Policy Options

In a 2015 article I asked: “does sperm have a flag?” The answer is, as it turns out, yes. And in the context of Canadian citizenship, it seems likely...

(This article has been translated into French.) A few years ago, a pregnant friend who went through successful in-vitro fertilization (IVF) called me late at night, sobbing. She felt...

New technologies follow a fairly predictable cycle: First comes the hype, then disappointment, followed finally by measured and thoughtful acceptance. Artificial intelligence (AI) is still largely in the hype...

Designing a policy framework to regulate the ethically charged, scientifically complex field of assisted reproduction has been challenging for the federal and provincial governments. The 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction...

When the Liberals unveiled their newest federal budget in March, there was a strong focus on skill development and the future of work. Notable, too, were investments in science...

What happens when government tries to govern big tech? For Canada, the answer is that big tech packs up and leaves. Google recently announced it was going to ban...

Canada is often touted as an early leader in the global artificial intelligence (AI) race, and in many ways this assessment is correct. We have world-leading AI researchers and...

The federal government recently said it would spend $2 billion over the next 24 years on Canada’s space program. It also announced plans to send Canadian astronauts to the...

Le 4 février dernier, le gouvernement Legault annonçait son intention de supprimer 455 de ses 457 centres de traitement de données du Québec et d’abolir un nombre indéterminé de postes...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on February 28 that Canada would join the United States in its Lunar Gateway project, becoming the first international partner to officially sign on....