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recent bookmarks from jerrykingOpinion: Canada’s productivity problem runs deep and ripples far in the economy2024-03-28T05:36:58+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canadas-productivity-problem-runs-deep-and-ripples-far-in-the-economy/?login=true
jerrykingAnthony_Lacavera artificial_intelligence Canada Canadian competitiveness_of_nations decline diminished_circumstances entrepreneur entrepreneurship innovation oligopolies machine_learning market_capitalization productivity RBC sellout_culture telecommunications under-performinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:704e89f78c26/All-star cast of Canadian entrepreneurs teams up on new approach to building and funding companies - The Logic2024-03-12T14:23:06+00:00
https://thelogic.co/news/all-star-cast-of-canadian-entrepreneurs-teams-up-on-new-approach-to-building-and-funding-companies/
jerrykingCanada Canadian corporate_investors founders funding investors Joe_Canavan Michael_Katchen Simple_Ventures start_ups vc venture_capital Wealthsimplehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8db0c6232cce/Spoons (band) - Wikipedia2024-03-05T19:39:45+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoons_(band)
jerryking'80s Canadian hits music music_bands New_Wave nostalgia songs synth-pophttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ec0df8efa451/Globe editorial: Brian Mulroney, the last great prime minister2024-03-01T19:09:39+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-brian-mulroney-the-last-great-prime-minister/
jerrykingBrian_Mulroney Canada Canadian consequential conservatism editorials greatness political_capital prime_ministers privatization Progressive_Conservatives transformational imperfections statesmenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:2ebcec7452ef/Former prime minister Brian Mulroney dead at 842024-03-01T14:50:23+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-former-prime-minister-brian-mulroney-dead-at-84/
jerrykingBrian_Mulroney Canada Canadian obituaries prime_ministers tributeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0e9ca455cb20/As Canada’s great dealmaker, Brian Mulroney thought big, took risks and played for keeps - The Globe and Mail2024-03-01T14:47:11+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-brian-mulroney-death-former-prime-minister/
jerryking>free trade<< with the U.S. and helped the fight against apartheid. When it didn’t, >>Meech Lake<< and the >>Airbus scandal<< cast shadows over his work
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This was Mr. Mulroney at his very best: taking risks, working every angle, playing his hand with consummate skill, exploiting his personal connections to the limit, and at the very last minute, sealing the deal. But sometimes his deals fell through. In the case of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords, their failures almost wrecked the country. Win or lose, Brian Mulroney never thought small.
Canada’s 18th prime minister died at the age of 84,his daughter, Caroline Mulroney, said Thursday in a posting on X, formerly Twitter.
Quick-witted, far-sighted, able to blend impeccable logic with personal charm, Mr. Mulroney helped revive the Canadian economy, negotiated the most important trade agreement in the country’s history, reformed the nation’s finances, signed ground-breaking environmental agreements and helped lead the global fight against apartheid in South Africa.
He also led round after round of failed constitutional negotiations, so angered Western voters that they supported a new political protest party in response, even as much of his Quebec caucus deserted. By the time he left office in 1993, the Progressive Conservative Party was so unpopular that it won only two seats in the fall election. The PCs never recovered.
For years after he left office, he relentlessly sought to defend his record as prime minister and to put his spin on the latest events, calling journalists and talking their ears off. But he could never satisfactorily explain the hundreds of thousands of dollars he took in cash-stuffed envelopes from a German arms dealer. The Airbus affair cast a shadow over his reputation that he was never able to shake off. For some, it confirmed their worst suspicions about Lyin’ Brian. “I apologize and I accept full responsibility for it,” he later told a parliamentary committee, while insisting he had done nothing wrong.
Yet fair-minded history, while remembering that asterisk on his honour, will remember also his courage, how willing he was to take on the most unpopular of causes, and shoulder the resulting opprobrium, if he felt that cause was necessary and just. And it will remember how intensely he fought to bequeath a Canada at peace with itself and proud in the world. If he didn’t quite get there, it was not for lack of trying, or passion.
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Mr. Mulroney’s star rose as a labour lawyer who could bring management and unions together, rose further when he sat on the Cliche Commission, which exposed corruption in the Quebec construction industry. It was enough, he thought, to win the Progressive Conservative leadership in 1976. No, it wasn’t; Joe Clark took the prize. Mr. Mulroney sulked, became president of Iron Ore Canada, then manoeuvred to replace Mr. Clark after his government was defeated in 1979.
He also quit drinking: By his own admission alcohol had become a serious problem. (It took him another four years to give up cigarettes.) He won the leadership in 1983 and the country – in a landslide – in 1984, when John Turner turned out to be an imperfect saviour for a Liberal Party rendered toxic by Pierre Trudeau’s unsuccessful and often counterproductive efforts to promote economic growth.
As prime minister, Mr. Mulroney set about restoring economic growth and national confidence by dismantling restrictions on foreign investment, scrapping the hated National Energy Program and privatizing Crown corporations.
But his administration was beset by a series of petty scandals: a minister found in a strip club; another approving the sale of “tainted tuna”; a third found in conflict of interest (the ruling was later voided). More worrisome, it seemed impossible to balance the budget, despite strong economic growth.
All this was made incidental by Mr. Mulroney’s decision to pursue free trade with the United States, despite initially being opposed to the idea. A royal commission on the economy, established by Mr. Trudeau and chaired by Donald Macdonald, his former finance minister, recommended that Canada take “a leap of faith” on free trade as a cure for Canada’s economic ills.
But if Brian Mulroney was able to seal the deal by strong-arming U.S. negotiator Jim Baker – no mean feat – at the eleventh hour, he wasn’t able to get the agreement past Liberal leader John Turner, who made preventing free trade with the United States “the cause of my life.” Mr. Mulroney went to the people for a verdict. The 1988 election was like no other: fought on the single issue of yes or no to free trade. Yes won, the treaty was ratified, and Brian Mulroney had his second term.
After that, nothing went right. People loathed the new Goods and Services Tax, created to streamline and improve federal finances. (Mr. Mulroney loved to say that in the fight against the deficit, he sowed the field and Liberal finance minister Paul Martin reaped the harvest.) A crippling recession sent unemployment and deficits soaring. Worst of all, it seemed the country was coming apart.
Mr. Mulroney was incensed that Mr. Trudeau had patriated the Constitution and forged the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 without the consent of the Quebec government. His solution was the 1987 >>Meech Lake Accord<<, a >>federal-provincial<< agreement that met Quebec premier Robert Bourassa’s demands. But delays ratifying the agreement led to increasing opposition. Last-ditch efforts to secure the assent of all the provinces in June, 1990, appeared to succeed, but then unravelled – in part because Mr. Mulroney bragged to Globe and Mail journalists about being willing to “roll all the dice” to get a deal. Furious at the rejection of Meech, Mr. Bourassa threatened a new referendum on sovereignty.
Endless commissions and talks ultimately produced the Charlottetown Accord, which seemed to satisfy all sides. It didn’t, however, satisfy the Canadian public, who voted it down in a 1992 referendum.
