Policy

Headwaters Community Coalition’s Jeanette McFarlane brings a ground-level urgency to one of the province's most consequential and least-covered policy failures. While governments across North America race to streamline development approvals, McFarlane argues that Ontario is dismantling the only oversight mechanisms standing between its most hydrologically sensitive land and irreversible aquifer contamination.

American University’s Linda Bloss-Baum examines how A.I. is stress-testing the foundations of U.S. copyright law. As litigation, licensing negotiations and classroom debates unfold simultaneously, Bloss-Baum argues that the future of innovation depends on preserving meaningful power and compensation for the creators whose work underpins the A.I. economy.