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August 31, 2020

We need to discuss together how to reopen public schools in Ontario

I read and agreed with almost every point in Jenn Wallner’s Policy Options recent article “Canada needs a more collaborative approach to reopening schools.”  However, Wallner’s article mentioned only...

Daniel Roy Torunczyk Schein
  • Environment
August 31, 2020

Canada can’t achieve climate goals without supercharging carbon removal

Sometimes a report can change the conversation. In 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark special report showing that the world has only a short...

Michael Bernstein
  • Health
  • Policy-making
August 31, 2020

COVID-19 exacerbates existing inequities in the agri-food labour force

Over the past few months, the coronavirus pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions across the global food supply chain. The security and well-being of the individuals who get our food...

Sarah Berger Richardson
  • Health
  • Law
August 28, 2020

Why isn’t Canada a net contributor to the global plasma supply?

Canada, like the rest of the world, overwhelmingly relies on American plasma donors for our supply of plasma-derived medicinal therapies. These therapies — including immune globulin, albumin, and clotting...

Peter M. Jaworski
  • Health
  • Social Policy
August 28, 2020

Homelessness is a life or death issue during a pandemic

COVID-19 has powerfully illuminated that having a home is a matter of life or death as governments around the world have invoked stay-home policies as central to flattening the...

Leilani Farha, Kaitlin Schwan
  • Global Affairs
  • Health
August 27, 2020

Why pandemic-era border closures are about symbolism, not science

With global infectious disease outbreaks comes pressure on national governments to close their borders to citizens or residents of affected countries. Too many governments give way to this pressure....

Steven J. Hoffman, Patrick Fafard
  • Environment
  • Science & Tech
August 26, 2020

Small modular reactors aren’t the energy answer for remote communities and mines

A new type of theoretical nuclear power plant design called small modular reactors (SMRs) has been in the news of late. Earlier this year, at the 2020 Canadian Nuclear...

Sarah Froese, Nadja Kunz, M. V. Ramana
  • Global Affairs
  • Health
August 26, 2020

Experts and communities must jointly design COVID responses in developing nations

The COVID-19 crisis has brought unique challenges. In times of crises, emergencies, epidemics or wars, an all-of-government approach is vital for effective mobilization of the “whole-of-society.” To be legitimate,...

Anis Chowdhury, Jomo Kwame Sundaram
  • Economy
  • Environment
August 25, 2020

Freeland and Carney may be Canada’s last, best chance for a green recovery

Old habits are hard to break. Addictions are the toughest of all. So, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Houston in March 2017 and declared fealty to a...

Mitchell Beer
  • Global Affairs
  • Health
August 25, 2020

Africa’s unique vulnerabilities require a different pandemic response

Africa’s fate is precarious in the face of COVID-19. It is the last continent to be affected by COVID-19 following the arrival of the contagion in Egypt and Nigeria...

Chidi Oguamanam
  • Economy
  • Environment
August 24, 2020

Canada needs to close the “logging loophole” in its boreal forest

A “logging loophole” is jeopardizing Canada’s global climate commitments, allowing the logging industry to escape scrutiny and regulation for impact on the climate-critical boreal forest. The boreal forest is...

Dale Marshall, Jennifer Skene, Graham Saul
  • Global Affairs
  • Health
August 24, 2020

A response to COVID-19 requires global action

Our health is global. Our country’s ability to prepare for, prevent and respond to the spread of infectious diseases is deeply connected to the ability of other countries to...

Colleen M. Flood, Vanessa MacDonnell, Sridhar Venkatapuram
  • Global Affairs
  • Health
  • Special Features
August 24, 2020

Addressing Vulnerabilities for a More Equitable Pandemic Response

Vulnerabilities and interconnectedness have been made visible by the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. At issue are the vulnerabilities of people who have been harmed by or will be...

  • Economy
  • Environment
August 21, 2020

A sovereign wealth fund for our health care system isn’t far-fetched

Despite the headlines about high deficits because of the cost of COVID-19 programs, governments must avoid the knee-jerk reaction of drastically cutting spending right now. While deficits can be...

Hance Clarke, Imran Abdool
  • Health
  • Policy-making
August 20, 2020

A new federal framework for long-term care in Canada

In the grim international league tables of total deaths from COVID-19, Canada occupies a middling position. But when we turn to the share of deaths accounted for by residents...

Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
  • Education
  • Policy-making
August 19, 2020

Canada needs a more collaborative approach to reopening schools

COVID-19 has undeniably disrupted the schooling of children throughout the world. According to UNESCO, most governments took the dramatic step of temporarily shuttering schools in their efforts to contain...

Jenn Wallner
  • Global Affairs
  • Law
August 18, 2020

UK must restore ISIL bride Shamima Begum’s citizenship

ISIL bride Shamima Begum, whose British citizenship was revoked in 2019 on national security grounds, can return to the UK from Syria to plead her case to restore her...

Ebby L. Abramson
  • Politics
August 17, 2020

Now, with a deal made to help cities, the work begins

The $19-billion agreement between Ottawa and the provinces announced on July 16 delivered what municipalities and experts have long been calling for: support for municipalities to cover deficits resulting...

Enid Slack, Tomas Hachard
  • Health
  • Law
August 14, 2020

A push in Alberta for “pay-for-plasma” distracts from bigger questions

A private member’s bill was tabled in the Alberta legislature during its spring sitting that would repeal the 2017 Voluntary Blood Donations Act. This act, like similar legislation in...

Alana Cattapan
  • Policy-making
August 13, 2020

The long road to a distributed federal public service

For proponents of digital government, 2020 has been a milestone year. In response to COVID-19, most of the federal public service has moved to a remote working arrangement. Many...

Mark Robbins
  • Economy
  • Policy-making
August 13, 2020

Des politiques sectorielles pour soutenir l’économie durant la pandémie

Les secteurs de l’activité économique ne connaissent pas tous le même sort face à la crise de COVID-19. Les mesures de confinement ne les ont pas affectés de la...

Étienne Lalé, Sophie Osotimehin
  • Health
  • Policy-making
August 12, 2020

It’s time for Canada to follow Ontario’s critical care triage protocol

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced health-care policy-makers across the world to face the same gut-wrenching question: if critical care wards become overcrowded, to whom do we give potentially life-saving...

Cal DeWolfe, Jocelyn Downie
  • Education
  • Science & Tech
August 11, 2020

Les universités doivent jouer un rôle accru dans l’univers numérique

Le développement de l’intelligence numérique ― c’est-à-dire la mise au point d’innovations numériques avancées comme celles réalisées dans le secteur de l’intelligence artificielle ― constitue un enjeu prioritaire pour...

Catherine Régis, Jean-Louis Denis, Réjean Roy
  • Health
August 11, 2020

Visitor policies for long-term care should consider what residents value

In Canada, long-term care residents have been deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to pleas for federal oversight and to provincial commitments to review the system. As Canadian...

Jill Oliver
  • Global Affairs
August 10, 2020

Canada’s duty to prevent unfolding Uyghur genocide

Official documents prescribing mass surveillance, mass internment and mass forced sterilization. Satellite imagery documenting the destruction of ancient cultural sites and the proliferation of concentration camps. Products made using...

Mehmet Tohti, Azeezah Kanji
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
August 7, 2020

The policymaker’s path to defund the police

As calls to “defund the police” have spread around the world, we’ve seen the violence police inflict upon communities of colour. Race-based data is hard to come by in Canada,...

Holly Campeau, Kiké Roach
  • Economy
  • Environment
August 7, 2020

BC’s opportunity to move toward watershed security

The world looks very different today than it did a few months ago, when the British Columbia government was in the midst of a review to modernize land use...

Oliver M. Brandes, Rosie Simms
  • Politics
August 6, 2020

The role of deputy prime minister is not as powerful as most think

Prime Minister Trudeau should step aside and let Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland take over until the ethics commissioner decides on the conflict of interest allegation in the WE...

Eugene Lang, Greg Schmidt
  • Media & culture
August 6, 2020

The challenge of museum governance in a pandemic

(This article has been translated from French.) The closing of museums in mid-march 2020 due to COVID-19 had a direct impact on their management. Concerns quickly arose among staff,...

Yves Bergeron
  • Policy-making
  • Science & Tech
August 5, 2020

COVID-19 and the future of public sector work surveillance

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated a trend toward remote work in many parts of the public sector. The federal government issued guidelines on March 15 urging employees to...

Étienne Charbonneau, Carey Doberstein
  • Health
August 4, 2020

Federalism done right in a post-COVID-19 Canada

The COVID-19 pandemic has given Canadians an unprecedented look at our federation at work. And while our federal and provincial governments have worked far better together than their equivalents...

Gregory P. Marchildon, Peter Bleyer

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