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Policy & Regulation
AIDA, Bill C-27, the Standing Committee on AI. What Ottawa is writing, who it binds, and what it means for builders and operators.
Canadian Shield tracks the policy, technology, and architecture that determines whose data Canada runs on — and what we build on top of it.
The Canadian Shield is the oldest exposed rock on Earth — the bedrock on which a country was built.
The new shield is data: where it lives, who controls it, how it moves, and what runs on top of it.
This site is the surface for that conversation — read by the people inside Canadian boardrooms, agencies, and labs who are actually deciding it.
AIDA, Bill C-27, the Standing Committee on AI. What Ottawa is writing, who it binds, and what it means for builders and operators.
Where Canadian data physically sits. Hyperscaler footprints, sovereign clouds, PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 in practice.
The orchestration layer above the model. Agents, MCP, A2A, vector stores — the substrate that turns LLMs into infrastructure.
What mattered in seven days, cut to a single page. Five signals, three policies, one thing we got wrong last week.
One email, Friday morning. The week's most consequential moves in Canadian data, AI, and policy — cut to a single page.
The bill is still officially on the order paper, but the rooms it used to fill have moved on. A guide to where the actual obligations now sit.
Read the dispatch →Data at rest in ca-central-1 is table stakes. The harder question is what flows out at inference time — and who can read it.
Every Canadian enterprise will be running agents inside the year. The protocol they speak was written without us in the room.
Read the dispatch →