The Drift: How Canadians are navigating AI

When a machine can make the picture, what exactly is a photographer selling? Monique Weston has spent 25 years behind the camera , from film and darkrooms to digital, and now AI. She isn't anti-AI; she'll tell you exactly where she uses it and exactly where she won't. In this episode: the collapse of the headshot studio, why she thinks real photography is about to become a luxury, the consent ques...

Nearly three in four Canadian students use AI for their schoolwork and most feel guilty doing it. So why are two-thirds of teachers still untrained to handle it? Dr. Maggie McDonnell teaches professional writing at Concordia University. Instead of banning AI or policing her students, she sat down with her class and wrote the rules together. We talk about why a ban just turns teachers into cops, th...

In this first episode of The Drift, Montreal cardiologist Dr. Ragui Ibrahim talks about what's actually broken in Canadian healthcare, the AI he built to try to fix it, and what happens to the connection between a doctor and a patient when there's a third party in the room.

AI is changing every corner of Canadian life . The Drift goes inside that change, one industry at a time. Hosted by journalist Aalia Adam, each episode features a real conversation with a Canadian navigating AI in their own work , from healthcare to education to journalism and beyond. New episodes coming soon. Follow @TheDriftCanada on Instagram, and subscribe so you don’t miss Episode 1.