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Cake day: March 28th, 2025

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  • They are called ‘biometric’ because they are ‘metric’ - a mathematical model of the face, not just a photo of the face. They take features of the face and insert them into an algorithm and out pops a number that completely represents the face. That number can be compared to a number for any other face, no matter what the position or orientation of the face, and determine if it is the same face.



  • The devil is in the details. The US is just using the border as a development/testing pool of victims that have essential zero rights to protest or object to whatever is done.

    Once perfected, this will be implemented by all US institutions - driving license, automobile registration, health insurance, and eventually every American will have their facial biometric on file. Get caught on any of the billions of surveillance cameras, instant recognition and identification. Post a photo in any social media platform, the government knows who you are. Critical of government policies? There will be no such thing as anonymity.This is truly ‘big brother’.

    So, go across the border into the US? You are identified for life, and your movements can be traced, even in Canada through any social media post with your picture, by US agents. Even from a crowd scene photo.










  • That is the problem with Canadians - we dismiss clear visionary projects too soon, just because there is ‘something else’ that vested interests want to protect their investment in. The Americans wanted the Seaway, and they did NOT want the Northern route because they would have no control over it. The Avro again and again and again. Canada does only what the Americans can control. I don’t see anyone complaining that the super-port for ocean-going freighters at Thunder Bay spoiled the North. Still as picturesque as ever.