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A young girl plays a game on a phone.

As Canada regulates online design, where do video games fit?  

In an area filled with computer stations, two women look at a screen together.

The hardest part of Canada’s health data space won’t be the technology

A photo showing a phone with an image of a red circle that says “use protection” in it.

Canada approved a contraceptive app. Now it needs to explain what approval means.

He’s shaking hands on a stage in a crowded room.

Canada shouldn’t try to build everything it needs for the AI era

Four children gathered around a laptop with an adult standing behind it.

Before schools embrace AI, Canada must protect children’s learning

A crane operating in an open-pit mine against a grey sky with smoke billowing from a coal generating plant in the background.

Resilient communities need more than GDP growth

Mark Zuckerberg seen on a laptop screen giving a presentation with the Meta logo to his left.

Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech

An illustration of two telephones communicating, one featuring an older man and the other a robot.

Artificial intelligence regulation must not leave older adults behind

From the road to the back room: A view inside the Carney campaign

Two technicians wearing yellow high visibility coats and hard hats walking past racks of equipment in a data centre.

Canada must ensure its digital sovereignty in the face of U.S. threats

A bunch of green bananas. Growing in a greenhouse in Quebec.

Regulatory uncertainty hurts critical innovation in Canada’s food industry

How Canada could achieve digital sovereignty

Maple Leaf in foreground, Shopify building in background.

Canada’s tech opportunity in a fractured global economy

A river runs through the city, lined with tightly packed homes and buildings about four or five storeys high.

Canada and Europe need a talent hub to overcome Trump threats

Poilievre is smiling as he stands in the middle of a room filled with seated people. A few of them hold signs saying “change.” Poilievre looks relaxed in a dark blue suit and white shirt. He has a mic to his mouth.

Voters must not allow Poilievre to import Trump’s war on science

A series of glass towers fill the image.

From boardrooms to beds: Can empty offices ease hospital overcrowding?

The Canadian and U.S. flags are in the foreground with the Ambassador bridge in the background before a pink sunset.

Canada’s policy reset needs to go much further than trade to address Trump shock effects

The pellets are small and cylindrical. Nine of them sit in the palm of someone’s hand.

Nuclear-waste consultation phase comes later

Close-up of a smartphone screen and a hand preparing to download the DeepSeek application.

DeepSeek: China’s AI challenges the West

How to create a health-care superpower

Cities need to get ahead of autonomous delivery robots

The quiet separation / La séparation tranquille

On an electronic motherboard, the shape of a brain is depicted using metal components illuminated in shades bright blues and greens.

Racial bias in AI should be the immediate concern

The wired, wired west

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