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The Groundbreakers retweeted
The goal should be to make southern Alberta as competitive as possible and then ensure each community understands, improves and communicates the particular value it offers within that regional economy.
Asking the Wrong Questions – Part 1 linkedin.com/pulse/asking-wr… via @LinkedIn
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Canada is the best-connected economy in the world, with tariff-free access to 1.5 billion consumers globally.
That’s why we’re building new ports, trade corridors, roads, bridges — the infrastructure that will make it even easier to sell the things Canadians grow, produce, and manufacture to more customers around the world.
ALT Prime Minister Carney visiting the Port of Vancouver.
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Another exciting collaboration for Lethbridge County as we help support the development of new tools to unlock innovation in regional economic development.
County partners with The Groundbreakers to explore new tools for regional economic growth' lethcounty.ca/p/news/a561ac2…'
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Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty.
1. Your AI sovereignty dictates your institution’s future. Sovereignty is the precondition for choice. Relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others, who are likely to exploit it for their gain and your loss.
2. Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril. Your ability to win is dictated by your ability to recognize and use your unique edges, and you keep winning by compounding the underlying data to generate new insights. Transferring that data hands over access to your pre-existing winning plays and yields the means of production for new ones.
3. Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value.
4. Controlling your weights is controlling your fate. Weights are the distilled form of hard-won, accumulated institutional knowledge. If you let others control your weights, you are allowing them to migrate the alpha of your business to theirs.
5. There is no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha. The architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha.
6. Politicizing the technical issues involving sovereignty is what your adversary wants. Techno-politicization is the wellspring of false sovereignty. Techno-politicization drives decisions that seem to reduce dependency, but ultimately limit agency — especially on the battlefield in the West.
7. Real expertise is existential. Allowing politics or favoritism to determine your technical decisions rewards whoever is best at politics, not whoever is right. Listen to those closest to the problems, not those speaking most compellingly about them.
8. Learn from institutions that are winning or that have consistently delivered. Institutions facing existential threats do not have the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences.
9. Only listen to institutions, countries, and people who have a proven record of being right. A track record of correctness is the best and only signal for future correctness. Judging something as right or wrong based on who you like is exceedingly misguided.
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Narrative violation: A new study of 21,559 firms in the U.S. finds that “companies that adopt AI tend to grow faster following adoption”.
“Firms making the largest AI investments grow employment by roughly 10% following adoption, while low-intensity adopters see no statistically significant change.”
“Entry-level headcount rises 12% for high-intensity adopters.”
“Gains emerge gradually and are broad across roles, including engineering, sales, administration, and customer service.”
“The results counter predictions that AI adoption will lead to broad job loss.”
The study is based on observed AI spending from Ramp card and bill pay data linked to Revelio Labs workforce records.
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Alberta cannot build a stronger future by chasing a shrinking movement into bigger fantasies.
Check out my latest article: Part 24: When the Fantasy Gets Bigger and the Support Gets Smaller linkedin.com/pulse/part-24-w… via @LinkedIn
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It's not just what we build — it's how we build.
We’re building Canada's first small modular reactor in partnership with First Nations.
ALT Screenshot of an article from CBC News. The headline reads: 7 First Nations sign nuclear reactor ownership deal with Ottawa, Ontario.
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The Town of Coalhurst and Lethbridge County are pleased to announce a new regional partnership that will create one shared service model for land use planning and development.
lethcounty.ca/p/news/679ba86…'
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New student blog from Niklas Piringer, MPA/ID 2026 @Kennedy_School, who spent winter break in Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬.
🌏 His second-year policy analysis focuses on designing an economic growth strategy for the soon-to-be independent Autonomous Region of Bougainville. Its people overwhelmingly voted for independence in 2019.
⚒️ Niklas explores the idea of reopening the Panguna copper and gold mine, shuttered since 1989, and the source of the conflict that defined a generation.
🔍 Learn more about Niklas's journey as he met with key government and mining stakeholders to test his analysis.
growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/ho…
ALT The abandoned pit has become a hub for informal artisanal mining, with families living and working within its walls. One of Bougainville’s central economic challenges is creating a pathway from this informal economy into a formal, regulated, revenue-generating operation.
ALT Infrastructure investment, potentially funded from mining revenue, is key to long-term development: Deeply eroded roads make overland travel near-impossible, forcing 90% of Bougainville’s transport onto small boats.
