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January 31, 2017

The legacy of the HIV/AIDS fight in Canada

President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to the United States to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s propelled an unprecedented wave of innovation and...

David Rodier
  • Economy
  • Media & culture
  • Politics
January 31, 2017

Unfetter tax code to support quality journalism

Wither Canadian media? Well, if there are any copy editors still working, the first thing they would do upon reading that lead is question whether we mean “whither Canadian...

Erin Millar, Ian Gill
  • Global Affairs
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January 31, 2017

It is time for immigration 3.0

There is a singular narrative thread running through the international media coverage of Canada in the last two years. In one way or another, it is the tale of...

Ratna Omidvar
  • Indigenous
  • Media & culture
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January 31, 2017

Indigenous representation in the media

How can we ensure that Indigenous issues are being covered regularly in the media and with sensitivity? Duncan McCue is the creator and curator of the website “Reporting in Indigenous...

Duncan McCue
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
January 30, 2017

Glimmers of hope on the darkest days

Day ten. Watching the administration of Donald Trump unfold stirs such alarm and anger that it’s hard to think clearly or go about one’s day. In the two frightening...

Louis Century
  • Media & culture
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
January 30, 2017

Quand le 5e pouvoir surveille les médias et leurs journalistes

Le quatrième pouvoir, celui des médias, est plus que jamais soumis à la vigilance des gens qu’il est supposé servir. Elle est révolue l’époque où les citoyens « ordinaires » étaient...

Marc-François Bernier
  • Global Affairs
  • Social Policy
January 30, 2017

What will Trump mean for gender equality?

It’s tempting to think that the four years after January 20 will be a wasteland for gender rights and women’s equality policy. We’ll be lucky if we can merely...

Lauren Dobson-Hughes
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Media & culture
January 27, 2017

Investing in journalism education

As journalism education goes, so goes journalism. That is not to say that journalism schools necessarily produce the best journalists, or that collectively, journalism degree holders necessarily produce the...

Susan Harada
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
January 27, 2017

Les années sombres
Chronique d’Alain Noël

L’élection de Donald Trump et la transition politique qui a suivi ont créé une onde de choc partout dans le monde. Voilà un président américain que ne sait pas...

Alain Noël
  • Economy
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  • Social Policy
January 26, 2017

Shoring up the civic function of journalism in Canada

In the winter of 1989, about 10 months before the Berlin Wall fell, Poland’s weak Communist government entered into power-sharing talks with Lech Walesa’s Solidarity movement. As one of...

Edward Greenspon
  • Politics
January 26, 2017

Is it time to pin Trudeau down?

When it comes to intergovernmental relations, prime ministers seldom end up where they said they would. Realism collides with idealism. It happened to Stephen Harper, and to many prime...

Christopher Dunn
  • Media & culture
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January 26, 2017

Un financement gouvernemental de la presse d’information ?

Partout dans le monde démocratique, les médias d’information crient famine. Au Canada, depuis que la ministre du Patrimoine canadien, Mélanie Joly, a entrepris sa grande consultation sur la culture,...

Geneviève Guay
  • Indigenous
  • Politics
January 26, 2017

Indigenous seats in Parliament

Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, guarantees the protection of “aboriginal and treaty rights” for the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada. The visionaries who framed...

Bill Flowers
  • Media & culture
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January 25, 2017

After the local newspaper closes shop

Wally Nugent and Brenda Stonehouse were reviewing the ad they planned to run in the Lindsay Post for Canada Day. They were key organizers of the community’s Canada Day...

Nancy Payne
  • Environment
  • Health
January 25, 2017

Tax carbon, not meat, to tackle agricultural emissions

The idea of applying a tax on meat has recently received a lot of attention, both in Canada and internationally. However, the leading proponents of taxing meat make some...

Ryan Katz-Rosene
  • Media & culture
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January 24, 2017

Le journalisme à l’ère postfactuelle

Je donne des cours de journalisme à l’Université de Montréal depuis plus de quatre ans. Au cours de ces mêmes années, quelques centaines de postes de journalistes ont été...

Alain Saulnier
  • Environment
  • Health
January 24, 2017

Canada’s Food Guide update needs to address sustainability

There is no shortage of advice about what we should eat or put in the kids’ lunch boxes. While it is relatively easy to ignore the latest headlines advocating...

Angela Lee, Heather McLeod-Kilmurray, Nathalie Chalifour
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January 23, 2017

National security lessons from Canadian history

In 2017, Canadians are marking the 150th anniversary of Confederation. By reflecting on how Canadians in the 1860s tackled the national security challenges of their time, we can learn...

Andrew Smith
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January 23, 2017

Canada’s local news “poverty”

The death notice published on the website’s home page was low-key and matter of fact. “We regretfully announce that NewsKamloops will cease publication today, Sept. 30, 2016. We’ve enjoyed...

