For Canada to be a global human rights leader, it needs to get its AI law right from the start
Any law we adopt in Canada will serve as a blueprint for other jurisdictions that will regulate AI, so it needs to be right from the get-go.
While other countries add services, Canada adds public servants
Digital is the default—in everything except the delivery of government services across Canada.
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Growth has stalled in Canada
Canada’s productivity performance is weak, our innovation is inadequate, and we seem too pessimistic about the future.
Budget’s AI investment is Canada playing catch-up
A plan has to be more than just a litany of fresh promises in one budget after another. Where is the strategy, and what are the defined outcomes that will tell whether it’s working?
Budget 2024 offers promising pledges for science, but falls short in a few ways
The bulk of the budget’s $1.8-billion planned for core research grants won’t flow for several years—making it very contingent on election outcomes.
Correcting the record on Bell’s restructuring: BCE exec
Re: “Should telecommunications be nationalized?” (The Hill Times, April 17, opinion piece, p. 3). Last week’s opinion piece in The Hill Times authored by Mark Hancock, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, contained inaccuracies concerning the recent restructuring at Bell, which need to be corrected. To be clear, none of the recently […]
We are on the path to legal singularity
The following is an excerpt from The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better, one of the five books shortlisted for this year’s $60,000 Donner Prize.
Should telecommunications be nationalized?
The federal government must not accept that the telecommunications companies under its jurisdiction and regulated at its initiative are exporting our jobs and damaging our economy.
EV battery fires are a global problem that we need to address in Canada
Ignoring the issue may not only come at the expense of public safety, but also that of the public perception to act on climate change through fuel switching.
