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  • Indigenous
  • Law
April 30, 2018

The (in)justice system and Indigenous people

(This article has been translated into French.) The recent acquittal by a jury of Gerald Stanley, a white farmer, in the shooting death of Colten Boushie, an Indigenous man from...

Jonathan Rudin
  • Global Affairs
  • Social Policy
April 30, 2018

Medical inadmissibility rules make Canada a laggard

Last year, between 900 and 1,000 individuals and their families were deemed medically inadmissible to Canada because of the “excessive demand” provision in section 38(1)(c) of the Immigration and...

Bruno Dupeyron, Catarina Ianni Segatto
  • Law
  • Social Policy
April 27, 2018

Why misogynistic killings need a public label

The word “misogyny” is used by academics and feminists theorizing from their ivory towers – or at least that’s often the criticism. It’s true that misogyny is not a...

Myrna Dawson
  • Economy
  • Politics
April 27, 2018

Will future generations reap the Alberta Advantage?

The Alberta government has long been criticized for relying too heavily on resource revenue to meet its fiscal objectives and for saving an insufficient amount of the natural capital...

Geoff Salomons
  • Environment
April 27, 2018

On vehicle emissions standards it’s time Canada divorced the US

(This article has been translated into French.) Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regulations for passenger vehicles currently adopt by default the standards of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)....

Annie Bérubé, Isabelle Turcotte
  • Law
  • Social Policy
April 26, 2018

Taking the sexual assault victim’s perspective into account

(This article was translated from the French.) It is clear that Canada’s criminal justice system is ill-equipped to deal with cases of sexual assault. Most victims do not go...

Claudie-Émilie Wagner-Lapierre
  • Law
  • Social Policy
April 25, 2018

Doing justice by Black Canadians

(This article has been translated into French.) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently gave a short but significant speech on Parliament Hill announcing that the Government of Canada is officially recognizing...

Anthony N. Morgan
  • Science & Tech
April 25, 2018

Toward a national policy on AI

Governments around the world are investing in artificial intelligence (AI), preparing for the changes ahead as this new technology diffuses. French President Emmanuel Macron recently announced €1.5 billion for...

Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
  • Global Affairs
  • Law
April 24, 2018

Immigration detention and newcomer communities

According to the Canada Border Services Agency, about 7,000 men, women and children are detained through the immigration detention system every year. Stephanie J. Silverman joined the podcast to...

Stephanie J. Silverman
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
April 24, 2018

What makes Quebec such an outlier on child care?

Several provincial governments have recently increased public funding of child care services. The Alberta government announced a modest investment in child care in December 2017, and the BC government...

Gabriel Arsenault, Olivier Jacques, Antonia Maioni
  • Law
  • Social Policy
April 24, 2018

Youth and criminal justice: Reflections on the legislation

(This article was translated from French.) It’s stating the obvious, and all the practitioners on the ground will tell you, serious delinquency is fuelled by a host of social and...

Michèle Goyette
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
April 24, 2018

Could the UK stay in the EU and keep its independence?

The following is an edited version of an email exchange between British scholar Julian Lindley-French and British diplomat Anthony Cary on the subject of whether the United Kingdom could...

Julian Lindley-French, Anthony Cary
  • Law
  • Social Policy
April 23, 2018

Restorative justice for survivors of sexual violence

(This article has been translated into French.) Over one year ago, more than 3 million people walked in the US Women’s March. It was a stunning show of solidarity...

Daniel Del Gobbo, Vathsala Illesinghe
  • Economy
  • Politics
April 20, 2018

Trump and the TPP: What should Canada do?

After trashing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during his election campaign, and following through on his election promise to withdraw the United States from the pact right after taking office,...

Hugh Stephens
  • Law
  • Social Policy
April 20, 2018

A youth justice system that’s more than courts and prisons

(This article has been translated into French.) The federal government has begun to look at ways of ensuring young people charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act are diverted by...

Yafet Tewelde
  • Economy
  • Science & Tech
April 19, 2018

Will Canada keep up globally on R&D?

Policy discussions of research and development (R&D) and of innovation in Canada often take on a best-of-times, worst-of-times flavour. This makes the issues seem bewildering, all too often leading...

Max Blouw
  • Law
  • Social Policy
April 19, 2018

Restorative justice: rebuilding relationships with society

(This article was translated from the French.) The trial is over, the sentence was handed down months ago, but Jeanne (not her real name) still doesn’t feel the closure she...

Johanne Vallée
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
April 19, 2018

Where does the public sit on NAFTA?

As negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) move toward a critical stage, we wondered whether President Donald Trump’s protectionist rhetoric aligns with American public opinion. Would...

Robert Wolfe, Giancarlo Acquaviva
  • Law
  • Social Policy
April 18, 2018

Breaking the cycle for “crossover youth”

This article has been translated into French. Over the last few months, the case of Abdoul Abdi, a young Somali refugee and former Crown ward facing deportation for being convicted...

Melanie Doucet, Harrison (Harri Sun) Pratt
  • Environment
  • Politics
April 18, 2018

No good can come from panicking over Trans Mountain

Since early April, the concerns over the fate of the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline in the face of the British Columbia government’s objections have been elevated...

Mark Winfield
  • Education
  • Global Affairs
April 17, 2018

Canadian students, researchers key to ties with China

China’s growing economic and political influence continues to dominate the news, and Canada has certainly been paying attention. Now it’s time to move past the “China-is-rising” narrative and start...

Stewart Beck
  • Health
  • Law
April 17, 2018

How to prevent jails from serving as the new asylums

This article has been translated into French. The intersection between mental illness and criminal justice has a long history. In the past, asylums and institutionalized care focused on keeping patients...

