From: Blake C. Goldring To: Defence watchers Date: June 15, 2026 Re: Pulling Together to Meet Canada’s New Moment In 1939, Canada was not an industrial power. Its 10,000-man military was threadbare, its procurement system buried in red tape, and its capital markets had no framework for financing national security. Then C.D. Howe took charge. Within a […]
From: Harvey Naglie To: AI watchers Date: June 10, 2026 Re: Executing AI for All: How to Get a Capability-Raising Result Last week, Ottawa launched AI for All, a five-year national artificial-intelligence strategy built on six pillars and three stated aims: Trust, opportunity, and sovereignty. AI will add close to $200 billion in economic growth, the government projects, create up to 250,000 AI-related jobs, and raise business AI adoption from roughly […]
From: Steve Ambler and Jeremy M. Kronick To: Recession watchers Date: June 8, 2026 Re: Don’t Be Too Quick to Call a Recession On May 29, Statistics Canada released preliminary estimates of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) for the first quarter of 2026. Real GDP declined slightly (0.04 percent), following a 0.25 percent drop in the last quarter of 2025. […]
From: Rosalie Wyonch To: Artificial Intelligence watchers Date: June 2, 2026 Re: Is AI going to lead to mass unemployment and increasing inequality? The fear that artificial intelligence is about to upend Canadian labour markets is viewing the picture through a distorted lens. Each major technological wave has been accompanied by predictions of mass unemployment that did not materialize. […]
Nearly 74 percent of Canadian inventions were filed in the United States, while 56 percent were filed in Canada and 25 percent with the European Patent Office (EPO). Most inventions (52 percent) are filed in only one location. In addition, only about 12 percent of patent applications filed in Canada are by Canadian inventors, suggesting […]
Manufacturing GDP came in at just over $199 billion, a far cry from its recent high of $215 billion in 2023. This continues a nearly three-year declining trend that began in May 2023. Prior to May 2025 – outside of the COVID shutdown – we had not seen manufacturing output fall below $200 billion since […]
Foreign direct investment in Canada reached $93.6 billion in 2025, the highest level since 2007. However, nearly half came through mergers and acquisitions ($43.6 billion), which in most cases does not add new factories, equipment, or jobs. Reinvested earnings ($33.6 billion) are profits of foreign-owned Canadian businesses that were retained rather than paid out as dividends […]
From: Edward Waitzer To: Corporate sustainability advocates Date: May 11, 2026 Re: What the ESG Movement Needs to do Now Investor support for corporate sustainability initiatives has been derailed. In the face of strong ideology against environment, social and governance, or ESG, investing in the United States. Major fund managers such as BlackRock, Inc. and the Vanguard Group, Inc. have backed away from asserting that ESG factors are responsive to […]
From: Tingting ZhangTo: Health system observersDate: April 23, 2026 Re: How AI is Helping with Physician Paperwork and Why We Need to Do More Ask a family physician what frustrates them most, and it’s rarely about medicine. It’s the paperwork. Referrals, insurance forms, and electronic documentation – the administrative tasks that consume hours every week and […]
From: Daniel Schwanen and Rosalie Wyonch To: Artificial Intelligence watchers Date: April 21, 2026 Re: Artificial Intelligence Is Already Reshaping Canada’s Economy. Policy Must Catch Up After decades of gestation, artificial intelligence burst on the scene a mere five years ago, as a field with vast practical applications for businesses, researchers and the public. No longer is it a speculative technology looming in the distant future. […]
AI adoption among enterprises could reach 13 to 63 percent across G7 countries over the next decade, depending on adoption rates and technological progress. If adoption in Canada follows a similar timeline to the internet and computers, and AI capabilities continue to expand, estimates suggest that 48 percent of enterprises will adopt AI in the […]
A $300 billion global AI race is underway – but is Canada falling behind? Daniel Schwanen and Rosalie Wyonch join the podcast to discuss AI’s explosive growth and what’s needed for Canada to turn world-class research into real economic gains before it’s too late. Read the report: https://cdhowe.org/publication/from-hype-to-output-how-ai-investment-translates-to-real-productivity-gains/