By now, Mr. Mulroney’s administration was a shambles. Deficits and a weak economy plagued federal finances. The GST and failure of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords had sent his poll numbers into the basement. Reform, a new populist protest party, rose in the West, even as Mr. Mulroney’s old friend Lucien Bouchard crossed the floor with an assortment of Quebec MPs to create the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois.
In a desperate bid to rescue the party’s fortunes, Mr. Mulroney stepped down, effectively handing the prime ministership to his defence minister, Kim Campbell. Under her leadership, the Progressive Conservatives were decimated in the 1993 election, and never recovered.
Hatred for Mr. Mulroney was so intense by then that it took many years before the real accomplishments of the government shone through.
It didn’t help that his legacy was seriously damaged by the Airbus Affair. The RCMP suspected Mr. Mulroney had received kickbacks in exchange for influencing Air Canada’s decision to acquire passenger jets from the European airliner manufacturer.
Mr. Mulroney, alleging a political smear campaign, successfully sued Jean Chrétien’s Liberals, winning an apology and the payment of his legal fees. But in 2003 he acknowledged receiving $225,000 from Karlheinz Schreiber, a business operative with fingers in many unsavoury pies. The money was for consulting work, Mr. Mulroney insisted. No charges were laid, but that didn’t stop Stephen Harper from cutting all ties with his predecessor. It was unclear why Mr. Mulroney, who had a lucrative law practice, would have taken the cash.
Despite the scandal, the former prime minister still had much to contribute. Behind the scenes, he had helped set the stage for the merger of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties in 2003, with Mr. Harper eventually taking the new Conservative Party of Canada to power. A decade and a half later, Mr. Mulroney kept back-channels open between Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government and the new populist U.S. president, Donald Trump. He was always at his best bringing apparent foes together and helping them >>find common ground<<, preferably behind closed doors.
]]>Airbus_scandal Brian_Mulroney Canada Canadian dealmakers federal-provincial_relations FTA John_Ibbitson legacies Meech_Lake_Accord obituaries politicians politics prime_ministers Progressive_Conservatives retrospectives scandals finding_common_groundhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:495639ea4c00/Explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton wanted to move to Canada and become Canadian - The Globe and Mail2024-02-16T14:35:49+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-explorer-sir-ernest-shackleton-wanted-to-move-to-canada-and-become/#comments
jerryking>Franklin Expedition<<, said the honouring of Shackleton was long overdue, coming years after a memorial in Westminster Abbey to Sir John Franklin.
He said Shackleton, who was born in Ireland but moved to England as a boy, was very taken with Canada, conducted speaking tours here and planned an expedition in the Arctic....Shackleton was fond of the poems of Robert Service, who moved from Scotland to Canada and lived in a cabin in Yukon, as well as on Vancouver Island.
Mr. Geiger said Shackleton often recited his poetry and said, “Reading his >>poems<< one can understand how Canada claims men, and how they ever must follow her lure.”
Shackleton was also very keen to launch an expedition in the Canadian >>Arctic<< and had solicited a large donation from the Eaton family to back the endeavour. But even though plans were advanced, the Canadian government unexpectedly removed its support for the voyage after Shackleton had obtained a ship and crew.......The unveiling of his memorial stone in Westminster Abbey was attended by Alexandra Shackleton the explorer’s granddaughter, who invited Mr. Geiger. The stone’s sculptor Will Davies incorporated Connemara marble and Kilkenny limestone into the memorial to reflect Shackleton’s Irish heritage. The memorial was inscribed with the names of Shackleton’s expedition ships and his family motto, “fortitudine vincimus” – by endurance we conquer.
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For anyone that is facing some big challenges right now, I would encourage you to do two things:
[1] Read the book called "Shackelton's Way"
[2] Watch a couple of Shackelton documentaries on YouTube.
Both, most certainly will inspire you and strengthen your inner resolve. And both will help you put things into perspective.
And yes I was there once.
]]>anniversaries Antarctica Arctic books Canadian Ernest_Shackleton expeditions explorers poems shipwrecks South_Pole Franklin_Expeditionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8b8d0a20bd9d/Mapping the Ownership Network of Canada’s Billionaire Families2023-06-26T21:28:00+00:00
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/06/23/mapping-the-ownership-network-of-canadas-billionaire-families/
jerryking>property rights<< — the legal control over property.5 Sure, this property can be physical, like a car or a house or a super-yacht. But it can also be intangible, like a patent or a corporation. What matters is that wealth is the quantification of the control, not the thing itself.
Back to billionaires. Thanks to the complexities of corporate law, billionaires shore up, manage, and expand their power by vesting their control through a complicated web of ownership. Take the Thomson family as an example. The Thomsons own majority shares in the news corporation Thomson Reuters. But they don’t own these shares directly — far from it. As you’ll see, we have to wade through many layers of holding companies before we get clarity about the Thomsons’ domination of this vital media asset.6
Why the complexity? It’s a question we won’t answer here. But among the reasons for parsing ownership via holding companies are to (1) obscure responsibility, (2) deflect accountability, and (3) pay less tax. Holding companies are also used to distribute ownership among heirs while maintaining family consolidation. In other words, they are a tool for ensconcing power.
