Electric Vehicles

Don’t forget about transit as the EV economy grows

Due to global supply chain and workforce problems, the whole bus-production process is slowing down across North America.
The future of AI governance a balancing act of privacy, ethics, and progress

Rights-based AI governance models can be a catalyst in nudging the ethical adoption of AI across liberal democracies—and act as a counterweight to China’s continued rise as a disruptive power in the digital realm.
Amid TikTok ban, Canadians left ‘to their own devices’ as feds dither on updating privacy rules: Geist

The Liberals’ latest attempt at modernizing the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, Bill C-27, has only made it to its second reading nine months after being introduced.
What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security

If we fail to recognize systems like ChatGPT as the warning shots that they are, we can look forward to a future in which gaping holes in Canada’s policy and security posture are exposed by predictable AI breakthroughs on a regular basis.
It’s time for Canada to adopt quantum-safe cryptography

The encryption schemes we use today to safeguard sensitive data could be made obsolete in a world where future quantum computers reach their full potential.
Canada can’t afford to ‘miss the boat’ on blockchain industry, says Bloc MP Lemire

Comparing the emerging blockchain industry to the advent of the internet in the 1990s, MPs on the House Industry and Technology Committee say the government should avoid partisan attacks on crypto and instead prepare Canada for the economy of the future.
Big money to scale up our most promising, young companies often from the United States

And many of the most promising early-stage companies that go public do so on American, not Canadian, stock exchanges, where they can quickly fall under the control of U.S. private equity.
Twitter may be ailing, but Mastodon is no remedy

Mastodon is fundamentally different from Twitter in that it’s a decentralized platform. And therein lies the problem: Mastodon is a gatekeeper’s paradise.
The tech party is over

For all the time that Elon Musk has been actively online, you’d think he’d remember the golden rule of social media: the internet always wins.