Investing in highly qualified talent to grow Canada’s economy

Canada needs to do more to help people attain graduate-level degrees and to support the university research enterprise as the backbone of talent development.

Through basic research, universities are a talent pipeline for the science and deep-tech innovation ecosystem, writes Dr. Alice Aiken, vice-president of Research and Innovation at Dalhousie University in Halifax.Photograph courtesy of Pix4free

Opinion

BY ALICE AIKEN

May 8, 2023

Canada’s economy is facing a set of unprecedented challenges. New pressures, including global economic disruptions caused by the pandemic and war in Ukraine, the requirement to transition our resource-heavy economy to meet net-zero commitments, and the inevitable need to a...

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