November 27, 2020
Policy-makers must get up to speed on AI
When COVID-19 upended plans in the U.K. for secondary school graduate exams this year, a new system was introduced that created an uproar. Teachers assigned grades based on past...
November 24, 2020
New privacy bill is a data protection reset for Canada
It is no secret that Canada’s data protection laws are lagging badly behind both the technological challenges to data protection and emerging international standards. Canada, in fact, faces an...
November 20, 2020
Making federalism work for energy efficiency
Energy efficiency figures prominently in proposals for how to recover from COVID-19’s economic impacts and in plans for achieving net-zero emissions. The International Energy Agency, Green New Deal proposals...
November 19, 2020
Canada should reject the idea of deliberately infecting vaccine volunteers
More than 11,000 Canadians have died from COVID-19. As the number of deaths continues to rise, so, too, does the pressure on researchers and biotechnology companies to produce safe...
November 12, 2020
When science gets it wrong
This article has been translated into French. Public trust in science is crucial to the good functioning of contemporary societies. When used by elected officials and policy-makers, science supports...
November 9, 2020
Facial recognition is transforming our borders, and we are not prepared
When global travel emerges from the constraints imposed by the pandemic, travellers may find themselves returning to border crossings that are unfamiliar. Facial recognition is rapidly becoming embedded in...
November 9, 2020
Les universités et collèges sont des intermédiaires de l’innovation
Peu nombreuses sont les discussions sur l’innovation où l’on n’entend pas fuser le mot « rupture ». Pourtant, les organisations au Canada ont l’habitude de récompenser la prédictibilité et...
November 5, 2020
Canada can harness AI to help with post-pandemic recovery
Netflix’s documentary The Social Dilemma has many Canadians rethinking their intimate relationship with big tech. Among the many revelations, Canadians learned how these multinational firms deeply ingrain artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like...
October 13, 2020
Écosystèmes d’innovation et supergrappes au Canada
La pandémie de COVID-19 a mis en évidence plusieurs faiblesses des chaînes d’approvisionnement dont dépendent le Canada et le Québec, mais aussi la grande résilience et la capacité d’adaptation...
September 17, 2020
Mining gives Canada a competitive advantage in electric vehicle market
(This article has been translated into French.) For decades, Canada’s auto industry has relied on what I would call a “people advantage.” Canadian workers made better quality, innovative vehicles and, as...