ALT In the Buka Passage, nearly every boat flies the Bougainvillean flag, a visible declaration of a population that has decided its future.
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Our Chief Commercial Officer, Nabil Arnous, joins AI Impact Summit 2026 🇮🇳
Sharing insights on how access to global talent, cross-border mobility, and innovation-driven demand are shaping the AI landscape and how founders can scale smarter and faster in today’s interconnected world.
From the UAE to India and beyond, the conversation reinforced a powerful message: AI innovation thrives where people, policy, and opportunity intersect.
#InnovationCity #AIImpactSummit2026 #FutureOfWork
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Atlantic Canadian startups raised $348M in #vc in 2025, according to the CVCA, driven by a strong fourth-quarter performance in Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia. shorturl.at/DaqFm
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While everyone debates AI, I built something with it. My extremely steep journey from "complete, total, and absolute" ignorance to shipping innovation ecosystem software that might actually matter.
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#Economy #Innovation #EconomicDevelopment
ALT The thing I envisioned, a quick, practical tool economic development and innovation professionals will regularly use to get a quick gauge on where they stand, to compare with other places, to convey results to partners and other parts of government, has come to life in 1.0 form.
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I was in Pakistan last week. More observations will follow but let me start with an academic finding.
If you want to understand where a country’s income is heading, you don’t just look at GDP — you look at what it can produce.
The “product space” literature mapped goods by income level and by the capabilities required to make them. Rich countries cluster in sophisticated, capability-dense products (oil exporters aside). A country’s export basket quietly shapes its long-term income trajectory.
Until now, this mapping was limited to manufacturing. Not because services don’t matter — but because comparable trade data mostly exists for goods.
@cesifoti ’s new paper changes that. Instead of relying on messy outsourcing data (where software origin is almost impossible to determine), they map software capabilities by examining which programming languages co-occur in GitHub libraries across countries.
Language clusters → capability clusters → a software “product space.”
Results are not shocking overall. Turkey shows up in software roughly where it sits in industry: mid-tech.
But the real story is the countries that outperform their industrial sophistication in software. Pakistan, Russia.
Russia’s coding depth has long been known, and its goods exports are dominated by oil. Pakistan’s software capability density is a more strategic signal.
For countries that couldn’t fully climb the manufacturing ladder, software may be a parallel escalator. For Pakistan, that escalator already appears to be moving.
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The new version of the Atlas\s of Economic Complexity is out. There is a lot of new stuff in terms of data, classifications, data cleaning, estimation methods and more. Read this and connect both to the Atlas and to our new beautiful companion website: atlas.hks.harvard.edu/trade-…
📢In addition to the new growth projections and complexity rankings... We're excited to unveil our new international trade data cleaning methodology.
This is an important evolution on one of global economics' toughest problems: trade data powers policy and investment decisions worldwide, but the numbers rarely add up.
@ricardo_hausman provides this quick summary, but we'll cover it in more detail in this thread. (1/7)
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Marc Andreessen explains future belongs to generalist in the AI era.
Founders will need skills across 6–8 fields. Deep expertise still matters, but broad knowledge plus AI tools will be more valuable in most areas. Top CEOs already operate this way.
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Edmonton competing on the global stage--where hundreds of communities worldwide are after the same things--requires radical repositioning and relentless pursuit of new opportunities.
#innovation #economy #canada #cdnpoli
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For the past 3+ years, we've been leveraging our research frameworks and collaborating with local stakeholders in #Wyoming to improve outcomes in:
🏠 housing
👩🏭 workforce access
💵 local spending
🔋 growth of energy opportunities
This @WTEnews article touches on the analytical work and how we're helping to build capabilities to address these challenges. @WyoBizCouncil
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Local innovation ecosystem growth and economic development is one of the big issues of our time. How nations compete has much do with how local regions specialize and innovate, while also diversifying their economies.
Economies built this way are both more resilient and more likely to further innovate, creating a virtuous cycle of progress and opportunity. This translates into something crucially important: attracting and retaining the high-end talent who go on to build successive waves of businesses and breakthroughs.
These are hard tasks, and important ones—well covered and explained by Bob Tresize, President & CEO of Lansing Economic Area Partnership | LEAP.
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This Nobel reminds us that economic growth is not just about numbers, it’s about knowledge & innovation.
Mokyr, Aghion, & Howitt helped us see growth as the co-evolution of ideas, networks, and culture.
Knowledge shapes our future, and today we celebrate its role in making us all more prosperous.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”
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