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Opaque immigration screening threatens Canada’s global talent strategy

Opaque immigration screening threatens Canada’s global talent strategy

Canada’s immigration policy is undergoing a major rethink. After years of rising admission numbers, Ottawa is now reducing immigration levels to try...

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Eugene yu ji

The next frontier of AI is biological digital twins

The next frontier of AI is biological digital twins

Canada’s ambitions in artificial intelligence are often framed around software innovation, computing power and digital services. Policy debates...

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Suresh Neethirajan

Community food systems are critical to Canada’s national security

Community food systems are critical to Canada’s national security

National security concerns have taken centre stage as Canada faces cascading crises related to affordability, environmental and geopolitical...

07.04.2026 4

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Sara edge

Why Canada’s open banking risks repeating Australia’s failure

Why Canada’s open banking risks repeating Australia’s failure

About nine million Canadians currently share their online banking passwords with third-party apps to get help with budgeting, financial planning or...

06.04.2026 6

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Shiven sharma

Build a real financial crimes force to hit terrorist financing

Build a real financial crimes force to hit terrorist financing

As the federal government moves ahead with creating a new Financial Crimes Agency (FCA), a key question emerges: Will it transform Canada’s response...

02.04.2026 4

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Ken chan

A northern university built on unstable ground

A northern university built on unstable ground

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...

01.04.2026 4

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Chanelle joy firth

AI scribes in health care raise risks for patients and privacy

AI scribes in health care raise risks for patients and privacy

Artificial intelligence tools, including ambient listening devices or AI scribes, are transforming the health-care sector. However, they have also...

01.04.2026 4

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Helen beny

Making homes affordable while cutting emissions in Canada

Making homes affordable while cutting emissions in Canada

(Version française disponible ici) Canada faces two intertwined crises: a housing affordability crunch and a climate challenge, with emissions from...

31.03.2026 3

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Pierre-Olivier Pineau

Ottawa should counter bans on trans athletes in sport

Ottawa should counter bans on trans athletes in sport

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...

31.03.2026 6

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Marcus mazzucco

War in the Gulf will only accelerate oil’s long-term decline

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...

27.03.2026 10

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Janetta Mckenzie

Northern infrastructure needs northern talent

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent announcement of billions in new investments for northern infrastructure and defence signals a major shift in...

27.03.2026 7

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Jamaica Cass

Who pays when autism-care systems fall short? Mothers do

Women’s progress in Canada is often discussed in general terms, yet one reality still largely absent from national conversations is the gendered...

25.03.2026 10

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Janet Mclaughlin

B.C.’s Bill 11 improves housing safety, but raises risks for tenants

British Columbia is no stranger to housing policy controversy. In 2024, the provincial government amended its residential tenancy regulations to...

25.03.2026 10

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Alina mckay

Canada needs more defence autonomy in a less reliable world

(Version française disponible ici.) The federal government recently released a new defence industrial strategy, with $6.6 billion of new funding...

25.03.2026 20

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Steve Lafleur

U.S. expansion of the global gag rule is a leadership test for Canada

Some policy changes arrive with a bang. They dominate headlines because their intent is obvious and their consequences are immediate. Others are more...

24.03.2026 20

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Caitlin goggin

Criminalizing coercive control is necessary, but not enough

Coercive control rarely starts with a bruise. It begins with isolation, humiliation, surveillance and fear. By the time violence becomes visible, it...

20.03.2026 10

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Lisa monchalin

Ontario’s nuclear push risks another costly policy failure

Nuclear power is experiencing a resurgence worldwide and Ontario is no exception. The province has a long history with this awesome and terrifying...

20.03.2026 10

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Samuel buckstein

The true test of Quebec’s new workplace stress law

(Version française disponible ici.) Organizations are operating under sustained pressure. In this environment, performance depends less on speed or...

18.03.2026 10

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Maren Gube

Food security needs to be part of Canada’s defence strategy

A few weeks separated Prime Minister Mark Carney’s well-received speech at Davos from the publication of Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy...

