Nigel Hannaford

“Instead of taking computer science, get a trade.” That's Gwyn Morgan’s blunt advice for young people watching their career plans collapse under the advance of artificial intelligence. The former EnCana president, a man who built one of North America’s largest natural-gas producers, is not known for soft talk. In this week’s Hannaford, he delivered the line with the same directness that once defined his corporate career: AI is already wiping out the need for legions of programmers.

Prime Minister Mark Carney was elected in large part as the experienced deal-maker who could manage US President Donald Trump. Perhaps the idea of “managing” President Trump was always presumptuous. Nevertheless, eighteen months ago, that was the expectation. But, it’s certainly not happened yet.

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Has anybody stopped to look at how much of British Columbia is being turned over to some form of indigenous ownership or control, how much more is contemplated and then asked two simple questions: where does this stop and when did the voters ever have a chance to say what they thought of it?

PENTICTON — British Columbia already hands out high school credits for hip hop. Now Bhangra is getting the same treatment.

US journos may whimper, but the RCMP would have done much the same thing.

So, you post a comment online about Canada’s immigration policy. Someone – you’ll never know who – finds it offensive, reports it as “hate,” and a few days later the police are at your door. Now what?