Policy Options

It is hard enough deciding who is a journalist without delegating the decision to a judge in the midst of an election campaign — or for that matter the...

On Monday night, people across Canada tuned in to the first federal debate hosted by the new Leaders’ Debates Commission. If you were looking for measured discussions of policy...

Frederick Douglass was arguably the first person – I hesitate to say “politician” – to use photography for a political purpose. Douglass was an enslaved man who at about...

Election 2019 has provided an illustration of what the American journo-wonk Ezra Klein once called the “revenge of the sources.” Whereas experts, including academics, were once dependent on journalists...

Images of Justin Trudeau captured in brownface in 2001 stream across international media.  The outrage takes many forms. For some, his position as leader of our multicultural nation not...

A major focus of this 2019 election for the various campaigns will be courting voters from immigrant and visible minority communities, who are a majority of the population in...

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...