Canada’s research strength is world-class—now we need to all pull in the same direction
Our innovation system remains fragmented. Partnerships between universities, industry and government are often too ad hoc, funding cycles are short, and incentives are often misaligned.
Health innovation groups say they hope governments’ ‘Buy Canadian’ mentality hits their sector
Large American firms are ‘kind of monopolizing’ health care procurement in Canada, says Council of Canadian Innovators’ Skaidra Puodžiūnas.
Government must balance AI development with risk management
As we stand at the threshold of the AI Age, Canadian policymakers and citizens must ask: What kind of press do we want? And what kind of democracy can we keep?
Security delayed is security denied
Ensuring Canada is cyber-resilient in the face of converging threats is a nation-building mission essential to our economic prosperity, national security, and global credibility.
Canada’s AI strategy must prioritize young workers
Canada can’t close its productivity gap while a generation of young workers loses out to automation. Delivering an AI plan that protects youth is a test of political credibility. Will Carney’s government pass it?
Telecom
Reforming the CRTC for the internet era
A regulator that operates transparently, draws on sound evidence, and acts independently of political and industry influence will be better positioned to achieve the goals successive governments have set.
In Carney’s Canada, AI policy has nearly no Black experts
If we fail to address the biases in the data sets used to train AI, anti-Black racism will become more automated and even more covert.
Telecom and the national interest
The national interest in telecommunications could be a viable, secure, and resilient infrastructure that delivers services with leading technological capabilities.
Can a made-in-Canada project help overcome the digital divide?
Researchers are hard at work on a constellation of technologies that could help to provide reliable internet access in rural and remote areas.