April Lindgren, Jon Corbett, Jaigris Hodson
  • Politics
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  • Special Features
January 23, 2017

The Future of Canadian Journalism

Even before Confederation, Canada’s political leaders recognized the important role that journalists played in the democratic life of the nascent nation. The new Parliament buildings were outfitted with a...

Shirley Cardenas
  • Education
  • Health
January 20, 2017

Améliorer le système de santé en misant sur la formation

Il existe un réel décalage au Canada entre la recherche de classe mondiale sur les services et les politiques de santé, et sa mise en application au sein de...

Adalsteinn Brown, Stephen Bornstein
  • Global Affairs
  • Social Policy
January 19, 2017

Young leaders at Davos

“Every generation thinks it’s special, my grandparents because they remember World War II, my parents because of discos and the moon. We have the Internet. Millions and billions of...

Angela Chen
  • Global Affairs
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  • Politics
January 19, 2017

Journalism and truth in the Trump era

As Donald Trump moves into the White House, the American news media is scrambling to get its own house in order. How do they cover a president who is...

Michael Schudson, Jennifer Ditchburn
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
January 19, 2017

The Trump era starts now

The first six months of the Donald Trump administration will be a time of disruption and rapid change. As a democratically elected world leader, he will act in ways...

Sarah Goldfeder
  • Indigenous
  • Politics
January 18, 2017

Kellie Leitch and Indigenous rights

On July 26, 1989, then Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic unilaterally dissolved the assembly of the self-governing republic of Kosovo, which was an ethnic Albanian majority jurisdiction in Serbia. This...

Robert Jago
  • Economy
  • Global Affairs
January 18, 2017

Which way forward for Canada’s international investment treaty policy?

The small Belgian province of Wallonia was the focus of international attention in October 2016 when it briefly blocked the signature of a trade agreement between Canada and the...

Stephen Tapp
  • Economy
  • Science & Tech
January 18, 2017

Shifting the innovation conversation to prosperity

Research intensity – the percentage of GDP a country spends on R&D – is the traditional indicator that policy-makers use to assess the vitality of a nation’s knowledge-based economy....

H. Douglas Barber, Jeffrey Crelinsten
  • Health
  • Politics
January 17, 2017

Investir dans la recherche en santé publique

Récemment, l’Association canadienne de santé publique nous informait que depuis le début des années 1900, l’espérance de vie moyenne des Canadiens s’est accrue de plus de 30 ans. Voilà un progrès...

David Peters, Ted Bruce
  • Environment
  • Global Affairs
January 17, 2017

Emissions targets in the EU and Canada

Last October, the European Union and Canada signed the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA).  Shortly thereafter, in early November, both ratified the Paris Agreement on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)...

Larry Hughes, Moniek de Jong
  • Indigenous
  • Politics
January 16, 2017

Rage or reconciliation?

Only a year and a half ago the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) captured the attention of Canadians with horrific accounts of what Indigenous people...

Max FineDay
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
  • Special Features
January 13, 2017

Public Policy toward 2067

As Canada celebrates its sesquicentennial, it seems an appropriate time to consider what our policy-makers, researchers, and legislators should be focusing on today that will be critical to the...

  • Politics
January 13, 2017

Reports of political science’s death have been greatly exaggerated

In a recent Policy Options article, Will Jennings and Martin Lodge, two British political scientists, lament the state of the global political science discipline, especially in light of recent...

Christopher Rastrick
  • Politics
January 13, 2017

Why we need political economy

In 2013, the world was rocked by the release of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a book that made arresting claims about rising levels of global income...

Mark Robbins
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
January 11, 2017

Fighting populism by understanding perceptions

A surge of populism has swept up global politics, but populism isn’t a new phenomenon. Not even close. During antiquity, the Greeks worried about it, and the Romans had...

David Moscrop
  • Economy
  • Science & Tech
January 11, 2017

In 2017, let’s take back science! Column by Timothy Caulfield

Over the past year, “truth” has taken a serious beating — and so have “facts,” “evidence” and “science.” We seem to be swimming in a sea of relativity where...

Timothy Caulfield
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
January 10, 2017

Obamacare on the block

As a new Republican administration and Congress prepare to take office in the United States, the Republican Party’s opposition to the Democratic mosaic of health care reforms known as...

Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
  • Health
  • Indigenous
January 5, 2017

La disparité des soins néonatals : le cas du Nunavik

La question de la juste utilisation des ressources suscite souvent des débats polarisants, notamment lorsqu’on touche au domaine des soins de santé. La nécessaire répartition des ressources doit respecter...

Catherine Régis, Marie-Andrée Girard
  • Politics
January 4, 2017

Electoral reform is a solution to the wrong problem

Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the debate on electoral reform is how quickly it’s made its way to the top of the national political agenda. Not so long...

Kenneth C. Dewar
  • Environment
  • Science & Tech
January 3, 2017

Making electric vehicles happen in Canada

To hear Tesla founder Elon Musk and his electric vehicle disciples tell it, our personal transportation future is dazzling. In their world, internal combustion vehicles are belching dinosaurs heading...

Jonn Axsen

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