Lori Spadorcia
  • Law
  • Politics
April 16, 2018

Parliamentary privilege and #MeToo

The worldwide chorus of #MeToo has been duly noted on Parliament Hill. Many former political staffers and Hill denizens are quick to criticize the status quo. The Hill’s hallowed...

Kalin McCluskey, Michael Read
  • Law
  • Policy-making
April 16, 2018

Chasing an elusive consensus on justice reform

This article has been translated into French. No one disputes that the criminal justice system is in need of major improvements. It requires fundamental change, and this requires not...

Yvon Dandurand
  • Law
  • Social Policy
  • Special Features
April 16, 2018

Widening the Lens on Criminal Justice Reform

The federal government says it wants to transform – not just reform – the criminal justice system, “to ensure that it is just, compassionate and fair, and promotes a...

  • Environment
  • Politics
April 13, 2018

The Trans Mountain saga as a public policy failure

Kinder Morgan’s April 8 ultimatum to Canada — clear a direct path for our Trans Mountain pipeline expansion by May 31 or we’ll down tools for good — has...

Jason MacLean
  • Economy
April 13, 2018

Alberta and Newfoundland: A tale of a boom and a bust

The 2018 budget season, now winding up, underscores a stunning reversal in the fiscal fortunes of Canada’s provinces. Five years ago, who would have guessed that in 2018 Quebec...

Colin Busby
  • Indigenous
  • Policy-making
April 12, 2018

Arctic policy must embrace Indigenous knowledge and Arctic science

When the federal government announced the Canada C3 expedition last year, almost 5,000 people applied to sail through the Canadian Arctic via the Northwest Passage. But when the government...

Cody Dey, Emma Hodgson, Aerin Jacob, Jennifer Provencher, David Yurkowski, Jean Polfus
  • Indigenous
  • Law
  • Media & culture
April 11, 2018

Indigenous rights aren’t a subplot of pipeline debate

Imagine if decades from now a student of Canadian political history is digging into the Kinder Morgan pipeline saga. What kind of picture would she get from scanning the...

Jennifer Ditchburn
  • Global Affairs
April 11, 2018

Canada on right side of Venezuelan crisis

The regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has spearheaded a program of mass domestic repression and humanitarian deprivation unprecedented in the country’s history. There has been an increase of...

Alessa Polga, Brandon Silver
  • Environment
April 11, 2018

Canada must make Bill-69 climate-safe

Canada is failing to meet its climate targets, which are already weak to begin with. Recent reports from Environment and Climate Change Canada show that the gap between national...

Patrick DeRochie
  • Law
April 10, 2018

Mitigating harm for sexual assault complainants

Over 90 percent of sexual assaults in Canada go unreported. When survivors of sexual assault do wind up in court, law professor Elaine Craig says the trials themselves cause...

Elaine Craig
  • Environment
  • Science & Tech
April 10, 2018

Integrity of the DFO’s science advisory process in question

Does Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFOs) science advisory process have integrity when tasked with answering questions on salmon farming? If there is any hope of changing the trajectory of...

Stan Proboszcz
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
April 10, 2018

Keep expectations high for antiracism consultations

The federal government is about to embark on nationwide antiracism consultations. The initiative is not without its naysayers. The announcement of the $23-million plan in the 2018 budget has...

Brittany Andrew-Amofah
  • Media & culture
  • Politics
April 9, 2018

Instagram, Justin Trudeau, and political image-making

Over the past decade, politicians in Canada and internationally have been increasingly turning to digital media, including social media, for political communication, mobilization and organizing, in and out of...

Mireille Lalancette, Vincent Raynauld
  • Environment
  • Policy-making
April 9, 2018

Canada needs a comprehensive zero-emissions vehicle strategy

This year, the federal government will release its zero-emissions vehicle strategy, one of the most anticipated and consequential proposals in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change....

David Lawless
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
April 6, 2018

Will NAFTA 2.0 be a model for North American economic (dis)integration?

Donald Trump has been clear from the start of his presidency: the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a terrible deal (the “worst trade deal”) for the United...

Robert Wolfe
  • Politics
April 5, 2018

On cannabis Bill Senate must defer to Canadians’ democratic will

On March 22, Parliament faced an anxious moment when Conservative senators tried to manoeuvre the defeat of Bill C-45, legalizing cannabis in Canada. There are important historical and democratic...

Peter Harder
  • Health
April 5, 2018

How to deal with the opioid crisis

As clinicians, we are bound by professionalism and our ethical responsibilities to do no harm and to do what we can to address the pain and suffering of our...

Wendy Levinson, Laurent Marcoux
  • Law
  • Science & Tech
April 4, 2018

Should justice be delivered by AI?

It is conventional wisdom, repeated by authoritative voices such as the former chief justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin, that Canadians face an access-to-justice (A2J) crisis. While artificial intelligence (AI)...

Bob Tarantino
  • Environment
April 4, 2018

Mitigating Kinder Morgan’s impact on BC’s economy and environment

The $7.4-billion Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline project would be an expansion of a pipeline that originates in Alberta and terminates in the heart of Metro Vancouver. While the...

Rehnuma Jahan Islam, Christopher Raftis, Peter Lunka, Sinéad Stinson
  • Environment
April 3, 2018

We need a common sense climate policy

The world has always been able to count on Canada to punch above its weight on issues of global concern, including the potential impacts of climate change. However, doing...

Michael Binnion
  • Global Affairs
  • Social Policy
April 2, 2018

Canadian exceptionalism in attitudes toward immigration

Xenophobic retrenchment has been evident in many societies lately. Anti-immigrant parties have made or consolidated gains in countries such as Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands and, most recently, Italy. Resentment...

Michael Adams, Keith Neuman

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