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For months, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has been grappling with how to deal with Google (and Facebook) over the controversial issue of requiring major internet intermediaries to compensate Canadian news publishers for news content appearing on the platforms’ services. Canada has been carefully watching developments in France and Australia, where both governments have been engaged […]
Written by: Hugh Stephens
Summary: A new study argues the Canada and United States agri-food sector suffered in the short term from effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but its specialization traits and “just-in-time” supply chain produced a resilience that was unforeseen, pointing to the growing importance of understanding the whole supply chain. In addition, the authors forecast that in […]
Written by: Karen Spencer
A new study argues that under the Biden administration, a stronger relationship between Canada and the U.S. will be restored, with the administration also working to rebuild important international institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), and by doing so will reduce trade uncertainties, and increase agri-food trade between Canada and the U.S. Canada […]
Written by: Karen Spencer
Back in mid-November, something significant happened in Asia, largely unnoticed. While most of the western world continued to grapple with daily reports of increasing COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, (well before the word “variant” became part of our everyday vocabulary), and while we watched transfixed to see whether Donald Trump would succeed in overturning the expressed […]
Written by: Hugh Stephens
We are one year from the first reported case of COVID in Canada, the phrase “building back better” — bridging the social, structural and economic fault lines of the past — is widely used across sectors. From President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign to the Government of Canada’s Building Back Better: A Plan to Fight […]
Written by: Alina Turner