Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Fri. May 29th, 2026

For a country that helped invent modern AI, Canada has been surprisingly hesitant about what comes next. As other nations move aggressively to capture the technology’s economic and strategic benefits, we are still trying to define our role—all the while grappling with the risks, from job displacement and misinformation to privacy, security, and the concentration of power in a handful of American firms. The federal government’s long-awaited national AI strategy, released yesterday, is an attempt to answer that challenge. But does it meet the scale of the moment? Over the past twenty-four...