]]>Canada Canadian family-owned_businesses high_net_worth mapping moguls oligopolies owners top-down income_inequality power_structures The_One_Percent propertied_class property_rights money_&_powerhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9a24a02c4cbf/Canadians are still eating too much sodium, WHO warns. Here’s how to cut back - The Globe and Mail2023-03-27T22:04:11+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/article-reduce-sodium-intake-tips/
jerrykingCanadian diets Leslie_Beck salthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fc51e5b8caf2/Actor Gordon Pinsent, the friendly face and roguish heart of Canadian cinema, dead at 92 - The Globe and Mail2023-02-26T16:37:53+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-gordon-pinsent-dead/
jerrykingCanadian Canadiana actors obituarieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:796e30a041b7/Peter Herrndorf was ‘the godfather of Canadian arts’2023-02-20T05:15:00+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-peter-herrndorf-was-the-godfather-of-canadian-arts/
jerrykingarts Canadian CBC HBS lawyers obituaries Simon_Houpt TVO boards_&_directors_&_governance CEOs networking super_connectors cultural_institutions leaders public_servicehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d0c62c214563/For family caregivers, cost of unpaid care work is both personal and professional2023-01-09T18:10:29+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-for-family-caregivers-cost-of-unpaid-care-work-is-both-personal-and/
jerrykingCanada Canadian caregiving family kinship kin_work quality_of_life think_tanks unpaidhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4842f66e8524/Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy sees China as a ‘disruptive global power’2022-11-28T14:52:32+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-indo-pacific-strategy-pledges-23-billion-over-five-years/
jerrykingASEAN Beijing Canada Canada-China_relations Canadian China foreign_policy Global_Affairs_Canada GoC India Indo-Pacific Indonesia John_Ibbitson Mélanie_Joly Ottawa rogue_actors security_&_intelligence defense_spendinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d793e36843c1/Are Canada's Intelligence Services Smart Enough?2022-11-19T18:28:50+00:00
https://www.tvo.org/video/are-canadas-intelligence-services-smart-enough
jerrykingCanada Canadian capacity-building China China_rising CIGI complacency CSE CSIS cyberespionage disinformation espionage expertise foreign_policy Global_Affairs_Canada great_powers in-house invasions non-state_actors pacifism political_polarization political_will resilience rivalries rogue_actors security_&_intelligence security_consciousness Steve_Paikin surveillance threats threat_landscape tools turbulence Ukraine underinvestments Wesley_Wark whole-of-society Xi_Jinpinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f3161c65c1b2/Top soldier warns Canada’s ‘tenuous hold’ on Arctic will come under challenge in decades ahead - The Globe and Mail2022-10-21T15:53:48+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-arctic-territories-russia-china/
jerrykingArctic Canada Canadian Canadian_Forces China Russia sovereignty subsurface submarineshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ab06c45a292c/Review: Steve Paikin’s John Turner biography reveals a conflicted man who influenced Canadian politics mostly for the better2022-10-21T05:31:33+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/reviews/article-steve-paikins-john-turner-biography-reveals-deeply-conflicted-man-who/
jerrykingbiographies books book_reviews Canada Canadian FTA Jean_Chrétien John_Ibbitson John_Turner Liberals Meech_Lake_Accord Pierre_Trudeau politics prime_ministers Steve_Paikin wunderkind Brian_Mulroney public_servicehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:aa6420946c59/Chrystia Freeland issues a clarion call from Canada’s foreign-policy void - The Globe and Mail2022-10-18T13:54:13+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-freeland-issues-a-clarion-call-from-canadas-foreign-policy-void/
jerrykingCanada Canadian Chrystia_Freeland foreign_policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7b03af2946ed/The Canadian tech boom is fizzling out as more startups cut jobs, fight to survive - The Globe and Mail2022-09-28T01:32:00+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadian-tech-startups-downturn-layoffs/
jerrykingCanada Canadian layoffs start_upshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4680a3103098/Opinion: There’s a case for centrism when voters are presented with two wholly unappetizing options - The Globe and Mail2022-09-17T14:30:03+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-theres-a-case-for-centrism-when-voters-are-presented-with-two-wholly/
jerryking>first principles.<< How absolute are individual rights, and in what circumstances might these be overridden? Is everyone equal? Should they be? In what ways, and in what ways not? How far would I go to make them more equal, and by what means? And so on. [i.e. = "critical thinking"]
A serious effort to think these through might well find that none of the isms fully answers these questions, on its own; each gives a part of the answer. In which case the wiser approach might well consist in taking from each what it has to offer, >>striking a balance<< between them. That begins to look like centrism.
Centrism, then, need not and should not imply an aversion to ideology. Ideology is simply the set of principles by which we make sense of the world. Centrism is the realization that a useful ideology is not necessarily contained within the limits of the conventional isms – in fact, probably isn’t.
Centrism does not mean coming down in the >>mushy middle<< on every question. It can mean a set of quite radical policies, depending on the issue – just not all drawn from the same point on the political spectrum, or reflecting only the priorities of its adherents.
On the broad question of market versus state, for example, that does not mean adopting policies that are sort-of market-based and kind-of state-directed [i.e. = "state-as-facilitator"]. It means having a clear sense of which sorts of social questions are best solved by either, and letting each get on with it.
Generally speaking, questions of allocation – what gets produced, in what quantity, at what price, etc. – are best left to the market. Distributional questions – how much each of us should get to keep of the result – are best left to the state. It’s when **we try to solve one problem with the instrument appropriate to the other** that the trouble starts.[i.e. = "category errors"/"what are you solving for?"]
A commitment to distributional equity, then, need not imply any less commitment to free markets, and vice versa. A centrist would simply insist that redistribution should be carried out via the tax and transfer system, not by fixing prices
More broadly, centrism is a rejection of false choices. It ought to be possible, for instance, to accept the need to fight climate change while insisting it should be fought at the lowest possible cost; to avoid the excesses of identity politics and still accept the need to address the concerns from which it springs; to be appalled by the grinding mediocrity of so many Canadian >>public institutions<<, without wanting to trash them altogether.
For that matter, centrism is not only a matter of policy. The opposite of centrism is not radicalism, but extremism, which is more a matter of temperament than ideology. Of the two, moderation of temperament is the more important. It is not enough to know what kind of change is needed, but how much, and not just how much change is needed, but how much is possible. All these require judgment, a balancing of competing considerations, which is to say moderation.
Is this all just a wish for an unattainable ideal? Ultimately politics is about choosing between imperfect alternatives. “Let not the perfect be the enemy of the good” is wise counsel. But that does not require us to be complacent about the choices in front of us. Let not the mediocre be the enemy of the good, either.
]]>Andrew_Coyne belief_systems Canada Canadian centrism conservatism critical_thinking extremism false_choices first_principles ideologies judgment Justin_Trudeau liberalism market-based mediocrity moderation Pierre_Poilievre political_class politics radicalism temperament unpalatable_alternatives state-as-facilitator striking_a_balance category_errors what_are_you_solving_for? mushy_middle public_institutionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c6c0cc96103e/Clement Virgo’s passion project Brother leads a Scarborough cinema revolution to TIFF - The Globe and Mail2022-09-07T20:09:45+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/tiff/article-tiff-brother-clement-virgo/
jerrykingAfrican_Canadians books Canadian Caribbean Clement_Virgo directors fiction film_adaptations filmmakers films Highland_Creek immigrants literary_cartography movies novels passions ravines Rouge_Park Scarborough television TIFF Torontohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ab421e1134cf/Canadian agtech Vive raises US$26-million as ‘farmaceutical’ nanotechnology wins over growers - The Globe and Mail2022-08-23T16:05:51+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-vive-crop-agtech-farm-pesticides/
jerrykingagriculture agribusiness Canadian farming funding start_ups vc venture_capitalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:031ece9fd716/Globe editorial: A highly contagious political virus is pouring over the Canada-U.S. border - The Globe and Mail2022-08-18T12:49:13+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-a-highly-contagious-political-virus-is-pouring-over-the-canada-us/
jerrykingCanadian Capitol_attack Conservative_Party contagions crossborder Donald_Trump extremism Pierre_Poilievre politicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f7da0f341267/Canada’s next industrial AI strategy needs to address adoption2022-07-29T20:50:34+00:00
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/june-2022/canada-ai-strategy-adoption/
jerrykingartificial_intelligence Canada Canadian customer_adoption industrial_policieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f2de4e4deb7f/Opinion: The vacuum at the centre of Canadian politics: an incompetent, unethical government faces an intemperate, >>unhinged<< opposition - The Globe and Mail2022-06-25T01:16:24+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-vacuum-at-the-centre-of-canadian-politics-an-incompetent-unethical/
jerrykingAlberta Andrew_Coyne Canadian Conservative_Party judgment Liberals politicians politics Quebec centrism unhinged mushy_middlehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:66ead290ce0a/Big hit in store for Canadian tech sector as wave of layoffs looms, industry players say - The Globe and Mail2022-06-13T23:01:05+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-bloodbath-in-store-for-canadian-tech-sector-as-wave-of-layoffs-looms/
jerrykingCanada Canadian layoffs recessions start_ups technology vc venture_capital cash_preservation burn_rates economic_downturnhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a25e39f61a74/Opinion: Pierre Poilievre is right: Fire the gatekeepers, starting with the lifelong politicians2022-05-26T13:19:00+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-conservative-leadership-pierre-poilievre-gatekeepers/
jerrykingCanada Canadian firings gatekeepers leadership_races Pierre_Poilievre politicians Robyn_Urback supply_management career_politicians political_classhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:bba731c1f36e/Opinion: The wave of anger that toppled Kenney is a danger to all conservatives2022-05-23T13:53:46+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-wave-of-anger-that-toppled-kenney-is-a-danger-to-all-conservatives/
jerryking> outrage <<. Media outlets churn out clickbait. And bad actors like Russia and China use the long arm of the internet to run elaborate thought scams on Canadians, leveraging our distrust in the media, our governments, and even each other. This has all been bubbling under the surface for years, but during pandemic lockdowns, this toxic brew boiled over as anger and isolation collided with conspiracy on a mass scale.
