Host of The Elias Makos Show on @CJAD800 - Weekdays 9am-noon. Quebec/Canadian politics, Tesla/EVs, & Baseball, some Star Trek. Former @Montreal_Expos PR man.
Canada blowing the AI race catastrophically when we basically invented the tech over at UofT & UdeM is like 1000 Avro Arrows.
The solution to this isn’t luddism though! Put some basic regs on land/resource usage + no direct subsidies and call it a day, we have catching up to do
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Habs forward Ivan Demidov may lose his Québec driver’s licence. Journal de Montréal reports he got caught going 111 in a 70 zone on the Bonaventure expressway, this after getting dinged going 145 on highway 40 through Trois-Rivières in February.
Demidov has a probationary licence for new driver, so those two tickets should mean a loss of his driving privileges in the province.
- Mark Carney tells the New York Times he’s actively trying to end Canada’s dependency on Starlink, the only U.S. company he mentions by name.
- A week later, Elon Musk advocates for Quebec, Alberta, and Saskatchewan separation in some replies on X.
- A week after that, Canadian government seemingly changes Chinese EV import rules to limit Tesla. 🍿
- Mark Carney tells the New York Times he’s actively trying to end Canada’s dependency on Starlink, the only U.S. company he mentions by name.
- A week later, Elon Musk advocates for Quebec, Alberta, and Saskatchewan separation in some replies on X.
- A week after that, Canadian government seemingly changes Chinese EV import rules to limit Tesla. 🍿