Untapped horizons: inside the government unit that helps Canada think (way) ahead

Policy Horizons Canada isn't well known, but its roughly 30-person team is looking to every eventuality to help prepare the country for disruptive technologies and international shifts.

Policy Horizons Canada policy analyst Dione Scott meets with colleagues in the office's Idea Pod on March 29. The team researches policy complications a decade into the future using strategic foresight, and uses the walls so that they can more imaginatively and creatively think through problems.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY EMILY HAWS

April 4, 2018

Hidden on the 15th floor of an Albert Street office tower is a government branch whose workers write on the walls and telecommute by robot. It sounds more like a tech start-up, but Policy Horizons Canada is tasked with thinking outside the box to take the extra-long view on issues that could affect ...

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