Too many conservatives are now trapped in their own algorithmic >>echo chambers<<. For years, they could not understand how on earth Justin Trudeau, who has appeared in full blackface, was re-elected in 2019. The fairness equilibrium in their brains broke. To this day, the “blackface” insult is hurled around the House of Commons as if the Canadian public hasn’t moved on from it. Truthfully, only Conservatives haven’t.
People have become so divided and disassociated from one another – both online and off – they no longer even see everyday Liberals or the everyday things they say. The algorithm quite literally controls what they see. As a result, a real Liberal has become a thing of myth. This phenomenon exists on the left as well, but they haven’t started to cannibalize their leaders. Yet.
How Jason Kenney went from conservatism’s future to yesterday’s man
When we lost again to Mr. Trudeau in 2021, people dove even deeper into the comfort of their rabbit holes, searching for meaning. Surely someone else is to blame for all of this. Maybe it’s Klaus Schwab or the World Economic Forum’s cabal.
Conservatism at its best is cautious, optimistic and incremental. It is roots-based. It stands for personal accountability and responsibility, the rule of law, free markets and tradition. Quite simply, it’s about conserving. But people who are so angry at the system that they want to tear it down don’t care about conserving anything. Instead, they are now the party of 4chan and Facebook.
Mr. Kenney had desperately tried to address the >>conspiracy theories<< that now plague conservative politics head on. He did this during the pandemic, referring to protesters making threats to Alberta chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw as “unhinged conspiracy theorists” who were spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines. And more recently, Mr. Kenney responded to claims he was in league with the World Economic Forum to subvert the vote on his leadership.
Confronting conspiracies was part of his strategy to hold onto the leadership, hoping to convince enough members that a growing number of people with “extreme” views were trying to disrupt the leadership and the party.
In press conferences and live Facebook videos, the Premier of one of the most important provinces in our country collectively spent hours trying to dispel disinformation. It should be shocking to Canadians that this was necessary.
It is the responsibility of our leaders in the conservative movement to stop playing footsie with nonsense. Stop dog-whistling to it. That’s not leadership, it’s cowardice. And it most certainly is not love of country. Stoking and taking advantage of the anger of the mob and those who have become twisted by conspiracy is only to love one’s own ambition.
The Conservative leadership contest currently under way has spent more time focusing on who has, and hasn’t, boarded a plane to Davos than it has on how Canada will deal with a looming geopolitical confrontation with China, or how to build supply chain resilience as the continent grapples with a startling baby formula shortage. We are indulging the dangerous fantasies of people lost in their Facebook feeds instead of acting the way **serious people**[i.e. = "grownups"] who want to govern a G7 country should act.
We will lose more conservative leaders before this war of conspiracy is over. The angry will not be satisfied. If anything, the angry have been emboldened.
So, political leaders – conservative and otherwise – you have a choice. Come together to address these toxic thought scams and conspiracies head on. Or wait to see if you are next on the pyre.]]>Alberta anger Conservative_Party conservatism COVID-19 Jason_Kenney Justin_Trudeau populism premiers prime_ministers Canada Canadian conspiracies disinformation echo_chambers Erin_O’Toole grownups lockdown outrage pandemics rogue_actors social_media WEF toxic_behaviors unhinged United_Conservative_Party conspiracy_theorieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:298f15b986a3/Opinion: So much for the electric vehicle revolution. You cannot make the machines without the metals that power them - The Globe and Mail2022-05-14T23:55:09+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-so-much-for-the-electric-vehicle-revolution-you-cannot-make-the/
jerryking> The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of the Energy Transition and Digitalization (2018) by Guillaume Pitron, a French journalist <<
]]>automotive_industry Beijing BMW books Canada Canadian China cleantech cobalt commodities critical_minerals crossborder editorials electric_cars Elon_Musk energy energy_storage Eric_Reguly Glencore GM GoC happy_talk infrastructure Justin_Trudeau lithium mining natural_resources Ottawa rare_earth_metals sovereignty strategic_planning strategic_thinking strategic_vision supply_chains Tesla Volkswagenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7030dd78ecfd/U.S. Venture Capital Is Pouring Into Canadian Enterprise Tech Startups2022-04-20T19:25:24+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-venture-capital-is-pouring-into-canadian-enterprise-tech-startups-11650276000?mod=hp_minor_pos6
jerrykingCanada Canadian IT start_ups vc venture_capital CVCPEAhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:dfdb91ab5172/Canada’s Charter turns 40 on Sunday – and it’s still as radical and enigmatic as it was in 19822022-04-17T21:58:14+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-charter-turns-40-supreme-court/
jerrykinganniversaries Canada Canadian Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms constitutions judges members_of_parliaments Ottawa Parliament Supreme_Court_of_Canada individual_rights notwithstanding_clausehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:bfcdcb3aa659/Opinion: Ottawa’s innovation policy muddle just got worse2022-04-13T13:41:18+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-ottawas-innovation-policy-muddle-just-got-worse/
jerryking>national strategies<< with laser-like focus. That does not sound like Canada.
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I remember many years ago, working at the the Ministry of Industry & Trade of Ontario (as it was called then, the name has changed), reporting to an assistant deputy minister there. All kinds of documents crossed my desk, but one I've remembered to this day: a study that showed how low the appetite of Canadians, including business and political leaders, was for risk. [i.e. = "risk-appetite"]
More than anything, this I suspect is what blocks innovation, including in R&D, in business and government. We're just not that good at taking the risks [i.e. = "risk-taking"] that come with doing something new or in a new way. Obviously this is a sweeping generalization, but this inclination definitely impacts **creative people** who want to do things in a new way in science, business, the arts, etc., and why so many of these types of people go somewhere else.
