Policy Options

When the Senate expenses scandal hit in 2012, it left the parties scrambling to reform the deeply unpopular institution. Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper had taken small steps over the...

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...

“Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear — and what they want to hear is what won’t happen.”  Paul Samuelson In September 2006, a then relatively...

« Pourquoi n’as-tu pas serré les genoux [pour éviter de te faire agresser] ? » avait demandé le juge Robin Camp à une jeune victime d’agression sexuelle en 2017. « On peut...

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...

France’s plan to tax tech companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon has recently made the news, mainly due to the threats from the United States to impose...

New evidence could help Canadian scientists and policy-makers transform how chronic diseases are treated. Last spring, Canadian researchers found unequivocal evidence that environmental exposure has a significantly stronger impact...

With Canada gearing up for the federal election this fall, the usual subjects — the environment, the economy and immigration — are likely to dominate pre-election debate. But in an...

Though no one noted it at the time, 2016-17 was actually a momentous year for Canadian post-secondary education. For the first time since the 1950s, Canadian universities and colleges collectively...

With Canada’s 43rd federal election campaign about to unfold, political parties are fine-tuning their messaging aimed at the one-in-five Canadians living in rural areas. It is a familiar narrative:...