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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

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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 

A bald, grey robot-like head with blue eyes.

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

A series of computers are lined up in command-centre style with a map of the world in front of the room. The image is partially obscured by a screen, providing an element of intrigue.

Canadian businesses need a new government approach to cybercrime

Les logos de Google et de Meta s’affichent en gros plan, sur fond orangé, sur l’écran d’un téléphone. Le logo de Google est un G majuscule rouge, jaune, vert et bleu, tandis que celui de Meta représente une boucle de l’infini stylisée, de couleur indigo.

Canada’s bumpy ride toward a national news strategy

Cutting back on collaboration with China hurts Canadian research and development

Artificial intelligence + basic income = Canadian innovation

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Taming the tech giants will cause collateral damage

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Involve more ordinary Canadians in implementing the Online Streaming Act

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

How to mandate clean heat in our buildings

Finding pathways out of Ontario’s hydro and climate mess

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

Dozens of the tiny one-dose jars are stuffed into two glass jars. 

Before the next health crisis, we need to grow trust and fight misinformation

A foreign influence transparency registry could cause more harm than good

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Four things to fix in Canada’s Copyright Act

The impact of China targeting its diaspora

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The empty success of recent amendments to Canada’s right-to-repair bill

High-quality training programs needed to weather labour market disruptions

We must increase confidence in Canada’s security and intelligence enterprise

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