Coral reef condoms: how to save a dying ecosystem
The efforts making the most progress is an attempt at ‘assisted’ evolution. It’s really a glorified form of selective breeding, choosing the most heat-resistant of each generation of coral polyps as the parents of the next.
Budget 2024 offers promising pledges for science, but falls short in a few ways
The bulk of the budget’s $1.8-billion planned for core research grants won’t flow for several years—making it very contingent on election outcomes.
Feds must expand pharmacare to include essential drugs for our deadliest diseases: cancer, heart conditions, and stroke
An expanded pharmacare framework offers a lifeline for millions of people in Canada. It is time for federal, provincial, and territorial governments to deliver it.
Canada’s investment in AI should inform a global ‘rights-based’ approach
Canada has a role to play in pushing its influence on the world stage. Right now, we are currently fifth in terms of AI capacity on the Tortoise Global Index, yet is 23rd in actual AI infrastructure.
Protecting public health care has never been more important
National pharmacare will be extended to 3.7 million Canadians with diabetes and nine million Canadians of reproductive age.
Canada is struggling and government is part of the problem
Federal government spending, public service employment, and the national debt are soaring, but delivery of essential government services is sputtering, and the Bank of Canada has been left to fight inflation single-handedly.
All hands on deck for the future of health care
One major gap that health providers have identified in testimony before the Standing Committee on Health has been the lack of high-quality, comparable data across provinces and territories.
Stop looking abroad for investment success, there is opportunity here at home
If we want to improve productivity in Canada, we should be investing in our own businesses and essential community infrastructures to support them.
Military mutiny or political collapse: Ukraine is running out of options
Ukrainian morale has already taken a battering because of the capricious stop-and-start character of U.S. military and financial aid.
Funding for Manitoba landfill search welcome, but First Nations-led response still needed
My office is still waiting to hear whether the First Nations-led response noted in our reports will be given the utmost consideration.
