- Canada Doesn’t Need a Bigger AI Machine. It Needs a Better One.
Canada does need AI infrastructure. But without consent, climate discipline, Indigenous governance, and community benefit, bigger just means faster extraction.
- AI Won’t Fix Your Broken Permit Process
AI will not repair broken civic systems by itself. Permit reform needs better process, public accountability, and human judgment before automation can help.
- Vancouver World Cup 2026 Hackathon & Design Jam
MADE ON is a World Cup protest kit collection that took double silver at the Vancouver Made hackathon. Everyone else made a souvenir. We made the receipt, with every claim cited on the hem, and a settler artist’s refusal to make the celebration jersey.
- The Ethos Lab Block Party Album
I set up a booth at the Eth??s Lab block party and asked people for one true thing. Eleven people called my bluff. By sundown we had eleven songs. The machine is the least interesting part of this story.
- The Great Canadian Proximity Game
Canada launched its AI for All strategy this week, and the applause economy switched on within the hour. Here is the difference between cheering for a strategy and actually delivering one.
- A Practical Guide to Agentic Workflows
A practical operating model for routing AI work through canonical skills, explicit gates, and evidence loops instead of treating every task like a one-off prompt with a fancy hat.
- Why We Built the Responsible AI Professional Certification
Why BC + AI built the Responsible AI Professional Certification: practical governance, real artifacts, and a community-grounded way to make better AI decisions before deployment.
- Jordan Dack Asked the Questions Most Hosts Skip (STORYHIVE On Location, Victoria)
An ~80-minute STORYHIVE On Location sit-down with Jordan Dack at Haus of Owl in Victoria — territory acknowledged, facts-or-fiction warm-up, both hands full on broadcast, Vancouver AI as infrastructure, and why human rooms still matter when the synthetic flood arrives.
- Sovereign AI for Whom?
A Web Summit Vancouver open letter asking who sovereign AI is really for; the neighbourhoods, host Nations, artists, builders, and citizens expected to carry the load.
- Speak It Into Existence: Voice-First AI Workflows
Voice-first AI is not just faster typing. It carries cadence, urgency, slang, uncertainty, worldview, and the human mess your fingers often filter out before the machine ever gets a chance to help.
- Canada’s AI for All Strategy: A Skeptical Guide to the Hype, the Money, and the Missing Guardrails
A refreshed skeptical guide to Canada’s June 4, 2026 AI for All strategy: what Carney and Solomon promised, what later coverage added, and where the public should keep asking for receipts.
- AI Keynote Slides Need Taste Before Prompts
My creative operating system for turning raw talk notes into prompts, graphics, slides, websites, posts, guides, and other artifacts without letting AI flatten the work into generic slop.
Canada does need AI infrastructure. But without consent, climate discipline, Indigenous governance, and community benefit, bigger just means faster extraction.
AI will not repair broken civic systems by itself. Permit reform needs better process, public accountability, and human judgment before automation can help.
MADE ON is a World Cup protest kit collection that took double silver at the Vancouver Made hackathon. Everyone else made a souvenir. We made the receipt, with every claim cited on the hem, and a settler artist’s refusal to make the celebration jersey.
I set up a booth at the Eth??s Lab block party and asked people for one true thing. Eleven people called my bluff. By sundown we had eleven songs. The machine is the least interesting part of this story.
Canada launched its AI for All strategy this week, and the applause economy switched on within the hour. Here is the difference between cheering for a strategy and actually delivering one.
A practical operating model for routing AI work through canonical skills, explicit gates, and evidence loops instead of treating every task like a one-off prompt with a fancy hat.
Why BC + AI built the Responsible AI Professional Certification: practical governance, real artifacts, and a community-grounded way to make better AI decisions before deployment.
An ~80-minute STORYHIVE On Location sit-down with Jordan Dack at Haus of Owl in Victoria — territory acknowledged, facts-or-fiction warm-up, both hands full on broadcast, Vancouver AI as infrastructure, and why human rooms still matter when the synthetic flood arrives.
A Web Summit Vancouver open letter asking who sovereign AI is really for; the neighbourhoods, host Nations, artists, builders, and citizens expected to carry the load.
Voice-first AI is not just faster typing. It carries cadence, urgency, slang, uncertainty, worldview, and the human mess your fingers often filter out before the machine ever gets a chance to help.
My creative operating system for turning raw talk notes into prompts, graphics, slides, websites, posts, guides, and other artifacts without letting AI flatten the work into generic slop.