Reading Time: 4 minutes With so few small and medium enterprises in Canada, who can blame Canadian tech students from going to the U.S. in search of opportunity?
Author: Derrick Rancourt
Derrick Rancourt is a professor in the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, where he chairs the Graduate Science Education’s Professional Development Taskforce.
The black hole of increased funding for scientific research
Reading Time: 4 minutes Increasing investment in science is fine, but rarely does the investment seem to lead to an improvement in the lives of Canadians
Canada’s new superclusters could just be black holes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The government thinks that if industry doesn’t see fit to use its own money to stimulate innovation, perhaps taxpayer money should be the fire starter
Sharing the spoils in a world ruled by the few
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a future ruled by titans, plebs lose opportunities to innovate. Advancement depends on idea generation in the hands of the many rather than the few
How to spark entrepreneurship in students
Reading Time: 3 minutes Students should be encouraged to think beyond their own thesis research project and consider other options – such as entrepreneurship – for their career
Patients being kept in the dark about best treatment plans
Reading Time: 4 minutes To fight costs, Canadian patients are being denied coverage for biologics until all other (less expensive and less effective) measures are explored
While we focus on sexual abuse, we can’t forget power abuse
Reading Time: 3 minutes Power abuse comes in many shapes and sizes. We need to put systems in place to control it
The human touch: people squeezed out of the workforce by AI
Reading Time: 3 minutes Artificial intelligence is beginning to tackle critical-thinking jobs. Humans is to focus on skills that machines don’t yet have
China’s unsettling leverage over America
Reading Time: 3 minutes China’s economic, social, political and military growth mean the superpower dynamics are shifting dramatically
How Alberta can deal with the ‘silver tsunami’ health-care crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutes If the NDP is going to lose the next election, the government should just fall on its sword and introduce a sales tax