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A few days after Amazon's cloud services company AWS had an outage that for millions of users plunged popular websites and apps into the dark, questions still linger about why we're so reliant on a handful of companies in the first place — and why it might be hard to prevent another outage.

Canada's push to stake out its digital future is reaching new heights, with a national artificial intelligence strategy expected in the coming weeks.

Texas-based firm commands 80 per cent market share of telecom services for provincial and territorial inmates after securing non-competitive, highly lucrative contracts.

Canada is becoming increasingly anti-competitive and unproductive due to overregulation, industry heads and officials told attendees at Canada’s Competition Summit this year.

Google, Meta and Amazon control more than 90 per cent of the market meant to sell online advertising in Canada, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project, a think tank devoted to addressing concentrations of power.

The hoards of personal data collected by the few U.S.-based companies that dominate online advertising can be used to track government officials and even pose cybersecurity risks, warns a new report from the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project.