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This report introduces the Engagement, Governance, Access, and Protection (EGAP) Framework, developed by Black health sector leaders and health equity experts in Ontario to guide the  collection, management, analysis, and use of race-based data from Black communities in ways that advance health equity.

International education has become a policy sector of growing importance to Canada. With increased government regulations, disconnect is often observed between the intended policy outcomes and practice. This study aims to explain this disconnect by analyzing the heterogeneity among stakeholder interests.

I like to go through Settlement-related conference program agendas for conferences I’m not attending to see what might be of interest from a digital perspective. This year’s Metropolis Conference does not disappoint. Hopefully, at least the slides from these presentations, discussion notes, summaries, as well as reports mentioned will make it on the Metropolis conference platform or be shared publicly at some point. Here are some of interest.

In this February 2026 AI for Social Impact Gathering, Mark Abbott (Engineering Change Lab Canada + Tech Stewardship at MaRS) shares how civil society can build stewardship capacity: practical habits, governance instincts, and cultural norms that keep people and communities in the loop as AI becomes embedded into everyday work.

I work at the intersection of health and immigrant and refugee settlement now. To be completely honest, I thought the healthcare sector was much further along when it comes to digital transformation. Turns out, not really. At least, not in the comprehensive and sectoral way I thought they might be. They're a regulated sector, with strict laws and regulations when it comes to Personal Health Information (PHI), so they have to be even more thoughtful about how they approach tech and people. Other than that, there are as many questions, concerns, discussions, innovations, ideas, curiousity, and uncertainty as anywhere else.

In 2024 national round‑table discussions on digital inclusion in Canada occurred, forming a Canadian National Digital Inclusion Network (NDIN). These documents lay out a series of goals, challenges, and concrete recommendations aimed at closing the digital divide for marginalized groups across the country.

This study explores how patients, caregivers, and community stakeholders can be meaningfully involved throughout the life‑cycle of artificial‑intelligence (AI) tools for population‑health interventions.

This study maps the Responsible AI (R‑AI) ecosystem in the United Kingdom, tracing its conceptual evolution, historical development, and present‑day structure.