Category Bureaucracy

Strategic Retreat: How the Business Development Bank of Canada Betrayed the Nation’s Innovation Defences During a Trade War

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Strategic Retreat: How the Business Development Bank of Canada Betrayed the Nation’s Innovation Defences During a Trade War Introduction – Surrender in Silence While Canada drifts headless through its 2025 federal election under the caretaker convention, the Business Development Bank…

Conflict by Design: How the CNSC Greenlit a Radioactive Timebomb at Chalk River

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Conflict by Design: How the CNSC Greenlit a Radioactive Timebomb at Chalk River I. Executive Summary – When the Watchdog Wags Its Tail The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) would like you to believe it is Canada’s impartial guardian of…

Sovereignty, Secrecy, and the State of Exception: How One Privacy Request Exposed a Canadian Nuclear Crisis

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Sovereignty, Secrecy, and the State of Exception: How One Privacy Request Exposed a Canadian Nuclear Crisis Editor’s Note – They Opened the File. Then They Shut Their Mouths. This article was finalized on March 31, 2025. However, we voluntarily embargoed…

The Quietest Trigger: When a Privacy Act Request Shook Canada’s Nuclear Bureaucracy

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The Quietest Trigger: When a Privacy Act Request Shook Canada’s Nuclear Bureaucracy I. Introduction – “The Quietest Trigger” At 4:00 p.m. on a Friday, twelve information access requests were submitted to federal institutions across Ottawa. No press release. No media…

The Bureaucratic Killbox: How to Collapse USAID, AI Ethics Grifters & Narrative Control in Real Time

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The Bureaucratic Killbox: How to Collapse USAID, AI Ethics Grifters & Narrative Control in Real TimeI. Introduction: The Battle for Reality Was Inevitable There was no world in which the system didn’t fight back. It doesn’t matter whether you’re exposing…