The line on (relatively) inexpensive, low-waste fusion energy is that it's 30 years away and always will be. Expat Canadian Spencer Pitcher has spent decades in elite fusion research centres trying to pull that timeline forward. Now he's coming home. thelogic.co/news/spencer...

Never gets old. J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around?

From the start of a Federal Court of Appeal decision published today. Is it possible that the telecom and broadcasting regulatory system in Canada has too many avenues of appeal? decisions.fca-caf.ca/fca-caf/deci...

The Cansec military trade show in Ottawa is a giant, intense, overwhelming, sometimes weird thing. Here's my best attempt at describing what it was like to be inside (and in the parking lot with a Gripen jet) in Cansec's banner year. thelogic.co/news/defence...

In the early 2020s, Canadian startups didn’t get much hotter than ApplyBoard, whose business matching foreign applicants to university and college programs was worth $4 billion and had the immigration minister comparing its founding brothers to the Wright brothers. Things have changed.

I've been quietly waiting to see how the last of Jim Watson's big legacy projects would pan out.

Streaming giants ordered to pay 15% of Canadian revenue to fund Cancon, a huge jump from the current five per cent, putting the CRTC on a collision course with U.S. streamers—and the White House. thelogic.co/news/streami...

This is good. "The overall theme to my advice is simple: Value your platform and your role in a healthy democracy."

Shopify's shareholders will vote on whether Shopify should adopt a policy on responsible use of AI at the company's AGM next month. The company is asking shareholders to vote no. thelogic.co/news/shopify...

Sarah Paquet, head of Fintrac, steps down. She led Canada’s anti-money-laundering watchdog through a period of turmoil and high-profile scandals. thelogic.co/news/fintrac...

ATIP-based scoop: NATO wants Canada to host a satellite ground station for alliance communications, which NATO would pay for. The only one on this side of the Atlantic: thelogic.co/news/nato-sa...

It appears that malfunctioning AI-driven drones from Ukraine that accidentally hit Latvia have led to the fall of the Latvian government. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hey! Canadian journalism jobs! The Narwhal is hiring a reporter in B.C. and one (almost) anywhere in Canada. We're looking for seasoned, ambitious reporters to focus their skills on the natural world and how it connects to politics, industry - and people. thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers?sour...

Ontario's Auditor General finds that private career colleges are falsifying truck driver training records and skipping lessons like "left turns at major intersections, reverse parking and emergency stopping" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli

Anthropic's announcement that its Mythos model was really, really good at hacking set off alarms in tech companies and governments. Here's how the news crashed through the Canadian cybersecurity community, starting with a bug report read in a home office in Kitchener. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

The Logic has hired @mpotkins.bsky.social as Alberta reporter. Read more in this note to staff from deputy managing editor Charlie Gillis. thelogic.co/staff-update...

OK, so, so, if you count the provinces, I'm in the western half of them...

The U.S.’s failure to learn the *most obvious lessons* from its actions’ repeatedly going sideways is the craziest thing on a long list of crazy things about it.

The federal government plans to spin out the National Research Council’s Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre, giving it the opportunity to take private capital to scale and add new capabilities. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

A lot of ink gets spilled about the disadvantages of Canadian NHL cities compared to their U.S. counterparts, but it sure seems like the teams are mostly just poorly run. Maybe our hockey problem is more of a business culture problem.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Laugh/cries in Canadian.

Looks like the satellite launch for Vancouver-based EarthDaily went off as planned last night: www.spacex.com/launches/cas... I wrote about them the other day: thelogic.co/news/earthda...

TIL that there's a place in PEI called Scotchfort. Seems like an appealing place to spend an evening.

Assignment: Help Edmonton make sense of Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy, which could see a huge amount of money, people, and attention come to the city. Here's my story: edifyedmonton.com/urban/innova...

After a sometimes bumpy and definitely expensive road, EarthDaily of Vancouver is about to launch six satellites to scrutinize the planet—all the land, every day—compiling a virtual stack of images to spot minute changes before anybody else can tell they mean anything. thelogic.co/news/earthda...

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

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Alberta led a hackathon in Ottawa, asking participants to make and use AI tools to find question-raising patterns in federal government spending. Colleague @lauraosman.bsky.social checked it out: thelogic.co/news/alberta...

The day Rogers set out to buy Shaw, it pledged to open a research centre in Calgary. It named an advisory council and said it would hire 500 engineers and technical experts. You won't believe what happened next. thelogic.co/news/rogers-...

Legislation on Monday and details in the feds' economic update on Tuesday lay out plans for the new Financial Crimes Agency, which is to essentially be a new police force—working with the RCMP but distinct from it. Colleague Claire Brownell digs in: thelogic.co/news/new-fin...

Crypto influencer Kevin Mirshahi was living the dream. Then it became a nightmare. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

Vancouver-based firm GeoComply has laid off about one-fifth of its workforce, including people working in engineering, data science, risk and fraud analysis, and customer support. thelogic.co/news/geocomp...

Piles of cash and procurement reforms were meant to bolster defence innovation in Canada. Startup founders say that defence-spending boom hasn’t reached them yet. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

As a civilian outerwear brand, Canada's Wuxly competes with Canada Goose and Moose Knuckles. Now it's refashioning itself as a military supplier, intending to market electronics-infused base layers that can give real-time readings of soldiers' vitals, even in combat. thelogic.co/news/parka-c...

Of note: www.reuters.com/article/us-f...

Zero. Sympathy. They did this to themselves. Oh, and also? There definitely is an easy answer.

I'm glad the police are doing this, but I'm startled that it's so extraordinary that they're putting a news release out about it. www.ottawapolice.ca/en/news/otta...

Huawei smartphone (and other stuff) spinoff Honor Device Co., which was created to shield that business from American sanctions and is huge in other parts of the world, is interested in following Chinese automakers into the Canadian market. thelogic.co/news/huawei-...

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

Ah the smell of woodsmoke on a brisk fall day. I should pick up a pumpkin.

Nicholas Golle, a possible challenger to Coun. Ariel Troster in downtown Somerset ward who currently works for the Canada Revenue Agency, gets permission from the Public Service Commission to run.

I don't know that there's been properly rigorous work on this, but I strongly suspect that the prevalence of anxiety, depression and related trouble is unusually high among journalists, and not necessarily as a *result* of doing journalism. www.readtheline.ca/p/kevin-newm...

Canada's learning to live with an unpredictable and sometimes belligerent neighbour on its border. Finland's been doing it for decades. President Alexander Stubb has some suggestions for how we might speedrun our way to resiliency. thelogic.co/news/finland...

This disparity is bonkers.

Slightly maddening when serious news outlets drag everyone down to Trump’s level by using language like “feud” as if it’s some reality TV spat. Pope Leo delivered a moral critique of American military aggression. That is not “feuding” even if Trump responded with a deranged personal attack.

I'm seeing people defending this decision by saying things like "this is eliminating prison LIBRARIANS, not LIBRARIES" so let's take a closer look at that. 1/

Wouldn’t this be funny.