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Coca-Cola is ringing in the holidays with AI-generated ads. Here’s why they’re sparking backlash — again

Coca-Cola's 2025 holiday campaign is giving viewers a sense of déjà vu — and it's not because of the nostalgia. Last year, the beverage giant's AI-generated Christmas ads sparked online backlash. Santa's "swollen, rubbery hand, clutching a Coke bottle," was just one of the haunting images the AI models generated. Critics noted details such as scale and proportion issues, including bystanders that were too large to fit through the Coca-Cola trucks' doors, uncanny human faces, and wheels that drifted down the road without spinning. Read More
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Amy Hamm: Avi Lewis is no everyman. He looks more like Jagmeet Singh every day

“Confession: I get shredded cheese,” said Avi Lewis, feigning sheepishness, to a Zoom audience of approximately 500 people on Wednesday. The event, titled “Emergency Austerity Budget Town Hall,” held in response to the Liberal government’s newly-released 2025 budget, was half NDP buzzword salad, half leadership campaign. Read More
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Liat Schwartz: It was unreal as anti-Israel protesters attacked our off campus event

Nov. 5 is a day Jewish students at Toronto Metropolitan University will never forget. What should have been a peaceful evening of dialogue became a night of fear, violence, and betrayal. For many of us, it was the night our trust, in our peers, in our university, and in the idea of equal rights on campus, was shattered. Read More
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Forgotten sacrifice: Afghanistan veterans say awarding Victoria Cross ‘would be for all of us’

Remembrance Day has been commemorated in Canada since Parliament passed legislation in 1931 to change the name of Armistice Day and establish Nov. 11 as the date to mark the occasion. Today, the government describes Remembrance Day as “the most unforgettable day” and suggests veterans are “passing the torch” to the Canadian population “so the memory of their sacrifices will continue.” Read More
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Michel Maisonneuve: We must follow the brave example of the warriors who came before us

Here I was, sitting in the rear gun turret of our Mitchell B-25 fighter-bomber, with all my senses on guard and my head on a swivel. The day was clear, the sky could not be bluer, and the danger of enemy fighters coming at us with the sun at their back was almost a certainty. Luckily, we had just finished our bombing run and were on our way back to base. Our experienced pilot, Major David Rohrer, co-pilot Liam Pearson and flight engineer Jessica Side had managed to get us to the target unscathed, and we now only had to cross the water to make it home. Read More
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