America's new security playbook treats Canada as leverage, not a partner. In this week’s newsletter: What gunboat diplomacy looks like in 2025.

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Canada is spending $40M for 5G R&D at Nokia’s Ottawa campus. Is this good for Canadian sovereignty?

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Canada created a central bank to stop foreign control of our money. Now, digital dollars and foreign platforms could undo a century of sovereignty.

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"Slopification" is a cultural annoyance and contemporary sovereignty issue. AI is flooding feeds making it difficult to know what's real and impossible to know what’s Canadian.

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You might already be an unpaid AI trainer, platforms just forgot to tell you. Today’s newsletter breaks down what's hidden in the ToS: using a service can now mean building its AI in the background, pro bono.

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This week, the federal government finalized their $400M loan to keep Algoma Steel running. Check out what the agreement means for Canadian sovereignty and economic transformation in our second SHIELD Sovereignty Score!

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Our first SHIELD Score is here! After evaluating the federal government’s $240 million investment in Cohere, we determined that its expected effects on Canadian sovereignty and economic prosperity rate at only 2/10.

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Tariffs are only part of Canada’s trade story; the real pressure comes from the digital toll roads running our economy. App-store cuts, e-commerce fees and ad-tech costs set the terms in ways we rarely acknowledge.

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As we digest #Budget2025 we're asking, did Canada forget about the internet?

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Agentic commerce — where AI agents buy and sell autonomously on your behalf — could quietly rewrite the rules of trade. Canada must keep oversight in the national interest as we regulate AI.

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Canada’s outdated economic and security strategies are leaving us exposed to outside pressures and global instability.

Jim Balsillie broke it down on CTV's Question Period—these challenges have been 30 years in the making.

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