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Canada’s Tech Leaders Want Their Own DOGE

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Jen St. Denis on the political ideology of Canada's tech executives.

Paris Marx

March 20, 2025

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Canada’s Tech Leaders Want Their Own DOGE w/ Jen St. Denis | Tech Won’t Save Us
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Paris Marx is joined by Jen St. Denis to discuss how Silicon Valley thinking is creeping into Canadian politics as Donald Trump continues to threaten the country with tariffs and annexation.

Jen St. Denis is a reporter with The Tyee.

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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, we are joined by Jen St. Denis to discuss how Silicon Valley thinking is creeping into Canadian politics as Donald Trump continues to threaten the country with tariffs and annexation.

Jen St. Denis is a reporter with The Tyee.

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Muskism Is the New Fordism w/ Ben Tarnoff & Quinn Slobodian / Tech Won’t Say Us
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Paris Marx is joined by Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian to discuss their new book Muskism which explores how Elon Musk exemplifies a new economic system shaping our lives, similar to Fordism in the twentieth century.

Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian are the authors of Muskism. Ben is a writer and technologist based in Massachusetts and the author of Internet for the People. Quinn is professor of international history at Boston University, and the author of books like Crack-Up Capitalism.

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Paris MarxParis Marx is a tech critic and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.


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