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AI was supposed to be your assistant. Advertising will makes it someone else’s sales associate. OpenAI’s ad pilot shows the danger: once chatbots sell attention, influence, and profiling, users stop being the customer and become the inventory. We need rules for ad separation, answer independence, and surveillance marketing before AI learns the oldest platform trick.

Analysis: Canada's AI Strategy Compared to CIPPIC's By Jennifer Turliuk & David Fewer Canada’s new AI strategy, AI for All, gets important things right. It treats AI adoption as a national priority. It recognizes that trust, opportunity, and sovereignty belong in the core of a Canadian AI strategy. It invests in compute, skills, commercialization, health data, open-source AI, and Canadian capacity. Those are welcome commitments. They also mirror many of the policy positions C

Six months ago, I wrote a post arguing for stronger protections for minors on AI platforms, calling for shared responsibility among developers, legislators, parents, and educators. The Tumbler Ridge mass shooting has made the need for these protections impossible to ignore. It has forced Canada to open a policy conversation it can no longer defer. In the aftermath of this tragedy, the chambers of commerce in Tumbler Ridge and Prince George are urging Ottawa and the governmen