Policy Options

We hear every day about the ways technology is changing the world around us. But if these conversations mention government, it’s usually to warn against foreign threats to our...

Poker star Jimmy Chou, who has won more than $1 million playing the game, has a new teacher. Pluribus, a new artificial intelligence program, recently defeated Chou, along with...

It’s 2019, and people can use the internet wherever they are: on the bus, in a shopping mall, hiking up a mountain. But what city dwellers might not realize...

In politics as in angling, the big ones are often deep in the weeds. The political ones include pressures, policies and decision-making practices of many kinds that operate beneath...

King’s Cross train station in London is a busy public space in the comfortable heart of a busy city. Within a short walk of the station, you’ll find a...

Are Canadians fated always to be “hewers of wood and drawers of water,” our prosperity dependent on raw resources rather than our ingenuity? Canada has the right conditions for...

France’s plan to tax tech companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon has recently made the news, mainly due to the threats from the United States to impose...

We read with great interest Dr. Daniel Roy Torunczyk Schein’s Policy Options article “The PhD Employment Crisis Is Systemic.” We were moved by his personal story; it is always...

For many Canadians, the world of cyberattacks and hackers still seems far removed from their day-to-day activities. Perception, however, does not always match reality. Anyone employed by a sizable...

(This article has been translated into French.) Digital technologies are changing not only what happens in our economy, they are also changing its fundamental character. At this moment, a...