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Stéphane Dion, then Canada’s ambassador to France and Monaco and special envoy to the European Union and Europe, speaks to journalists at the Canadian embassy in Paris, France, in February 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Stéphane Dion: The case for unified and effective Canadian science diplomacy

Canada sells well; it opens doors. But it needs effective science diplomacy, based on a unified approach, bringing together governments, embassies, businesses and universities.
Job seekers get assistance with resumes at an immigrant job, career, education and settlement fair, in Vancouver, B.C., October 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

Are algorithms unfairly screening out immigrant job applications?

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in hiring, Canada needs to consider how opportunity is distributed once immigrants enter the labour market.
Anthropic co-founder and President Daniela Amodei, left, speaks with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy at the Snowflake Summit on AI in business, June 1, 2026, in San Francisco. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Sovereign AI? Anthropic shutdown reveals Canada’s weakness

Canada is now investing billions to strengthen domestic AI capacity. But sovereignty is not simply about where the servers sit.
As the weather heats up and Canadians head outdoors for summer camping adventures, researchers are working to improve the detection of mosquito-borne viruses. (Unsplash/Dave Hoefler)

What are the risks of contracting West Nile virus from a mosquito in Canada?

Genomics-based surveillance can help us identify the prevalence of mosquito-borne viruses across the country.
Canadian players celebrate after their FIFA World Cup win against South Africa in Inglewood, Calif., near Los Angeles, on June 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Marcio Sanchez)

Canada’s 2026 World Cup team reflects the country’s multicultural identity — in a way hockey never has

As Canada co-hosts the 2026 World Cup, its men’s soccer team offers a more diverse and inclusive vision of national identity than the country’s traditional sports have provided.
One of the most visible ways that Canada responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs was by sharply restricting U.S. alcohol sales. AP Photo/Jill Colvin

Canada is kicking its US booze habit as trade tensions persist

Canada’s shunning of beer, wine and spirits from the US is a textbook example of how market access for politically exposed goods can quickly unravel.
In most Canadian provinces and territories, patient health information is siloed in separate software programs in different offices, designed by multiple vendors with differing standards. (Unsplash)

Canada’s fragmented electronic health records harm patients and cost taxpayers billions: New research

Canada needs to establish clear accountability for health data oversight and co-ordination of electronic health records.
Newly arrived South Africans listen to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau deliver welcome statements in a hangar near Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

US refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century‑long effort to keep some English‑speaking nations white

Australia, Canada and the US identified themselves as ‘white men’s countries’ in the early 20th century and coordinated immigration restrictions to keep them that way.
This official photograph shows US President Donald Trump supervising the steps of the Epic Fury crusade against Iran, from Mar-a-Lago, Florida. The well-orchestrated image depicts a “man of action” (pictured without a tie with two phones in front of him via which he sends his orders), and the sole decision-maker, as if illuminated by an inner force that attests that Providence guided his election. Daniel Torok/The White House/AFP

From cowboy to crusader: how Trump distorts American mythology in the conflict with Iran

Donald Trump’s communication style, especially since the start of the US military campaign against Iran has revived several old myths that are engrained in the American psyche.
Canada goalkeeper Stephanie Labbé, who has publicly spoken out about abuse and misconduct in women’s soccer, centre right, punches the ball away from Nigeria’s Christy Ucheibe, centre left, during the first half of a women’s friendly soccer match, in Vancouver, on April 8, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Abuse in Canadian sport is systemic — a landmark report calls for sweeping reform

Canada’s sport system requires meaningful change that will depend less on identifying problems (which are already well-known) and more on whether governments enforce accountability.
Bison graze in a field in Oxbow, Sask. What Treaty 4 means depends on whose story you believe — the federal government tells one story; First Nations treaty Elders and legal scholars tell another. (Unsplash)

Treaty 4 brings up hard questions like how did ‘Crown land’ come to be?

The official interpretation of Treaty 4 is historically contested. And if that interpretation is wrong, then Canada’s claim to “Crown land” and settler ownership rests on a deeply unstable foundation.

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