Canada needs a fresh approach on innovation
Innovation is about bringing new ideas to market. This, built on technological progress and investment in intangibles, is the key source of productivity-boosting economic growth.
Quantum technology presents Canada a chance for national security and defence spending
Canada can advance on its NATO target to spend two per cent of GDP on defence by making investments in the research and development of quantum technologies.
Revolutionary change to our health care is required—and possible
We need our health-system leaders to act courageously and fully commit to health-care reinvention to drive better patient outcomes, and a sustainable modern system.
Navigating artificial intelligence: the Global South can lead the way
In the Global North, it’s corporations that tend to drive AI research and innovations, while across Africa, ‘communities of practice’ are in the driver’s seat, ensuring AI is safe, inclusive, rights-based, and sustainable.
‘In the new world order,’ feds must work with industry to fix IT procurement problems, say experts
New research examining IT procurement failures—the ArriveCan app, the Phoenix pay system, and Employment and Social Development Canada’s benefits modernization system—reveals three common issues: inadequate accountability, lack of internal expertise, and changes in scope.
Preserving a vital resource: our broadcast heritage
We are the only nation in the developed world that has failed to adequately address preservation of our media heritage.
Canada at risk of both freshwater and brain drain as thirst for tech grows: AquaAction president
An American threat assessment identified global water security and climate-related disasters like drought as an increasing risk to its national security interests, and Canada needs to catch up, says AquaAction’s Soula Chronopoulos.
Chief science advisers and why they matter
Good science advice is not about trying to make everyone think like a scientist. Rather, it’s about maintaining a trusted, ongoing, and open dialogue with the wider public and the polity.
Canadian creators cheer CRTC contribution decision as streamers warn ‘discriminatory tax’ will lead to higher prices
As part of its Online Streaming Act plan, the CRTC ruled that online streamers making more than $25M in domestic revenue must give five per cent to Canadian media funds.
Canada can do better than just being a branch-plant economy
We need to be more innovative. But innovation takes place in companies, and if you don’t have them, you don’t have the innovation. That’s our key challenge.
