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By Mark Lowey
Canada needs to put science, technology and innovation at the centre of its economic policy agenda or risk losing ground to other countries that are doing so, panellists said at Research Money’s 24th annual conference in Ottawa. The country is at a critical moment in history and requires a bold vision for what it desires to be and wants to accomplish – a vision that all Canadians can support, they said.

By Mark Lowey
Canada confronts a national health security emergency, and the country’s life sciences sector faces an unprecedented crisis, says a new report by the Public Policy Forum. The report urges Canada to prioritize resilience, innovation and self-reliance, including fast-tracking Health Emergency Readiness Canada.

By Mark Lowey
Canadian businesses are under-investing in training their employees while industry and academia are still operating in silos when it comes to training the future workforce, experts said at Research Money's annual conference in Ottawa. There needs to be more incentives for companies to de-risk training, more training in professional skills, and more experimentation in training, they said.

By Mark Lowey
The biggest way governments could help Canadian entrepreneurs is to buy their companies’ products and services, entrepreneurs and founders said at Research Money’s annual conference in Ottawa. A little bit of swagger would go a long way, too.

By Mark Lowey
Canada’s structures for incentivizing and creating an innovation-driven economy are so broken, if the country were operating as a business it would be considered a bad investment, two veterans of the innovation landscape said at Alberta Innovates' Inventures conference in Calgary.

By Mark Lowey
Canadian startups regularly encounter roadblocks with university technology transfer and government procurement processes that are hurting the companies’ ability to grow and stay in Canada, say startup founders and CEOs.

By Mark Lowey
The federal government needs to identify and deliver on a list of high-impact, “no regrets,” nation-building projects to attract investment and increase Canada’s productivity, says a new report by the Public Policy Forum.

By Guest Contributor
Per capita GDP is a deeply flawed and misleading way to measure Canada's economic performance and Canadians' standard of living, says Jim Stanford at the Centre for Future Work.

By Mark Lowey
Canadian voters should be aware that social media platforms are rife with misinformation, influenced by cheaply purchased bots and Facebook groups and the blocking of Canadian news, media ecosystem experts say.