Policy Options

William Watson: Desmond Morton, you’re a military historian and an historian of Canada. What was your first reaction to the events of Sept. 11th? Desmond Morton: I was going...

William Watson: Where were you when you heard about the attacks on Sept. 11th and what were your first thoughts? Janice Gross Stein: I was in the car, driving...

William Watson: How did you hear about the attacks? What was your initial reaction and when did you start thinking about economics? John Helliwell: I turned on the CBC...

William Watson: Where were you on Sept. 11, what was your reaction, and when do you think you began analyzing it all as a philosopher? Will Kymlicka: I was...

William Watson: How did you find out about the bombings? What was your experience? André Blais: I was in London. It was just after a conference. I was supposed...

William Watson: How did you first hear about the events of Sept. 11? Ed Morgan: I first heard about it in the car radio on my way down to...

Hugh Segal: Tom Courchene reminded me earlier today that former Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai was typically inscrutable when someone asked him what the effects of the French Revolution had...

North American integration was the stuff of frontpage news, editorial comments, and columnists’ musings in Canada well before the tragic events of Sept. 11. It was also on the...

The reaction to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 has shown that Canada’s special relationship with the U.S. is fragile. Calls for a “common perimeter” or the harmonization of...

At his October 17 pre-budget meeting with economists from the big banks and think-tanks, Finance Minister Paul Martin was told that his fiscal options are limited as the economy...

Public policy decisions are rarely simple. Decisions in health and health care affect Medicare, Canada’s most cherished and most expensive social program, and good decision-making requires the development and application...

On May 20, 1999, the Supreme Court of Canada handed down its decision in M. v. H. The case centered on the obligation to provide financial support to common-law partners....

Several months after I moved to the US, a prominent Canadian academic e-mailed me a question: “What does it feel like to be a drained brain?” The question gave me...

What does it mean, exactly, to be “Canadian”? Defining the term is a Sisyphean task, to say the least. After 134 years of trying, we’re no closer to success...

When Canadians think of Ireland and politics they usually think of guns, bombs, the IRA and the apparently interminable “peace process” in the Northern part of the island. Surely...

Périlleuse, la publication d’une revue ! Le mois dernier, je terminais ma chronique par un voeu : que l’Alliance canadienne s’en tienne à son projet de taux d’imposition unique...

In order to even begin to comment intelligently on trends in living standards, one needs to recognize the important distinction between living standards in general and material living standards....

We are all familiar with the late Prime Minister Trudeau’s famous analogy of the restless US ele- phant in bed with the nervous Canadian mouse. In fact, a more...

CONCILIATORY COALITIONS BASED ON PRAGMATISM There were some who sug- gested that the Conservative party under Mr. Stanfield suf- fered from no lack of substance in terms of policy...

L’humanité vit dans un état de crise plus ou moins permanent. La violence et le désordre sont devenus choses courantes. L’injustice ne suscite plus l’indignation. Le nombre et la gravité...

It’s late in 2001 and the US economy is entering a reces- sion. Sound far-fetched? Although newspapers have recently carried an increasing number of articles mentioning an impending economic...

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master. Attributed to George Washington Quoting George Washington...

The seed for this article was sown by a 1999 op-ed piece by this magazine’s current editor, William Watson. Writing about tax increases, Mr. Watson argued that Canada is...