VassB
policy designer + writer
Managing Director of the Canadian Shield Institute (@canadianshieldinstitute.ca)
+ Co-author of The Big Fix, which is all about improving Canada’s competition policy
sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/the-big-fix/
- “Paradise” suggests a singular not two places BOTH on Bloor.
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- Reposted by VassBNew Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by VassBIf you want to do your part for Canadian digital sovereignty from the US, then drop OneDrive, Dropbox, and whatever the hell Apple users use, and get Sync, the Canadian cloud service. I've been using it for a few months and it's just as good as the others.
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- NGL this one surprised me
- Reposted by VassB“You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” This week’s newsletter asks: if that’s true, what is Canada’s trade strategy now? Read it here: app.cyberimpact.com/newsletter-v...
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- Agentic payments wars is my Real Housewives
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- Reposted by VassBNick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms. Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
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- Reposted by VassB“Danes are turning to mobile apps to scan everyday products and boycott those associated with the US. … The most popular — UdenUSA (Danish for Without the USA) — is now the No. 1 free-to-download application in Apple’s App Store in Denmark, after seeing a sudden surge in recent weeks.”
- Reposted by VassBwrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
- Niche alternatives are great for competition. I’m going to check this place out next time I’m in MTL
- Not-for-profit grocery store in #Montreal aims to help community www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/0...
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- Reposted by VassBThank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing
- According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
- Reposted by VassBBREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more even detailed information about its users, including precise location data. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
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- This case study perfectly illustrates why we need to build and own digital public infrastructures as much as possible, because these same architectures can be easily weaponized to discipline/disorient us.
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- Reposted by VassBIn a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:
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- Reposted by VassBNew tariff just dropped. Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June. (Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).
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- Reposted by VassBA single line from Mark Carney’s Beijing press conference stopped me in my tracks, so I wrote my column around it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...
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- We’ve turned “buying Canadian” into a consumptive hobby. What if we made it an investment option again? We had fun scrolling through @library-archives.canada.ca to look at some of the campaign art associated with savings bonds when they kicked off.
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- Reposted by VassBA London UK 🇬🇧 private contractor rewrites Wikipedia entries for billionaire oligarchs and corrupt governments (w/ comments from @citizenlab.ca's @fittarelli.com ) www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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- Reposted by VassBDanish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well. I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III. (Gifted.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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- Reposted by VassBI wrote about the rise of prediction markets, which have FINALLY made it possible for crypto bros to cosplay as war profiteers while getting fleeced by actual war profiteers
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