In its new federal budget, Canada invests in machine learning and teaching kids to code, but offers no real plan for how to address workplace automation.
The wildfires that tore across western Canada last year and ravaged the town of Fort McMurray in Alberta were exacerbated by dry conditions brought on by climate change. Now, the federal government has committed billions of dollars in new funding to make sure that future climate disasters aren't so completely devastating.
The Liberal government's budget for 2017, tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, earmarks $2 billion in spending to create a Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund. This fund would "support national, provincial and municipal infrastructure required to deal with the effects of a changing climate."

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