I've observed this in my own life, with some of the creative people I've known.They've had a very frustrating time, especially when trying to raise money that they need to do something that hasn't already got a track record. Working with as many American clients as I do, I know that this is far less of a barrier in the States than it is here. People there will ''take a chance''.
]]>breakthroughs broad-based_scientific_enquiry Canada Canadian Chrystia_Freeland Conservative_Party DARPA envy Finland innovation innovation_policies Israel Konrad_Yakabuski Liberals moonshots muddling_through national_strategies Ottawa policymakers public-private_partnerships public_funding public_investments creative_types industrial_policies risk-appetite risk-takinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7687c6a9ab5a/Opinion: After decades of timidity, can Canada’s allies still take us seriously? - The Globe and Mail2022-04-07T18:55:44+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-after-decades-of-timidity-can-canadas-allies-still-take-us-seriously/
jerrykingCanada Canadian timidityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5c1286f1740d/Opinion: A message to Conservatives: Smarten up – serious times need serious leaders - The Globe and Mail2022-03-14T04:23:54+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-a-message-to-conservatives-smarten-up-serious-times-need-serious/
jerryking>bit player<< in the larger drama that is now being played out. But we are a part of NATO. Our vote matters, as does our counsel, and our example; the collective defence of all will depend upon the resolve that countries like us display, and the sacrifices we are prepared to make. We also share the Arctic Circle with Russia. We cannot assume any longer that it would not test our sovereignty in the North, as it might test our willingness to defend other countries.
So it very much matters who leads us. It matters what their policies are, but it matters more who they are: character and judgment, experience and temperament, are suddenly at a premium. With the threat of nuclear armageddon hanging in the air, we are in need of the most sure-footed possible political leadership. We need it in government. But we need it also in opposition, in the government-in-waiting.
This Conservative leadership race, then, takes on unusual importance. Opinion will vary on the current Prime Minister’s qualities as a leader, but what is indisputable is that the opposition has a duty to provide the country with an alternative: to elect a leader who could credibly step into the job at any moment and provide as good or better leadership in a crisis.
A great deal of time and energy will be spent in the coming campaign seeking to persuade Conservative voters of the vast ideological differences that supposedly separate the leading candidates. No doubt there are some. But frankly most of these are trivial, in the grand scheme of things. And they fade in importance in times like these.
Given a choice between a candidate whose policies I prefer, but who lacked the requisite qualities of leadership, and a candidate deficient in policy but well supplied in character and judgment, I would unhesitatingly choose the latter. That is the choice that matters in this race: not between right and left, or Blue Tories versus Red, but between adolescence and adulthood. [i.e. = See "Scriptures" = "1 Corinthians 13:11"--" When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things."]
Not that there is any necessary contradiction between ideology and maturity. If anything the two are linked. If you want your party to get a hearing for its ideas, all the more reason to prefer a leader with conspicuous good judgment. I’ve said it before: **the >>moderation<< that matters, the moderation that most voters look for, is not of ideology, but of tone and >>temperament<<**. This is an especially important lesson for Conservatives to learn. Too many Conservatives make the same mistake as their most blinkered opponents – of confusing being conservative with being a jerk. Stephen Harper was certainly blessed with the ability to irritate Liberals , but in 10 years in government left precious little in the way of a lasting conservative legacy.
What he did leave was a party that was all too prone to gratuitously picking needless fights [i.e. = "hyper-partisanship"/"score-settling"/"thin-skinned"]and peddling >>conspiracy theories<< – the party, or rather that section of it that is attracted to this sort of thing, that thinks the World Economic Forum is a threat to our freedom, but cheered on the lawless mob that occupied Ottawa. To subscribe to such idiocies does not prove you are a principled conservative. It merely marks you as unfit to govern.
That is what the party will have to decide in this race: whether it wants to be a serious party with serious ambitions of governing, or a marginal party for marginal cranks. Again: this is not about ideology! A party that put forward radical proposals to raise Canada’s productivity, to restore order to our finances, to repair our bedraggled military, or to reform our dysfunctional democracy, would be offering the country a useful alternative to the Liberals. With the right salesman, it could find a market.
The country needs a self-confident, >>ideas-based<< Conservative Party. Most of all, it needs a party led by >>grownups<<, who can persuade a nervous public they have the character and judgment to lead the country through the dark days that might lie ahead – who not only can win, but might deserve to.
]]>Andrew_Coyne Arctic Canada Canadian character_traits Conservative_Party dangerous_world experience false_sense_of_security fecklessness grownups ideas-based invasions judgment leaders leadership leadership_races Liberals liberal_democracies magical_thinking muddling_through naivete policy_positions political_leaders political_leadership political_maturity politically_unserious Russia serious_people temperament Ukraine Vladimir_Putin war wartime recklessness Scriptures hyper-partisanship score-settling bit_players moderation conspiracy_theorieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8899cf549d8c/Globe editorial: Who gets to define what a Canadian Conservative is: our history, or Fox News? - The Globe and Mail2022-03-11T22:21:58+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-who-gets-to-define-what-a-canadian-conservative-is-our-history-or-fox/
jerrykingCanadian conservatism Conservative_Party editorials Fox_News history Jean_Charesthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a143d132eb32/Canada has a strategy for a critical minerals. But there are some critical issues: Ambition doesn't always jibe with actions,2022-01-26T00:40:20+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/cf8fbf8391a4d9b02e4d
jerrykingBeijing Canada Canadian China cleantech critical_minerals crossborder editorials electric_cars energy energy_storage GoC happy_talk hydropower infrastructure Justin_Trudeau mining natural_resources Ottawa Quebec rare_earth_metals sovereignty strategic_planning strategic_thinking strategic_vision supply_chains Washington_D.C. wishful_thinking lithium national_strategieshttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:97a60f0ea0f6/Astronaut Roberta Bondar is cultivating curiosity on Earth, 30 years after she saw it from space2022-01-23T22:43:41+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/1932d5c08ae21231e3e7
jerrykingastronauts Canadian curiosity NASA physicians scientists space_exploration trailblazers women anniversarieshttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:119895dc715e/Canadian spycraft at risk if documents released on scientists' firing, ex-national security adviser warns2022-01-22T18:00:27+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/60da9632a1912807c9fa
jerrykingCanada Canadian classified_information intelligence-gathering mandarins PMO spycraft disease RCMP scientists security_&_intelligencehttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:49700bcc329c/What are the best streaming services in Canada? Comparing Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and more2022-01-19T16:23:42+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/8967f6a5ae7ef419851d
