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Hebron Republicans, Democrats endorse their slate of candidates
HEBRON — Hebron Democrats and Republicans have endorsed their chosen candidates to run for municipal offices this fall. The town has a town manager style of government, overseen by a five-member Board of Selectmen. Three of the seats on that board are up for re-election. Democrat Tiffany Thiele has been endorsed to run again, and Jan Lawrence was also nominated by the Democratic Town Committee to run for the seat that is currently held by Democrat Claudia Riley. The Republicans nominated Rob McLaughlin to serve on the board. There are currently three Republicans on the Board: Keith Petit, who is the current chair, Daniel Larson, the current vice chair, and Sean Fitzgerald, who was just appointed in June to succeed Peter Kaspar, who had to resign mid-term due to a relocation out of town. Fitzgerald's term, as is Petit's, runs to November of 2027. McLaughlin is running for Larson's seat. Larson was first elected to the Board of Selectmen in 2009, and served a stint as Board Chair, but has been involved in different town roles for decades. 'I've been serving the town and putting my life on the line since 1980,' said Larson, an electrician who has been in the Hebron Fire Company and is a former fire chief. He's also been a fire maintainer, emergency medical technician, burning official, deputy fire marshal and fish and game warden, to name a few roles. He said he's seen a lot of change, arriving in town when the population was approximately 3,500 people and 'there were more cows than people' and watching the town grow to almost 10,000 residents. 'There comes a point in time when you have to bow out gracefully,' Larson said. 'It's time I take care of myself and my family a little bit. It was a hard decision. I've met a lot of fantastic people. It's just time.' However, he will never stop working to make the town better, even if unofficially, saying that one of his goals is to improve cell service in town. 'Service is markedly worse, with more dead zones and more dropped calls,' Larson said, noting he planned to gain aid from state legislators for this problem. 'There are less land lines to fall back on as everyone switched to cell phones. The cell phone companies need to be making upgrades that benefit everyone. If people can't make emergency calls, that's a problem.' Thiele, a public relations manager and former journalist, was first elected as Selectman in 2021. Democratic Town Committee Chair Chris Lawrence said there was a mix of returning Democrats and new faces among the candidates this year. 'It's a good slate,' she said. For the Town Clerk, incumbent Francesca Villani was cross-endorsed by both the Democratic and the Republican caucuses and will return for another term. For the Board of Finance, Democrats endorsed Ryan Herrick and Adam Ockman, while Republicans selected Brian O'Reilly and Michael Beaulieu. For the Board of Assessment Appeals, Maura Curran Baker was nominated by the Republican caucus. For the Planning and Zoning Commission, the Republican Party selected Chad Livernois, Christopher Cyr and Brenda Nicolo; Democrats picked David Sousa. Cyr currently sits on the commission. For Planning and Zoning Commission alternate, Democrats nominated Davis Howell, an incumbent. For the Zoning Board of Appeals, Adam Thiele is the Democratic candidate, while Jason Guidone, Martin Halloran and Brian Tyler are the Republican nominees. Catherine McSweeney, a Democrat, and June Danaher, a Republican, are the candidates for Zoning Board of Appeals alternate; Danaher is an incumbent. For the local Board of Education seats overseeing Hebron and Gilead Hill Elementary Schools, the Republican candidates are Toni Livernois and Alyson Nadeau-Schmeizl; Nadeau-Schmeizl is the incumbent. The Democrats endorsed Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Nicole Matthews and Heather Petit. Matthews and Petit are current incumbents and Petit is now the board chair. For the regional Board of Education, which oversees RHAM Middle/High School, Hebron residents who were endorsed included Republicans Amy D'Amaddio, who previously served on the Board, including a stint as chair; Rudy Dellafiore Jr. and Jessica Hall. Hebron Democrats Michele May, Brandie O'Reilly and Keith Petit were also nominated for seats on the regional school board. Lawrence, the Democratic Town Committee chair, did note some of the candidates were endorsed as place-holders and may not be on the ballot in November. The Democratic party will host a fundraiser on September 13, staff an informational booth at the town's Harvest Moon Festival in October, and is planning an candidate forum ahead of the elections. The Republican Town Committee meets on the fourth Monday of every month.
