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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I’m almost 40, and one of my closest friends who was jobless for three years is once again earning decent money again — but she’s still acting like she’s broke!

I don’t care how people spend their money, but she still expects me to pay for her. For instance, if we go out for lunch, she’ll ask if we can do a 75-25 split, with her paying the lower amount. She also comes to potlucks with nothing to share, and then has the nerve to ask to take food home. She will also ask me to cover something and promise to pay me back, but then I have to hound her for weeks to get the money!

But it really took the cake recently when we went to a concert and she asked me to cover her ticket. Then she bought two T-shirts at the merch table! It feels underhanded to me — and insulting to my intelligence. It also feels weird to have to bring it up to her. We’ve been besties since high school —many, many years ago. Please help.

— Taking Advantage, Riverbend

The start of the school year has been delayed for hundreds of students in Winnipeg thanks to mould and moisture-related damage

Two school divisions announced disruptions to their scheduled programming this week owing to building safety.

“It’s not the start of the school year that anybody hopes for,” said Jackie Connell, superintendent of the Louis Riel School Division.

Nordale School is anticipated to be closed for four months as crews clean up “substantial” destruction from a storm on the long weekend, Connell said.

It’s the beginning of the school year and the now-annual conversation every teacher and professor has to have with students about the ethics of using artificial intelligence.

It used to be that computers were a tool primarily used to express an individual’s creativity, critical thought and support their research.

Nowadays, and especially since the invention of the internet, computers come with AI programs that instantly summarize vast amounts of data, create content and images, and even write 10-page essays based on information found on sites from across the world.

This is why AI, whether people like it or not, is basically theft – or the action of using someone else’s ideas and creations without the consent of the original creator.