Live”)

Lothar Schäfer

*My Footnote:*

We could easily use one term or the other, and both serve as placeholders to represent the same entity. Science = Quanta. Religion = G-d. No offence intended to any religion, we all worship the same G-d, Quata, Great Spirit, Higher Power, etc. I use the ancient texts as road maps to find which roads lead me to the Quanta.

BREAKING NEWS:

Boulder attack suspect used a flamethrower in antisemitic attack

Here's What we Know

• Colorado attack:

A man used a flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to set people on fire Sunday at a Jewish community event in Boulder, Colorado, held in support of hostages in Gaza. He injured at least eight people ranging in age from 52 to 88 before being detained.

• Suspect identified:

• Suspect’s history:

• Community outcry:

The Jewish community is "very on edge" Democratic lawmaker says after Boulder attack

Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, the most senior Jewish member of the House, said that the Boulder, Colorado flamethrower attack was clearly antisemitic.

“Well, it was obviously an antisemitic attack and a latest in a series of antisemitic attacks,” Nadler told CNN. He went on to list the recent shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC and the arson of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home.

Nadler added that he would like to see an increase in funding for the protection of religious institutions so people can feel more safe.

“The Jewish community is very on edge and we want the federal government to do more and we’d like to see an increase in the budget for the protection, for the protection of provisions of the law because when someone talks about Israel and attacks Jewish institutions, Jewish people, that’s clearly antisemitism,” Nadler said.

Updated 9:45 AM EDT, Mon June 2, 2025 - 27 min ago:

- CNN -

No hire, no fire: The worst job market for grads in years

The Class of 2025 faces a daunting assignment: getting hired in today’s no-hire, no-fire jobs market.

Overall, the US job market remains resilient. The national unemployment rate stands at just 4.2% and the economy has added jobs 52 months in a row – the second longest streak of uninterrupted job growth in US history.

Yet there are some cautionary signs beneath the hood.

Business decision-making has been paralyzed by the chaotic trade war. Entry-level hiring is down. And some leaders of the artificial intelligence industry say that the fast-moving technology could wipe out white-collar jobs, if it’s not already starting to do that.

• Small businesses struggle under Trump’s tariff whiplash: ‘I’m so angry that my own government has done this to me’
• Big brands are pulling back on Pride merchandise and events this year

Updated 9:56 AM EDT, Mon June 2, 2025

- CNN -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Premiers seem cautiously optimistic as they prepare to pitch major projects to Carney

PM wants provinces to compete for federal approval of 'nation-building projects'

There was cautious optimism in the air as provincial and territorial premiers began arriving in Saskatoon to meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The first ministers are meeting on Monday, and Carney has said he wants to hear provincial ideas for "nation-building projects." The premiers and other stakeholders joined Carney for a reception on Sunday night, and the tone ahead of the event seemed fairly optimistic.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith — who has been pushing for Ottawa to meet a number of her government's conditions to move projects forward — met with Carney during the Sunday night event.

"I'm looking forward to finding some common ground. We had a couple nice texts and a couple of nice phone calls, and I think that there's a spirit of collaboration," Smith said on her way into the reception.

... Read More:

Posted: Jun 02, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

- CBC -

That's about it for the latest local and national news for now. Thank you for reading the *NEWS*.

NATURE'S SOUNDS AND MUSIC TO SOOTH THE SOUL:

🌌~Mother Nature’S Song – Harmony Of The Soul With Nature~🌌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLFCaPR2LbE

 

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BREAKING

Another Trump Sh-t 💩 Show

A Dark Age for NASA Science?

Proposed NASA cuts to space science: "Staggering"

- SpaceNews.com - reported on Friday:

Proposed NASA cuts would mean a 47% loss to the planetary science budget in 2026. The Planetary Society - under the leadership of CEO Bill Nye - called these possible cuts a "staggering" loss. "If this proposed budget is enacted,"

"NASA released more information about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, outlining new investments in exploration at the expense of canceling dozens of science missions and cutting thousands of jobs.

"The documents provide greater detail about the top-level budget proposal from what the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) disclosed in its "skinny" budget released four weeks earlier. NASA published the budget documents on its website late on a Friday with no fanfare and without the traditional budget briefing by agency leadership.

"That top-level budget of $18.8 billion would be a cut of about a quarter from the nearly $24.9 billion it received in fiscal year 2025. That is the sharpest year-over-year cut proposed for NASA and would bring the agency's [overall] budget down to levels last seen in 1961 when corrected for inflation.

"With the budget cuts will come jobs cuts at NASA. A table in the budget document notes that NASA has 17,391 direct-funded civil servants in fiscal year 2025, but that would drop to 11,853 under the fiscal year 2026 proposal, a cut of 1/3." Read about NASA budget and job cuts.

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8:17 am Sunday June 1. 2025, By: - EarthSkyNews -

"WHY DOESN'T A SPACE ALIEN DISAPPEAR THAT SON OF A

B--CH!"

WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THIS UGLY ORANGE PUS BAG TO THROW MORE AMERICAN DREAMS DOWN THE SHITTER? DON'T ANYONE IN THE U.S. HAVE ANY BACKBONE OR GUTS LEFT? WHAT LIBERTY AND FREEDOM? HE'S THE NEW JACK THE RIPPER. HE WOULD HAVE NO COMPULSION TO STAB LADY LIBERTY IN THE BACK! JUST WHAT THE "F" IS WRONG WITH THAT TERMITE-INFESTED STUMP THIS FAT SLOB JABBA THE HUTT HAS FOR A HEAD?

Why doesn't Canada start their own space program? We already make a good portion of the paraphernalia that NASA sends up into orbit anyway. The UK has a rocket capable of reaching orbit. Maybe Jeff Basos, of Blue Origin, would be interested—just some thoughts for the thought mill for anyone who might be interested.