There is no alternative, again: AI and the capacity to resist
A lot of AI discourse sounds like it could be talking about inevitable natural phenomena, like the tides or the changing of the seasons. AI is coming, they say, and we had better be ready for it. But—as we explore in the October 2026 Monitor magazine—this discourse masks the fact that AI, as we know it, is the result of a series of policy choices. Despite the government evoking Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “there is no alternative,” we do have a choice. And we should be serious about what that choice is.
The federal government is betting everything on an AI future that may never exist
While we debate chatbots and productivity, the deepest AI implementation is happening in the military-industrial complex
Hewers of code, drawers of data
Canada in the precarious middle of the global AI supply chain
If personal AI tutors seem too good to be true, that’s because they are
Resisting the data centre invasion
Data centre developers and governments are trying to make an end-run around the public, but the public is fighting back
Ignore all previous instructions
Notes on civil society organizing against the AI industry
Digital sovereignty in a First Nations context
Generational anxiety, generational action
Parents can help their children build a healthier relationship with the online world, but only if they do so collectively