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From: Blake C. Goldring To: Defence watchers Date: June 15, 2026 Re: Pulling Together to Meet Canada’s New Moment In 1939, Canada was not an industrial power. Its 10,000-man military was threadbare, its procurement system buried in red tape, and its capital markets had no framework for financing national security. Then C.D. Howe took charge. Within a […] 
From: Harvey Naglie To: AI watchers Date: June 10, 2026 Re: Executing AI for All: How to Get a Capability-Raising Result Last week, Ottawa launched AI for All, a five-year national artificial-intelligence strategy built on six pillars and three stated aims: Trust, opportunity, and sovereignty. AI will add close to $200 billion in economic growth, the government projects, create up to 250,000 AI-related jobs, and raise business AI adoption from roughly […] 
From: Steve Ambler and Jeremy M. Kronick To: Recession watchers Date: June 8, 2026 Re: Don’t Be Too Quick to Call a Recession On May 29, Statistics Canada released preliminary estimates of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) for the first quarter of 2026. Real GDP declined slightly (0.04 percent), following a 0.25 percent drop in the last quarter of 2025. […] 
From: Rosalie Wyonch To: Artificial Intelligence watchers Date: June 2, 2026 Re: Is AI going to lead to mass unemployment and increasing inequality? The fear that artificial intelligence is about to upend Canadian labour markets is viewing the picture through a distorted lens. Each major technological wave has been accompanied by predictions of mass unemployment that did not materialize. […] 
Nearly 74 percent of Canadian inventions were filed in the United States, while 56 percent were filed in Canada and 25 percent with the European Patent Office (EPO). Most inventions (52 percent) are filed in only one location. In addition, only about 12 percent of patent applications filed in Canada are by Canadian inventors, suggesting […] 
Manufacturing GDP came in at just over $199 billion, a far cry from its recent high of $215 billion in 2023. This continues a nearly three-year declining trend that began in May 2023. Prior to May 2025 – outside of the COVID shutdown – we had not seen manufacturing output fall below $200 billion since […] 
Foreign direct investment in Canada reached $93.6 billion in 2025, the highest level since 2007. However, nearly half came through mergers and acquisitions ($43.6 billion), which in most cases does not add new factories, equipment, or jobs. Reinvested earnings ($33.6 billion) are profits of foreign-owned Canadian businesses that were retained rather than paid out as dividends […] 
From: Edward Waitzer To: Corporate sustainability advocates Date: May 11, 2026 Re: What the ESG Movement Needs to do Now Investor support for corporate sustainability initiatives has been derailed. In the face of strong ideology against environment, social and governance, or ESG, investing in the United States. Major fund managers such as BlackRock, Inc. and the Vanguard Group, Inc. have backed away from asserting that ESG factors are responsive to […] 
From: Tingting ZhangTo: Health system observersDate: April 23, 2026 Re: How AI is Helping with Physician Paperwork and Why We Need to Do More Ask a family physician what frustrates them most, and it’s rarely about medicine. It’s the paperwork. Referrals, insurance forms, and electronic documentation – the administrative tasks that consume hours every week and […] 
From: Daniel Schwanen and Rosalie Wyonch To: Artificial Intelligence watchers Date: April 21, 2026 Re: Artificial Intelligence Is Already Reshaping Canada’s Economy. Policy Must Catch Up After decades of gestation, artificial intelligence burst on the scene a mere five years ago, as a field with vast practical applications for businesses, researchers and the public. No longer is it a speculative technology looming in the distant future. […] 
AI adoption among enterprises could reach 13 to 63 percent across G7 countries over the next decade, depending on adoption rates and technological progress. If adoption in Canada follows a similar timeline to the internet and computers, and AI capabilities continue to expand, estimates suggest that 48 percent of enterprises will adopt AI in the […] 
A $300 billion global AI race is underway – but is Canada falling behind? Daniel Schwanen and Rosalie Wyonch join the podcast to discuss AI’s explosive growth and what’s needed for Canada to turn world-class research into real economic gains before it’s too late. Read the report: https://cdhowe.org/publication/from-hype-to-output-how-ai-investment-translates-to-real-productivity-gains/