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Scott Moe speaks out against AI-generated videos of him circulating online
Premier Scott Moe's face is a frequent sight on social media, but recently his likeness has been reported on dubious video ads for cryptocurrency schemes that he's never endorsed. The videos take Moe's voice and likeness, and use AI to produce a convincing video of him speaking. This is not the first time the premier's image has been used to advance fraudulent businesses. In March, Moe acknowledged similar schemes, which were using his face to sell cryptocurrency. On Aug. 1 Moe spoke out forcefully against the videos, and denied any affiliation with the websites mentioned in them. "I want to put it out there without question that when you see myself and quite likely any politician out there endorsing specific cryptocurrencies or things of that nature, that it likely and most certainly is a deepfake," he said. "You should just bypass it and move along. They're only there to hurt you." The Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan (FCAA) issued a warning as well, advising people to not send money to entities that are not registered in the province. Under the 1988 Securities Act, individuals and companies need to be registered with the FCAA in order to trade or sell securities and other financial products in Saskatchewan. The FCAA has set up a website, to allow people to easily check the status of someone offering an investment. "Do not deal with any unregistered entities," said FCAA Securities Division Executive Director Dean Murrison. "Do not make investment decisions based on public figure endorsements." According to the FCAA, Scammers are creating fraudulent news and social media articles, commonly using deepfakes and other methods to imitate real media sources, including the CBC. LISTEN | What you should know about deepfake ads on social media: Beyond verifying the investment entity, the FCAA encourages people to always seek a second opinion or seek professional advice about investments they see online. They should also never make an investment decision based on an endorsement from a notable figure. A global effort to fight deepfakes The rapid development of artificial intelligence tools has given fraudsters unprecedented new methods to develop fake videos of celebrities and politicians endorsing their products. Countries around the world are grappling with how to stay ahead of these scams. Denmark is considering a law that will allow people to copyright their digital likeness, allowing them to pursue civil cases if their likeness is used without their consent. Some AI observers are skeptical of that solution. Henry Ajder, an expert on deepfakes, says the copyright classification would compel people to proactively go after AI abusers, and not be able to rely on the government to police. "Copyright is treated as a civil right, not necessarily treated as criminal. So violating copyright is not something that the state is necessarily going to prosecute a perpetrator for," he said. "This is something that you would be expected to bring a civil case to." Nelson Godfrey, an intellectual property lawyer based in Vancouver, says its unlikely that Canada would follow the Danish route. "Trying to characterize someone's likeness as copyright is a bit of an odd fit. So to make it work within existing copyright legislation, certainly you'd need to figure out how ownership works, how authorship works, if there would be joint authorship or co-ownership of works," he said. "There's real complications when it comes to those things." Unlike the European Union, Canada does not have AI-specific laws, though it does have digital safety laws and a new Minister for Artificial Intelligence. The Ministry of Justice says it's working on criminalizing nonconsensual sexual deep fakes, which Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to while he was campaigning before the most recent federal election.
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Canadian Armed Forces airdrop aid to Palestinians in Gaza
OTTAWA — Canadian aircraft carried out an airdrop Monday of nearly 10,000 kilograms of aid to Palestinians in Gaza as Prime Minister Mark Carney warned of a deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the region. The Canadian Armed Forces flew a CC-130J Hercules aircraft over the Gaza Strip to conduct the drop, said Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Defence Minister David McGuinty in a statement. Carney, on social media, said the "humanitarian disaster in Gaza is rapidly deteriorating." "Canada is intensifying our efforts with international partners to develop a credible peace plan and will ensure aid moves forward at the necessary scale," he said. Carney posted video earlier in the week of Canadian aid pallets delivered to Gaza via Jordanian military aircraft. Anand said in a separate social media post that she remains in contact with her counterpart in Jordan to ensure Canadian aid reaches Palestinians via air and land. As international alarm mounts, Canada is one of several countries that have airdropped aid over Gaza. Many food parcels dropped by air have splashed into the Mediterranean Sea or landed in so-called red zones. On Monday, video footage of aid being dropped over Zuweida in central Gaza showed a desperate scramble by Palestinians, with hundreds racing toward the parcels on the ground. Fistfights broke out and some men wielded batons. At least one parcel fell on a tent where displaced people had been sheltering, injuring a man who had to be taken to hospital. The United Nations and other groups have said such drops are costly and dangerous and that they deliver far less aid than trucks. Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza in March, arguing that Hamas had been selling vital supplies and food to pay its fighters. UN agencies say this was not happening to any large extent. After two and a half months, Israel allowed Americans to launch the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which set up aid distribution sites. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army fire and American contractors while trying to access those sites. Israel recently loosened some restrictions on food and medicine reaching the Gaza Strip in response to an international outcry over starvation in the Palestinian territory. Global Affairs Canada said in a release Monday that Israel's ongoing aid restrictions were a violation of international law and called for them to end immediately. Last week, Carney cited Israel's aid restrictions and the need to preserve a path to a two-state solution as reasons for declaring that Canada would officially recognize a State of Palestine. Carney said the move was conditional on the Palestinian Authority undertaking serious reforms and holding an election next year for the first time in two decades. — With files from Dylan Robertson in Ottawa and The Associated Press This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 4, 2025. Craig Lord, The Canadian Press
