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Canada’s immigration policy is undergoing a major rethink. After years of rising admission numbers, Ottawa is now reducing immigration levels to try...
Canada’s ambitions in artificial intelligence are often framed around software innovation, computing power and digital services. Policy debates...
National security concerns have taken centre stage as Canada faces cascading crises related to affordability, environmental and geopolitical...
About nine million Canadians currently share their online banking passwords with third-party apps to get help with budgeting, financial planning or...
As the federal government moves ahead with creating a new Financial Crimes Agency (FCA), a key question emerges: Will it transform Canada’s response...
You cannot build the roof of a house before you pour the foundation. Yet, in the Canadian Arctic, policymakers are attempting a feat of structural...
Artificial intelligence tools, including ambient listening devices or AI scribes, are transforming the health-care sector. However, they have also...
(Version française disponible ici) Canada faces two intertwined crises: a housing affordability crunch and a climate challenge, with emissions from...
The recently concluded Olympic and Paralympic Games in Italy were the most gender-balanced in history. At the Olympics, women were 47 per cent of the...
The war in the Middle East, precipitated by an attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, has reopened debate in Canada about oil exports, global...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent announcement of billions in new investments for northern infrastructure and defence signals a major shift in...
Women’s progress in Canada is often discussed in general terms, yet one reality still largely absent from national conversations is the gendered...
British Columbia is no stranger to housing policy controversy. In 2024, the provincial government amended its residential tenancy regulations to...
(Version française disponible ici.) The federal government recently released a new defence industrial strategy, with $6.6 billion of new funding...
Some policy changes arrive with a bang. They dominate headlines because their intent is obvious and their consequences are immediate. Others are more...
Coercive control rarely starts with a bruise. It begins with isolation, humiliation, surveillance and fear. By the time violence becomes visible, it...
Nuclear power is experiencing a resurgence worldwide and Ontario is no exception. The province has a long history with this awesome and terrifying...
(Version française disponible ici.) Organizations are operating under sustained pressure. In this environment, performance depends less on speed or...
A few weeks separated Prime Minister Mark Carney’s well-received speech at Davos from the publication of Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy...
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prime Minister Mark Carney was the adult in the room. In his speech he told the world that the American-led,...
(Version française disponible ici.) When a community’s major employer falters, the shock waves don’t stop at the plant gate. In small towns...
The best remembered speeches in Canadian history have come at moments of crisis and uncertainty, when prime ministers capture the public’s...
Despite increasingly severe wildfires, floods and extreme heat events, climate adaptation in Canada remains marginal to federal and provincial...
(Version française disponible ici) One of the nine questions that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants to put to a referendum later this...
The full-scale war in Ukraine is now into its fifth year. After an abrupt end to the latest round of U.S.-brokered peace talks, Ukraine continues to...
Last month, Canadians marked the ninth anniversary of the Quebec City mosque massacre, in which six men were murdered and many more injured by a white...
The U.S. removal of President Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela, its bid to “indefinitely” sell that country’s oil, and its threats to...
This year, Canada marks 30 years of officially celebrating Black History Month each February. While Black communities have been part of this...
Last year’s Trump-Musk arguments over EV mandates made one thing clear: Electric vehicles have become a political proxy for much larger questions...