Policy Options

Deciding on the foundations of a country and then writing them down is a challenge in the best of times. The United States declared its independence in 1776, but...

Citizenship is not a buffet table… it’s more of a fixed menu. Former governor general, Adrienne Clarkson With the heavy boots and drunken weave of a government that has...

For three years, and possibly for three decades, most Canadians have believed that, in the end, they will have to negotiate with the United States to settle the international...

On August 23, 2005, meteorologists noted a storm developing off southeastern Bahamas. The next day, it reached tropical storm strength and was named Katrina. As it moved westward, it...

Rarely has there been a global negotiation with so much at stake. Even without the adjective ”œenvironmental” before ”œglobal negotiation,” the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal from...

There is no question that, on a global scale, exposure to climate-change-related extreme weather events is increasing. Because of population growth and increases in prosperity in some places and...

Hurricane Katrina confirmed the power of nature to destroy the built environment. This built environment includes the capital assets of government, especially the infrastructure items of roads and highways;...

Les problé€mes écologiques se succé€dent, mais ne se ressemblent pas tous. On a appris aÌ€ mieux comprendre les problé€mes écologiques locaux et aÌ€ agir avec une certaine efficacité sur...

Insurance is the business of managing risk. One risk we’ve seen every day in the news recently is the risk of severe weather like Hurricane Katrina. In the early...

Although Katrina was a major hurricane, her maxi- mum wind speeds do not appear to have exceeded those used for structural design guidelines in the region. The storm surge...

Do decision-makers act less rationally at a time of crisis than in normal times? Are otherwise experienced policy makers ”” normally effective at draft- ing plans for future undertakings...

For centuries, significant resources have been expend- ed in search of the Northwest Passage, or as Pierre Berton once called it; the ”œArctic Grail.” Franklin, Davis, Ray, Baffin, Amendment,...

For those of us who see the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as a potential catalyst for progressive social change, the twentieth anniversary of its equality rights guarantees...

The impact of China’s recent dynamic growth and commer- cial integration within the world trade system is, arguably, of the same magnitude as the emergence of England as the...

The stakes are staggering for the World Trade Organization’s ministerial meeting in Hong Kong this month. From December 13 to 18, trade minis- ters from the institution’s 148 members...

From 1994 to 2003, the federal government spent over $330 million on sponsorships and special events aimed at increasing Ottawa’s visibility in Quebec. Following Auditor-General Sheila Fraser’s scathing report...

Cet automne, le débat politique québécois s’est fait aÌ€ coup de manifestes. Au quebeclucide. com de Lucien Bouchard et de ses co- auteurs a répondu le quebecsolidaire.org de la...