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December 30, 2020

The national stress test that was 2020

Here’s a brain challenge – can you remember when the last federal election took place? Do you remember the weighty issues that were discussed? Setting aside the fact that...

Jennifer Ditchburn
  • Health
  • Policy-making
December 29, 2020

What did we learn from SARS and H1N1?

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its 10th month in Canada, public attention is focused on the rollout of a massive vaccination program. Reviewing the volume of information from the...

Danielle Just, Katherine Boothe
  • Politics
December 28, 2020

Campaigning in Canada during a pandemic

In June 2019, I officially became a candidate for the New Democratic Party in the October Saskatchewan provincial election. Since the Saskatchewan Party had won power in 2007, I...

David McGrane
  • Social Policy
December 23, 2020

Charitable sector rules need a facelift to meet new demands

The report “Catalyst for Change: A Roadmap to a Stronger Charitable Sector” was released by a Senate committee in 2019 – a time before Zoom fatigue, curve-planking, pivots and...

Fateema Sayani
  • Health
December 22, 2020

Legalize and regulate non-medical use of all drugs, prioritizing opioids

Personal possession and use of all drugs in Canada should be decriminalized immediately, but we need to go further. To combat the illegal market and save more lives, we...

W.A. Bogart
  • Law
  • Politics
December 21, 2020

How Germany’s federation co-ordinated a pandemic response

BERLIN – The sound of laughter erupts from a group buried under scarves and toques, gathered by the Landwehr Canal. Across the street another crew of revelers is gathered...

Sadiya Ansari
  • Global Affairs
December 18, 2020

Canada should support legal limits on UN Security Council vetoes

The Security Council is the most powerful of all United Nations organs. The UN Charter assigns it both immense authority and grave responsibilities. Among other things, the council is...

Lloyd Axworthy, Allan Rock
  • Economy
  • Policy-making
December 18, 2020

With no silver bullet, here’s how small businesses can bounce back

The impact COVID-19 has had on Canada’s small businesses is nothing short of tragic. While springtime was difficult enough, the second wave and the restrictions that followed visibly transformed...

Rocco Rossi, Claudia Dessanti
  • Global Affairs
December 17, 2020

Le Cameroun peut s’inspirer du modus vivendi entre Québec et Ottawa

Pourquoi, parmi tous les autres pays d’Afrique, s’intéresser au Cameroun ? Cette question m’a été posée alors que je terminais une présentation sur les violences extrémistes en Afrique. Originaire de...

Lydie C. Belporo
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
December 17, 2020

National child-care plan would accelerate post-COVID recovery

Canadian governments have been talking about national public child care for years. And the issue is once again at the top of the political agenda because of the extreme...

Jim Stanford
  • Economy
December 16, 2020

Bureaucratic CERB mix-up hurts former foster kids

Young people who have “aged out” of the child welfare system and are no longer in government care are being asked to repay funds they have received through the...

Melanie Doucet, Rachel Gouin
  • Economy
  • Environment
December 15, 2020

The unintended consequences of the Atlantic Loop

The federal government’s proposed Atlantic Regional Transmission Loop is being presented as a way to fight climate change by getting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia off coal. However, it...

Larry Hughes
  • Law
  • Policy-making
December 15, 2020

L’accès à la justice ne se limite pas aux cliniques juridiques universitaires

La Commission des institutions de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec vient tout juste d’adopter la loi 75. Son principal objectif est d’améliorer l’accès à la justice pour répondre notamment à...

Jérémy Boulanger-Bonnelly
  • Health
  • Law
December 14, 2020

Bill C-7, assisted dying and “lives not worth living”

Bill C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (MAiD), proposes to expand access to medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to persons whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable....

Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry
  • Economy
December 14, 2020

Carefully crafted re-regulation could help our airlines survive

Two Canadian political giants died this year, their passing relatively unnoted amid the calamity of COVID-19. But the deaths of former deputy prime minister Don Mazankowski and former Newfoundland...

Warren Everson
  • Health
  • Law
December 11, 2020

Please show your vaccination certificate

Canada seems poised for a resolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, with vaccines planned for roll-out in the coming months. On Dec. 9, Health Canada authorized the use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s...

Colleen M. Flood, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Kumanan Wilson
  • Economy
  • Science & Tech
December 11, 2020

Rural broadband connectivity hinges on private-public collaboration

It’s been four years since the CRTC formally declared broadband internet an essential service. But if we needed a reminder of just how critical connectivity is to our daily...

