Ottawa provides $630 million to natural sciences and engineering researchers; Quebec government invests $288 million in reseaerch and innovation; going "all in" on automation boosts Canada's GDP but causes job losses; Alberta enacts a U.S.-style two-tier health system – or does it?; data centres' growing water consuption; rolling out Canada's social media bill; impact of Canada's industrial carbon tax; the case for Canadian scientific diplomacy; and more.