Canada's Éliot Grondin clinches snowboard cross Crystal Globe with silver-medal win in Quebec
Canada's Éliot Grondin won a snowboard cross silver medal at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que., on Saturday to claim the overall World Cup season title.
#snowboard #sports #competition #Quebec #MontSainteAnne #Olympics
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/snowboard/eliot-grondin-snowboard-cross-world-cup-mont-sainte-anne-april-5-1.7502988?cmp=rss
CYA Writing and Illustrating Competitions – Entries Close 13 April!
You don’t need to attend the conference to enter, and submissions are welcome from anywhere in the world.
Illustrators – This Year’s Theme: Friendship Knows No Boundaries
www.cyaconference.com/competition
How this 59-year-old Quebec gymnast trains for an international competition
Milda Graham says gymnastics has been a part of her life for decades. She’ll represent Canada in the International German Gymnastics Festival in Leipzig this spring.
#gymnastics #sports #competition #Quebec #Leipzig #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6706982?cmp=rss
CYA Writing and Illustrating Competition – Entries Close 13 April!
If you love writing or illustrating, this is your chance to get your work in front of industry professionals and take the next step in your creative journey. Open to writers and illustrators of all levels—whether you’re under 18, just starting out, or already published.
You don’t need to attend the conference to enter, and submissions are welcome from anywhere in the world.
Key Dates:
• Entries close: 13 April (midnight AEST)
• Shortlist announced: 30 June
• Winners revealed at CYA Conference: 26 July
What’s on offer?
• Editor feedback sessions (via video conferencing)
• Cash prizes
• Personalised feedback on every entry to help you grow as a writer or illustrator
Illustrators – This Year’s Theme: Friendship Knows No Boundaries
Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your talent. Submit your entry today at www.cyaconference.com/competition.
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. >
#enshitification #monopsonies #twiddling #LockedUsers #LockedSellers #GAFAM #lecture #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination#speech #SurveillanceCapitalism #interoperability #competition #regulation #WorkersPower #BigData #sellers #users #TechnoFeudalism #employment #ratings #Uberisation #queries #JediBlue #profiling #enshitified #internet #abuse #DataBrokers #AntitrustLaw #TechLayoffs #RegulatoryCaptures #TechnologicalAbuse #privacy #value #GiantPileOfShit #TechnicalMechanism #rankings #unions #digitalisation #nursing #speech #lecture #video #coporatocracy #monopoly
This Montrealer was just named the best pizza chef in the world
Originally from Turin in northern Italy, Mirko D’Agata has lived in Montreal for 13 years. He’s been competing in the International Pizza Expo since 2017. This year he won first place in the Neapolitan category.
#food #award #competition #pizza #Montreal #Turin
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6709892?cmp=rss
Northwestern Ontario students aim to impress judges at regional science fair
The 61st annual Northwestern Ontario Regional Science Fair (NWORSF) has kicked off at Confederation College in Thunder Bay. Over one hundred students between grades four to 12 are participating in the fair. Th...
#education #science #competition #NorthwesternOntario #ThunderBay #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/northwestern-ontario-students-aim-to-impress-judges-at-regional-science-fair-1.7500375?cmp=rss
CYA Writing and Illustrating Competition – Entries Close 13 April!
If you love writing or illustrating, this is your chance to get your work in front of industry professionals and take the next step in your creative journey. Open to writers and illustrators of all levels—whether you’re under 18, just starting out, or already published.
You don’t need to attend the conference to enter, and submissions are welcome from anywhere in the world.
Key Dates:
• Entries close: 13 April (midnight AEST)
• Shortlist announced: 30 June
• Winners revealed at CYA Conference: 26 July
What’s on offer?
• Editor feedback sessions (via video conferencing)
• Cash prizes
• Personalised feedback on every entry to help you grow as a writer or illustrator
Illustrators – This Year’s Theme: Friendship Knows No Boundaries
Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your talent. Submit your entry today at www.cyaconference.com/competition.
European ‘Commission fines car manufacturers and association €458 million over end-of-life vehicles recycling cartel’ https://ex.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_881 #law #economics #competition #cars #eu #environment
"Apple has been hit with a fine of €150 million ($162 million) by France's competition watchdog over the implementation of its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy framework.
The Autorité de la concurrence said it's imposing a financial penalty against Apple for abusing its dominant position as a distributor of mobile applications for iOS and iPadOS devices between April 26, 2021 and July 25, 2023.
ATT, introduced by the iPhone maker with iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and tvOS 14.5, is a framework that requires mobile apps to seek users' explicit consent in order to access their device's unique advertising identifier (i.e., the Identifier for Advertisers or IDFA) and track them across apps and websites for purposes targeted advertising.
"Unless you receive permission from the user to enable tracking, the device's advertising identifier value will be all zeros and you may not track them," Apple notes on its website. "While you can display the AppTrackingTransparency prompt whenever you choose, the device's advertising identifier value will only be returned once you present the prompt and the user grants permission."
