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Un Québec ouvert à tous Philippe Couillard 3 octobre 2012 LLa fierté d’être Québécoi est partagée par tous, qu’ils soient francophones, anglophones, allophones, d’ici et d’ailleurs. La définition de...

A Royal advocate Upper Tribunal, United Kingdom September 18, 2012 Mr. Rob Evans, a journalist who has worked for the Guardian, has asked to see correspondence between Prince Charles...

A low-carbon future is good for growth National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, Canada October 2012 A global transition to a low-carbon economy is afoot. Markets...

There is now significant evidence that the US has repeatedly engaged in a practice sometimes referred to as “double tap,” in which a targeted strike site is hit multiple...

In the midst of intensely heated public demonstrations and tension surrounding the Senkaku Islands, the news that written works of Japanese origin are disappearing from the shelves of bookshops...

In their responses to Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind (Policy Options October, 2012), Anne McGrath and Stephen Carter overlook the political differences between Americans and Canadians (indeed much of the developed...

It was the first sunny day at the back end of a New York City winter in 1977. The Swedish ambassador to the UN had given a lunch for...

At the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canadian athletes achieved what most people thought impossible: Canada won more gold medals than any other country. This was no accident. Investment...

The lacklustre performance of venture capital in Canada and elsewhere over the last decade should focus our attention on how we can improve public policy in this area of...

The Canadian venture capital (VC) industry faces considerable problems in fundraising because, generally speaking, Canadian funds are too small. One explanation for these fundraising problems is the industry’s chronic...

Venture capital is generally perceived as being critical astute investors but they still miss many opportunities, turning to any growth strategy, an essential element for the development of the...

Policy-makers worldwide are paying increasing attention to the potential for engineering greater innovation through venture capital and entrepreneurial finance. In some cases, leaders have been motivated by a desire...

In the constant quest to unlock the mysteries of innovation, it is inevitable that some eyes fall on Canada’s venture capital industry as a potential key to cracking the code....

You have to go all the way back to 1968 to find a federal Liberal who could get elected in Calgary. And while a handful of Liberals have held...

Pension reform is an enterprise for those with patience. Major change typically happens only once every few decades. That’s why the period since the financial crisis of 2008 has...

In 1980, it cost $3,500 per year, on average, to attend a four-year undergraduate school in the United States, including room and board. By 2008 that figure was ancient...

Les pirates informatiques (les fameux hackers) sont habituellement dépeints comme des adolescents asociaux mais intelligents qui, depuis leur antre solitaire dans le sous-sol de la maison familiale, déchaînent une apocalypse technique...

A vibrant civil society in which citizens actively engage in social movements is widely seen as vital to a healthy democracy. Not only do social movements advocate for important...

Nestled within the broad population of Canada is a large segment of people not motivated by what motivates most of us, who are not engaged — at least in...

How are we to understand the generation that has grown up with the Internet? Have digital media made its members engaged citizens, conducting politics online instead of through traditional...

A dozen years after the publication of Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, it is time for a reappraisal of the book’s...

Last spring, a San Diego-based human rights organization called Invisible Children released Kony 2012, a 30-minute video about the tragedy of child soldiering in Uganda. The group anticipated that...

There’s a growth industry in trying to measure social media’s impact on our lives — and politics. Many argue that online political activism is superficial engagement, lacking the personal ties of...

«Il est temps de commencer à penser comme un peuple, comme un pays, et de mettre fin aux ordres venant de Madrid », déclarait le 21octobre Laura Mintegi, dirigeante...

Despite the many services available to them, those who are homeless find it extremely difficult to move permanently out of shelters into stable, long-term housing. The difficulties they experience...

A leading ethicist on issues arising from the scientific revolution in health care, Timothy Caulfield warns that the high expectations surrounding new technologies in genome and stem cell research...

Digital media are by their nature disruptive, and their transformational powers have left carnage across the music, book and newspaper landscape. But they also harbour the potential to remake...