Investing in Canada's Research Future

Visionary policy, or a lack of it, in the federal election, the need for a royal commission, and whether we're in an AI bubble.

Introducing Paid Subscriptions and Expanded Content for Canada's Innovation Ecosystem

Plus reading recommendations.

Some thoughts on our new Prime Minister and a few reading recommendations

We're seeing new ideas to meet this moment - now we need to coalesce them into an actionable agenda and generate the political will to enact them

Reading recommendations and reflections.

Reflections on Omar El Akkad, hope, and the work required to build a better world.

Research isn't promising - highlighting how AI adoption increases hours worked and reduces worker satisfaction. Plus some reading recommendations on the US and the DEI backlash.

How to think about policymaking in a time of crisis

Reading recommendations and analysis

We need to understand and surmount the barriers that prevent us enacting known solutions to our problems.

AI's Problems Should Raise Red Flags for Mass Adoption By Governments

A look into some work on the changing roles of universities and how we should revisit our institutional architecture more broadly

Yes Canada is well-endowed with natural resources, but it is services that are the foundation of a modern, thriving economy

A collection of reading recommendations.

We can, and should, have a stronger, more innovative domestic economy, but we can't achieve that by ignoring our dependencies on the rest of the world.

How Canada can respond to Trump tariffs and other quick hits.

Canada can't compete in the current paradigm - we should be looking to reshape it instead, as DeepSeek has done. Plus some quick hit reading recommendations.

Plus quick hits on regional innovation centres, overhauling the Canadian federal government and 'Team Canada'