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.
Major projects? Not without telecom

Without telecom, nation-building projects risk being outdated before they even begin.
Move fast and break things the wrong approach to AI policy

Very few firms or organizations are actually experiencing any productivity benefits from generative artificial intelligence. The political economy of genAI doesn’t make sense, nor does rushing AI policy right now.
What about Canada’s commitment to poverty reduction? MPs left us on read

Young people are demanding elected officials take responsibility for commitments to Canada’s poverty-reduction goals. But, they’re choosing to ignore us.
Health care and AI: a uniquely Canadian opportunity

If we put health at the centre of Canada’s AI strategy, we can strengthen our healthcare system while lowering costs, improving patient care, boosting productivity, accelerating life-changing health discoveries, and growing a globally competitive industry that pays dividends for decades.
From droughts to defence: Canada’s water tech wake-up call

Water security is national security. Let’s not wait for the next drought, the next border dispute, or the next global crisis to prove the point.
Building Canada’s capacity to use intellectual property for innovation

Canada’s strength lies in the openness and interconnectedness of its research and innovation ecosystems. Turning that strength into outcomes requires a deliberate focus on building absorptive capacity across the innovation system.
AI presents potential, and aspects that should give us pause

Complex technologies—whether AI or the next frontier in defence research, climate change, or cancer—require support from social sciences and humanities to explain the new technology according to the social and ethical norms by which we live.
Carpe momentum: why Canada’s future depends on its entrepreneurs

If we invest in this generation’s builders, from classrooms to companies, our prosperity agenda will not just imagine a better future, but build it.