Policy Options

If on a future visit to the City of Lights you wind up visiting the restored “Petite Ceinture” railway in the heart of the metropolis (a project vaguely reminiscent...

Recently I tabled a motion in the Senate calling on the government to create a pilot project that would test a basic income in Canada, also known as a...

L’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (l’OMS) vient d’annoncer que la vague de cas de microcéphalie liée au Zika est une urgence de portée mondiale. Ce virus attire l’attention de...

It may be no huge surprise to families in Canada affected by autism that this “niche issue” has rarely been on the lips of any of our politicians leading...

L’idée faire cotiser les baby boomers à hauteur suffisante pendant leur vie active n’était pas à l’ordre du jour politique, dans ces temps-là, pas plus que celle de faire...

A smart and compassionate friend of mine recently told me that while he couldn’t stomach Stephen Harper – given Harper’s manifest disrespect for democratic institutions, the unseemly behaviour of...

Yesterday, the Ontario government released new details on its forthcoming provincial pension plan. There is a lot to dig into, and other parameters still to be worked out (like...

The rulebook for a future Quebec referendum – specifically, the minimum margin by which the “Yes” side would have to win before the federal government negotiated secession – was...

“CANADA LAGS far behind the United States, the European Union, and Australia in enacting, implementing, and enforcing key laws and policies to prevent environmental impacts on health. Laws and...