Policy Options

During the dark days of the 2008-09 financial crisis, one of Canada’s top CEOs was a guest on the business television program I hosted at what’s now BNN Bloomberg....

The coronavirus has exploded into a global health risk not seen in a century. By early May, more than 3.8 million people in at least 187 countries and territories...

Back in the 1970s, a feisty New Zealand legislator named Marilyn Waring made headlines around the world. Her election campaigns were magnets for energetic local volunteers in a mostly...

Like colleagues across the higher education sector, I spent a hectic 72 hours in mid-March, transitioning a well-honed teaching plan based on in-person interactions into the largely uncharted territory...

The pandemic is political. While COVID-19 is essentially a public health crisis with massive economic effects, political decisions facilitated the spread of the virus, and politics guides how governments...

Family physicians are trained to ask patients how their social circumstances affect their health. For our more socially vulnerable patients, one of the questions we now find ourselves asking...

Ça fait un mois et demi que l’état d’urgence sanitaire a été déclaré face à la pandémie de COVID-19. Le confinement, la limitation des déplacements et la distanciation sociale...

The COVID-19 pandemic has handed the public service a grand-scale opportunity to experiment with new ways of operating, including rethinking the need for massive office buildings in Ottawa-Gatineau and...

As COVID-19 continues to surge, researchers and technologists are mobilizing to apply the best available tools to mitigate the virus’s impact. To date, the most prominent examples of technology-driven...

(This article has been translated into French.) We are all participating in an unprecedented global experiment aimed at figuring out what is the best way to confront the COVID-19...