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AI slop, Californians, and bogus 'translators': Vancouver council went off the rails this week

Dan Fumano: After a very weird week at Vancouver city hall, a local labour leader confirmed to Postmedia that her union asked allies from outside of Canada to phone into Vancouver council in an attempt to influence a contentious urban planning decision.

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AI slop and foreign influence arrived at Vancouver City Hall on Wednesday evening in what may have been the city’s strangest council meeting in at least a decade.

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Tuesday’s public hearing was bizarre enough, when several representatives of a local hotel workers’ union were accused of filibustering, which included the use of supposed “translators” — one of whom confessed when pressed by councillors that they did not actually speak the language they purported to be translating.

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But then Wednesday’s late-night meeting blew away the previous evening........

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