jerrykingAmazon_Prime Apple_TV best_of Canada Canadian entertainment Netflix streaming subscriptionshttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:286ff4829160/OPINION In a dangerous world, Canada is unprepared on every front. It needs to come to its own defence2022-01-15T05:05:07+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/915664e2e714fef817e6
jerrykingArctic Canada China collective_security complacency John_Ibbitson NATO NORAD security_&_intelligence unprepared aboriginals alliances Canadian Russia self-reliance threats self-protection dangerous_worldhttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c9557f598cb9/Does Canada need its own DARPA? Both the Liberals and Tories think so2022-01-12T21:25:57+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/8f6c5e1b0b2528847b1a
jerrykingCanada Canadian Conservative_Party DARPA envy high-reward high-risk innovation innovation_policies Konrad_Yakabuski Liberals moonshots Ottawa policymakers breakthroughs broad-based_scientific_enquiry public_funding public_investments R&D research science scientific_breakthroughs politically_insulated industrial_policieshttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8c0c43b472ce/OTTAWA ROCKER WROTE THE HIPPIE ANTHEM SIGNS: LES EMMERSON SINGER, SONGWRITER, GUITARIST, 772021-12-23T17:01:40+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/177da903f2f8c5be9b18
jerryking'70s Brad_Wheeler Canadian hippies music obituaries Ottawa singers songs anti-Establishment counterculturehttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f3b71ef970a7/Globe editorial: 25 million Canadians need a COVID-19 booster – and they need it now - The Globe and Mail2021-12-14T18:13:06+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-25-million-canadians-need-a-covid-19-booster-and-they-need-it-now/
jerrykingCanada Canadian COVID-19 United_Kingdom urgency vaccines variants Omicronhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:59c90a80e335/Derek Edwards JFL - Live In Quebec - YouTube2021-12-10T18:42:56+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLS_ZmlZooM
jerrykingCanadian funnieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1b2ddac9ff48/Vancouver’s Klue raises US$62-million as private capital giant Tiger bites further into Canadian tech - The Globe and Mail2021-12-02T03:25:55+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-tiger-global-bites-into-another-canadian-startup-leading-us62-million/
jerrykingCanada Canadian funding Tiger_Global start_ups Vancouverhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7d0839dea7fd/Emergence of Canadian unicorns sparks momentum in angel investing2021-11-10T11:09:47+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/globe-wealth/article-emergence-of-canadian-unicorns-sparks-momentum-in-angel-investing/
jerrykingangels Canada Canadian investors momentum unicornshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:77c1f2fac88f/Canada’s red-hot technology sector smashes venture-capital funding record set in dot-com bubble - The Globe and Mail2021-10-01T09:50:21+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadas-red-hot-technology-sector-smashes-venture-capital-funding/
jerrykingCanada Canadian funding start_ups vc venture_capitalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0720767d0a49/Opinion: I felt abandoned by Canada when I was held captive. I can’t imagine how the Michaels must feel - The Globe and Mail2021-09-03T18:52:20+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-i-felt-abandoned-by-canada-when-i-was-held-captive-i-cant-imagine-how/
jerryking> Sahara Desert <<, while I was serving as the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy to Niger. And unlike our colleagues in China, we had each other; Mr. Kovrig and Mr. Spavor are being held in solitary confinement.
For most of my captivity I found it difficult to believe that we had not been abandoned by Canada; then-prime minister Stephen Harper, with whom I disagreed on just about everything, would surely be loath to see his government “negotiate with terrorists,” I imagined, and as a result, we would die, alone and forsaken. I was wrong; Louis and I have enjoyed 12 marvellous years with our growing families and cherished friends. Mr. Kovrig and Mr. Spavor, however, have clearly been deserted by Justin Trudeau’s crocodile-tearing government [i.e. = "insincerity"] . How could they, in their misery and isolation, come to any other conclusion: They have been deserted by their government, and, yes, also by their fellow Canadians – good people who have stood by as their government did nothing useful to save them?
A government has no greater duty than the protection of the health and safety of its citizens. Mr. Trudeau already failed on that score five years ago, when he abandoned Canadians John Ridsdel and Robert Hall to be beheaded by the Islamic State-affiliated Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in the Philippines. The Norwegian and Philippine governments, however, intervened to save their nationals held by the same terrorist cell. Our Prime Minister’s simplistic mantra – “we will not make significant concessions to hostage-takers and terrorists” – is disingenuous. To my certain knowledge, everybody does, including those governments which pompously profess otherwise. So just whom are we trying to impress with such posturing [i.e. = "public posturing"], at the cost of the lives, suffering and sanity of Canadian citizens?
Finally, let’s be very clear: This is not somebody else’s problem. Ottawa’s beseeching Washington to fix this for us is unseemly and distasteful.
For 1,000 days, Mr. Trudeau has unctuously parroted vacuous slogans, claiming his hands are tied as he must abide by the “rule of law” – despite the fact that the issues in this case are so very clearly political rather than legal. It is not enough to simply mouth “rule of law.” In a civilized society, the rule of law is premised upon fairness and decency – hence, the doctrine of innocent until proven guilty, which Ms. Meng seems to be enjoying in Canada. Preaching about the rule of law or the norms of international behaviour to China, Russia and far too many others is not simply naïve; it is unforgivably – and, in the case of the two Michaels, cruelly – stupid. In this regard let’s remember that those sanctimonious posturers who so steadfastly and vainly insist that Canada must teach China lessons in international diplomacy, who hold that by declaring the Chinese detention of our two Michaels to be unacceptable, will cause it to end – all at the cost of the safety and sanity of Mr. Spavor and Mr. Kovrig - are largely the same crew who so steadfastly proclaimed that we were ever succeeding in turning Afghanistan into a bastion of freedom, feminism and democracy.
In recent days, our government has been crowing about its success in extracting [i.e. = "evacuations"] 3,700 people – including the family of friends of mine - from Kabul by brave Canadian soldiers. Our government clearly wants us to forget that there remain more than 2,000 Afghans who provided vital assistance to Canada and who, in addition to more than 1,200 Canadian citizens and permanent residents, have been left to the tender mercies of “our brothers, the Taliban” and IS-K in Afghanistan.
If only the government had heeded the call of the Afghan Canadian Interpreters Initiative in 2017 to bring their brothers-in-arms to Canada. More recently, how many of those we have left behind could have been saved if the government had acted expeditiously in answer to the letter sent to key ministers in early July by three Canadian Afghan Task Force commanders who demanded an extraordinary effort to “ensure the safety and well-being of those Afghan nationals who served alongside Canadian soldiers, development officers and diplomats?”
The fates of Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor – and also those of Robert Hall, John Ridsdel, and all those loyal Afghans who have been abandoned by Canada in Kabul – will leave an indelible stain on the legacy of the Trudeau government.
