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Written by Chris Bilton Copy Editor, Digital News
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Good morning. Thousands of World Cup fans are furious and heartbroken following StubHub ticket cancellations. We'll have more on that below, as well as what Canada's AI strategy means for health data and what's behind Gen Z protests in India.
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StubHub cancels thousands of World Cup tickets, leaving fans furious and heartbroken
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Mark Gallagher of West Vancouver paid $11,380 on ticket resale website StubHub months ago for a pair of premium seats to watch Canada play Qatar in a World Cup match in Vancouver last Thursday. But StubHub never delivered the tickets, despite repeated calls to customer service in the weeks, days and hours before game time.
What's happening: "We're witnessing, on a massive scale, one of the biggest collapses in the history of ticketing," said Scott Friedman, a 20-year industry executive in Cleveland and host of the Ticket Talk Network podcast. Friedman put out a call to his followers this week and said he has already gathered more than 400 complaints from StubHub customers who claim they, too, were sold tickets that never arrived and are stuck pleading for refunds. Some observers say the World Cup — which is being played in 16 cities across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico — is focusing public attention on the failures of resellers such as StubHub like never before.
The response: StubHub said in an email that it will look into Gallagher's case in Vancouver and will honour its refund guarantees to fans. The company also reissued a statement first provided to CBC News last week that blamed FIFA's ticketing technology for the problems, but it refused to elaborate. Both Canada's Competition Bureau and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission declined to comment on whether they are investigating.
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The national AI strategy aims to make health data more accessible. How will it protect privacy?
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Connecting health data across the country will help researchers conduct clinical trials, test AI health tools and drive innovation in treatment and diagnosis, says Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon. But the initiative will also have to balance privacy considerations.
What's happening: Ottawa is promising to invest $100 million to make Canadians' health information — including imaging, medication records and vitals — more accessible to researchers as part of its national AI strategy. Experts say this could help to detect outbreaks, identify new treatments and develop new drugs, and possibly even tap into a clinical trial market worth billions of dollars.
Why it matters: They also say there are privacy considerations, which will involve removing identifying information, giving access only to trusted researchers and investing in Canadian-owned platforms and data centres. Concerns typically include worries about who has access to the data, why it's being used and transparency if there is a privacy breach, according to one organization pushing for people-centred health data governance.
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India’s Cockroach Party shows frustrated Gen Zers are hard to crush
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The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a new political movement aimed at Gen Z in India, extended its protest in central New Delhi yesterday to a fourth day, demanding the resignation of the country's education minister.
What's happening: On Sunday, two million students aspiring to get into medical school were forced to rewrite the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) they’d sweated over last month, after it was revealed that test questions had been widely leaked. The education ministry cancelled the results. It’s not the first such controversy, and the Indian government is under pressure to clean up national testing.
Why it matters: India has what’s called a demographic dividend. Youth aged 15-29 make up 27 per cent of the population. At about 371 million people, it's the largest youth demographic in the world. The CJP's 30-year-old founder, Abhijeet Dipke, has turned the lowly cockroach — a satirical mascot for a youth party of the "lazy and unemployed" — into a potent and viral symbol for young Indians, impatient over a lack of well-paying jobs and angry about the education scandals. Images he posted on X and then Instagram went viral, and within days, the CJP had more followers than the Bharatiya Janata Party, India’s ruling party. Within weeks, the CJP boasted 22 million followers on Instagram.
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