Tony Geheran
  • Economy
  • Environment
December 11, 2020

“Green strings” should be applied to economic relief measures

When we talk about building back better in Canada after COVID-19, we often focus on how to do this by spending money. Civil society groups publish open letters calling...

Vanessa Corkal
  • Media & culture
December 10, 2020

Policy Options at 40

This week we’ve got a special, bilingual episode of the podcast. To celebrate 40 years of Policy Options, and the end of a truly terrible year, we’re joined by...

Jennifer Ditchburn
  • Environment
  • Politics
December 10, 2020

Le Plan pour une économie verte au Québec ou comment répéter une expérience ratée

Parmi les provinces canadiennes, le Québec se distingue d’au moins deux manières au chapitre des enjeux climatiques. D’une part, il est la province qui a les plus faibles émissions...

Pierre-Olivier Pineau
  • Media & culture
  • Social Policy
December 10, 2020

The pandemic is “undoing” women’s physical and financial security

The finale for “The Undoing” was deemed by HBO to be its “television event of the year,” featuring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant as wealthy and beautiful Manhattanites embroiled...

Shannon Sampert
  • Law
  • Policy-making
December 9, 2020

Mettre à jour les lois anticorruption : le rôle essentiel des vérificateurs généraux

La confiance de la population dans les institutions publiques est une condition essentielle pour le bon fonctionnement de toute société démocratique. Un des facteurs qui sape cette confiance est...

Eriole Zita Nonki Tadida
  • Education
December 9, 2020

Exploring ways to bridge the gap between professors and the public service

Over the coming months, Canadians will watch as several thousand positions in the upper echelons of the American executive branch are filled by presidential appointees. This is a complex...

Philippe Lagassé, Thomas Juneau
  • Economy
  • Politics
December 8, 2020

Are fiscal stabilization reforms a slap in the face or a modernization?

With all the attention paid to rising COVID-19 cases, expansions to various federal emergency support programs, ongoing political machinations south of the border, and Canada’s $382-billion projected deficit, you’d...

Trevor Tombe
  • Policy-making
  • Science & Tech
December 8, 2020

How the pandemic made the case for digital government reform

For the past few decades, governments around the world have been investing in digital initiatives. They’ve been applying internet-era operating principles to government promises to reshape our institutions and...

James Stewart
  • Global Affairs
December 7, 2020

Multilateralism holds Iran to account for human-rights abuses

At the end of October, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee passed a resolution once again condemning human rights violations in Iran. This is the 17th year in a...

Geoffrey Cameron
  • Health
  • Law
December 4, 2020

Il faut repenser le nouveau projet de loi sur l’aide médicale à mourir

Afin de respecter l’échéancier imposé par la Cour supérieure du Québec dans son jugement de la cause Truchon et Gladu, le gouvernement fédéral tentera de forcer le Parlement à...

Trudo Lemmens, Leah Krakowitz-Broker
  • Health
  • Policy-making
December 4, 2020

Canadians’ views on assisted dying are complex

Central to the argument for expanding Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) has been that it enjoys broad popular support. This is the crux of Bill C-7, which is now...

Ray Pennings, Angus Reid
  • Global Affairs
December 3, 2020

We shouldn’t settle for lacklustre leadership at global institutions

When our battle with COVID-19 is finally over, a comprehensive review of how we and the world dealt with the pandemic is a must. It is imperative that we...

Sergio Marchi
  • Law
  • Politics
December 2, 2020

Les agents des services frontaliers, police de la frontière ?

J’ai commencé à prendre la mesure des changements de culture organisationnelle à la frontière canado-américaine lors de mon entretien avec un agent des services frontaliers, en 2010. Appelons-le William....

Karine Côté-Boucher
  • Economy
  • Politics
December 2, 2020

Overlapping services and policies have tangled up the federation

COVID-19 has contributed to unprecedented deficits for Canadian governments and heightened concerns about the long-term fiscal sustainability of several provinces. In response, Canada’s premiers are calling for increases to...

Sean Speer, Jonah Goldberg
  • Media & culture
December 1, 2020

Online creators left on the outside of Broadcasting Act reforms

With the recent tabling of amendments to the Broadcasting Act, policy-makers and the public should reflect on what Bill C-10 means for Canada’s internet creators. In a recent editorial,...

Fenwick McKelvey

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