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Canada’s digital sovereignty is increasingly shaped by cybersecurity threats. Vass Bednar sat down with Rafal Rohozinski (The SecDev Group) and @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social to talk about how Canada can protect its digital borders and reinforce trust in its systems.

thebignewsletter.com/p/private-equi… This is a great breakdown of how Oregon passed a first of its kind law limiting the corporate practice of medicine. Matt Stoller

Uber one vs no uber one 😂😂 when is the class action

"In the long-run, Leach and Zanzana said empirical research on the effect of defence spending on growth has found both negative and positive effects. “Positive impacts tend to arise through industrial development, innovation, infrastructure channels" financialpost.com/news/defence-s…

What’s missing in Canada is the infrastructure to commercialize tech and IP at scale—something that other countries have invested in heavily. macleans.ca/society/keep-c…

When an account gets hacked or disabled, social media giant Meta offers little support, spawning a shadowy network of brokers & Meta employees who profit from providing unauthorized account reinstatement services ⁦The Globe and Mail⁩ ⁦Alexandra Posadzki⁩ theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Noncompete agreements impact millions of Americans — putting them in tight contracts that hinder job mobility and wages. Here’s hair stylist Emily Olson in 2023 testifying on how her noncompete was so aggressive, even doing her own mother's hair would violate it:

According to one customer, people are damaging the digital pricing labels at his grocery store. Despite outcry from consumers across the country, multiple giant supermarket chains are implementing digital price labels and dynamic pricing strategies where the cost of items

"Aside from the very real need for decentralized storage of digital material outside the U.S., the addition of physical servers in Canada is also a way for the country to have sovereignty over its own archive."

I was so jarred by The Globe’s investigation into the shady secondary economy that tried to get businesses’ Meta accounts restored after arbitrary suspension. The cost of building a digital presence should not be existential fragility.

"If we really want to strengthen the Canadian economy, we’ll get a bigger impact from deregulation, tax reform, resource development, infrastructure and other pro-competitive policies."

No kings? Donald Trump has made America a monarchy again. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

The question as we go into a long period of uncertainty is this - will Canadian business leaders show a backbone to stand up for their own country and its sovereign interests? /1 theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Just realized that "all-in pricing" that eliminates junk fees for tickets and hotels quietly took effect a few weeks ago. I’d grown so cynical I figured it would get tied up in the courts and never be implemented. Score one for good governance.

Competition, privacy & consumer protection regulators address: Via Amazon DSP "uses a shared identifier that enables deduplicated reach, frequency capping, & full-funnel measurement across devices...let marketers track CTV ad exposure to Amazon sales." adweek.it/4lbfs9v

Damning evidence that inflation is a corporate power problem.