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Inside Canada’s $500 Billion Dollar Defence Spending Gamble
Security Policy Research Director Matthew da Mota
In The Walrus

AI Shopping Agents Are Manipulating Consumers, Study Finds
By Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In The Walrus

Is Carney’s foreign investment push in Canada’s best interests?
Shield Chief Economist Kaylie Tiessen
In Canadian Affairs

Can Markets Be Fair If Prices Aren’t Transparent?
Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In Missing Middle

Could Surveillance Pricing Be the Future in Ontario? | The Rundown
Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In The Rundown

Q&A: Vass Bednar on why Canada is at risk of remaining a digital 51st state
Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In Betakit

Rethinking Prosperity - CBC Ideas
Kaylie Tiessen, Chief Economist
In CBC Ideas

AI products are defective and dangerous. Why are we using them at all?
By Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In The Globe and Mail

Surveillance pricing is discrimination by another name
By Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In The Globe and Mail

What is surveillance pricing and is it coming to a grocery store near you?
Vass Bednar, Managing Director\
In The Financial Post

AI strategy pillars, new SMB procurement program revealed in Canada’s Spring Economic Update
Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In Betakit

What is surveillance pricing? How algorithms affect the price you pay
Emily Osborne, Policy Research Associate
In CTV News

TVO The Rundown: Should Pension Funds Help Build Canada's Future
Kaylie Tiessen, Chief Economist
In The Rundown

Arctic Fever: Canada’s Ambitions in the North
Security Policy Research Director, Matt da Mota
In Open Canada
The Walrus: Should Canada Build Up Alternatives to Visa and Mastercard?
Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In The Walrus

The Walrus: Ottawa Hands Billions to Firms Calling Themselves Canadian. Most Aren’t
By Vass Bednar, Managing Director and David Corbett, Policy Analyst, In The Walrus

BNN Bloomberg: How does Canada's IP Landscape compare to other countries?
Chief Economist Kaylie Tiessen
In BNN Bloomberg

The Walrus: Manitoba Moves Against Retailers Charging Different Prices for the Same Goods
By Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In The Walrus

National Post: How to accidentally ban lower prices
By Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In The National Post

Toronto Star: Most Canadians want to ban or regulate algorithmic pricing, poll shows
By Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In The Toronto Star

Policy Prompt: Convenience Costs (the extraction economy with Tim Wu)
Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In Policy Prompt

Globe & Mail: As U.S. state and Big Tech become one, we become digital serfs, and it sucks
By Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In The Globe and Mail

CBC News: Live Nation, U.S. Department of Justice reach settlement in antitrust trial
Vass Bednar, Managing Director
In CBC News
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