Where's the Actual Facts, British Columbia?
The Carney government says it wants to modernize privacy law by tightening rules around data use, surveillance, and pricing practices. That sounds reassuring—until you remember governments and corporations tend to discover privacy right after they’ve already been mining it.
Across Canada, 'essential services' are deciding they're not so essential after all, leaving us to ponder who will collect our garbage or care for our elders. It's a tragicomedy where everyone loses, except perhaps the mediators.
Who knew playing Pokemon Go from a company in a country that wants to annex you as the 51st state could smell like treason? The new scans linking Niantic to Vantor military drone navigation raise bizarre geopolitical questions.
Because when life gives you maple syrup, you find a way to make it weird.
You weren't playing a game. You were participating in a 10-year-long, global, crowdsourced intelligence gathering operation.
What could possibly go wrong? Only the complete and total atrophy of a generation's ability to write a cover letter without prompting a machine first.
An AI doesn't need to win a seat in Burnaby or Kelowna. It doesn't care about a corporate lobbyist buying it a nice dinner in Victoria. It doesn't get nervous when wealthy NIMBYs show up to a council meeting to complain that a subsidized apartment building will ruin the "character of the neighborhood."
Blaming the Silicon for the Sins of the Carbon. How C-Suites and Complacent Settlers Are Using the AI "Existential Threat" to Hide Their Own Masterclass in Resource Incompetence*
The pendulum has swung back to "stability," but "stability" in Canada has always just been a fancy word for an expensive rug under which we sweep our historical debts. Enjoy mowing the lawn this weekend; you're paying for it twice.