Restrictive U.S. worker visa could fuel Canada’s rise as a global tech leader
The recent introduction of a $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas is presented as a measure to protect American workers. In practice, it threatens to accelerate brain drain.
Canada’s research strength is world-class—now we need to all pull in the same direction
Our innovation system remains fragmented. Partnerships between universities, industry and government are often too ad hoc, funding cycles are short, and incentives are often misaligned.
Health innovation groups say they hope governments’ ‘Buy Canadian’ mentality hits their sector
Large American firms are ‘kind of monopolizing’ health care procurement in Canada, says Council of Canadian Innovators’ Skaidra Puodžiūnas.
Government must balance AI development with risk management
As we stand at the threshold of the AI Age, Canadian policymakers and citizens must ask: What kind of press do we want? And what kind of democracy can we keep?
Security delayed is security denied
Ensuring Canada is cyber-resilient in the face of converging threats is a nation-building mission essential to our economic prosperity, national security, and global credibility.
Canada’s AI strategy must prioritize young workers
Canada can’t close its productivity gap while a generation of young workers loses out to automation. Delivering an AI plan that protects youth is a test of political credibility. Will Carney’s government pass it?
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Support for communications infrastructure is key to Arctic development
We need to revive the idea of Canadian leadership in northern communications innovation, and the Major Projects Office may be the forum to do so.
Canada’s competitiveness depends on a modern digital backbone
Falling behind is no longer a matter of just losing market share; it means losing control over our own data, innovation, and security.
Canada’s forgotten telecommunication lesson from 1914
The dependency of finance on telecoms is now unavoidable, and the major vulnerability we have forgotten about is sovereignty.