]]>captivity China China_rising empathy exits hostages Huawei Justin_Trudeau Maghreb mandarins Meng_Wanzhou norms ransom rule_of_law security_&_intelligence Stephen_Harper Taliban Two_Michaels vacuousness abandonment Afghanistan Beijing Canada Canadian Islamists jihadis withdrawals Robert_Fowler Canada-China_relations Canadian_Forces GoC Ottawa kidnappings AQIM hostage_diplomacy evacuations insincerity public_posturing DND the_Saharahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9617983074e0/Opinion: The U.S.’s disastrous Afghanistan exit should send a dire signal to the rest of the West - The Globe and Mail2021-08-21T21:11:16+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-uss-disastrous-afghanistan-exit-should-send-a-dire-signal-to-the/
jerrykingabandonment Beijing China China_rising exits Islamists Joe_Biden liberal_democracies Moscow NATO Pakistan Richard_Fadden security_&_intelligence spymasters Taliban U.S._military unintended_consequences withdrawals Afghanistan Canada Canadian Donald_Trump execution jihadis precipitousness Russia U.S.https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:046858c657a2/Ideas for Sale: Why IP is a Symptom, Not a Cause, of Canada’s Failure to Scale2021-06-03T16:43:26+00:00
https://innovationeconomycouncil.com/reports/ideas-for-sale/
jerrykingCanada Canadian ideas innovation intellectual_property scaling start_ups symptomshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b731f7edb9c2/A GUIDE TO THE CANADIAN VENTURE CAPITAL ECOSYSTEM2021-04-01T18:09:38+00:00
https://www.cvca.ca/files/CVCA-TCS_The50_2021Edition.pdf
jerrykingCanada Canadian ecosystems vc venture_capitalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:cf652b455dee/Opinion: Bay Street supports board diversity in theory, but not in practice. Time to end the hypocrisy - The Globe and Mail2021-03-22T01:47:32+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-power-gap-bay-street/
jerrykingBay_Street boards_&_directors_&_governance Canada Canadian diversity gender_gap glass_ceilings no_excuses old_boys_network public_posturing women power_structures systemic_discrimination hypocrisy exclusion under-representationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:15a19b3becbe/Opinion: Canada’s North: By China for China - The Globe and Mail2021-03-12T18:44:02+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canadas-north-by-china-for-china/
jerrykingCanada infrastructure natural_resources sovereignty strategic_planning strategic_thinking wishful_thinking Arctic assertiveness Beijing Canadian China GoC Greenland happy_talk Ottawa strategic_vision critical_mineralshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ffce73073cdf/Six Canadian tech companies eyeing IPOs amid investor craze for digital stocks - The Globe and Mail2021-01-16T19:01:35+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-six-canadian-tech-companies-eyeing-ipos-amid-investor-craze-for/
jerrykingCanadian IPOs software start_upshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8df033d1ac32/BlackBerry looks to sell majority of its patents as it refocuses2020-11-18T17:23:39+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-blackberry-looks-to-sell-majority-of-its-patents-as-it-refocuses/
jerryking>learn from other<< successful innovation nations, it is clear that no innovation plan is complete without clear support for and understanding of the strategic use of intellectual property.”]]>Canada Canadian BlackBerry intellectual_property licensing patents selling_off innovation_policies turning_points cyber_security public_funding R&D subsidies portfolio_management IP_retention patent_aggregators patent_brokers portfolios ranked_list rankings sellout_culture refocusing learning_from_othershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d1016b21f76e/Obituary: John Turner, PM for 79 days, was old Liberalism’s darling and its final, flawed champion - The Globe and Mail2020-09-19T21:36:14+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-obituary-john-turner-pm-for-79-days-was-old-liberalisms-darling/
jerrykingCanada Canadian John_Turner obituaries politicians prime_ministershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:09bffe0094cb/Remembering Richard Gwyn | TVO.org2020-08-20T03:08:10+00:00
https://www.tvo.org/article/remembering-richard-gwyn
jerrykingAlzheimer’s_disease authors Canada Canadian columnists history journalists obituaries Richard_Gwyn Steve_Paikin Torstar TVO unconventional_thinking writers Sir_John_A._Macdonald crazy_ideas muddling_through original_thinking radical_ideashttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fee2cda0ab0e/Tech startups are the foundation of Canada’s economic revival and will need stimulus to survive - MaRS Discovery District2020-05-07T15:53:57+00:00
https://www.marsdd.com/magazine/tech-startups-are-the-foundation-of-canadas-economic-revival-and-will-need-stimulus-to-survive/
jerryking21st._century angels Barrie_McKenna Canada Canadian COVID-19 digital_economy ecosystems economic_stimulus GoC IRAP leaders policy policymakers policymaking post-coronavirus_era start_ups supply_chains vc venture_capital domestic_supplyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:41f03b18f93f/Take this warning: the postpandemic economic order will be driven by geopolitics2020-05-06T01:30:57+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-take-this-warning-the-post-pandemic-economic-order-will-be-be-driven/
jerryking>industrial policy<< – a >>national strategy<< to succeed........The liberal order is gone – well, being radically changed – due to superpower rivalry between the United States and China. They refer to the end of the Washington Consensus, the rules-based economic system built since the Second World War. The old order has changed, the authors warn, and it is not coming back........China gives or takes access to its market as a political favour. The United States threatens tariffs for leverage. Canada takes its complaints to a World Trade Organization gummed up by the United States. And the bipartisan U.S. political consensus for confronting China goes beyond President Donald Trump....Economic nationalism had already surged on the right, and not just in the United States. ...Shortages of N95 face masks have people like Ontario Premier Doug Ford arguing Canada should create supply chains to make this necessary stuff – and more stuff generally – at home......technology is spurring geo-economics. ....there is a growing “intangibles economy” – intellectual property, software, data and brands.....there are increasingly, dispute in that intangibles economy.......rival superpowers, increasingly see their tech economies as security architecture....with the world developing a “splinternet,” and with overlapping security and protectionist interests. Does the United States want Huawei excluded from 5G networks for security or >>economic reasons< The answer is yes.....For Canada, bound to the U.S. by security and trade interests, excluding Huawei from 5G is starting to look like a no-brainer. Yet China will still retaliate. The United States will still put its own geo-economic interests first......figure out a Canadian path. The authors argue for a “challenge-driven” industrial policy to spur development in key areas [i.e. = "critical technologies"], not subsidize companies......There’s a new world now!!
