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Canada should keep its data out of U.S. hands

In illustration featuring a large eye of computerized surveillance in the form similar to webcam watches a the tiny figure of a worker.

Workplace AI is writing the rules. Workers need to see them

Champagne raises a hand to the robot, which is made of metal but has a human form, while Desmarais looks on.

Canada doesn’t need AI independence. It needs exit plans for critical sectors

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Northern cable security is becoming a test of Canada’s Arctic readiness

A data centre with rows of servers and floating figures representing digital data streams.

Canada needs to develop its own AI computing power

A dozen medical icons are clustered but don’t connect to each other.

Canada has the tech to connect health records. Why isn’t it being used?

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Innovation sovereignty needs ecosystems, not isolation

A couple of computer screens, a keyboard and a lot of little symbols floating around to depict data.

Canada’s digital sovereignty debate overlooks software risks

Canada’s tech policies and priorities aren’t doing enough to make citizens safer online

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Allegations of threats and lying perturb the federal public service

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The federal government needs a digital transformation

A man in a black jacket looks at a row of watches. On the wall above are two shelves of smart phones.

Can openness stop digital platforms from exploiting users?

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Canada needs an integrated economic-security strategy

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A blue and black illustration depicting a ChatGPT logo at the centre of a circuit board.

AI bias must move to accountability to address inequity

The time for a law on artificial intelligence has come

In a darkened room, a man’s hands type on a laptop. Overlayed is a translucent illustration of data in three thin rows, one blue, one magenta, one yellow, all leading into a square block of combined data that hovers over the hands and laptop.

Canada is failing to regulate AI amid fear and hype

A credit card is tapped on a credit-card payment machine being held by a man wearing a wristwatch with a dark-brown leather strap and a white shirt.

A guide to modernizing payments in the financial sector

Un homme travaille sur un ordinateur portable. On ne voit que ses mains et ses bras, avec les manches retroussées d’une chemise turquoise. Un petit symbole de droit d’auteur (un "c" blanc dans un cercle) est superposé à l’image, ainsi que d’autres petites images représentant un cadenas, un triangle avec un point d’exclamation (un signe d’avertissement), une ampoule, un écran d’ordinateur, un presse-papiers avec une coche.

Four things to fix in Canada’s Copyright Act

Two trains ride on outdoor above-ground rail lines, one of them on a curve on a track that runs below the other train. The fronts of the trains are blue with a white stripe at the bottom. Several passengers can be seen in the front window of one train.

How can we make our critical infrastructures robust and resilient enough?

Illustration of four people surrounded by clouds, mechanical gears and a large yellow lightbulb. One man is sitting at a laptop; another is standing, holding a laptop; a third man is talking with a woman.

The radical improvement of data will transform public sector reform

How to control AI before it wreaks havoc

An unidentifiable child types on a laptop computer while sitting on a couch.

Children’s right to privacy needs to be strengthened in law and beyond

A broader approach to AI would cut bias in immigration decisions while adding speed

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