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Policy & Regulation
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Science & Technology
Building new data centres in Canada will come with tradeoffs in benefits and negative impacts   
By Mark Lowey
Building new data centres in Canada can help safeguard data sovereignty and enable Canadian AI development, but the facilities consume huge amounts of power and water and emit greenhouse gases. Those are some of the tradeoffs that Canadians should consider in deciding how many data centres should be built, where they should be located where and how their impacts should be managed, experts say.
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Exploring the impacts of AI on people’s lives: profile of an early-career researcher   
By Mark Lowey
Profile of Luke Stark, an early-career researcher at Western University whose research explores the history and contemporary effects of AI systems designed to interact with humans and digital technologies more broadly. Stark also offers some advice for early-career researchers.
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Innovation & Investment
Freedom to dream: the innovative thinking of social entrepreneur Vicki Saunders   
By Mark Lowey
Social entrepreneur Vicki Saunders learned from her parents the values of having the freedom to dream and being part of a close, interconnected community. In a conversation with Research Money publisher Jeffrey Crelinsten, she shares how those values shaped her innovative thinking in how to invest and do business in a caring, open, sustainable way to "create the new world."
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Talent and government innovation programs aren’t enough for Canada to compete in the global digital economy   
By Mark Lowey
Canada’s well-educated talent pool and numerous federal government innovation programs haven’t translated into the commercialization of products for the global digital economy, panellists said during a Canadian Science Policy Centre webinar.
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The Short Report
The Short Report: May 21, 2025   
By Research Money
Ontario’s budget is big on tariff relief but short on post-secondary education funding; Canada Foundation for Innovation-funded facilities are attracting researchers; opponents want Ontario to withdraw Bill 5 aimed at fast-tracking resource projects; Canada’s future prosperity depends on getting Indigenous reconciliation right:; Canada has only a few $1-billion unicorns and they’re not scaling up or growing employees fast enough; and more.
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The Short Report: May 14, 2025   
By Research Money
The price of Ontario's four small modular nuclear reactors rises to nearly $21 billion; private health-data companies are selling access to patients’ records without patients’ knowledge; Council of Canadian Innovators offers a policy guide for Mark Carney’s government; Canada needs to harness its AI advantage; here's a way for Ottawa to "clean house" on federal regulations; and more.
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Voices
Colleges, polytechnics and Quebec’s Cégeps are playing an increasing role in Canada’s R&D activities
By Guest Contributor
Canada's colleges, polytechnics and Quebec's cégeps are playing an increasingly important role in Canada's R&D activities and meeting industry's needs for speed, practical excellence and flexibility, says Alexandre Navarre, a board member of the CCIT Novika and the incubator CEIM.
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Can AI innovations achieve “unbounded” productivity for society?
By Guest Contributor
Generative artificial intelligence has achieved at least a tenfold exponential increase in capabilities over previous AI systems. But current AI systems are nowhere near producing "unbounded productivity" and will require another tenfold increase in capabilities to do so, say thought leaders Eli Fathi and Peter K. MacKinnon.
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