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Canadian AI sovereignty depends on both the rapid deployment of infrastructure and on using the country’s leadership in safe AI models to allay fears surrounding the technology. That was the message from several industry leaders on Wednesday at All In, Canada’s biggest annual AI conference. Held in Montreal since 2023 as a way to promote Canadian AI, this year’s edition...
The Liberal government is pushing ahead with a social media ban for youth, The Logic has learned. The same legislation is likely to include age restrictions for chatbots.
The government says it has no plans to amend or repeal the Online News Act which has resulted in Meta blocking news in Canada since 2023
Five years ago, when we were all wearing face masks, perpetual CEO Michael Sabia went to Ottawa to serve as deputy to former finance minister Chrystia Freeland. The concerns surrounding his appointment—the ego, the alleged temper, the inability to play nice with others—were mostly for naught; rather, Sabia helped institute some of the more consequential policies of the last decade...
Four years ago, Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault put Big Tech on notice: the days of running roughshod over the country’s democracy were over. Under his leadership, the Facebooks, Googles and Twitters of the world would be compelled to shut off their respective spigots of misinformation, hate and exploitation under threat of “very, very important fines” dispensed by a government...
MONTREAL — There has never been a more opportune time to build a pipeline through Quebec. The province, long the place where pipeline projects have gone to die, has had a whiplash-like attitude adjustment. In February, Quebec Premier François Legault indicated he would likely greenlight the very natural gas project he scuppered in 2021. That same month, a poll indicated...
Mark Carney was at a campaign in Vaughan, Ont., when he casually upended over half a century of received wisdom when it comes to stumping for votes in neighbouring Quebec. “Do we have rights in Canada, or not? A right is a right is a right,” he said in response to a question about his views on language legislation in...
Quebec Premier François Legault would likely support new oil and gas infrastructure in the province that would transform Alberta’s natural gas industry, Pierre Fitzgibbon, the former minister who oversaw the failed 2021 liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the province, has told The Logic.
Quebec Premier François Legault has long blamed immigrants for the housing crunch, the health-care crisis, the proliferation of crime and the alleged collapse of the province’s dominant language, among other societal ailments. So you might forgive him when he found comfort, succour and political opportunity in Donald Trump’s recent threat.
In a country where productivity and prosperity are hot topics, Quebec often takes a beating. Despite decades of major interventions by the province to reverse the trend, it remains stubbornly less productive and less prosperous than neighbouring Ontario and much of the OECD. So now the provincial government has a new plan—and $4.5 billion to spend over the next three...
The framework for a parliamentary investigation into Tenet Media, the Canadian-owned company that was allegedly paid by Russian nationals to produce pro-Russia propaganda, could be in place as early as next Thursday, The Logic has learned.
Three human rights groups say the Liberal government is stonewalling their request for targeted sanctions against four China-based surveillance companies, despite receiving a report documenting how the firms’ technology facilitates torture, sexual abuse and forced labour of China’s Uyghur minority.
Just over two years ago, the Quebec government gave itself more powers to police the language spoken in the halls and flowing through the digital networks of the businesses in the province. That includes the tech sector, source of about five per cent of Quebec’s GDP. The law itself is black and white, allowing the state, among other things, to...
The protesters entrenched on McGill University’s campus have a straightforward demand: cease investing in Israeli companies as well as those that do business in or with Israel, and unload any existing investment as well. Until then, we are staying put.
The good news, EV owners would-be and otherwise, is that you can ignore the haters. While it seems everyone is saying the electric-car project has gone into the ditch, with The Wall Street Journal serving as pessimist–in–chief, the EV revolution continues apace. Consider this: EVs more than tripled their worldwide market share between 2020 and 2022. U.S. sales of EVs...
Though they aren’t named in the legislation, the likes of Google, Meta and Twitter—not to mention Pornhub—loom large in the Online Harms Act, the federal government’s attempt to rein in hate speech and illegal pornography.