Canada’s talent dilemma: how to win the global innovation and technology race
If Canada wants to compete globally in innovation and technology, it must do more than attract skilled talent—it must retain, integrate, and fully utilize their expertise. This requires not just expansion of immigration programs, but a comprehensive strategic approach to linking top talent, research institutions, and industry in a globally competitive ecosystem.
Rediscovering the Commonwealth foreign policy
The Commonwealth provides a means for re-engaging a wider spectrum of states. While this includes Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, all highly likeminded actors, it reaches well beyond. It is an institution that includes rising global powers, such as India, Malaysia, Nigeria, and South Africa. In a fractious, more dangerous world, these are relationships Canada needs to cultivate.
Here’s the best strategy Carney can follow negotiating with Trump
All leaders across Canada should be working with each other and the federal government to build up a strong domestic economy in the same areas Mark Carney has promoted with the U.S.
Public transit can’t wait for politics to catch up
It is an economic engine, a climate strategy, and a housing enabler all rolled into one.
Trump threatens Canada’s bilingual and cultural foundations
Make no mistake. Trump has designs on the cultural and linguistic foundations of our nation. But are Canada’s political leaders ready to defend our bilingual character, to say nothing about standing up for Indigenous languages and cultures?
Comparing casualties in Gaza to Ukraine
The number of dead in the Gaza Strip makes clear something very unpleasant is going on—and it can’t be explained away by saying that Gaza is a lot more crowded than Ukraine.
Poilievre can win votes by exploiting Liberal foreign policy failures
To turn the tables on Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre should highlight the Trudeau government’s record of aligning Canada too tightly to American geopolitical objectives.
Unlocking the economic potential in Canada’s lands, forests, and waters
Natural Climate Solutions provide cost-effective ways to conserve and restore the ability of ecosystems to store carbon at a fraction of the cost of technological alternatives.
Canada’s productivity is declining. So how do we fix it?
Perhaps our next federal government needs to create a more internally integrated economy specializing in knowledge-intensive activities that rely less on the export of our diminishing stock of natural resources and more on its local transformation up the value chain.
The 120,000 voters Canada counts—and the almost three million it doesn’t
Increasing expatriate voter turnout is good for our country’s sovereignty, our families, and our friends who are all impacted by the various current crises across the country.
