Policy Options

Immigration has evolved into a defining issue of national politics in most western countries, dividing liberals from populists and globalists from nationalists. Policy in this area is increasingly intertwined...

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt recently reiterated that a post-Brexit United Kingdom will look to leverage its global networks including, significantly, the Commonwealth. As Canada faces its own trade...

Sharon McIvor has been engaged in an epic 33-year battle against the federal government to prove that she, her children and her grandchildren are entitled to be recognized as...

Like a growing number of countries, Canada is contending with some vexing challenges to its democracy posed by ambitious and more internationally active authoritarian states. It is not just...

Close to 40.3 million people around the world are caught in modern slavery, the International Labour Organization estimates. One in four is a child. This staggering global problem was...

On the eve of this year’s COP climate meetings in Poland, UN Secretary General António Guterres declared that climate change is “a race we must win.” But not everyone...

The unpronounceable agreement some people derisively refer to as the “U-smacka” is expected to be signed at the G20 meetings beginning November 30. Most attention is now focused on...

There has been a lot of talk about getting rid of birthright citizenship in Canada and the United States. President Trump recently announced he will issue an executive order...

Artificial intelligence has long captured people’s imaginations, inspiring curiosity, fear, hope and awe. When Star Trek’s android character Data debuted on the screen, he embodied the science fiction depiction...

Digital technologies could have a disruptive effect on future jobs, as well as on the tasks performed by workers and the skills required of them. There may be an...