Policy Options

In a territory where cost of living is king in political discourse, the government of the Northwest Territories’ measured opposition to the government of Canada’s carbon tax proposal in...

June 12 marked the release of the Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare. The Council recommended that Canada adopt universal, single-payer pharmacare, and...

Polarization of debates and campaigns of misinformation has become the new method of discussing important issues or high-profile projects that affect Canadians. For governments at all levels that have...

A decade ago, a group of policy wonks obsessed with gathering hard evidence for decision-making began meeting regularly over beers in Ottawa. They put together a campaign for the...

Countries around the world are grappling with how to identify and prevent a host of new threats to the integrity of their elections and democratic systems. With the next...

On May 11, 2019, Canada announced a series of decisions on seven halogenated flame retardants. Troublingly, the government decided to ban only two individual flame retardants and to leave...

The federal government is wading into the area of predictive analytics to try to help build more effective programs and policies before they are approved and funded. The Chicago-based...

Mention “deliverology” to a public servant working on the policy frontlines, and you’ll get either a shrug or a grumble. The trendy management theory that took the federal bureaucracy...

Il est devenu commun de présenter la laïcité québécoise comme la controverse la plus importante de la décennie. Le sujet a dépassé en intensité et en durée les autres...

Bill Young makes a provocative argument for more public regulation of the way charitable foundations deploy their assets for public benefit. He suggests that the government force foundations to...