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Whither Canada’s future workforce in the tech-driven global knowledge economy?

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.

The most important message entrepreneurs have for government: Buy our companies’ products and services

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.

Canada needs to fix broken structures to create an innovation-driven economy

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.

Roadblocks in technology transfer and government procurement must be dismantled for Canadian startups to succeed

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.

Ottawa should quickly approve nation-building projects as part of a new “Mission Canada” policy framework

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.

Per capita GDP is a “deeply flawed” way to measure Canada’s economic performance and Canadians’ standard of living

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.

Beware of rampant and disguised misinformation on social media platforms during this federal election

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.

Canadian government policies are still more challenging than U.S. tariffs, tech CEOs say

By Mark Lowey
Canadian government policies present more hurdles for homegrown tech companies than U.S. tariffs so far, CEOs of several tech firms said during a Council of Canadian Innovators national roundtable.

Ottawa needs to boost funding for indirect costs of Canadian research in light of Trump’s cuts to science agencies

By Mark Lowey
The federal government needs to increase funding for the indirect costs of Canadian research impacted by the Trump administration’s cuts to research and science programs, William Ghali, vice-president (research) at the University of Calgary, says in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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