In today’s edition of This City: an AI and legal expert on the fight against deepfake pornography. Plus, a couple who moved from Toronto to Italy to renovate a 1700s farmhouse; discrimination, harassment and abuse inside the Toronto Police Service; and more. Visit torontolife.com for all our city coverage. |
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Last week, the federal government introduced new legislation to address explicit deepfake images like the ones that recently targeted Taylor Swift. The story appears to have an unfortunate local connection, with some reports tying one of the most circulated images to a Toronto X user. Julie MacDonell, a trademark lawyer and co-founder of the women-led Toronto AI firm Haloo, breaks down how Swift could sue the images’ creators and why new technologies are putting women and girls at risk. |
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| | When husband-and-wife team Alper Ozdemir and Cynthia Liu retired, they took snowbirding to the next level. They bought a $333,550 farmhouse in Italy—and a fixer-upper to boot. Now, with their renovations nearly complete, they’ve decided to rent out their Toronto home and move to Europe full time. Here’s how they pulled it off. |
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| | Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd always wanted to be a cop, and she loved the job. Even when her fellow officers started harassing her, she said nothing at first. That’s the code—you don’t go public, no matter what. But eventually she had to speak up, and it cost her everything. |
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| | Forestry’s green solution to the housing crisis |
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What to read, watch and listen to this month |
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| | The Cunning Little Vixen is an opera written by Czech composer Leoš Janáček in 1923, and this month, the Canadian Opera Company is staging its own production. Conducted by COC music director Johannes Debus, it’s both the story of a single fox and an allegory for humanity’s increasingly fraught relationship with nature. February 3, 8, 10, 14 and 16; Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts |
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