Tag: Year Ahead 2024

Pronoun arguments and French-English language tensions will ensnare school boards. International students will get extra government protection, but find housing harder to come by—and fewer will come from India. For the rest of us: AI lessons.  (Illustrations by Anna Minzhulina) 1. Canadians will become more AI-literate A 2023 report by the Canadian Institute for Advanced…

Governments will shell out more cash for struggling health systems as private care providers make new inroads. Technological breakthroughs will create new treatments. And psychedelics will find a cannabis-like fast track to the mainstream. (Illustration by Anna Minzhulina) 1. Psychedelic therapies will ramp up Psychedelics continue to march out of the darkness and into the…

Antibiotic-resistant infections threaten our health system. We need urgent action. (Illustration by Anna Minzhulina) Gerry Wright is a professor of biochemistry and biomedical studies at McMaster University Several years ago, I contracted a foodborne illness while travelling in Europe. It didn’t respond to oral antibiotics, and I grew sicker as the bug spread through my…

Global conflicts are deepening political divisions at home, and Canadians need to fight back (Illustration by Anna Minzhulina) Barbara Perry is the Director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University Right-wing extremism in Canada has been on an upward trajectory for the past few years. The reasons are complex: they…

Canada is poised to become a leader in EVs, but we’ll need to move fast Meena Bibra is a senior policy adviser at Clean Energy Canada. Canada has big ambitions to build one of the world’s powerhouse supply chains for EV and battery technology. In 2022, the government released its Critical Minerals Strategy—a road map…

In 2024, the country will launch payloads (plus an astronaut of our own) into orbit (Illustration by Anna Minzhulina) Timothy Caulfield is an author and professor at the University of Alberta This November, for the first time since the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago, humans will head for the moon. Jeremy Hansen, a…

The Earth has a fever, and we’re all feeling the symptoms (Illustration by Anna Minzhulina) John Vaillant is the author of Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World Back in July, the Earth set a new average temperature record, nudging past 17° C for the first time in recorded human history. Headline-worthy as…

Our annual look at what’s coming your way in 2024 As we say goodbye to 2023, we can all agree that it was a year of great disruption. Artificial intelligence moved from the fringes to the centre of all technological endeavours. Climate change shook up every arena of our lives. The global order is perilously…