Policy Options

Talk about growing pains. The first full year of cannabis legalization in Canada has stumbled badly: the rollout of retail stores has been painfully slow in all provinces except...

Canadians will head to the polls October 21, 2019, to decide who will represent them in the 43rd Parliament. Our contributing writers share their insights on a range of...

Around the world, political parties and governments are contending with voters who are disenchanted and unpredictable. The sense that politicians don’t listen to their concerns or understand their lives...

Although economists favour carbon pricing as the most effective and efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the policy has taken an unpredictable path in Canada. It has been...

Right after he became Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau underlined that he would not reopen the Constitution. He said the constitutional wrangling would be “a laborious effort that would consume...

Designing a policy framework to regulate the ethically charged, scientifically complex field of assisted reproduction has been challenging for the federal and provincial governments. The 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction...

Having women hold the most powerful elected positions, including premiers, big-city mayors and the most important cabinet positions in the country, is no longer a novelty in Canada. Women...

Digital government, or E-government, is no longer just an interesting side project aimed at harnessing the power of digital technologies and data analytics to better deliver services and “create...

Canada, like other countries around the world, is in flux. Technological disruption will have a profound effect on the workforce, as well as on the public services Canadians depend...

Whether you’re in the workforce or a parent of a child who will one day be in the workforce, chances are you’ve fretted about what skills will be required...