CanCon Podcast Ep. 42: How does Canadian tech respond to Trump?

Last week, Donald Trump was elected the next President of the United States.

We’re not going to talk about that on the podcast. But CanCon often discusses how Canada is affected by our neighbours to the south, and that includes their politics. So avoiding the geo-political, let’s narrow the focus: how does this affect Canadian tech companies?

Following the monumental election south of the border, many have voiced concerns over the role that Facebook played throughout the campaign season, to the point of potentially influencing the outcome of the election. Mark Zuckerberg’s protestations aside, what respbonsibilities does Facebook have towards truth and civil discourse as a media company?

As an escape from our current reality, the team digs into Google’s latest iteration on its VR ventures, the Daydream View. Patrick O’Rourke, MobileSyrup’s resident VR headset model, gives his initial impressions on the latest affordable VR headset on the market.

Tune in as CanCon’s podcast crew – Erin Bury, Managing Director of 88 Creative, Igor Bonifacic, Senior Editor for Mobile Syrup, Patrick O’Rourke, Senior Editor for MobileSyrup, and Douglas Soltys, BetaKit Editor in Chief – process the results of the election, debate whether posting about it on Facebook will make any difference at all, and decide that maybe virtual reality is the way to go.

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