Policy Options

In March of 1935, Adolf Hitler announced the rearmament of Germany in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. It had been just 17 years since the First World War...

An election candidate with a Canadian political party is not a free agent. Similar to the local franchisees of an established corporate brand, party candidates benefit from their party...

Les médias sont au cœur de notre régime démocratique. Trop souvent négligés, ils sont pourtant le principal outil dont disposent les citoyens pour faire un choix éclairé devant les...

How do you cover an election with no reporters? Already, with that one sentence, this sounds like a plea to support journalism. It isn’t. (Though we should — of...

Every election, sans faute, much ink is spilled trying to declare the “ballot box question.” What is the burning issue that will decide how all Canadian voters make their...

Over the past half century, Hollywood’s silver screen has elevated journalists into the pantheon of popular culture. From the legendary All the President’s Men to the contemporary classic Spotlight,...

The four years between elections is time enough for the resources, technology and tactics available to both the media and the political parties to change significantly. That alters the...

C’ est un cliché, mais le paysage médiatique est en constante transformation. Les médias d’information sont en perte de vitesse partout dans le monde, et le Canada ne fait...

The threat posed by disinformation on elections is well known. At First Draft, we have monitored false and misleading content that emerged in the lead-up to the 2016 US...

Newsrooms in Canada are disproportionately white. This inequity means Canadian news coverage is less inclusive and therefore not truly representative of our country’s racial diversity. We’ve known all this...