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
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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
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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
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Christine Van Geyn: ‘It’s a very bad political loss for them’
Christine Van Geyn on challenging Ottawa’s use of the Emergencies Act, the importance of her new book and some surprising judicial trends
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Author Roy Ratnavel: ‘We’re being put into buckets’
The bestselling author and business executive on his remarkable journey, the need to take ‘self-responsibility’ and his alarm about where Canada is heading
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Lt.-Gen. Michel Maisonneuve: ‘I wanted to be controversial’
Lt.-Gen. Maisonneuve on the speech that got him cancelled, how he got invited to speak at the CPC Convention and what Trudeau should explain to Canadians
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Dr. Alika Lafontaine, on his CMA presidency ‘sprint’
‘There’s an adage in heath care: You can have things fast, you can have them less expensive or you can have them high-quality, and you can only choose two.’