Worldwide, political advertising is a mainstay in voter outreach by political parties and candidates during elections. In Canada, federal political parties’ advertising activities during general elections have intensified and...
Community members from Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek-Gull Bay First Nation (KZA) stood in silence around the crackling fire, while one of its leaders sang a haunting, beautiful prayer of thanks...
Local campaigns are understudied in Canada compared with national politics. In particular, we know relatively little about the unique challenges faced by independent candidates — those not endorsed by...
Shortly after George Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minneapolis, the insurgent group al-Qaeda released a new 83-page issue of its magazine One Ummah (“one nation under God”)...
Crafting a party’s campaign platform is a balancing act: Platform directors must not only consider competing demands from within the party, but also balance policy goals with tight fiscal...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shattered the arts sector. The consequences for society will be devastating unless an agenda for innovation and inclusive growth is implemented to support the arts...
A political party’s director of communications promotes and protects the party brand, ensuring the vision, mission, and policies of a party align with its corporate identity and brand ethos,...
In the COVID-19 era, Canada needs to better understand the relationship between identity and health. To do that, we need to use intersectional analysis, the study of the way...
In movies about political campaigns, we often see a character who whispers in a politician’s ear, providing strategic advice about what to say to the media or what information...
More than 50 years ago, Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of American Cities, changed how a generation of urban planners and other policy-makers think about cities....
