Major AI companies are now consulting religious and spiritual leaders to help shape AI ethics and governance through initiatives like the Faith-AI Covenant. The shift signals a recognition the industry has avoided for years: intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom, no model is truly neutral, and once AI starts shaping human judgment at […]
Industrializing AI: Canada’s Next Challenge After Research Leadership
Canada helped invent modern AI but is now at risk of losing the next phase. The global AI race is shifting from research breakthroughs to industrial competition: who can deploy, scale, integrate, and operate AI most effectively across an economy. China is well positioned for this transition. The U.S. is racing to build service layers […]
When AI Enters Legal Workflows: The Emerging Crisis Around Attorney-Client Privilege
Attorney-client privilege was built for a human fiduciary relationship and does not extend to consumer AI platforms. In United States v. Heppner, a court treated AI conversations as third-party disclosures, not protected communications. Millions of people are now sharing legal exposure with AI systems that have no fiduciary duty, no confidentiality obligation, and terms of […]
AI, Havel, and ‘AI for All’: Taking Back Some Control
Václav Havel argued that systems persist because people participate in them, often without realizing it. Applied to AI, we are quietly adopting tools we do not control, accepting outputs we cannot explain, and wrapping governance around black boxes. “AI for All” only matters if it means participation, not just access. Canada’s real opportunity isn’t to […]
AI Is the New Geopolitical Battleground, and We’re Already in It
AI has become a geopolitical narrative battleground, with dark-money campaigns paying influencers thousands per video to shape public perception of a US-China AI Cold War. The deeper problem isn’t foreign influence in any single model. It’s opacity across every AI system, and the fact that compute access, not rhetoric, is the real power layer. Countries […]
Zeever.ca: A Low-Budget Experiment in Sovereign Canadian AI
Canada has committed billions to sovereign AI, but what happens when you actually try to build something? Zeever.ca repurposes a desktop GPU, an existing VPS, and open models to answer real municipal questions using Canadian data.
IP Law gone wrong…
Matthew Ingram has a great article about the US Government trying to get control over a trademark controlled by a bike gang. Matthew compares it to the Al Capone situation with regards to tax evation. I think its a great example of IP Law gone wrong. The US Government has put so much effort into […]
Metronauts Launches
The Metronauts.ca site has launched and is accepting registrations for the next TransitCamp. I attended first TransitCamp it and it was great event for discussion various transit related issues. I think this time around the TransitCamp is looking for a more diverse crowd and I think I would just be another internet geek, when they […]
Say No to Paul Ferreria
Just say No to Paul Ferreira and his Automated Dialer. For the past 2 days I’ve been getting recorded phone calls from Paul’s Campaigning telling me to say “No to the McGuinty’s 40,000 pay raise”. I’m pretty sure McGuinty doesn’t deserve a pay increase but with this sort of stupidity I don’t think Paul Ferreira […]
Final Thoughts on TransitCamp
TransitCamp yesterday was a blast, in a lot of ways a bigger event than the superbowl. The organizers did an awesome job of putting it together and everyone was very positive around improving the TTC. The TTC employees that attended were open to ideas, even ideas they were already considering or developing. Adam Giambrone was […]
TransitCamp Starts
TorontoTransitCamp has just started at the GladStone Hotel. Theres about a 100 people involved and we’ve just broken out into sessions. The grid is pretty full already and I’m in a session on debugging the TTC. We’re talking alot of about using software tools to help the TTC track problems and feedback. Details available here: […]
TransitCamp – A Torcamp Event
TorontoTransitcamp is happening this weekend as a TorCamp event to look at the TTC in Toronto. As a new TTC rider and DemoCamp participant I’m excited to see people getting involved. You an pre-register for the event here but select is being handled by a lottery because of the volume of people. The event is […]
A case for diversified investing
This week the federal government announced changes to tax income trusts. Income trusts have been extremely attractive investment solutions over the last few years and alot of people have over invested in them. With this change Canadian income trusts have gone through an major correction this week. If you were diversified in you’re investment you […]