August 23, 2019
Having young Canadians in China is valuable as tensions rise
The legendary ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu wrote in Art of War that “if one knows the enemy and knows oneself, one needs not fear the result of...
August 21, 2019
Lost in the SNC-Lavalin controversy are the Libyan victims
The SNC-Lavalin affair is about many things. It’s about conflict of interest, pressure from the prime minister and whether to split the roles of the attorney general and the...
August 21, 2019
Emissions will rise under Conservative climate plan
For over two decades I have evaluated promises by Canadian politicians to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. My work would be straightforward if a politician committed to a rising carbon...
August 23, 2019
End the PhD bashing to end the PhD problem
We read with great interest Dr. Daniel Roy Torunczyk Schein’s Policy Options article “The PhD Employment Crisis Is Systemic.” We were moved by his personal story; it is always...
August 20, 2019
Accountability reforms needed in wake of SNC-Lavalin affair
The pundits will be chattering about the political impact of federal Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion’s bombshell report into the SNC-Lavalin affair until election day. But this is also an...
August 19, 2019
A tougher Canada is needed for the new world order
Cold War II has begun, and Iran and Canada are early battlegrounds, albeit of very different orders of magnitude. As the last Cold War showed, nuclear-armed superpowers will do...
August 16, 2019
Watching early stages of government programs is critical
Canadians are, rightly, interested in the extent to which government programs achieve their intended objectives. Indeed, the federal government’s approach to achieving results centres around the pursuit of final...
August 15, 2019
Hard time gets unduly hard for aging prisoners
With an election looming, Canadians are hearing more talk about the importance of being tough on crime, along with the claim that our justice and prison systems are too...