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.
Quantum innovation depends on diversified startups investments, say experts
The Liberal government unveiled its $360-million National Quantum Strategy on Jan. 13 to support the growth of quantum sciences and technologies in Canada.
Our regulatory stagnation is killing innovation
Innovation will never convert into productivity growth unless we constantly modernize our regulations, empowering businesses to implement innovative new practices that also protect consumers.
Canada can become the international low-carbon innovator of choice
Canada brings more to the table than natural resources and a peaceable temperament, because its research strengths include the full panoply of needed disciplines.
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.
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.
Canada must close the digital gap with Indigenous Peoples
If this divide persists, another generation of Indigenous youth will be denied jobs and opportunities that require digital literacy.
