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.
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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.
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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.
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In Canada, agrivoltaics could produce enough electricity to eliminate the need for fossil fuels on the grid entirely, using less than one per cent of the country’s agriculture land.
The Albertan and Canadian flags fly next to each other in the Kananaskis district of Alberta.
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Alberta is not the only place in the world where questions of self-determination are live.
As the weather heats up and Canadians head outdoors for summer camping adventures, researchers are working to improve the detection of mosquito-borne viruses.
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The leaders of Canada, France, India and Turkey are among those looking to leverage their ability to say ‘no’ to Washington.
Wisdom, depicted here in an allegorical sculpture of Minerva adorning the tomb of Pope Gregorio XIII in Saint Peter’s Basilica (Roma, Italy) by Camillo Rusconi.
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Research among adult visitors to the Montréal Insectarium reveals that many people will consider eating insects, especially when they are ground up as flour.
Canadian players celebrate after their FIFA World Cup win against South Africa in Inglewood, Calif., near Los Angeles, on June 28, 2026.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is based in China and Chinese national security laws can compel companies to co-operate with state authorities.
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The ‘nuclear club’ currently consists of 9 nations? Could more nations be joining before long?
Canada’s Kurt Oatway competes in the Men’s Super G Sitting at the 2026 Paralympic Games in Cortina, Italy on Mar. 9, 2026.
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Nearly 40 per cent of Canadians now follow the Paralympics, which is helping shift public attitudes toward disability.
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.
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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.
A demonstrator holds a placard reading ‘Save Aleppo, Free Syria’ at a protest in Italy on Dec. 18, 2016.
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