Luke Edwards

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Community journalist. Editor for Niagara Farms newspaper, contributor to Simcoe Advocate and Fort Erie Radio. Fan of baseball, history, and learning new things.

US equity futures slip over artificial intelligence capital expenditures Major stock index futures fell as market participants reacted negatively to the latest round of corporate earnings from tech heavyweights. Disappointment stemmed primarily from high artificial intelligence spending projections, which weighed heavily on free cash flow metrics and sparked broader concerns regarding the monetization timeline of AI technologies.
Screenshot showing the United States as the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2024.
Vince McMahon meme about Scherzer, Cease and Kirk all returning from injury soon
A poll asking How Are Things Going In The US Economy: Negative: 68% (+8) Positive: 32% (-7)
It would cost $8 billion for Cuba to generate around 93% of its electricity from renewables, meaning it would no longer need to import oil and gas for electricity, according to an April analysis by Cashman. A 100% renewable electricity system would cost $19 billion. “The first threshold breaks the main external lever of US coercion; the second completes the electricity transition,” the report concluded.
"We may be on the cusp of a sentiment shift as people are starting to realise that the US messaging may not represent reality," said Helima Croft, head of global commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets.
Screenshot that shows the Blue Jays fifth in MLB in xWOBA
Screenshot from Tangle newsletter on Iran war: “I read the news Saturday morning, thought ‘Oh, so that happened, and have kept forgetting about it since. It's about as relevant to my life as, say, a celebrity death," one respondent said.
Screenshot of a quote from Doug Ford: “But it’s tit for tat. You’re going to increase tariffs on us? I can tell you one thing, a tariff on Canada is a tax on Americans. They know it. They’re feeling the crunch down there. They have the uncertainty down there, especially in Michigan. They want to tariff us, I say we tariff them back,” he said.
Screenshots of back to back BlueSky posts: First: Daly: We have more work to do to get inflation down, but don't want to get behind, or over our skis... Second: Trump: "We inherited a mess with high prices and high inflation and we're turned it around and made it great. It's all a con job. Airfares, hotels, car payments, rent, sports events, groceries -- everything is down. Everything is down. Dairy. Eggs. Potatoes and CHICKEN!"
Screenshot of CBC story about Mark Carney's Davos speech: "But then it is necessary to ask whether Carney's remarks in Davos were needless, pointless, unjustifiably provocative or insulting — whether it was simply or primarily about scoring "cheap political points." One might also ask how much of the speech — or specifically which parts — the American administration would disagree with."
Screenshot from the story that says: Fico took to X on Wednesday, saying: “I must emphatically reject the lies of the POLITICO portal about how I assessed my meeting with US President D. Trump at an informal summit in Brussels. No one heard anything, no one saw anything, there are no witnesses, but nothing prevented the POLITICO portal from coming up with lies.”
A photo of haggis pie, beans, and scotch
Photo of a newspaper headline saying: “Israeli strikes kill six amid ceasefire”
And old Monty Python poster that says: "And now for something completely different."
Quote from US President Donald Trump referring to Venezuelan Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez: "'We'll do whatever you need,'" Trump quoted Rodriguez as saying. "She really doesn't have a choice."
Santa giving out candy canes to Norfolk County councillors
Two button decision meme where the options are “do war crimes” and “don’t do war crimes”
Trump’s first year back in office has produced just one major piece of legislation, a massive package of tax cuts and energy deregulation — the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” as Trump dubbed it — which Republicans passed using a budgetary maneuver that circumvented the filibuster and allowed for passage with just 51 votes. He has not outlined a major legislative agenda for the rest of his term, governing largely by executive orders.
Gameday screenshot showing a called strike to Miles Straw well out of the strikezone
Drake meme that says “Being terrified of the potential power of AI” and “Being terrified of the utter stupidity of AI”
Screenshot of a conversation with Adobe's AI assistant after it asked how it could help. Human: "You can't. I don't want to use AI assistant, and I don't want prompts to use it every time I open a PDF." AI response: "The document does not provide any information about disabling AI assistant prompts in a PDF viewer or Adobe Acrobat. For assistance with this issue, you may need to consult Adobe's official support or settings documentation"
Screenshot of a Twitter reply saying: "Our President needs to his own personal security team to be around him. There’s Marines stationed at the WH so it makes sense to have a Special Forces unit as his security."
Chart showing odds of who will win MLB's AL Central division. Cleveland's chances of winning has skyrocketed, but Detroit's has plummeted.
Consumption of aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame k, erythritol, sorbitol, and xylitol was associated with a faster decline in global cognition, particularly in memory and verbal fluency domains. Consumption of combined LNCSs in the highest tertiles was associated with a faster decline in verbal fluency and global cognition in participants without diabetes and faster decline in memory and global cognition in participants with diabetes.
"As we see every day in the east of Ukraine, the threat of naked aggression and wonton violence in the Euro Atlantic region — it's no longer theoretical, no longer just a remote possibility," Robertson said.
Earlier this year, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) told Leighton Walters, an Australian-Canadian dual citizen who owns the Found Coffee chain located in Toronto and Guelph, that the batch of Vegemite he'd imported to sell at his stores was non-compliant with Health Canada regulations.
While on stage Monday, Trump's energy secretary Chris Wright called himself a "climate realist." "The Trump administration will treat climate change for what it is, a global physical phenomenon that is a side effect of building the modern world," he said. "Everything in life involves trade-offs. Everything."
Farmers have been through Trump’s trade wars before in 2018 and 2019, when he imposed tariffs on China, which retaliated with its own tariffs on U.S. farm products, sending sales tumbling. In response, Trump set up a payment program during his first term to compensate some of the affected farmers. The amount of payments doled out was about equivalent to the revenue the United States collected from the tariffs on Chinese imports.
A Donald Trump post on his dumb social media network from August 2024 that whines about stock markets crashing, poor jobs numbers, imminent global war and incompetent political leadership.
Screenshot from CNBC story that reads: "Brown-Forman has been reeling from a slowdown in demand so far this year, led by the U.S., Canada and Europe, which offset benefits from stronger sales in emerging markets such as Mexico and Poland."
Screenshot of a flyer showing strawberries on sale, with the country of origin being either Mexico or the United States.
Show poster for Servant of the People showing Zelenskyy in a suit
"I'm not even blaming the other countries that did this. I blame our leadership for allowing this to happen, who can blame them if they made these great deals with the United States, took advantage of the United States on manufacturing, on just about everything, every aspect."
Screenshot showing an American debt to GDP ratio of 112% compared to Canada’s of 50%
Screenshot from CBC story of a quote from Bonnie Crombie: "You don't get the plight of real people because you were raised privileged, with a silver spoon in your mouth," Crombie said. "You didn't have to work for anything. You had a company handed to you, Doug, so you don't understand how expensive things are today. I bet you couldn't tell me what the cost of eggs are."