Canada’s 2017 Pan-Canadian AI Strategy was a research strategy — and it worked. The next one will be industrial policy. Expect sovereign compute as national infrastructure, harder pressure for Canadian AI champions, governance through standards instead of sweeping regulation, an agent-and-MCP focus rather than chatbots, and Canada positioning itself as the “Trusted AI” country. The […]
AI Governance for Canadian Nonprofits: Choosing the Right Policy Framework Before Trust Becomes the Risk
Canadian nonprofits are adopting AI faster than they are governing it, and the biggest risk is not over-regulation but doing nothing. NTEN and AI4NGO offer the best starting templates for small nonprofits, NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework anchors enterprise-grade governance for federated and national charities, and TechSoup is strongest for education and onboarding. The right […]
AI Capex Is Becoming the New Arms Race
AI capex is starting to dwarf the rest of tech. SpaceX’s IPO disclosures suggest its AI infrastructure spending now exceeds its rocket spending, and the four U.S. hyperscalers are projected to spend roughly $725 billion on capex in 2026 alone. China is deploying tens of billions through industrial policy, the Middle East is funding sovereign […]
AI Leadership Increasingly Depends on Physical Infrastructure Control
AI leadership is shifting from a software contest to an infrastructure contest. SpaceX’s IPO filings describe a vertically integrated AI platform of launches, satellites, Starlink connectivity, compute, and even orbital data centres, a signal that energy, GPUs, connectivity, manufacturing, and distribution are becoming the real competitive moats. For countries like Canada, that means sovereign compute, […]
What Businesses Can Learn from the Government of Canada’s AI Training Push
The Government of Canada is doing something surprisingly smart with AI, and it is not the training itself. It is the mindset. Through the Canada School of Public Service AI Learning Week, the federal workforce is being encouraged to experiment, share real workflow stories, treat governance as part of adoption rather than a blocker, and […]
Ontario’s AI Audit Is a Wake-Up Call for Businesses, and a Huge Opportunity
The Ontario Auditor General’s AI report is not a warning against adoption. It is confirmation that AI has moved past experimentation and into operational infrastructure. The audit surfaces fragmented governance, inconsistent oversight, no clear inventory of where AI is in use, and procurement processes that have not caught up. These are the same issues showing […]
AI Needs More Than Engineers: Why Tech Companies Are Turning to Spiritual Leaders
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 […]
