Week 25 - Meta's 'Creeper Glasses' Stir Privacy Concerns as CBC Ends NHL Era, Canada Celebrates World Cup Win, and Brampton Faces Crime.

Welcome to what was likely the slowest week we’ve had in our three-week span of doing this piece.

Sorry I was busy.

But let’s get to it — FIFA World Cup fever has everyone forgetting that ICE are a bunch of clowns, that Trump is an alleged pedophile, and that AI is coming for our souls. But whatever, allow it for the two weeks that it’s here for since the games have been crazy so far and I’m enjoying my temporary soccer hooliganism until my interest runs out when all the teams I care about get eliminated.

That said, man, I really wish America was a sane place to visit again. I loved my time down there this past week and wish I could go back to not caring who was running their country and go back to enjoying travel down that way without feeling like a traitor.

Sports

A match of epic proportions… or however one might phrase it. It was such a fun match; I am still sitting back watching the highlights.

I am genuinely proud for Brampton and for Canada, and giddy at the prospect of Canada becoming a respectable football nation.

We have hockey. We have basketball. Now, soccer? Cricket also seems inevitable.

Canada’s history-making win becomes the most-watched group stage match ever, reaching 11.7M viewers

Canada Soccer’s Men’s National Team made history on Thursday evening, securing their first-ever FIFA WORLD CUP™ victory, and the win electrified Canadian fans. Attracting a record average audience of 5.3 million viewers on TSN, RDS, CTV, Noovo, and Crave.

Source: ["tsn.ca"]

Nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday.

They must have opted for the authentic ‘Murican’ experience.

Argentina fans ‘shot at’ in drive-by attack before World Cup match

A group of Argentina fans said they were shot at while being driven to their country’s 3-0 World Cup win against Algeria in Kansas City.

Source: ["yahoo.com"]

Tech

New ‘Creeper Glasses’ have dropped.

In a world where everything is content and everyone’s worth is measured by the dopamine they can spike in others, I can kind of see the appeal.

Especially for creeps, just creeping around wearing their ‘creeper glasses’.

I am not trusting anyone wearing these.

Meta’s Very Own Smart Glasses Go on Sale Today for $299

The new Meta-branded glasses have the same camera, microphones, and chatbot as the Ray-Bans. They come in three styles, one of which was codesigned with Kylie Jenner.

Source: ["wired.com"]

Politics

They are not the best-looking.

But I detest these individuals. They are stealing people’s property, seemingly because they were ‘born a few chromosomes short’.

The byproduct of a bad nut.

Shameful, shameful, shameful.

Stolen vehicles linked to organized crime ring found in Brampton raid: police | inBrampton

Three people have been charged after police say they found stolen vehicles with swapped licence plates linked to an “organized crime group,” police say. The investigation into a crime ring linked to stolen vehicles started in December, Peel Regional Police said in a release on Monday. Investigators say the group has been linked to multiple […]

Source: ["insauga.com"]

Culture

It was a good run.

A lot will be said about capitalism, national identity, and all that, but I am curious how the CBC pivots from this.

They still own the brand. Will they feature local smaller tournaments or leagues? Will they pivot and grow CEBL coverage?

CBC to stop airing NHL games after 74 years, marking end of free hockey on Canadian TV

The announcement means Hockey Night in Canada, which began airing in the fall of 1952, will cease to exist in its current form

Source: ["theglobeandmail.com"]