The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision holding that s. 33.1 of the Criminal Code is unconstitutional because it does not allow a defence of “extreme intoxication” for crimes...
En tant que commissaire au développement durable, j’ai publié en juin 2020 un rapport d’audit sur l’écofiscalité, l’écoconditionnalité et l’écoresponsabilité pour une économie verte et responsable. Je présente ici...
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced an urgent need for policy-relevant scientific evidence in Canada, as it has in other countries. Research funding organizations, providers of health data, and the private sector have all stepped up in an effort to fulfill these needs. Mental health’s importance has not...
The acute financial impact of COVID-19 has raised fears of a slowdown in the pace of the movement to persuade companies to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors...
COVID-19 has taken a terrible toll on Canada’s seniors. Amid this unprecedented crisis, the federal government has a unique opportunity to show leadership by working with all levels of...
Over 600 people from across the country gathered (online) in May for a panel discussion about the soon to be created Canada Water Agency. After mandating its formation last...
Local campaigns are understudied in Canada compared with national politics. In particular, we know relatively little about the unique challenges faced by independent candidates — those not endorsed by...
The first six months of this new decade have forced us to reconsider nearly everything: how we work, how we connect with each other and, with increasing urgency, the...
Alors que la crise de COVID-19 démontre l’importance de maintenir des services publics de qualité, certains rêvent à des changements structurels de politiques publiques qui puissent freiner la hausse...
Shortly after George Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minneapolis, the insurgent group al-Qaeda released a new 83-page issue of its magazine One Ummah (“one nation under God”)...
