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The federal government plans to privatize the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre, described as being at the forefront of innovation in the country. Along with it goes control over the centre’s publicly built technology. Christopher Holcroft writes. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

thetyee.caCarney is Selling Off Canada’s Publicly Owned Tech Gem. Why? | The TyeeLeading the charge is Build Canada and a broligarchy of AI boosters. Second in a series.

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Shane🇨🇦

@shane555.bsky.social

26 June

This Our Commons petition to stop the sale of airports worth supporting Seems another petition needed with Harper’s Carney wanting to sell off more Canadian assets. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian

@tinkiegurl.bsky.social

25 June

🤔 "Cohere is also being sued by a group of media companies from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom for copyright infringement via the unauthorized use of news articles to train the tech firm’s large language models."

TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian

@tinkiegurl.bsky.social

25 June

"Senator Colin Deacon has also spoken out, citing the example of the privatization of Connaught Medical Research Laboratories in the 1980s and the loss of domestic vaccine technology that was evident during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic."

TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian

@tinkiegurl.bsky.social

25 June

"Indeed, this country has a poor track record on privatizing public assets such as CN Rail and failing to protect innovation as in the experience with Nortel."

TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian

@tinkiegurl.bsky.social

25 June

"This increasing alignment between many of this country’s tech broligarchs and their American cousins is cause for alarm. Last week, Shopify executives were robustly defending Elon Musk and lauding his new, trillionaire status."