The price tag on housing-enabling infrastructure is prolonging our housing crisis
The cost of infrastructure expansion is typically covered through development charges paid by developers when they build new housing, which exacerbates Canada’s significant affordability crisis.
A critical moment for the climate emergency, and a green infrastructure deficit
An alternative vision is not only possible but necessary to secure Canada’s economic future.
Below the surface: Canada’s hidden infrastructure crisis is a climate reckoning
Canada needs a forward-looking National Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act to establish a framework for co-ordinated investment, standardized data collection, and climate resilience.
The promise and perils of nation-building projects
Getting swept up in political hype and hubris can lead to the wrong projects, poor priorities, and terrible outcomes.
When therapy harms and the system fails, survivors turn to AI
Survivors of therapy harm have increasingly turned to AI, finding it responsive, safe, and more effective than traditional therapy. The question for Parliament is whether Canada will continue to look away, or whether it will recognize that therapy abuse as a systemic issue, enforce real accountability, and ensure the survivor voice in AI.
Three strategies for improving employee mental health in today’s workplaces
We need robust public mental health care systems and psychologically safe workplaces where everyone can flourish.
The hidden cost of inaction: structural barriers limit mental health-care access
Given the unconscionable human and societal cost of long wait times, limited access, and documented systemic inequity, strategic action is required.
Governments are still failing Canadians on mental health and substance use health care
Canadians deserve more than promises—they deserve access, investment, and
accountability.
Your humanoid robot will see you now
Reports of ‘AI psychosis’ where individuals develop delusions involving chatbots or perceive the technology as communicating directly with them underscore the new psychological risks introduced by these tools.
The agreeable ghost: why AI’s quick fix is destroying our emotional resilience
We must commit to building a future where technology serves and does not subvert our most urgent human need for emotional resilience.
