Market research and public-opinion insight on the Canadian economy — surveillance pricing, housing, crypto, and the forces reshaping consumer markets.
Columns in the Financial Post, National Post and iPolitics.
Three topic pillars where markets, data and policy collide.
Algorithmic, personalized pricing is no longer a hypothetical — it's the operating model of online retail. What the political debate gets right, and wrong.
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Proposed bans on algorithmic pricing probably aren't workable, and wouldn't address meaningful harms even if they were. Surveillance pricing is suddenly the hot political topic in Canada — and most of what's being said about it is only half-right.
Surveillance pricing is suddenly the hot political topic in Canada, and most of what's being said about it is only half-right.
Columns on markets, housing, pricing, and Canadian policy — most recent first.
Proposed bans on algorithmic pricing probably aren't workable, and wouldn't address meaningful harms even if they were.
On Mark Carney's Davos "rules-based order" pitch, Václav Havel's greengrocer, and the chasm between Canada's political slogans and its lived reality.
Investors see a fractured federation with a weaponized bureaucracy and a legal system that injects profound uncertainty into property rights and capitalism itself.
Developers stymied by political roadblocks are turning to the courts as a last resort — and they are starting to win.
Do we live in a country where citizens are free to build, innovate, and own property — or one where the state can arbitrarily wipe it all away in the name of procedure?
Our leaders must amend the Criminal Code to fortify the right to self-defence in one's home.
Quoted commentary in Canadian media on consumer markets, polling, and AI.
Richard Ciano, quoted on a Campaign Research / Innovation Economy Council poll: most Canadians feel technology has improved their lives and view it as the most effective tool against climate change. Findings span AI, biomanufacturing and cleantech.
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