Canada's AI Data Centre Principles Ask Less of Google Than Google Itself Offered

Ottawa published five principles on September 3 and 23 companies signed. None of it binds anyone. The fixes all run through what Ottawa buys and what it…

Sep 4 • Shion Guha, PhD

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August 2026

Canada's AI Rules Let IRCC Set Its Own Terms

Canada's impact assessment documents the visa triage system without explaining any individual refusal, and applicants form folk theories of how it…

Aug 24 • Shion Guha, PhD

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Ontario Wrote New Data Centre Rules. Your City Doesn't Get a Say.

Ontario's new playbook never says which data centres it covers, when it takes effect, or what happens if a company breaks its promises.

Aug 13 • Shion Guha, PhD

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Not Every AI Data Centre Is Canada's AI Data Centre

Ottawa is calling a $13 billion Meta facility part of Canadian sovereignty. Its own briefing note says otherwise.

Aug 5 • Shion Guha, PhD

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July 2026

Why a Global Ethics Course Won’t Fix Public AI

At the launch of the UNESCO-LG AI Research Global MOOC on the Ethics of AI, and why fairness in public services is decided by the agency, long after the…

Jul 21 • Shion Guha, PhD

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When "Doing More With Less" Leaves Someone With Nothing

Under a real shortage, the ranking itself decides who loses, and a smarter model cannot change that.

Jul 13 • Shion Guha, PhD

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Why a Smarter Algorithm Won't Get Anyone Off the Street.

Better AI cannot fix a shortage of homes.

Jul 1 • Shion Guha, PhD

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June 2026

When Better AI Makes Public Services Worse.

Why a sharper algorithm can widen the gap it was meant to close, and what to build instead.

Jun 22 • Shion Guha, PhD

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Ottawa Logged 409 AI Systems. The Most Important Fields Are Blank.

We read all 409 entries in Canada's first federal AI register. It records the tools in detail and stays silent on the discretion, training, and…

Jun 17 • Shion Guha, PhD

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AI For All Requires Governance For All

Canada’s new national AI strategy gets the ambition right. The governance that decides whether it serves the public is the part it mostly defers.

Jun 4 • Shion Guha, PhD

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Canada's "Sovereign" AI Runs on American Chips

We are spending billions on the word "sovereign". On the data-centre rush, the supply chain nobody mentions, and the public process we are skipping.

Jun 2 • Shion Guha, PhD

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May 2026

Between Two Keynotes

What happened when I took the Accuracy Trap to a TMU workshop on migration and AI

May 27 • Shion Guha, PhD

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