By Murray Sherriffs
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Quebec Chief Electoral Officer Jean-François Blanchet says that artificial intelligence must be taken seriously because of how it can influence elections, citing disinformation, deepfakes and foreign interference, but says his resources are limited to improve oversight from elected officials.
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Agents from the Office québécois de la langue française will be visiting businesses in the coming months, pretending to be customers, in an effort to catch any of them not adhering to the language law but their bosses say that they aren’t inspectors, just part of the office’s mandate to monitor the evolution of the French language in Quebec and report on it to the province’s minister responsible for the French language, as has been done 2010, 2017 and 2023.
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Montreal real estate agent Mario Conte has been contacted by the Office, asking him about content on his Instagram page, asking why isn’t there more French on the site, while he notes he’s trilingual and serves his clients in the language of their choice in selling commercial and residential properties.
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Both candidates for the leadership of the CAQ, Bernard Drainville and Christine Fréchette, are highlighting gender equality as a key issue as they honour International Women’s Day. Hundreds of people marched yesterday in Downtown Montreal to mark International Women’s Day. Several women can be seen on a video from Quebec Solidaire, denouncing misogyny and sexist hatred on social media.
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A 25-year-old woman is in critical condition, following a road crash involving the SUV in which she was a passenger that drove into the rear of city bus in Montreal North, at the intersection of Henri-Bourassa and Salk Avenue.
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Montreal police say that a 25-year-old man found unconscious early yesterday morning on Ste. Catherine Street east, near Fafard, has died.
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The new hospital in Vaudreuil-Dorion will open in 2028 but the head of Developpement Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Danie Deschenes, says the region has a severe labour shortage and recent change to Quebec’s immigration laws have already seen temporary foreign workers to leave for Ontario; that in the coming years, 10,000 jobs will have to be filled.
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Researchers at Imperial College, London, are developing an artificial intelligence-powered T-shirt that can monitor the heart for days, sending real time information to your care-giver,
It will be able to detect inherited heart rhythm, a disorder that often remains hidden until it’s too late.
The unpredictability of these conditions makes them very dangerous.
Most people who receive an electrocardiogram have to spend a few minutes connected to sensors.
The test captures a snapshot of the heart’s electrical activity and it works well for many common heart issues, but it cannot see inherited rhythm disorders because the abnormalities can be intermittent: a dangerous pattern can surface for a short time then disappear.
If your ECG happens during a calm phase, the results appear normal.
The shirt offers extended monitoring and when doctors review days or weeks of heart rhythm data, they gain context.
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