]]>5G 21st._century Canada Canadian COVID-19 digital_economy Donald_Trump Doug_Ford economic_nationalism geopolitics globalization Huawei industrial_policies inflection_points intangibles international_system middle-powers new_tech_Cold_War post-coronavirus_era retaliation rivalries rules-based security_&_intelligence self-sufficiency superpowers supply_chains U.S.-China_relations unilateralism WTO domestic_supply economic_policy splinternet critical_technologies national_strategies economic_reasonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:941b15a17f8a/How to protect Canadian innovation - The Globe and Mail2020-05-04T22:08:35+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/how-to-protect-canadian-innovation/article15172654/
jerrykingassets Canadian economic_nationalism Fairfax howto innovation patents playbooks private_equityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3cd1ac4f77f3/Visionary diplomat Allan Gotlieb was 'a shrewd player of the power game’2020-04-22T18:42:37+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-visionary-diplomat-was-a-shrewd-player-of-the-power-game/
jerryking'80s advocacy Allan_Gotlieb Brian_Mulroney Canada Canadian crossborder diplomacy FTA free-trade GoC HLS Ivy_League Janice_Gross_Stein mandarins obituaries Oxford public_service visionaries Rhodes Ronald_Reagan strivers Washington_D.C. William_Thorsell External_Affairs power_brokers game_changers J.L._Granatstein public_advocacyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:976cbeec0ae2/Ottawa unveils $250-million in pandemic funding for early-stage tech companies - The Globe and Mail2020-04-17T16:33:15+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ottawa-unveils-250-million-in-pandemic-funding-for-early-stage-tech/#comments
jerrykingCanadian COVID-19 early-stage funding GoC IRAP pandemics start_ups vc venture_capitalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b816fba0685d/Meet Jade Raymond, the Canadian woman behind Google Stadia - The Globe and Mail2020-04-13T14:34:30+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-meet-jade-raymond-the-canadian-woman-behind-google-stadia/
jerrykingCanadian Google videogames womenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8cec3964d1ed/Historical lessons for unprecedented times | TVO.org2020-04-02T06:50:18+00:00
https://www.tvo.org/article/historical-lessons-for-unprecedented-times
jerrykingCanada Canadian history lessons_learned pandemics universal_basic_income 9/11 AIDS Cold_War COVID-19 economic_downturn GoC HIV the_Great_Depression unemployment_rates whole-of-government WWI WWII Spanish_flu historical_lessonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:adbec6380e89/Georgian Partners closes largest independent VC fund in Canadian history2020-02-15T00:54:38+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/streetwise/article-georgian-partners-hits-us550-million-target-creating-largest/
jerrykingartificial_intelligence Canadian Georgian_Partners high-impact Sean_Silcoff Shopify Toronto vc venture_capital Bessemer_Venture_Partnershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0741e13d4e2a/Scaling Success Lazaridis Institute Whitepaper2020-01-07T02:10:34+00:00
https://deepcentre.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Scaling-Success-Lazaridis-Institute-Whitepaper-March-2016.pdf
jerryking>founders<< of, and >>investors<< in, high-growth technology firms—-to talk about the major **impediments** facing these firms. Their comments indicated a significant **knowledge gap** [i.e. = "information gap"] related to the role management and executive skills play among these growth challenges. Their feedback also demonstrated a shared understanding that scaling a technology company in today’s global marketplace is radically different than in previous eras. The analysis of this data reveals the following key findings:
• While science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related (STEM) talent is
abundant, the >>talent pool<< in general lacks business and management knowledge.
• Shortages of experienced management and/or executive talent are the primary **inhibitors** to scaling up.
• Canadian technology firms lack key management competencies in specific areas including sales, marketing, organizational design and product management.
• The talent shortage is linked to the lack of existing and/or exited growth firms in Canada’s technology sector.
These findings underscore the importance of building a well-rounded cadre of managers and executives in Canada’s technology sector. Doing so must take into consideration the fact that today’s technology markets are distinguished by far shorter >>time-to-market<< and product life cycles, as well as a generally more complex global operating environment.
This white paper presents an in-depth review of the challenges facing Canadian high-tech firms and develops a strong evidence base upon which to build future initiatives designed to address them.The work represents an important first step by the Lazaridis Institute to help a next generation of Canadian technology companies scale into global leaders.]]>Canada Canadian gazelles high-growth investors scaling start_ups talent technology Colleges_&_Universities Kitchener-Waterloo knowledge_economy WLU Mike_Lazaridis team_risk founders obstacles skills_shortage talent_pools time-to-market information_gaps talent_gapshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:34d5a23b3f66/The U.S. is sinking. Maybe it's time for Canada to jump ship.2019-11-04T03:45:44+00:00
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-u-s-is-sinking-maybe-its-time-for-canada-to-jump-ship/amp/?fbclid=IwAR1F7L39u_-ikRdBy88DR-uyhuRgEiu3aurBk5IcSu4D-EtHoJlHIp9cf5Y
jerryking>foreign policy<<. At the >>geopolitical<< level, **tectonic shifts** in world power are leading to a relative decline in American dominance.......Institutionally, the >>U.S. State Department<< is in utter disarray......>>Donald Trump<< is steering from one collision to another.....we can speculate whether the U.S. decline is an inevitable result of historical political and demographic trends. Or whether it's entirely due to Donald Trump.....whether incompetence or fate, there is no question the American ship of state is leaking badly. The question we should now be asking ourselves, as Canadians, is whether we should help bail or build our own raft.....The instinctive answer is to grab a bucket......In the halls of Global Affairs Canada, the orthodoxy is that we sink or swim with Washington, and therefore, when the Trump circus finally leaves town, we should undoubtedly be there to help rebuild American prestige and influence wherever we can.
But—what if we didn’t? What if we simply boarded our own raft, or paddled over to another ally? What if we decided to “Trump-proof” Canada? What if we consciously and ambitiously began to build a new foreign policy alignment in anticipation of the next American wreck?.....Who else supports human rights, a >>rules-based<< >>international system<< and strong Western institutions like >>NATO< The obvious answer is the EU......we are far more likely to achieve our >>common goal<>multilateralism<< and the >>rule of law<< if we join forces more closely. As Canada’s diplomats begin to brief Canada’s next government on the menu of foreign policy options, it would be nice to think that there is a tiny footnote that points out this one small but true idea—when it comes to Washington, there are other options.]]>America_in_Decline? Canada Canadian crossborder beyondtheU.S. Donald_Trump EU foreign_policy geopolitics Global_Affairs_Canada international_system middle-powers multilateralism retreats rules-based rule_of_law Scott_Gilmore seismic_shifts Trump-proofing U.S._State_Department imperial_overstretch Washington_D.C. U.S.foreign_policy generating_strategic_options disarray common_goalshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5070bf35af53/Newfoundland software company Verafin secures largest ever Canadian venture deal with $515-million transaction - The Globe and Mail2019-10-07T02:05:45+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-newfoundland-software-company-verafin-secures-largest-ever-canadian/
jerrykingCanadian venture_capital Newfoundland fin-tech Verafin financial_crimes financial_institutions fraud_detection IVPhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:09800732e558/Companies should learn from history to avoid repeating mistakes of the past2019-09-28T21:44:01+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/careers/management/article-companies-should-learn-from-history-to-avoid-repeating-mistakes-of-the/
jerrykingbest_of books business_archives business_history Canada Canadian Harvey_Schachter history Joe_Martin lessons_learned Michael_Bliss quotes recessions Rotman boom-to-bust dotcom historical_lessons sanitizationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:83cc12974246/Opinion: How patents really work in the innovation economy - The Globe and Mail2019-08-10T02:38:54+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-how-patents-really-work-in-the-innovation-economy/
jerrykingintellectual_property patents patent_trolls Canada Canadian cross-licensing patent_infringement patent_law USPTO patent_litigation workarounds patent_expirations patent_assertion patent_licensing revenue_generationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fcb751c3f864/Opinion: Canadian CEOs facing an innovation disconnect - The Globe and Mail2019-05-30T15:59:04+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canadian-ceos-facing-an-innovation-disconnect/
jerrykingCanadian CEOS collaboration disruption innovation large_companies start_ups failure-toleranthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:dece8ef83a66/