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AI Strategy, Food Affordability, and the Future of BC Conservatism The MBP Intelligence Briefing delivers exclusive, insider insight into the policies, decisions, and dynamics shaping Canada’s political and economic landscape. Hosted by Ben Woodfinden, Director of MBP Intelligence and Senior Advisor at Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips, the series features

The Carney government's AI strategy is a bet that adoption can outrun public anxiety. But the anxiety is broad, deep, and in some places already organized, and the political battlelines are about to be drawn across jobs, privacy, misinformation, and the data centres going up in people'

Mark Carney spent the better part of a year promising a national AI strategy, and on June 4 he finally delivered it — not from a tech hub or a boardroom, but from the floor of Toronto General Hospital. The venue was the argument. This is a government that wants AI

Powering Canada Strong — Canada’s National Electricity Strategy Episode Summary In this special roundtable edition of the MBP Intelligence Briefing, Ben Woodfinden and Tyler Meredith are joined by leading experts in energy policy, economics, and electricity regulation to unpack the federal government's new National Electricity Strategy, Powering Canada

The House has a handful of sitting days left before it rises for the summer, and the usual end-of-session scramble is well underway. But the decisions being made and deferred in these final weeks are setting up what looks like a genuinely volatile fall. The government is trying

The federal Electricity Strategy and the Canada–Alberta Implementation Agreement reshape the policy landscape for renewables—but the real opportunities are provincial, and they vary enormously. Key Takeaways: • The Electricity Strategy is a consultation document, not a spending plan—there are no dollars attached. Its signal that Ottawa will loosen

On May 21st, Premier Danielle Smith delivered a televised address announcing that a tenth question would be added to the October 19 Alberta referendum ballot. The nine questions already scheduled — five on immigration and four on constitutional reform — emerged from the Alberta Next panel process and were first announced in