David Moscrop

Sam Altman may be the reigning king of the AI boom, but the story that matters isn't his rise or fall. The sector will still demand scale, speed, and the right to run roughshod over the pesky public interest, no matter who wears the industry crown.

Companies are using our data to gouge us. How much more can consumers take?

A platform backed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos lets day-to-day “investors” become landlords, twice removed, by buying shares in rental homes. It's the app-ification of investment in the building blocks of social life.

“The robots are coming” need not be understood as heralding the apocalypse. An automated society in which states and worker-owned enterprises use technology to serve public ends while meeting individual needs is entirely consistent with the good life.

Was Donald Trump's decades-long persona as a venal carnival grotesque all part of a brilliant scheme to launch an insane war and create the geopolitical conditions for a global energy transition?

As the CBC exits the game, the country loses one of its last truly shared cultural experiences

As the CBC exits the game, the country loses one of its last truly shared cultural experiences

T he story we tell ourselves about capitalism is that it's a free market system in which firms slug it out for the privilege to sell us an apple or a mid-sized sport utility vehicle.

Private equity is taking over veterinary services, driving up prices, and putting the pets we love at risk through its relentless pursuit of financial extraction.

A s a symbol of Canada's relationship with the United States, it's a bit too on the nose.