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Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech

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Artificial intelligence regulation must not leave older adults behind

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Canada can stop surveillance pricing before it reaches the checkout

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Ottawa’s AI strategy is built to inspire trust, not protect Canadians

Healthcare worker in blue gloves confidently holds a stethoscope with medical icons.

Health reform needs places where the system is allowed to learn

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Canada can’t fix the gender wealth gap until it measures it

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“Buy Canadian” won’t fix defence procurement until Ottawa defines “Canadian”

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

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Who governs the digital sphere? How U.S. proxy lobbying erodes Canada’s digital sovereignty

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The right way for Canada to secure cloud sovereignty

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

A 20-something man reaches across a table in an office to shake hands with a colleague.

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

A computer motherboard is covered in cubes. At the centre is the biggest cube, which says AI on both side.

A made-in-Canada approach to AI

A blue light covers a bank of tall, narrow electronic computing boxes with wires coming out of the top.

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

Against a black sky, the white rocket sends blindingly white exhaust gases to the ground as it lifts off.

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

A red and white fighter jet takes off with two passengers aboard.

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

The language learning model app logos on an iphone, including ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot.

Trust in government a key factor in acceptance of greater federal use of AI

Four students are walking on the lawn in front of a black building with a “Dalhousie University” sign.

Canada needs a national strategy for generative AI in higher education

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Bridging the gap between publicly funded research and markets

Two men walk in a vast parking lot of bulldozers, excavators, dump trucks and front-end loaders among many other pieces of equipment.

Bulldozer or bystander? Canada’s stakes in the new global economy 

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Generative AI and deeper thinking: What’s in our heads still matters*

A man stands in front of six screens showing AI-generated videos.

The AI literacy gap facing Gen Alpha

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