Maxx Kochar

Canada has less than four years to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. Its own indicators show serious gaps in housing, food security, health care, clean water and climate resilience — but also evidence that course correction is still possible.

The Sustainable Development Goals were launched into a rapidly changing media environment. This Blue Squares analysis examines how mainstream journalism, independent media and social platforms have contributed to—and complicated—the SDG program in Canada and globally.

Artificial intelligence may feel unprecedented, but humanity’s fear of disruptive technology is not. From fire, stone tools and agriculture to print, radio, television, the internet and social media, every major shift has changed power, work and the human story. This commentary asks a harder question: not whether change can be stopped, but whether we can shape it with greater fairness, foresight and responsibility.