Defence companies selling to Canada have many billions of dollars of outstanding obligations to Canadian business and as the Carney government revitalizes the military, expect the figure to shoot skyward. The policy meant to make them spend here is ... not great. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

You don't say.

All these freshly vaccinated babies you see, poofed up so bad their skin’s like bicycle tires.

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

How to show utter disdain, using brackets.

Former Rogers CEO Nadir Mohamed has died. Here's my story for The Logic, which focuses on what he meant to entrepreneurs in this country—which is a lot. thelogic.co/news/former-...

After my death, as a matter of family honour, my sons are being instructed to see my ATIP requests through to completion.

I'm always stunned when I get a government request like this. They've broken their own ATIP law, mucked about for literally YEARS with a request, and now they're unilaterally stopping the clock on it with the intention of throwing it away unless I stop them. At the Department of Justice!

Colleague @joannasmith.bsky.social is in Mexico with Prime Minister Mark Carney. Here's her file on his attempts to fix things with President Sheinbaum, after much open musing in Canada last fall about cutting her country out of continental free trade. thelogic.co/news/mexico-...

One thing we're seeing in the U.S. is disproportionality—massive government/political responses to small puported offences, where the impugned action can seem so small that it's not worth sticking up for. Practically, is Disney going to risk ABC's very existence over a Jimmy Kimmel monologue?

The Supreme Court will NOT hear the City of Ottawa's appeal of the lower-court rulings allowing development on the Kanata golf course: www.scc-csc.ca/cases-dossie...

Humdinger of a story from colleague Jesse Snyder about how Calgary's Attabotics, which raised a TON of investment for its AI-assisted warehouse robots, crashed and burned. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

The U.S. has so many mass shootings that remembering which maniac did which one is genuinely difficult.

The U.S. military cares about nothing—and I mean NOTHING—but warfighting, lethality and a very particular standard of grooming. apnews.com/article/pent...

Two Justin Trudeaus, two very different lives. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

When the question is the answer.

Canada is the first major market where the patent on the key ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy will expire, in January. Generic drugmakers have been counting down the days. Here's what the competition to sell you semaglutide is likely to look like: thelogic.co/news/era-of-...

They didn't go from "Shall we build a railway?" to a railway in four years. The CPR was a Confederation promise before 1867. Construction began in 1881. Or, actually, in 1875, when they started a section in Manitoba and northern Ontario. Which hooked up to other rails built on their own earlier.

Buddy in the pic looks equally mournful and frightened of what’s about to happen.

The state used AI to score essays but it screws up badly sometimes in unpredictable ways, so now all the school districts have to go and double-check its work and (presumably) figure out ad hoc how to revise the central scores. Because of efficiency.

The Supreme Court says it'll disclose next Thursday whether it'll take up this case or let the dismissal of the City of Ottawa's appeal stand: www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic... The SCOC takes up almost none of the appeals parties try to bring. But some!

I am old enough to remember phoning Environment Canada for a recorded message giving the latest weather forecast. Here's a story about how it could incorporate AI and masses of non-weather data to predict dangerous floods and/or what a little snow might to do traffic. thelogic.co/news/ai-weat...

Many US-based scientists have hinted at leaving the country to work elsewhere, given the massive disruptions in federal funding, academia, visas, etc. I talked to some who left during Trump 1.0 to see what they advise: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a 'Here we go!'

The astonishing thing would be if there WERE an oil pipeline on the feds' initial list of favoured major projects, because there isn't a proposal to put on that list. Why nobody is proposing a new pipeline is debatable. But you can't hurry a nonexistent project. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

“Some people driving through a neighbourhood and they are five, 10 kilometres over, they are getting nailed. It’s not fair. So, I’m dead against this photo radar that they have,” Ford said. Why have a speed *limit* if you've got so much leeway? 10 km/h over in a 40 km/h zone is 25% higher.

It's *ludicrous* that the official "tell us what you think" page describes a multitude of intersections and roadway changes only in words. The only visual representation shows just the general area.

That’s a heck of a U.S. presence in northern B.C.

Tremendous as this tale is, I think the fact the SEALs killed three North Korean fishermen because the SEALS themselves screwed up their landing should come before the 59th paragraph. Especially if part of the point is "the extreme risks" the SEALS date. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Mercantilism is back, says our economist-PM, and we're going to have to get used to living under it—the failed economic philosophy that Adam Smith is remembered 250 years later for tearing apart. Here are @muradhem.bsky.social and me on Mark Carney's preparations. thelogic.co/news/ev-mand...

And here's @joannasmith.bsky.social on small businesses that ship to the U.S. getting a hard crash course in CUSMA compliance as Donald Trump whipsaws the trade rules again. thelogic.co/news/de-mini...

Colleague @lauraosman.bsky.social set off to find out what "Canadian content" is in the streaming-defined world of 2025, and the result is glorious and fascinating. Schitt's Creek, Seth Rogen, Letterkenny and Beast Games all feature. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

The challenge is that reporting that something is illegal is a lot like reporting that somebody lied. You can show that what they said isn't true, but to say they were *lying* requires that you have evidence they knew it wasn't true when they said it. Who says an action is illegal? The courts.

Parliament's back this month and Bill C-2, the "border bill," will be on the agenda. Cybersecurity leaders warn that the legal authority it will give authorities to bug virtually any electronic service is (among other objections) bad for Canadian business. thelogic.co/news/bill-c2...

No way these end up closed and boarded up and the subject of 25 years of desultory talks about how to get them back to what they were in 2025.

Fascists' appeal to tradition / golden age / authenticity / wonderbread is one way they replace rational inquiry with untestable beliefs. It is not accidental that the traditions themselves are usually completely made up. The more made up the better! 6/

Canada's about 11.5 per cent of the way to its two-billion-tree goal. (Also, "has signed or is negotiating" is all basically the same.)

AI Minister Evan Solomon says he used an AI tool to get briefed up on the Liberals’ last AI bill. We tried it and, well … if a human briefer briefed a minister like this, I don’t think they’d get a second call up. https://thelogic.co/news/evan-solomon-ai-podcast

Chrystia Freeland would like nobody to spend another billion dollars on ferries from China, please. www.canada.ca/en/transport...

Atwood, Laurence, Munro and Angelou are all on this list.

I’m actually gonna get out of my replies and use this story to highlight something that I haven’t for a while: the complete lack of transparency and communication from our public agencies in B.C./Canada. So here’s a thread

This is an entire article about how city employees are barred from speaking to the press without permission and how weird that is for a U.S. city. It is also incredibly routine and basically the default in Canada…. www.modbee.com/news/politic...

How does this even work, for any normal person? I can trace some ancestry back to New France and the Massachusetts Bay Colony via Loyalists, the Reevelys came in the late 19th century, and mom is an immigrant. What grade of Canadian would I be? If I moved to the U.S., would I be Grade A or F?

OMG! PUT IT IN WRITING!

something that becomes very obvious once your kid starts kindergarten is that schools still operate as if all children have one parent (guess which one) at home

I keep taking things from stores, just small things, reasonable, and they keep arresting me for shop lifting. Cars make even smart people stupid.

Ye-ess, although the negotiations at the end of WW2 were between the western Allies and the Soviets over questions such as whose rope they were going to use.

Public health recommends all children at Brantford, Ont., daycare get treatment after rabid bat found The children may not reliably report having touched bats, acting medical officer of health says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

U.S. private equity is taking Dayforce private for a stunning US$12.3 billion. You've seen that news. Here's colleague @muradhem.bsky.social's interview with its Toronto CEO, David Ossip, about why the HR software company sold out. thelogic.co/news/dayforc...