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Big Tech has been stripping digital content from websites for decades. The Digital Services Tax was finally supposed to make them pay—until Donald Trump killed it. Now tensions are about to get even worse. AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini are turning into digital malls. And we know what happens to the stores on Main Street when everyone shops at...
If you’ve been on political social media for long, you’ll remember how it used to feel—like a small town: friendly, argumentative, sometimes petty but mostly human. Now it’s more like Dodge City: disinformation, echo chambers, bots, and bile. Longtime users are starting to despair. Is our town dying? Elon Musk thinks AI can clean it up, starting with Twitter. But...
AI Minister Evan Solomon says Canadians need a sovereign cloud to keep us “free from coercion… [one] that someone else can’t turn off.” In other words, it should reduce our reliance on the US so future leaders like Trump can’t use our dependence as leverage. In fact, Solomon’s hybrid model could make us even more dependent, effectively rebuilding the branch-plant...
When smartphones arrived in the mid-2000s, our gaze suddenly dropped into our hands, as the small screen pulled us inward. Now at bus stops, in waiting rooms, even on busy streets, we stare at our phones. The technology changed us — and it may be about to do so again. This time with a device that is controlled bythe silent...
Mark Carney’s sovereignty agenda is finally moving, with five nation-building projects announced last week and more to come soon. He also reminded us of his commitment to build a “sovereign digital cloud” — then failed to explain why it matters. Too bad. It does. The government’s plan to plot a new course for Canada will take us into rough seas...
Mark Carney wants to disentangle Canada’s economy from the United States, and he rightly sees AI as a critical enabler. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s White House is hammering out an AI strategy that reindustrializes America at home, while dominating global AI markets abroad. The goal is to make America an AI superpower. This puts Canada’s ambitions for sovereign AI directly in...
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