A new type of theoretical nuclear power plant design called small modular reactors (SMRs) has been in the news of late. Earlier this year, at the 2020 Canadian Nuclear...
Le développement de l’intelligence numérique ― c’est-à-dire la mise au point d’innovations numériques avancées comme celles réalisées dans le secteur de l’intelligence artificielle ― constitue un enjeu prioritaire pour...
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated a trend toward remote work in many parts of the public sector. The federal government issued guidelines on March 15 urging employees to...
La pandémie à laquelle nous faisons face depuis le début de l’année 2020 a révélé de manière frappante la nature polymorphe des crises contemporaines, qui se propagent rapidement selon...
The police shooting deaths of Indigenous community members Chantel Moore on June 4 and Rodney Levi on June 14 in New Brunswick have reignited the debate over whether to...
A thoughtful, well-managed and balanced system for contact tracing is essential for preserving our core values of privacy, freedom, equity and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. The system must...
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed fragilities and inequities in Canada’s innovation economy. When the pandemic began, Canada was already a global laggard in the development and adoption of new...
À l’émission Tout le monde en parle du 17 mai dernier, Yoshua Bengio, directeur scientifique de Mila et professeur au Département d’informatique de l’Université de Montréal, et Valérie Pisano,...
Over the past several days, in the midst of the protests related to the killing of George Floyd and death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto, many people have asked...
During the dark days of the 2008-09 financial crisis, one of Canada’s top CEOs was a guest on the business television program I hosted at what’s now BNN Bloomberg....