App developers, besides requesting for permission to track the users, are also required to state the purpose behind why such tracking is necessary in the first place."
https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/apple-fined-150-million-by-french.html
Les 30 et 31 mars, Paris accueille pour la toute première fois le World Butchers Challenge, sorte de coupe du monde de la boucherie et la France ne comptera aucune femme dans son équipe... "La viande est l’aliment le plus chargé symboliquement, c’est un totem viriliste", souligne la journaliste Nora Bouazzouni, journaliste spécialisée dans l’alimentation et autrice de Steaksisme https://www.20minutes.fr/tempo/4144239-20250330-boucheres-plus-plus-nombreuses-parite-boucherie-viande-encore
EU set to fine Apple and Meta amid escalating trade war – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/879636/ #Antitrust #BigTech #BjörnSeibert #Competition #CompetitionRules #digital #DigitalMarketsAct #DonaldTrump #Enforcement #Europe #Markets #MarošŠefčovič #Regulation #tariffs #TeresaRibera #trade #TradeWar #UnitedStates #UrsulaVonDerLeyen
N.L.’s Will Carter performs for country music superstars during American Idol audition
At first, songwriter Will Carter thought it was a scam: an email from someone claiming to be a producer working with the famous, long-running reality show. On The Go host Krissy Holmes sat down with the province’s first-ever American Idol competitor.
#music #television #competition
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6701036?cmp=rss
From #RobertReich @rbreich@instagram.com @imcivicaction@instagram.com @rbreich
#Trump seems to have given up on making #groceries cheaper.
Wasn't that what the entire election was supposedly about?
#FoodIndustry #Food #Economy #TaxCuts #Tariffs #CorporateMergers #Competition #Deportation #Immigrants
#EUGeneralCourt largely upholds the @EU_Commission’s decision against 7 banks concerning a cartel on European government bonds #competition 
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_7052/
'The federal government will ban non-compete clauses for most employees, including hairdressers, construction workers and childcare centre staff, according to changes announced in the budget that could help households boost their income.
The policy, designed to come into effect from 2027, would apply to workers earning less than the high-income threshold, currently $175,000 a year.
More than 3 million workers are covered by such clauses, according to the government.' https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/25/australia-federal-budget-2025-non-compete-clauses-banned-details #auspol #auslaw #IP #employment #competition
The Big Fix – Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar
Denise and Vass us this book to take a look at the regulatory framework that Canada uses to evaluate competition and monopoly powers. While I knew that many companies owned many brands that "competed" with each other, this did bring more of that to the forefront.
https://curtismchale.ca/book/the-big-fix-denise-hearn-and-vass-bednar/
"Where the minds go, the future follows" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Let's talk about how once great nations lose their place in the global R&D background, and as a result, lose their future!
In 2009, I was the opening keynote speaker for the annual PMDA conference on innovation - with a talk on the 'hollowing out of corporate R&D." As noted on their site, "The Product Development and Management Association is a global community of professional members whose skills, expertise and experience power the most recognized and respected innovative companies in the world." The association membership includes key individuals involved in R&D for the 3M's, Duponts, Dow and other industrial powerhouses of the world.
They asked for a hard-hitting message on how the US was losing its position as the pre-eminent R&D 'factory' of the world, and I obliged. I took them on that tour, and wrote the blog post "The Hollowing Out of Corporate R&D." Essentially, I told the story of how the US was losing its dominance as other (mostly Asian) companies took the lead, as open source innovation took on new momentum, and small collaboration was beating 'big collaboration.'
Fast forward - we now have a nation that is turning its back on science, as it shutters entire R&D arms of government, as many begin to reject the essence of science itself, and as immigration and other policies begin to attack the individuals who undertake scientific research. This never ends well. Scientists will always pursue their work in the nations that welcome them, and which create an environment that is conducive to their slow, collaborative research.
History shows what happens when industrial or government policies decimate R&D.
The minds of science develop the future - the discoveries that are made fuel the innovations that are pursued which create the products that evolve. Keep in mind my key mantra for tomorrow: "Companies that do not yet exist will build products not yet conceived using materials not yet invented with methodologies not yet in existence with ideas yet to be imagined." That context provides the factory for the future, the jobs of tomorrow, and the possibilities for companies and nations to thrive. Thrive they won't when science is rejected.
In that context, how is global R&D science changing today compared to the trends I spoke about years ago? The "hollowing out" of traditional corporate R&D has accelerated, creating a more globally distributed innovation landscape where the U.S. maintains strength in software and AI but has lost ground in manufacturing innovation and materials science
And all this has happened before the nation decided to turn its back on science.
What's the future impact? Where the minds move, the future follows!
**#Innovation** **#Research** **#Science** **#Future** **#Global** **#Transformation** **#Competition** **#Knowledge** **#Technology** **#Investment**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-inspiration-the-hollowing-out-of-rd-where-the-minds-go-the-future-follows/
'Limited incentive' for Coles and Woolworths to compete vigorously on price, and margins have risen, ACCC finds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-20/woolworths-coles-accc-supermarkets-inquiry/105077616
