Canada’s strength lies in the openness and interconnectedness of its research and innovation ecosystems. Turning that ...

Annexing Taiwan — the likeliest flashpoint for Chinese aggression — would be the most complex military operation in history.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in people’s lives, which has led to growing calls for AI regulation. Although the public has strong opinions on AI, getting ...

Digital technologies are challenging the traditional role of commercial banks as gatekeepers of payment systems. Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, may have had some ...

As automation transforms society, the future depends on turning technology into a catalyst for collective intelligence.

Join us for a conversation on Breaking Point: The New Big Shifts Putting Canada at Risk (Signal/McClelland & Stewart, October 2025), the provocative new book by bestselling authors Darrell Bricker and ...

Canada’s economic and national security depends on how the country manages its intellectual assets and intellectual property ...

Kyle Briggs is a physicist, a deep-tech entrepreneur and the Entrepreneur in Residence for the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa.

The Responsible Technology program builds conceptual frameworks to guide informed decisions about dual-use technologies and develops policy recommendations to support responsible development and use.

A new global seminar series on developing digital governance that serves human welfare starts November 20, 2025.

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