Over the last six years, Canada’s Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements program provided more recovery funding than in its first 39 years – since it was launched in 1970 – combined, largely due to the acceleration of climate change and extreme weather events.
Read MoreLiving in a hyper-connected world brings certain advantages. But with them comes a host of cyber threats that affect increasing numbers of people and businesses every day.
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Read MoreIt may be 10 years or more before fully autonomous vehicles start rolling out of dealers’ showrooms in large numbers and heading for the open road, but the prospect of a commercially available driverless car in the not-too-distant future has captured the public’s imagination like few technologies have managed to do in recent years.
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Read MoreA Q&A with Lorne Sossin, the Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School. A law clerk to former chief justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada and a former associate in law at Columbia Law School at York University, he was also a litigation lawyer with Borden & Elliot (now Borden Ladner Gervais LLP). Dean Sossin shares his perspective on the nature, direction and potential impact of legal innovation in Canada.
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Read MoreSki lessons are not just for beginners. Even when Nancy Greene Raine dominated the World Cup ski race circuit in the late 1960s, winning gold and silver Olympic medals in 1968, coaches dissected her every turn. After she retired, as equipment changed and technique evolved, Ms. Greene Raine kept on learning and refining her skiing. It’s one of the things that makes skiing a lifelong sport – there’s always room for improvement. “It’s OK to ski your own way, but if you’re getting tired or falling all the time, it’s time to take a lesson,” says Ms. Greene Raine. “If your technique doesn’t keep up with the equipment, you’re going to be working harder than you have to.”
Read MoreOne of the most exciting aspects of conservation today is the increasing availability of data on species and habitats, and the ability to use that data in ways that inform decision-making. “I like to think about our conservation planners at the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) as biodiversity investment advisers,” says Dan Kraus, NCC’s Weston conservation scientist. “We have the ability to access, analyze and share information on species and habitats that wasn’t available just a decade ago. Conservation Data Centres are among the most important innovations in how biodiversity information is managed and shared across Canada.”
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Read MoreTo meet the Paris Agreement commitment to keep global warming within two degrees Celsius, the world’s largest emitters must reduce their carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, a challenge that 2017 Clean50 Education and Thought Leadership Award winner Walter Mérida describes as “incredibly ambitious.”
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Read MoreCanada’s post-secondary institutions are continually challenged to keep pace with shifting economic forces, technology advances and new labour market requirements. As the speed of change accelerates, universities and colleges are working to become all the more agile in program transformation to ensure they continue to meet the needs of their learners and their communities.
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Read MoreAccording to a recent report from the National Energy Board, Canada is now the world’s fourth-largest generator of renewable energy. Hydropower represents 55 per cent of our electricity capacity; between 2005 and 2015, wind power capacity increased by 20 times and solar by 125 times. But renewable sources still make up a distressingly small portion of the world’s total energy use, less than four per cent, and around 80 per cent still comes from carbon-intensive sources such as oil, gas and coal. Here in Canada, wind, solar and biomass power makes up just 11 per cent of total capacity.
Read MoreIf you listen to Andrew Pelling, you’ll believe your most creative and wild ideas are worth paying attention to. You may even feel compelled to submit them for further investigation in his lab, where biohacking and DIY science are par for the course. Dr. Pelling leads the Laboratory for Biophysical Manipulation at the University of Ottawa, described on its home page as “an openly curious and exploratory space where scientists, engineers and artists work in close quarters.”
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Read MoreMore than any other activity that relies on government and private sector funding for its livelihood, research is the key to solving some of our biggest global challenges, from environmental degradation to food security – and yet, it’s most vulnerable to cutbacks.
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Read MoreAging doesn’t eliminate the need to maintain a household, pay bills on time or manage investments properly. But what it often does steal is the ability to handle these tasks effectively.
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Read MoreCary List had no illusions of how tough the task would be when he participated in a meeting seven years ago to articulate a vision for how financial planning should evolve to meet the needs of all Canadians by 2020.
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Read MoreThe Canada’s Clean50 Awards were created in 2011 to identify, recognize and connect individuals who were doing the most to enable Canada to move towards a low carbon future.
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Read MoreTwo men go to the hospital. Both are 75 and have previously enjoyed a similar level of well-being. Then both fractured a hip due to a fall. And although their injuries – as well as many of the medical history details captured on their hospital admission forms – are similar, what follows may be drastically different.
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Read MoreCanadian companies are well positioned to benefit from growth in the global aerospace sector over the next decade as rising incomes and an expanding middle class in developing economies drives demand for new aircraft, says Viren Joshi, global accounts director at Export Development Canada (EDC).
Read MoreCanada has an extraordinary tradition of philanthropy, and is by many measures one of the most charitable countries in the world. The World Giving Index, which looks at total giving, volunteering and how often a citizen helped a stranger, ranked Canada in 2015 as the fourth most generous country, and we were ranked second as recently as 2013. Canadians give nearly $13-billion in gifts and almost two billion hours in volunteer time annually, according to Statistics Canada’s most recent General Social Survey on Giving, Volunteering and Participating. It should come as no surprise that Canada was the first country in the world to permanently recognize and celebrate National Philanthropy Day on November 15 of every year.
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Read MorePeter and Melanie Munk’s transformative giving demonstrates their passion for higher learning and health-care excellence
Peter Munk and his wife Melanie share a bold vision for Canada’s evolving role in the world – one of the nation playing a more prominent role in global affairs, influencing issues like innovation and cyber security while also pushing new frontiers in health care.
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Read MoreGenerosity is at the heart of all social change, and on November 15, fundraisers are putting the spotlight on the importance of giving – and asking.
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Read MoreInvesting in exchange-traded funds, commonly known as ETFs, has become a more taxing exercise as the long bull market in North American stocks shows signs of losing its fizz.
ETFs typically track a market index, which means that picking winners has not exactly been rocket science since the current upswing in equities began in March 2009. The S&P500 index had trebled by late October. Even the more volatile S&P/TSX Composite index was up more than 80 per cent from its low.
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