Category Research Ethics

Beyond Compliance: Ethics in the Context of Privacy

Dylan McKibbon argues that the concept of privacy has been long misunderstood and ought to be elevated to the status of a core bioethical principle to be regarded as a cornerstone of bioethical activity.

Relational Autonomy & Public Funding for Noninvasive Prenatal Testing

Biplab Kumar Halder shares how a relational autonomy framework informed his research regarding public funding of Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT).

Let’s Raise the Bar for Research Ethics Standards on Psychedelics

Paola Cubillos draws attention to the ethical and methodological concerns from MDMA- Assisted Therapy research and argues that these issues merit a stringent research ethics oversight framework for psychedelic clinical studies.

A Cool Idea: Northern Datacenters for Canadian AI

Dylan McKibbon details Canada’s path to global leadership in sustainable artificial intelligence.

How Populism in Canada would Impact Bioethics

Kelsie Senior anticipates the practical and epistemic impact of conservative populism on bioethics in Canada.