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Food Banks Canada’s latest poverty report card found that 28 per cent of people in Canada experienced a poverty-level standard of living, according...
Mariners call it taking a fix: verifying that a ship remains on its intended course and, if it’s not, adjusting direction accordingly. On July 13,...
Local democracy in Canada is eroding from two directions at once. Voter turnout in municipal elections is shockingly low and, in Ontario, the...
Maybe you’ve felt it by now. Anxiety, with a hint of emptiness, when you release something into the world you’ve co-created with a chatbot. At the...
(Version française disponible ici.) Earlier this summer, we were in Estevan, Sask., for a conference on rural innovation that started us thinking...
Can you trust Mark Zuckerberg to design a socially responsible Facebook? How about Elon Musk with X or his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok? The...
(Version française disponible ici.) The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) made history in 2018 and 2022, winning two of the largest majorities in...
(Version française disponible ici.) When we think of the risks associated with an employee’s online presence, attention often focuses on the...
Can we spare $12 billion for a good cause? What about $3.6 billion? These figures have been suggested as the potential cost to the federal government...
The broadcast opens with an aerial shot: a red-earth road threading through dense green forest, the camera slightly unstable, signaling distance and...
Canada has announced two tools that could shape the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) future. The Canada Strong Fund is an arm’s-length Crown...
The agreement recently signed between Alberta and the federal government is an uneven bargain. Alberta gets support for a pipeline and the waiver of...
(Version française disponible ici) The Federation of Canadian Municipalities estimates that cities, towns and smaller local administrations own and...
Canadians are increasingly told that tougher immigration rules equal a safer country. With Bill C-12, the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has staked his government on a sovereignty argument. The 2025 federal budget committed $115 billion to nationbuilding...
As condominium sales across Canada fall to their lowest levels in decades, what if unsold units could be repurposed for the public good? Governments...
When Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette met U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington in late April, she named two priorities as...
A nuclear energy renaissance is upon us. The gloomy early 2000s, when anti-nuclear sentiment was on the rise, reactors were prematurely shut down and...
Children’s digital privacy is often discussed as a consumer issue – a matter of parental settings, better consent notices or cleaner app design....