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The power vertical Michael Ignatieff, The Ditchley Foundation 50th Annual Lecture Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, England | July 12, 2014 Russia’s annexation of Crimea has shaken our assumptions about the...

In “Integrating Nonsense,” his May-June column for Policy Options, Timothy Caulfield argues that universities should not engage in the study of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), because these forms...

Over the past eight years, the federal Conservatives have seldom missed an opportunity to show Canadians how seriously they take crime and how eager they are to make convicted...

One of the enduring myths of Canadian politics is that of the apolitical Aboriginal citizen. This conventional wisdom has arisen from a narrow measurement of political engagement that focuses...

I’m just finishing up my seventh contract since I graduated four years ago. I tend to find gigs in commercial real estate that let me earn enough to live...

Over the past two years, Canadians have engaged in a national debate about skills, training, job vacancies, and the mismatch between post-secondary education and careers for young workers. This...

Nous avons été nombreux cet été à trouver qu’Yves Bolduc avait abusé en touchant à la fois son salaire de député, ses honoraires de médecin et une prime de...

We are awash in data. Massive advances in digital sensors and computing power have made vast amounts of information available, no matter how trivial, all of it expanding by...

Three fallen RCMP officers. Canada mourns. A “profound sadness and searing grief,” says the Prime Minister. In a sea of red serge uniforms, thousands of Mounties come to honour...

The sweeping changes to Ontario’s renewable energy policy regime in the past few years have spawned a highly charged public debate. Much of the controversy focuses on the public...

The last time I was close to a rocket, it was an incoming missile that tore through a steel-plated container at Kandahar Airfield, 10 metres away from Canada’s task...

For decades the world has been calling for some kind of miracle energy solution that would give us cheap, clean, widely available power. Nuclear power was part of that...

The idea of Canada as an energy superpower excites the imaginations both of those who hope for continued growth in oil and gas production and of those who want...

One of the problems with the climate change and energy policy debate in Canada has been the focus on short-term, incremental goals. Mitigating climate change is not about securing...

Anyone purporting seriously to project the global future of energy should first ask themselves this simple question: How much do you think your family’s energy supply will change in...

Forecasting the future of energy use can be an exercise in hubris. As John Stewart points out in these pages, had the predictions of our energy future made at...

There are a lot of health and fitness myths out there. And there are a lot of bogus health products and practices being sold on the basis of those...

As the Harper government plots a way forward on energy policy, it should note the recent opinion piece posted on the smart Yale Environment 360 blog by former senators...