OpenAI did not respect Canadian privacy laws in developing ChatGPT, probe finds

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: For years I had a big crush on my older sister’s hot-looking best friend who was often over at our house. My sister found out about my crush and told me, “I’ll kill you, if you go after my friend!” I was crushed at the time, and kept my distance, although I still had erotic dreams about that girl a lot.

This fall my sister is going to university out of province, and her friend is still here in Winnipeg, going to the same college as I am. I ran into her recently at a mall. She looked me up and down and said, “Wow!” Was she teasing me like a little boy or was she actually flirting with me now my sister’s out of the way?

More importantly, do I need my sister’s permission to ask out this friend of hers now she lives in Ontario? Please help!

— Still Awkward, But Interested, North Kildonan

With a record of five failures and six partial successes in his Starship program, the 12th launch, on May 22, of Elon Musk’s rocket was critical to the success of the whole SpaceX enterprise. Doubts were growing, and the initial public offering was only weeks away.

The IPO, due on June 12, is expected to raise up to $80 billion for the company. Its only currently profitable sector is its telecommunications business, Starlink, but SpaceX’s long-haul potential is a near-monopoly on launches and other space services for American and other players in the burgeoning space business.

Musk does push hard at the boundaries of possibility, however, and with Starship he made two promises that are hard to keep: fully reusable spaceships that deliver 100 tonnes of payload to low earth orbit (LEO). The ‘reusable’ part of the promise is almost done; the ‘heavy lift’ part not so much, because that brings him up against the ‘rocket equation’.

That’s Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s classic rocket equation of 1903, which states that around 90 per cent of a rocket’s launch weight has to be fuel if you want to put it into Earth orbit. It has not yet been successfully challenged, which is why so many of Starship’s launches failed — and none has yet reached orbit.

BRANDON — A western Manitoba potash producer could generate as much as $450 million in annual sales if it expands operations over the next five years under an ambitious mining plan touted by the provincial government.

The Potash Agri Development Corp. of Manitoba (PADCOM) expansion plays a vital role in the province’s move to increase its critical mineral output, company president Daymon Guillas said this week.

“PADCOM, without a doubt, can double, triple, quadruple our production in the next five years.”

PADCOM, Manitoba’s first and only potash mine, located near Harrowby in the Municipality of Russell-Binscarth, produces about 250,000 tonnes annually, with its product sold in Canada and shipped through the Port of Churchill.