Can an Algorithm Be Racist? The Growing Push for Ethical AI
From facial recognition software that fails to recognize women and people of colour, to Twitter algorithms which seem to prefer white faces in photo previews, there’s been no shortage of negative head...
20 Okt 202028min
Apps, Anxiety, and Adolescence: Youth Mental Health in the Age of Covid
It was already a challenge, even before the pandemic: helping young people and their families navigate Canada’s complex, fragmented mental health system. But experts say COVID could also serve as a ca...
13 Okt 202035min
The SheEO Model: How Female Entrepreneurs Can Lead the Recovery
Canadian women entrepreneurs are a dynamic and powerful economic force. After all, women own and operate almost one-third of all firms in Canada, and they start businesses one-and-a-half times more of...
6 Okt 202035min
8 Ways COVID is Still Disrupting the Economy
The past eight months have been an unprecedented time of disruption in Canada. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everything from how we work, learn, and shop to how we travel, entertain ourselves, an...
29 Sep 202036min
How the NEXT Generation of Entrepreneurs Could Kickstart a Wave of Change
When others see obstacles, entrepreneurs see opportunities. Nowhere is that more true than the up-and-coming generation of business minds, many fostered through NEXT Canada. The organization gives ent...
22 Sep 202035min
Cancon and Beyond - How Wattpad Is Becoming a Global Content Destination and Distributor
COVID lockdown restrictions have boosted the desire to consume creative content higher than ever. What’s new about this era is where the content is coming from -- a diversity of voices from around the...
15 Sep 202030min
Genomics and the Bio-Revolution: A roadmap for Canada's economic recovery.
It's a branch of molecular biology that humans have been harnessing for centuries, but has come to carry a negative connotation for many Canadians due to concerns about genetically modified organisms:...
8 Sep 202036min
Concrete: An unlikely hero in the climate crisis
The world is on track to add as many people to cities in the next 40 years as we have in the last 40 centuries. Those new buildings and roads will require a lot of concrete, which historically was an ...
25 Aug 202031min
