Policy Options

With an election looming, Canadians are hearing more talk about the importance of being tough on crime, along with the claim that our justice and prison systems are too...

Unpaid leaves, if their accompanying policies are designed well, offer enormous benefits to the public service. They can serve as professional development or formal training, giving employees valuable insights...

Each year more than 7,000 of the brightest and most determined minds in Canada are awarded PhDs. As of 2015, there were 208,480 PhD holders in Canada. However, only...

“You’ll miss birthdays, you’ll miss anniversaries and graduations,” Jason Kenney warned his team when he addressed the United Conservative Party caucus after their election win in Alberta. Outgoing NDP...

La première chose que j’ai remarquée après ma chirurgie de féminisation faciale il y a quelques années, c’est la dissipation de mon anxiété et de mes peurs de l’espace...

A move for closure on the debate and a marathon weekend session at the Quebec National Assembly saw the contentious Bill 21 finally pass, 73 to 35. The legislation...

Canadians need to invest in social infrastructure as intentionally as they in do physical infrastructure. It is commonplace in business to emphasize the importance of location, but we devote...

It’s been a depressing few months in the Ontario nonprofit sector, as we learn of cutback after cutback to government investments in communities – first in the Ontario budget,...

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...

One eminent conservative scholar of public budgeting characterized annual budgets as a record of “victories, defeats, bargains and compromises.” Ontario’s 2019 Budget, the first of the new Conservative government...