Policy Options

I want to discuss two ideas. First, parliamentary democracy is not the same as simple majoritarianism. Second, judges are not politicians; rather they play a vital and distinct role...

Canada’s universities will face some big challenges over the next 10 years. They will see a projected 30 percent increase in enrolment, or 200,000 more students, by 2011. They...

In many ways, the development of Canada’s universities over the past century has been nothing short of a miracle. It is not simply a matter of quantity ”” the...

It is historically interesting that colleges and universities have not always defined themselves as being in the service of students. It has been said that the 19th century was...

In a world that is increasingly embracing unabashed capitalism, multiple free trading blocs and technological innovation, it is becoming ever more evident that Canada’s ability to create knowledge and...

Canadian universities perform multiple functions, but most individuals close to the university sector would agree that chief among these are teaching and research. These two functions are complementary and mutually...

Post-secondary education will play a crucial role in the future success of our country. But to play that role, it must change. To accept change means first to accept...

Last fall, the prime minister’s communications director called President Bush a moron. George W. Bush has a 1975 MBA from Harvard Business School. According to Webster’s, a moron is...

Many, if not most, institutions of higher education across this country boast facilities that bear the names of Canadian philanthropists who funded their construction. Historically, Canadian private donors were...

No discussion of tuition fees can be complete without a careful examination of the complete package of university funding. No discussion of university funding can be undertaken without understanding...

Since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), North American integration has continued to accelerate. Trade liberalization, combined with the rapid growth of a knowledge-based econ-...

The Canadian student financial aid system should have a relatively simple primary goal: to ensure that every qualified Canadian has the financial means of pursuing post-secondary studies without suffering...

Permit me, as a university profes- sor, to let down the side a bit on the question of funding for higher education. If I were in charge of Canada’s public...

A powerful new wave of health-related life sciences, energized by the knowledge and tools of the Human Genome Project, is upon us. Genomics ”” the study of the entire...

Lyndon Johnson ignored Mike Pearson. Over lunch, the president talked on the phone and ordered his aides about while Canada’s 14th prime minister, Lester B. Pearson, waited for the...

Greg Donaghy has performed an important service in pro- viding us with this detailed and useful chronicle of Canada-United States relations during the Pearson- Johnson years. The story may...

In his 1993 polemic, Culture of Complaint, culture critic Robert Hughes cast a sardonic eye over the American social scene. Everyone was now claiming victim status, Hughes noted, leading to...

Although the dot-com bubble has burst, the task of sorting through the debris is not yet complete. Over the course of the past decade, so many false, misleading, implausible...