“Insider Intelligence forecasts that digital banking penetration in Canada will spike from 69.7% in 2019 to reach between 74.1% and 77.2% in 2024. For example, BMO saw its weekly digital banking sign-up rate spike 300% between late March and late April.” https://www.businessinsider.com/digital-banking-is-finally-soaring-in-canada-2020-12
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‘Doomsday’ scenario of mass layoffs due to AI unlikely, federal documents say | The Star
“In a separate briefing, officials were told ahead of summer that 11 per cent of jobs in Canada could be automated over the next 15 to 20 years, and a further 29 per cent are ‘likely to change significantly.’” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestar.com/amp/news/canada/2020/01/01/doomsday-scenario-of-mass-layoffs-due-to-ai-unlikely-federal-documents-say.html
A.I. Policy Is Tricky. From Around the World, They Came to Hash It Out.
“In the view of Mr. Pailhès and others, China is a government-controlled surveillance state. In the American model, coming from Silicon Valley in California, a handful of internet companies become big winners and society is treated as a data-generating resource to be strip mined. The era of moving fast and breaking everything is coming to…
Small but mighty Canada fights for space in highly competitive artificial intelligence world
“The U.S. used to be the scientific centre of the world, he says, but it’s very clear China is going to take over that leadership role. Things take a long time to happen in North America, he said, because grant systems here are so bureaucratic. “There’s one aspect that makes it fundamentally different and why they’re going…