One of Canada’s largest public service unions spent two years developing a proposal for a pioneering guild-style organization to represent professionals in precarious work, only to have the idea...
“Thanks for not tweeting about the bus,” I gratefully whispered to one of the journalists travelling with us. “I find campaign bus metaphors so boring, so you are off...
The first year of legal cannabis sales in Canada did not go smoothly. To be fair, introducing a federally regulated legal supply chain that operates across 13 different retail...
Le 21 octobre, le Parti libéral de Justin Trudeau a repris le pouvoir avec l’appui de 33,1 % des électeurs canadiens, un peu moins que ce que les conservateurs...
The controversial outcome of the general election in October 2019 will undoubtedly re-ignite a century-old debate over the use of the first-past-the-post electoral system we use in Canada, known...
Justin Trudeau cannot in this new session of Parliament rely on having the outcomes his father did in 1972. True, both he and Pierre Trudeau experienced the embarrassment of...
It’s difficult these days to get through the morning news without seeing “affordability” mentioned in some way. In fact, the pledge to make life more affordable was put forward...
Of the many things we have learned from almost 100 years of drug prohibition, it is obvious to all but the most ideological that public health education and the...
“I wonder what those women would be doing now,” says Ruth Eden, assistant deputy minister of infrastructure in the Government of Manitoba. Thirty years ago, Eden was a fresh...
The criminalization of cannabis is now a thing of the past in Canada, but the legacy of legalization is far from clear. Legalization represents a major social and political...
