When an AI agent makes a costly mistake, most enterprise contracts leave the customer holding the risk. Vendors are building agents that act on their own, while their terms make customers responsible for checking outputs and limit what vendors owe when things go wrong. Before an agent touches financial systems or customer records, settle accountability, […]
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Today’s PHP Vulnerabilities Are a Hosting Question
When a critical server vulnerability is disclosed, how fast a website gets patched depends on who has been given that job. The PHP flaws disclosed in October 2026 let attackers run code on a server without logging in. A web application firewall can buy time, but it can be bypassed, so someone still has to […]
Canada Has a Plan to Plug EVs Into the Grid. Here’s What Your EV Can Power Today.
Vehicle-grid integration lets an electric vehicle’s battery power devices, a home or the electricity grid, but in Canada only the simplest form is broadly available today. Vehicle-to-load, offered on models like the Kia EV9 and Ford F-150 Lightning, needs no installation. Vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-grid depend on approved equipment and utility rules that vary by province, […]
Uber and Lyft Can Fix Event Pickups. Toronto Should Make Them.
Getting home after a Toronto concert is a dispatch problem, not a parking problem. One rider matched to one specific car works on an ordinary street and falls apart when several thousand people are on the same block, so drivers circle, riders wander, and trips get cancelled while every stuck car takes up road space. […]
Can Propane Power Canada’s AI Data Centres?
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 […]
