Policy Options

Depuis la publication du rapport Parent, la place de l’éducation au Québec s’est considérable- ment accrue. Au niveau universitaire, notre population s’est scolarisée plus rapidement que n’importe quelle autre...

The Grand old Duke of York,/He had ten thousand men./ He marched them up to the top of the hill,/And he marched them down again. The World Trade Organization...

Battling for political power is, to men and women of a certain temperament, a higher kind of professional hockey: it gives broader scope both for out-witting and for roughing-up...

The media, academics, many politicians, and Elections Canada have bemoaned the progressive decline in voter turnout in federal elections in recent years, from 75 percent as recently as 1988...

Biosecurity has become a much more popular term in recent years, especially since the post-September 11 anthrax scares in the United States. However, there is nothing new about it;...

Public health renewal has emerged as an important policy issue in Canada, largely in response to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto in 2003 and...

L’affirmation selon laquelle les micro-organismes  s’apparentent aÌ€ la bombe atomique du pauvre prend tout son sens avec la fin de la guerre froide, alors que la supériorité militaire des...

Ever since the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Jacques Chaoulli et al v. The Attorney General of Quebec et al. struck down Quebec’s ban on...

En matié€re de financement de la santé, le constat tirepar le Comité de travail sur la pérennité du systé€me de santé et de services sociaux du Québec est tré€s...

Late one evening in March 2004, as 18-year-old Jovica Ivic walked through the village of Caglavica near Pristina, he was shot from a passing car. After surviving the attack,...

Referring to the daily press in 1846, Sà¸ren Kierkegaard wrote: ”œHere men are demoralized in the shortest possible time on the largest possible scale at the cheapest possible price.”...

Far too many Canadian adults are not being properly prepared for the knowledge economy. This has serious negative impacts not only on our prosperity, but on our entire social...

During his decade in office, Jean Chrétien moved from being a prime minister with a limited foreign policy agenda to a leader whose foreign policy drove his agenda. This...

As I write this, CNN is airing a program entitled ”œ1,000 Days in Iraq.”’ George W. Bush has already declared victory from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS...

Quand le gouvernement Martin a été défait aÌ€ la Chambre des communes, en novembre 2005, le ministre québécois de la Santé et des Services sociaux, Philippe Couillard, s’appré‚tait aÌ€...