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Donald Trump has hatched many threats to Canada’s prosperity over the years, both short-term and long. One of the greatest long-term threats, however, is largely of our own device: the threat that when Trump finally leaves, Canada will slump back into its favourite proverbial easy chair at the cottage (as if anyone can afford to buy a cottage nowadays) and relax. Read More

Extraordinary scenes from across the pond: Some on the British left wing are upset that Metropolitan Police officers kicked a knife-wielding man several times in the head in an attempt to disarm him. Read More

Manitoba intends to ban children from using social media and AI chatbots, Premier Wab Kinew announced over the weekend. It’s something you might think was in no way possible for a provincial government to accomplish. Perhaps that’s why British Columbia’s government, also NDP, “paused” a similar effort two years ago in favour of discussions with the companies that run these services. Read More

Did you hear? The federal government is “building the first public AI supercomputer.” It will be “owned and operated in Canada,” thank goodness, and it will “power innovation across every sector … from healthcare to clean energy to startups scaling here at home,” AI Minister-bot Evan Solomon burbled on Wednesday. (“Startups scaling here at home”? Who writes this stuff?) Read More