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Canada’s health data is flowing abroad while Ottawa stalls on AI rules

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As AI claims entry-level jobs, we need to prioritize real-world experience for young people alongside learning

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A made-in-Canada approach to AI

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Canada’s AI ambitions depend on energy security and critical resources

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Leveraging Canada’s Arctic experience to shape space-mining norms

Canada’s next great project must be to build an AI nation

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Reimagining the future Canadian economy in a changing world

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Before Canada spends billions more on defence, let’s control the killer robots

The pandemic forced Canadian business out of a tech lethargy. What happens next?

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Using the talents of newcomers to Canada

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The future of digital work relies on people, not just technology

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Canada needs to grow basic science capacity

Retraining workers will be essential for our net-zero goals

Microcredentials are surging in popularity, but how should they be shaped?

Nature-based solutions are needed to help us reach net-zero

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When and how is the CSE disrupting international cybercrime?

Clashing visions of competition policy in the digital era

The proposed Rogers-Shaw merger spells trouble in more than one way

Canada must reform competition and privacy policy together to protect consumers

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Lack of competition blunts Canadian innovation

Big Tech, little oversight

AI, Bell Canada and the CRTC

Competition policy in Canada is guided by narrow interests

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We need to talk about Canada’s painful lack of competition

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