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JE Fred Wilson. @fwilson2.bsky.social

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Oct 30

Will Canada shape investment to fit industrial policy or leave the job to investors?

The Investment Summit’s Ironic Refutation, while Canada searches for its CD Howe

Will Canada shape investment to fit industrial policy or leave the job to investors?

Regan Gorman

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Sep 14

What I said 10 years ago….

November 17, 2016…..almost 10 years to the day, I wrote an open letter to out then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about treating President…

JE Fred Wilson. @fwilson2.bsky.social

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Aug 26

Wartime Canada and the under-represented left

Canadian politics changed fundamentally in early 2025 when the US launched a trade war and openly threatened Canada’s sovereignty, leading…

Wartime Canada and the under-represented left

David Russell Beach

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Aug 25

Elbows Up

I’ve been chatting these past days with my Canadian friend, Mary Elizabeth. Watching the relationship between the United States and Canada…

A sign that reads “Elbows Up Canada” with the Canadian flag in front of the Parliament Building in Ottawa.

Cory Doctorow

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Aug 24

How Canada can save Americans and defeat America

True Carneyism has never been tried.

A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 29

Disenshittification Nation

How Canada can defend itself from Trump, make billions of dollars, and build a new, global, good internet.

A turn of the century Main Street, USA. Over the horizon looms a giant Canadian flag, made out of circuitry. In the foreground is a pixelboard sign reading ‘U.S. BORDER CLOSED.’

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 17

The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification

Regulatory arbitrage isn’t just for tax cheats.

A green Irish pillarbox, standing before a verdant, rolling Irish countryside. The pillarbox is emblazoned with the poop emoji from the cover of ‘Enshittification,’ with angry eyebrows and a grawlix-scrawled black bar over its mouth. Image: Stuart Caie (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Double_aperture_Irish_pillar_box_in_Dublin_2008.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en — Sourabh.biswas003 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PXL_20

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 15

How the Light Gets In

The door is open a crack!

A wall with a crack running through it. Light is flooding through the crack. Circuit board traces are bleeding through the periphery of the wall. Image: Joe Mabel (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_-_619_Western_-_crack_in_wall.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 13

Sorry, eh

I sincerely regret that all my ideas will not lose billions of dollars, destroy jobs or make your country more dependent on American tech.

A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 12

A winning trade war strategy for Canada

Tech giants are also the enemy of American businesses.

A turn of the century Main Street, USA. Over the horizon looms a giant Canadian flag, made out of circuitry. In the foreground is a pixelboard sign reading ‘U.S. BORDER CLOSED.’