From crisis to catalyst: Canada’s opportunity to drive global health and research innovation
By creating an environment that fuels scientific advancement, Canada can face future crises with confidence, ensuring both its prosperity and global influence.
A flourishing biotech sector starts by innovating education
Innovating graduate education to support a wider variety of career paths will be key to creating the talent we need to have a vibrant biotechnology ecosystem.
The prescription for Canada’s health care future
Focus on embracing the rapid pace of scientific discovery, letting innovation drive policy, and fostering collaboration across the health-care system.
Biotechnology momentum in Canada needs infusion of talent and anchor firms, say industry reps
Canada has several prominent life science firms, but none can be considered an anchor company, according to a report by the adMare Institute released in late 2023.
‘Tense’ fall sitting begins, with Liberals under pressure from Conservatives, NDP, and Bloc Québécois, say pollsters, lobbyists
The House is back. Get ready for a lot more parliamentary tactics, a lot more focus on the House, and a lot more of day-to-day instability in the government, says pollster Darrell Bricker. NDP House Leader Peter Julian, meanwhile, says his party will approach the fall sitting on a ‘vote-by-vote basis, much as we did during COVID.’
NDP will feel unencumbered without supply-and-confidence agreement
The Conservatives will be relentlessly haranguing the NDP to help them bring down the government at the earliest chance.
Canadians need to see a clear strategy for the nation: Parliament must deliver
Parliament and the federal government need to find ways to instill confidence in Canadians that there is a clear economic strategy in place to create wealth, grow the economy, and secure their future.
How the public service should prepare for a Conservative government
For the public service to effectively transition to a future Conservative government, it needs to act now to re-orient its focus on service delivery, and to shrink and flatten its executive ranks.
A parliamentary year like no other: shifting alliances, a cautious ‘legacy’ agenda, and a potential deal with the devil
The Liberals can no longer count on the NDP, and the “legacy-building year” will be a limited parliamentary agenda where the government works hard for support bill-by-bill.
Google signs deal to launch journalism fund in California, while cash from its Canadian media fund has yet to flow
Google awaits the CRTC go-ahead for $100-million-a-year Canadian media fund as news outlets call for urgent access to cash.
