Just a few years ago, conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and policy were limited to a very specific community of academics and enthusiasts, and perhaps a marginal few in the circle of avant garde policy-makers. Today, with rapid...

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada is pleased to host a private roundtable discussion with the Head of Communications and Development for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Laurel Ostfield, on April 18, 2018. Laurel will discuss how...

For Canadian entrepreneurs seeking new opportunities, Asia is full of markets with great promise. They look to Japan, China, South Korea, India, and Taiwan, knowing that real business growth will involve crossing the Pacific. Yet the complexities of...

Business leaders from across Canada and Asia met in Toronto on March 2nd for the third annual gathering of the Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council (ABLAC 2018). Formed in 2016, ABLAC provides a forum for open and candid dialogue on how Canada can...

When Mahatma Gandhi challenged Indians with the statement, “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change,” it was a rallying call for the country to inspire change across the globe by looking first introspectively at...

Canadian millennials are the drivers of tomorrow and will represent the largest voting bloc in the Canadian 2019 federal election. Already, millennials as a cohort dominate the Canadian workforce, and this generational shift coincides with important...

Winnie Wong and Derek Woo, students at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, spent the fall 2017 term in Hong Kong on a study-abroad program and an internship, respectively. Their travel to and from Hong Kong was provided by Hong...

Before U.S. President Donald Trump was elected, he campaigned on putting America first. His protectionist views have resonated with working-class Americans who believe increased free trade is eroding the U.S.’s once robust manufacturing industries....

While globally respected CEO’s like Jack Dorsey of Twitter predict that Bitcoin will become the next global currency, it’s clear that we have a way to go before it becomes a trusted vehicle of exchange. This message was brought home clearly earlier...

Langara College students Willy Sin and Lucy Morrow are currently living and working in Noida, India, for four months as participants in the APF Canada-Langara India Connect program. Now fully immersed in the corporate and community culture of Noida...

Climate change is expected to affect all parts of the world. Evidence from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows that global sea levels in the last two decades are rising dramatically as surface temperatures warm oceans and...

How can you effectively transport more than one billion people? It is a question that India's policy-makers grapple with every day. The integration of public and private transportation systems across a country comprising the world's seventh-largest...

The countdown is on to the third Asian Business Leaders Advisory Council (ABLAC 2018) meeting taking place this year in Toronto on March 2. ABLAC brings together a high-level group of Asian and Canadian business leaders who meet annually to discuss...

Amid great fanfare, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited international businesses to “Come, make in India, invest in India – for India, and for the world” at the eighth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit in November of 2017. This sentiment...

India’s economy is at a crossroads. As economic momentum in China declines, The Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that India will be Asia’s fastest-growing economy between 2018 and 2022, carving out more influence in and importance to the global...

As Prime Minister Trudeau has said, “Canada and India share a special bond.” Our relationship is underpinned not only by sharing a common language and a commitment to democracy, but also by the fact that there are more than one million Canadians of...

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) hosted a national conference in 2014 on building Canada’s ‘Asia competence’ – the knowledge, skills, and experiences young Canadians will need to be effective working with their counterparts across...

The surprise release of China's first-ever Arctic policy white paper last week made international headlines. Among other things, the report promises the development of a ‘Polar Silk Road’ through the melting Arctic. China seems to be confirming that...

Canada’s millennials (born between 1983 and 1999; aged 18 to 34 as of 2017) are the generation that grew up in an era of a rising Asia and who will form the largest block of the electorate in the 2019 Canadian federal election. Their views on Asia...

As the rest of the world rang in the new year with champagne toasts and lists of changes for 2018, China opted to enact a New Year’s resolution all of its own: to rid itself of the reputation as the “world’s garbage dump.” With the sobering light of...