Policy Options

Most of us are familiar with a little blue and yellow can of spray in our garages or under the kitchen sink called WD-40. That is the trademarked name...

While climate change has been temporarily ascribed a secondary role relative to world economic affairs, it remains axiomatic to view it as a transcendent public policy issue facing governments...

Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 provides the Parliament of Canada with “exclusive Legislative Authority” in relation to the classes of subjects “Indians, and Lands reserved for the...

Le premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick Shawn Graham a écrit une nouvelle page de l’histoire politique de la province lorsque le Parti libéral a perdu le pouvoir aux mains des...

Canada’s relations with the Obama administration started with a flourish — an enthusiastic first foreign visit by the newly elected president in February 2009 — but they seem to...

In June, the federal government announced the discontinuation of the mandatory long-form census. Over the ensuing weeks, the government cited privacy concerns among others as the reasons for the...

The dysfunctional relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan has deep roots. In effect, the territories now making up Pakistan were all conquered by Britain, or ceded by pliant Afghan emirs,...

It is nine years since US forces swept over Afghanistan in the aftershock of 9/11 to pay back the jihadists of al-Qaeda and put down their compliant Taliban hosts. It...

Afghanistan is not the war it was two years ago. The conflict has evolved dramatically but subtly, in ways not readily apparent to the casual observer or the Canadian...

This article explores a potential Canadian role in Afghanistan, with a focus on Canada’s development assistance, after the departure of Canada’s combat troops in 2011 (as per our parliamentary...

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Winston Churchill, 1939 If Churchill were alive today, he...

Since the discovery of the marvellous skull-smashing potential of a large rock, kings and tyrants have been thrilled by war. For several millennia war was the default choice for...

In early 1964 the recently appointed minister of national defence, Paul Hellyer, told his officials that he was determined to base the Liberal government’s defence policy on a uniquely...

Nearly 25 years ago, former prime minister Brian Mulroney was headed to work, sitting in the back of his limousine as it headed down Sussex Drive. As the car passed the...

On a cold January day, a young, vigorous president, whose style and substance seemed to capture the imagination of a generation, spoke these brave words: The same revolutionary beliefs for...

Can democracy be a universal human experience? It has been a popular belief in the United States from early in the American Revolution. Some hoped that it would be...

La venue au monde du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) s’avère douloureuse. Le processus est long, complexe, controversé et coûteux, et les résultats demeurent encore incertains. Mais peut-on...