17.03.2026 10

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Guillaume lhermie

Message to the PM: adult supervision is needed here at home, too

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,...

16.03.2026 20

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Eugene Lang

When a major employer closes, the whole community feels it

(Version française disponible ici.) When a community’s major employer falters, the shock waves don’t stop at the plant gate. In small towns...

13.03.2026 10

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Shaimaa Yassin

That rare moment when a prime minister shapes the country

The best remembered speeches in Canadian history have come at moments of crisis and uncertainty, when prime ministers capture the public’s...

13.03.2026 20

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Raymond blake

Why is climate adaptation so difficult for Canada?

Despite increasingly severe wildfires, floods and extreme heat events, climate adaptation in Canada remains marginal to federal and provincial...

11.03.2026 20

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James K. Stewart

Why Alberta and Quebec diverge on judicial appointments

(Version française disponible ici) One of the nine questions that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants to put to a referendum later this...

11.03.2026 10

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Charles Breton

Canada should spotlight abducted Ukrainian children in peace talks

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...

10.03.2026 20

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Sharanjeet Parmar

Break down licensing barriers holding back Canada’s health workforce

09.03.2026 10

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Geoff Norquay

Closing anti-hate offices sends the wrong signal

09.03.2026 10

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Ali islam

Canada’s labour protections aren’t ready for the age of AI

06.03.2026 10

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Dilara Baysal

Can a U.S.-led critical minerals strategy deliver for climate and Canada?

05.03.2026 20

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Philippe le Billon

Yes, those Chinese EVs will be spying on us — just like all the other cars already do

05.03.2026 10

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Vincent Gogolek

Carney’s deputy minister shuffle raises national security questions

05.03.2026 30

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Kathryn May

How Canada can prepare for high-pressure U.S. demands on sovereignty and trade

03.03.2026 20

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Jerome Gessaroli

The paradox of Quebec fatherhood: valued but under-supported

03.03.2026 30

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Sophie Mathieu

What problem are return-to-office mandates meant to solve?

03.03.2026 20

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Surya sarkar-huot

How Canada can put Carney’s Davos speech into action

28.02.2026 50

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Natasha Tusikov

Ontario must do more for international students seeking health care

27.02.2026 20

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Pranav sabde

Canada, Cuba and the price of tolerating coercive power

26.02.2026 40

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Nancy wright

Canadians aren’t imagining the cost-of-living crisis

25.02.2026 30

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Carlo Fanelli

Mark Carney preaches co-operative federalism but doesn’t practise it

24.02.2026 30

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Jörg Broschek

Slaying myths about income support

22.02.2026 50

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Rachel Samson

Court rulings confirm duty to provide housing and safe water for First Nations. Now what?

20.02.2026 30

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Kerry Black

Giving life to the Carney vision for Canada

19.02.2026 50

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George Haynal

Visible minority women are still sidelined in competitive ridings

18.02.2026 30

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Jerome H. Black

Canada’s national amnesia on Islamophobia

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...

17.02.2026 30

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Asmaa Malik

When borders become suggestions

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...

13.02.2026 10

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Lev Marder

Canada’s Black History Month at 30: Recognition, progress and the way forward

This year, Canada marks 30 years of officially celebrating Black History Month each February. While Black communities have been part of this...

13.02.2026 20

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Lolade Ozomoge

Why new EVs alone won’t deliver Canada’s biggest health gains

Last year’s Trump-Musk arguments over EV mandates made one thing clear: Electric vehicles have become a political proxy for much larger questions...

13.02.2026 30

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Harshit Gujral

Chinese EVs : the wrong security debate

12.02.2026 20

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Guillaume Beaumier

A youth employment supplement could rebalance Canada’s generational divide

11.02.2026 10

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Matthew Mendelsohn

Alberta’s separation from Canada would be illegal

11.02.2026 10

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Robert J. Currie