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Author Archives: Lauren Heuser
Lauren Heuser founded Canadian Affairs in 2023. Her previous roles include chief strategy officer of a Paris-based news service for young people, deputy section editor at the National Post and corporate lawyer at a global law firm. She holds a JD from the University of Toronto and an MBA from INSEAD and is a graduate of the University of Toronto Fellowship in Global Journalism. Lauren was a nominee for the 2023 National Newspaper Award for Editorial Writing, for editorials produced in Canadian Affairs' first six months of operation.
Posted inHealth
AI tech ‘revolutionizing’ stroke treatment in England
An AI tool that quickly analyzes brain scans of stroke patients has helped dramatically boost chances of full recovery
Posted inDevelopment Aid
Editor’s note: Introducing the foreign aid reporting project
Canadian Affairs’ foreign aid reporting project enables us to cover an undercovered and important subject that matters to Canadians
Posted inCommentary
A note of gratitude this holiday season
This holiday season, I have been feeling grateful to the many people who make our work possible and purposeful
Posted inThe Interview
‘We eliminated the waiting lists’: Dr. Hugh Scully on health-care reform
Having led successful health-care reform efforts in cardiac care, Dr. Hugh Scully knows what needs to change in the rest of Canadian health care
Posted inCoffee with Canadians
Dean Mary Wells: ‘We need to educate a different kind of engineer’
The University of Waterloo’s dean of engineering on the joys and challenges of leading one of Canada’s top programs and the surprising changes she’s observed in her career
Posted inHealth
Can ‘sense foraging’ cure our anxiety epidemic?
We sat down with University of Toronto professor and book co-author Norman Farb to discuss the science of sense foraging and who it helps
Posted inCommentary
It’s our birthday…
As Canadian Affairs has approached its one-year anniversary, I have been reflecting on whether our birthday—July 1 of last year—was well-timed
Posted inCoffee with Canadians
Journalist André Pratte: ‘liberalism in Quebec is in a very difficult situation’
André Pratte, the journalist, former senator and Quebec Liberal Party policy chair, on liberalism’s difficult moment and what he’s doing to help
Posted inCoffee with Canadians
Professor Michael Geist: ‘I would not score them well at all’
The esteemed professor on how the Liberals have changed from their early years, what’s disappointed him and his concerns about AI regulation