Achieving Canada’s EV mandates requires more money for research and future talent

Federal investment to support a pan-Canadian, academia-industry research consortium will complement the government and industry investments on the manufacturing side and set our country on the path to significant opportunities for EV innovation.
The Government of Canada is advancing Canada’s position as a global leader in innovation

It has become clear that we can’t keep doing things the same old way; we need to make sure Canadians benefit from their own ingenuity.
The Valley of Never-Having-Lived: Canada’s innovation talent problem

In Canada, we celebrate how we support companies, but in reality, our innovation system is structurally and culturally stacked against entrepreneurial scientists from the start.
The effect of climate crisis on Canadian coastal communities is an all-hands-on deck situation, but the Liberals aren’t acting

If the Liberals keep delaying on disaster mitigation and prevention, our coastal environment will become more hostile.
Canadian innovation lacks forward thinking

If Canada focused more on the merits of the individuals who they are putting in charge and less on giving themselves diversity and climate change scorecards, perhaps we could get back to using the greatest public service I have ever known.
Corporations need to embrace a made-in-Canada approach to innovation

It is time for Canadian companies to recognize that we shouldn’t be looking to Silicon Valley for inspiration, but we need our own brand of innovation that requires collaboration.
The U.K. spectrum policy is keeping wireless prices low—can Canada do the same?

Canada risks an inadequate supply of spectrum that may limit competition for 5G services, drive up both spectrum and 5G service prices, and delay access to a very significant new technology.
On Rogers-Shaw, Champagne faces policy choice

Last month the Competition Tribunal rejected the Competition Bureau’s case against the merger, which the Federal Court of Appeal upheld Jan. 24, and now it is at the finish line, pending Champagne’s blessing.
CRTC must ‘look around the corner’ in changing digital landscape, says new chair who wants to ‘meet the needs of Canadians’

Telecom observers are tentatively pleased by the selection of new Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission chair Vicky Eatrides, but say the views of Canadians will be ‘based on results.’
Trudeau looks to gather momentum in clean tech race after potentially game-changing signs from U.S.

The issue is whether Ottawa has the money and the ability to move quickly enough to stay competitive with the U.S., which is pumping nearly US$400-billion into everything from battery-making to critical minerals, electric vehicle production, and clean electricity, including hydrogen.