Category: Strategic Understanding
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Canada’s Possibility Crisis
Canada Has a Possibility Crisis An upside-down flag is a universal distress signal – let’s start there. Canada is shrinking—not in size, but in ambition. We used to dream big. Now, we manage decline. Everyone keeps saying Canada has a productivity problem. That we need to work harder, be more efficient, and squeeze out a few extra GDP… Read more
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The Intelligence Renaissance
Standing at the Edge of a New Age Every so often, a shift happens that changes everything—not just an upgrade, not just an evolution, but a fundamental transformation in how we think, work, and live. Right now, we are in the middle of one of the biggest shifts in human history. I’ve been calling it The… Read more
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Canada: The Research Colony
We Fund Innovation, Others Take the Profits Imagine if Canada spent billions mining gold, only to hand it over to foreign companies for free. Imagine if we developed world-changing technologies, only for them to be owned and monetized by other nations. Now stop imagining—it’s happening right now.” Imagine a country that pours billions into research,… Read more
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Supercharging SME’s with AI
Ability is Advantage Canada has faced persistent productivity challenges, which have contributed to slower GDP growth compared to other advanced economies. Despite its rich natural resources and well-educated workforce, Canadian firms have been slower to adopt new technologies and scale up innovative practices, leading to a productivity gap. SMEs, in particular, struggle with limited resources… Read more
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The Digital Life
What was The Digital Life? In 1999, I was fascinated by how media was evolving. It was clear that everything was starting to break free from its traditional containers—TV, print, radio—all converging into something new. To explore this shift, I wired up a sailboat as a floating experiment, testing the emergence of the digital world—the very… Read more