A familiar digital strategy may carry Jagmeet Singh to victory in Burnaby South, but New Democrats will have to chart a new path to Ottawa in October. Welcome back. In the inaugural entry to Absolutely Neutral, we took a look at the conditions that left the Liberal Party, and Justin…

Hi everyone. Matt here. Now that things are officially underway, I wanted to take a moment to highlight my goals for this publication in 2019. The name Absolutely Neutral comes from the collision of two observations, both of which have emerged in the wake of rapid technological advancement. Firstly, as…

A new project analyzing how technology is transforming Canadian politics — As of today, there are 287 days until the 43rd Canadian federal election. Between now and then, millions of dollars will be spent, thousands of stories will be spun, and hundreds of news cycles will burn brightly before fading away. And, more than any other election in our country’s history…

Some Changes Coming to The Campfire Project — The Campfire Project lies at the crossroads of technology and storytelling. For 114 episodes, Chris Domico and I have explored a variety of topics, technologies, companies and stories, always focusing on how different narratives are created, consumed, and sometimes destroyed, by the tools and technologies that underpin them. In the…

Welcome to the future, where information is currency. It’s all around us, every day. And everywhere we turn, there are windows that offer us a glimpse into it. They are on our desks, in our pockets, on our wrists and in our ears. Beautifully smooth and polished to a pristine…

It’s About Lies, GIFs and the Morning After on Twitter — As the dust was settling in Farmville, Virginia, the Clinton campaign was moving into overdrive. In the late hours of Tuesday night, the Democratic operation went to work, slicing up footage from the 90-minute Vice-Presidential debate into a devilishly slick and devastatingly effective 90-second supercut of Gov. …