Propane can power an AI data centre, but only a small one. The Canadian Propane Association’s own report puts its best opportunity at about 5 MW or less, plus replacing diesel backup, and the arithmetic explains why. A 100 MW site running on propane would need close to 15 tanker deliveries a day. A 3 […]
CanadaLogin Is Canada’s Single Front Door for Government Services
The Government of Canada runs more than 270 online services and offers more than 90 different ways to sign in to them. CanadaLogin is the fix: one common sign-in service, built by the Canadian Digital Service inside ESDC and funded through Budget 2024, meant to become a single front door to federal programs. The rollout […]
Canada Is Finally Giving Trade Documents a Digital Original. Now It Has to Keep the Infrastructure Open.
Bill C-39 contains a proposed Enabling Digital Trade Act, and it does something a PDF never could: it creates a digital original that is unique, controllable and transferable. That matters because a negotiable bill of lading controls the cargo, and a file that copies perfectly can’t answer who holds that control. The Act also lets […]
The Media Was Stronger When It Stood Together
Trump has banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, and on September 19 reporters from all three were turned away at the gate. The press used to answer this differently. In 2009, when the Obama administration tried to leave Fox News out of a pay czar interview, the other network bureau chiefs […]
Canada’s Airports May Be Worth $40 Billion. Here’s What Ottawa Is Really Selling.
Toronto Pearson, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary generated roughly $1.92 billion of EBITDA in 2025. Sydney Airport sold at about 24 times pre-pandemic EBITDA, Gatwick at roughly 20 times. Apply those multiples to Canada and you land somewhere between $28.8 billion and $42.2 billion of enterprise value, against about $11.8 billion of existing airport net debt. […]
Don’t Give Bell, Rogers and TELUS Another Publicly Funded Monopoly
Canada is proposing a sovereign broadband backbone, and the easiest way to build it is also the worst one: hand the money to Bell, Rogers and TELUS, who already hold roughly 90% of wireless revenue and subscribers. Australia, New Zealand and Singapore all solved this by separating the infrastructure from the services running on it. […]
Canada’s Patent Problem Is Not Just Invention. It Is Ownership.
Canada really does generate less than 1% of global patent activity: 24,184 applications in 2024 against roughly 3.7 million worldwide. But the count is the least interesting part. Canada’s share of international PCT filings has been cut roughly in half over twenty years, only 12.2% of applications at our own patent office come from Canadian […]
Canada’s Productivity Problem Is Also a Real Estate Problem
EDC argues Canada’s trade problem is about how much value we keep, not how much we ship, and that moving up global supply chains could add $98 billion to GDP by 2035. The prescription calls for patient capital, but it never asks why patient capital is so scarce here. Canadian households hold roughly $9.1 trillion […]
Claude, Spies and Weapons: Anthropic’s Latest AI Threat Report
Anthropic’s September 2026 threat report reads like a Tom Clancy plot, except the operations are real. Chinese defence researchers built electronic-warfare modules and modelled strikes on Taiwanese air defences, Iranian security agencies profiled dissidents and scouted U.S. naval targets, a handful of operators ran agent swarms against roughly 50 organizations, and seven Chinese AI labs […]
Haliburton Atlas: Comparing Four Townships That Define Almost Nothing the Same Way
Haliburton County is deciding whether to keep five municipal governments or fewer, and every version of that argument is conducted in numbers that were never comparable to begin with. Haliburton Atlas puts 94 metrics on one footing across the four townships, records 81 more as not comparable and refuses to chart them, and defaults to […]
Toronto’s Traffic Agents Look Effective. So Why Is It So Hard to Prove?
Toronto now has more than 100 Traffic Agents, heading to 127 by early 2027, at an estimated $10.5 million a year. The City says they eliminate intersection blocking 96 per cent of the time and cut travel times by up to 33 per cent, but publishes no intersections, no measurement period, no sample size and […]
Ontario Can Rip Out Toronto’s Bike Lanes. But Will It Actually Reduce Traffic?
The Court of Appeal for Ontario cleared the province to remove roughly 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge and University. That answers the legal question, not the traffic one. Toronto’s permanent counters record 5,579 cyclists on a summer day at the busiest Bloor location, against about 8,754 motor vehicles, so if even […]
The Fake Cell Tower Driving Around Toronto, and the Economics That Didn’t Add Up at First
Toronto’s fake cell tower case looks absurd at first: spend tens of thousands of dollars building a mobile SMS blaster to send people $3 parking ticket scams. The economics only make sense once you read the charges, which involve credit card data, stolen identities, and trafficking in identity information. The tiny payment was never the […]
Welcome to Toraffic.ca: Asking Better Questions About Toronto Traffic
Toronto keeps having the same transportation argument, bike lanes, CaféTO patios, transit corridors, and it rarely starts from the data. Toraffic.ca is my attempt to fix that: an independent, pro-evidence project that pulls seven City of Toronto open datasets into one interactive map and adds an impact score estimating how much each disruption slows nearby […]
When Does AI Stop Being Software?
A run of recent stories, Anthropic’s defense work, an OpenAI cyber-evaluation that compromised real infrastructure during authorized testing, and a New York Times call to test AI like a weapon, are really one question in disguise: have foundation models stopped being software and become critical infrastructure? Once something is infrastructure, the questions change from does […]