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.
Here’s what’s still needed to drive innovation
In 2017, Canada launched the world’s first national artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. The Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy—led by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and funded by the federal government—was created to help establish a robust national AI ecosystem by 2030. The ambitious goal was to accelerate AI research and education, spur the development […]
Liberals on collision course to entrench anti-Blackness
OTTAWA—Do the Liberals choose their cabinet through varying degrees of anti-Blackness, or is that just a bonus they throw in? Given that the Toronto Police Service recently gave an apology for their systemic anti-Black racism, reporters should be asking Bill Blair what his contribution to the cause was. Nevertheless, Blair is not in my crosshairs […]
Canada’s bold AI strategy has been a success—let’s double down
The upcoming federal budget provides an opportunity not only to identify future priorities, but also to reflect on past decisions, strategies, and investments. Although our collective impulse may be to focus on what’s new, the secret to sustaining success is often found in building on what’s already been done—and done right. In 2017, the federal […]
