COVID-19 paused a lot of things, but not cyberbullying
COVID-19 has been the top global story since 2020. When the pandemic began, people quickly moved to working online from home. School-aged and university students also moved to virtual learning through a variety of software and applications. For the past two years, nearly everyone has been spending more time online. Personally, I had to get […]
On cybersecurity, we must truly work together
Canada is under an unprecedented cyber siege and without immediate action, our standard of living and economic future is in jeopardy. The evidence is in the headlines. The escalating cyber risk from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The recent multi-day disruption at Global Affairs Canada from a cyberattack. The complete shutdown of an entire provincial […]
Is Canada prepared for advanced cyberattacks?
Escalating tensions from the Ukrainian-Russian war have exponentially increased the risk of cyberattacks on Canadians and their western allies, leaving critical infrastructure and business assets as targets. A post-mortem of the incident in February 2022 on the Global Affairs network revealed Russia was behind the cyberattack resulting in the federal government issuing warnings to Canadian […]
Canada is not immune to cyberattacks
One of the surprises of the war in Ukraine is how small a role cyberattacks have played both in Russia’s actions within Ukraine and against those supporting Ukraine. There had been widespread predictions that this would be the first war in which cyberattacks would play as large a role as kinetic attacks. Russia does continue […]
Losing our competitive advantage in an increasingly competitive world
Every day university researchers across Canada and around the world are conducting extraordinary research, but Canada still isn’t making the most of these discoveries by turning them into innovative products to sell globally. Innovation requires momentum. It requires not only concerted effort by researchers pursuing bold and risky ideas, but also deep connections with those […]
Canada’s lack of competition and unequal access to technology leads to a loss of innovation and to productivity failure, making all of us poorer
When the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its recent report that Canada’s real GDP per capita only increased by a meagre 0.8 per cent a year from 2007 to 2020, ranking us 26th among 38 advanced countries, that was not the worst news. The disaster on the horizon was the OECD predicts […]
Joining forces on global research and innovation: Canada and the EU advance efforts on Horizon Europe
A few days ago, the European Commission and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) announced the conclusion of exploratory talks on Canada’s potential association with Horizon Europe, the European Union’s signature Research and Innovation Framework Programme. This is a milestone achievement. In the coming months, both parties will start their respective internal processes to […]
Research & Innovation Policy Briefing
Continued dawdling on vaccine waiver position leaves NDP and advocates ‘extremely frustrated’
Nineteen months after India and South Africa put forward an intellectual property waiver on COVID-19 vaccines, Canada’s continued delay to signal an opinion on the matter has left many with a bitter taste in their mouths. The waiver was submitted at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council in […]
Setting Canada’s global technology agenda after COVID
New technologies are now a foundation of the global economy, with two titans—the U.S. and China—duelling over technology leadership. Both threaten to decouple the governance and infrastructure of the world’s digital technologies, creating separate supply chains they plan to dominate. After the resolution of the hostage crisis with China, in Canada we now await a […]
