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iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Jan 25, 2021 9:39am Committees set for virtual, in-person meetings on Parliament Hill (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
Montreal-based scent-detection-technology company Stratuscent Inc. is seeking assistance from Technofinance Inc.’s Denis Dumas to help it access an Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada program to improve the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the agriculture sector. According to its website, Stratuscent Inc. is a digital nose that “can detect individual chemicals, chemical mixtures, and everyday odours with incredible accuracy.”
Meanwhile, the U.S. Grains Council wants to engage the government on reducing transportation-sector emissions, as well as the development of Clean Fuel Standard regulations, and has hired Kate Mah of PAA Public Affairs Advisors Inc. to help.
6 January 2021 • 12:02am
Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing on coronavirus (COVID-19) in Downing Street, London
Credit: Hannah McKay/PA
SIR – How was it possible, in this crisis, for our much-lauded human rights and civil liberties to be suspended so easily, without even the right to protest publicly against this?
Why were ministers and scientists allowed to present statistics out of context in a way that was misleading, without immediate questions from the media?
What role did Ofcom play in the communication or suppression of anti-lockdown views?
What happened to the tens of billions of pounds spent on a test-and-trace system that did not work?