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The AI literacy gap facing Gen Alpha

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Canadian businesses need a new government approach to cybercrime

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A Canadian blueprint for trustworthy AI governance

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Why Canada needs a “deep prevention” approach to pandemic preparedness

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Canada’s outdated laws leave spyware oversight dangerously weak

Net-zero advisory body needs to sharpen its analysis

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Want to know where we are with cancer care? Don’t ask Ontario.

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When women’s health loses, we all lose

The return key on a computer keyboard is coloured blue with the word “government contract” on it.

Federal IT contracting: Overdone and out of date

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Ottawa needs thousands of tech workers to serve Canadians properly

It’s time to increase Canada’s global health spending on ready-to-scale innovations

Collaboration trumps protectionism in Canada-Asia R&D investment trends

Canada could be a leader in standards for election technologies

A Black physician at a desk in front of a laptop demonstrates how to apply pressure to the base of his palm in a session with a white woman receiving via the computer.

Remote rehabilitation can offer health-care relief, but there are still problems

Too many Canadian regulatory watchdogs are failing to serve the public interest

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Nudging the way to better public policy

Data sharing should not be an afterthought in digital health innovation

Getting Canada’s proposed clean electricity regulations right to reverse our poor climate performance

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Time to bring adult education out of the corner to better support the learning of all Canadians

La liberté universitaire est plus exigeante que la liberté d’expression

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The myths that undermine our innovation performance

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It’s time for an online creators act

Post-mortem needed on problems with COVID Alert app

Wrestling the long arm of authoritarianism

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