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A new series of tariffs against Canada was unveiled by U.S. President Donald Trump on July 20. The tariffs are ostensibly a response to Canada’s retaliatory measures, which were introduced last year in response to Trump’s earlier tariffs. U.S. officials are using an arcane provision of U.S. tariff law to justify them, which will inevitably end up in court. (Note that these ar...

Canadians are worried about artificial intelligence (AI). Poll after poll finds that workers, students, artists, parents and other people who live and work in Canada view the proliferation of modern AI tools as a threat to jobs, cognition, democracy, human rights, the environment and more. Yet, to date, these concerns have been given short shrift in the national disc...

On the face of it, one might not think that there are many similarities between the tech and fossil fuel industries. One is infamous for its long-documented record of denying and delaying the need for climate action, while the other—occupied by leading firms like Google, Met...

This year’s Rosenbluth Lecture will feature authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks, who will take the stage with CCPA senior economist Marc about their new book Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us. Attendance is free for all, but registration is required below.

Linda is the recipient of a Nationa...

On June 18, while visiting Vancouver for the FIFA World Cup, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new package of federal housing and infrastructure funding for British Columbia. He also spoke of a new housing policy tool: the Canada-British Columbia Partnership on Condo Conversion—the only detail of which was to “leverage innovative financing tools to convert more than 2,20...