Alberta’s Electricity Deregulation and Data Centre Gamble
New U.S. evidence demonstrates that data centres raise retail electricity prices in deregulated markets. This is bad news for Alberta’s data centre ambitions.
Science and Tech for All
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Do Neoliberals Dream of AI Growth?
To build Canadian digital sovereignty, the federal government must consider a framework that develops long-term infrastructure and economic sustainability, instead of short-term commercial gains.
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No Nation Can Defend Digital Sovereignty Alone
Currently, each country is confronting – inefficiently – the dynamics of AI and Big Tech in isolation. This initiative reflects an urgent correction of course.
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How a Progressive Government Builds Digital Sovereignty
Chile’s former Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation explains how her progressive government built capacity for digital sovereignty in anticipation of the age of AI.
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Canada is Betting on AI for National Economic Growth: Here’s Why Working-Class Canadians Lose
The impact of novel technologies are shaped by social and economic conditions, and AI designed around profit-driven commercialization will prioritize corporations over workers.
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Canada and Europe Need to Build a Firewall Against US Tech Coercion
Europe and Canada can only protect their digital ecosystems against US interference if they start investing in tech sovereignty now.
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The Digital Oligarchy: Surveillance, Tech Giants, and the Future of Human Rights
Canadians are right to be concerned about corporate control of data, algorithmically worsening inequality, and the role of tech companies in disempowering workers.
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Femininity, Hyper-Commodified: Consumerism, Social Media, and Beauty Standards
Profits become supreme despite the enabling of a destructive culture of consumption around physical appearance, the erosion of the gains of feminist movements where looks are made more valuable than liberation, and where youth conceptualise ageing as an aesthetic problem rather than a wonderful part of life’s journey.
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Why Canada needs a nation-wide public telecom
SaskTel — a publicly-owned telecommunications company — already enjoys significant market share in Saskatchewan, forcing the big guys to lower their prices to compete.
