AI coding agents build faster, and they ship bugs at the same speed. The code isn’t the problem. Testing habits built for a slower pace are. Four things help: write the acceptance criteria before any code exists so the agent can’t grade its own homework, back the demo video with a Playwright run that checks […]
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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 […]
Dear Algorithm, the new approach to recommendations
For twenty years, recommendation systems have worked by watching what you do and inferring what you like. The Netflix Prize proved how hard that gets: a polarizing film like Napoleon Dynamite broke the math because viewers with nearly identical taste reacted in opposite ways. Now the platforms are trying something simpler. Spotify’s Taste Profile, YouTube’s […]
The AI Skills Shortage Is in Implementation
The AI shortage that matters is not models or AI engineers. It is people who can sit with a team, understand how the work actually gets done, and turn that into something reliable staff will use every day. The frontier labs already hire for this and call it Forward Deployed Engineering. A federation like YMCA […]
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 […]
Move fast and break things, Facebook to Meta
Meta spent 2026 trying to become an AI-native company, and its own internal numbers tell the story. Software changes up 220 percent year over year. Changes that actually reached users up 36 percent. Major technical and security incidents up 40 percent. Employee time spent cleaning them up, up as much as 70 percent. None of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Apple Photos approach to building evidence of reality
Detecting AI-generated images is an arms race the detectors keep losing. Apple Reference Image takes the opposite approach: the iPhone’s camera sensor cryptographically signs what it captures, Private Cloud Compute carries that evidence through computational photography, and the finished JPEG arrives with a chain of custody back to physical hardware. It does this without embedding […]
Microsoft Doesn’t Want AI to Become Data
Microsoft’s draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct makes one claim that matters more than all the safety language around it: AI should remain a tool rather than becoming a new category of entity. Star Trek spent seven seasons asking what we owe a machine that starts to look like a person. Microsoft is arguing we […]
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 […]
When the SaaS User Is an Agent, What Replaces the Seat?
The SaaS seat worked because headcount was a reasonable proxy for how much software a company used, and one more user cost the vendor almost nothing. AI agents break both halves of that. An agent might live for 30 seconds or run continuously, and every run costs the vendor real money in inference, retrieval and […]
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 […]
