The Business of Benevolence: How Technology is Changing Charitable Giving in Canada
It’s something that’s always been a part of the Canadian identity, but has taken on a new urgency over the past twelve months: our tendency to support charities, non-profits, and community organizatio...
26 Jan 202135min
2021, Year of the Gamer: How Video Game Culture is Conquering Canada and the World
Did anyone in your household wake up to find a new video game, virtual reality headset, or console under the tree over the holidays? Do your kids spend hours on end online, watching their favourite ga...
12 Jan 202137min
Pandemics, Pivots, and Predictions: Looking Back on 2020 and Ahead to 2021
Extraordinary. Unprecedented. Devastating. There’s no shortage of words that have been used to describe everything Canadians have endured over the past 12 months. COVID-19 has fundamentally disrupted ...
15 Dec 202037min
Impersonal Information: Data and Privacy Protection in 2020 and Beyond
What do digital privacy and COVID-19 have in common with climate change, Kompromat, counter-espionage hackers, and the new Netflix movie “The Social Dilemma”? They’re just a few of the many topics tha...
8 Dec 202035min
The Intangibles Economy: How to Make Canada an IP Powerhouse
It’s a term that’s been front and centre this fall, as the federal government considers ways to shepherd Canada out of the economic downturn caused by COVID: intellectual property. But what exactly is...
24 Nov 202032min
From Connected Cows to Smart Cities: Enabling the 5G Economy
There’s been no shortage of hype. Now, after years of headlines heralding it as a transformative technology, an evolution in wireless service, even a “game changer for humanity,” 5G is finally being r...
10 Nov 202033min
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
