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July 31, 2018

Network centrality and Canadian diplomacy

With the world in crisis, Canada’s foreign minister, Lester B. Pearson, arrived in New York in November 1956 to participate in UN General Assembly proceedings. Following a highly suspect...

Michael W. Manulak
  • Education
  • Indigenous
July 30, 2018

Indigenous workers and the mining rebound

As mining and resource extraction companies across the North continue to ride out a worldwide slump in commodity prices, there are several things that Matawa and other remote First...

Daniel Bland
  • Economy
  • Science & Tech
July 27, 2018

Challenging the pro-technology narrative

The so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us, altering the way Canadians live and work. As we look at how the future of jobs might unfold, a dominant and...

Kai-Hsin Hung
  • Environment
  • Indigenous
July 26, 2018

Will BC embrace meaningful Indigenous consent?

For years, the ‘Namgis and Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw have been fighting controversial open-net fish farms in their territorial waters, in the Broughton archipelago near the northern end of Vancouver Island....

Keith Cherry
  • Indigenous
  • Law
July 25, 2018

It is time to end solitary confinement

It is widely agreed that Canada’s use of solitary confinement is excessive, in both federal (inmates with sentences of two years or more) and provincial prisons (under two years)....

Lynn McDonald
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
July 24, 2018

Technology could enhance our democratic institutions

Canada has enjoyed relative stability in its recent elections. But our stability and insulation from technological change cannot be relied upon to continue. Indeed, that one electoral exercise after...

Mark Robbins, Karl Salgo
  • Health
  • Social Policy
July 24, 2018

Moving patient engagement to the centre of health care

“Nothing about me without me” is a common trope in health care, particularly in research, practice and legislative measures aimed at advancing patient- and family-centred care. But even where...

Joseph Donia
  • Policy-making
  • Social Policy
July 23, 2018

Social policy-making still stealthy after all these years

In 1990, I wrote an article for Policy Options titled “Social Policy by Stealth” under the pseudonym Grattan Gray. The article was a comprehensive critique of social and tax...

Ken Battle
  • Health
July 23, 2018

Les erreurs médicales sont chose courante

Lorsqu’un de vos parents, votre partenaire ou votre enfant tombe subitement malade et a besoin de soins médicaux, sera-t-il soigné en toute sécurité ? Le cas d’Elizabeth Wettlaufer, cette...

Fiona MacDonald, Karine Levasseur
  • Global Affairs
  • Social Policy
July 20, 2018

The success of the privately sponsored refugee system

When my parents decided to immigrate to Canada in the 1980s, they were sponsored by family members who they knew would be waiting for them at the airport. When...

Sabine El-Chidiac
  • Global Affairs
  • Media & culture
July 20, 2018

We can have open, respectful debates on immigration

How we debate immigration and related issues is as important as the issues themselves. Whether these be broad political or media debates, or more focused consultations or workshops, care...

Andrew Griffith
  • Law
  • Social Policy
July 19, 2018

Can the majority leave space for traditional views on marriage?

June has gained a reputation for yielding landmark court rulings on LGBTQ issues. This reputation is fitting: June is Pride Month. In June 2003, same-sex marriage made its debut...

Brian Bird
  • Indigenous
July 18, 2018

Revitalizing the Inuktut language

Inuktut, the collective name for the languages Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun, is the mother tongue of 65 percent of the Nunavut population. The language is central to Inuit culture and...

Aluki Kotierk
  • Policy-making
  • Politics
July 18, 2018

The challenge for Canada’s equalization program

(This article has been translated into French.) Canada, like most federal countries, needs equalization to ease the consequences of regional inequalities, namely the uneven quality of public services across provinces...

Daniel Béland, André Lecours, Gregory P. Marchildon, Haizhen Mou, Rose Olfert
  • Economy
  • Environment
July 17, 2018

A sustainable plan for Ontario’s Ring of Fire

Newly elected Premier Doug Ford has declared that resource development within northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire mining area will be a priority for his government. However, from an environmental...

Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Justina Ray, Richard Lindgren
  • Politics
July 17, 2018

Candidate recruitment in municipal elections

Getting citizens engaged with politics and mobilizing them to participate in elections is a significant challenge at any level of government. There is a great deal of concern with...

Colin Scott, Mike Medeiros, Chris Erl
  • Health
  • Social Policy
July 16, 2018

Social assistance is not improving health

Public health researchers have long known that poverty and poor health are linked, but new evidence suggests that social assistance — the government system designed to provide those in...

Arjumand Siddiqi, Odmaa Sod-Erdene
  • Economy
  • Policy-making
July 16, 2018

Fiscal policy must be sustainable over the long term

Next year’s federal budget may be months away, but preparations have already begun in earnest. The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance’s call for prebudget submissions was launched...

Robert Asselin, Sean Speer
  • Politics
July 13, 2018

“March Madness” does exist!

March Madness keeps much of Ottawa up at night. No, not the sports tournament! I’m talking about the spending binge that happens every March as federal government departments urgently...

Daniel Dickin
  • Law
  • Social Policy
July 12, 2018

Four issues to be resolved in cannabis legalization

It’s now official: as of October 17, 2018, Canada will become the first G7 nation to legalize both medical and adult-use recreational cannabis. It’s a historic, disruptive and uncertain...

Reva Seth
  • Economy
  • Global Affairs
July 11, 2018

Canada could be a leader in international anti-money-laundering efforts

The stability and efficiency of the international financial system are important concerns of the international community. Money laundering is a key transnational challenge facing international financial institutions and individual...

Andrew (Fu Yuan) Liu
  • Economy
  • Indigenous
July 10, 2018

The gaping holes in Ottawa’s Indigenous fiscal policy

As part of Ottawa’s proposed Recognition and Implementation of Rights Framework, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in February there would be “a new fiscal relationship” established with Indigenous peoples....

Shiri Pasternak
  • Health
  • Social Policy
July 10, 2018

Our health system is failing elderly patients

Hospital overcrowding is not a new issue. Limited bed spaces have plagued Ontario hospitals for years and are increasingly straining our system. Not only are long wait times a...

David Wiercigroch, Caberry Weiyang Yu
  • Education
  • Media & culture
July 9, 2018

Promoting the use of Inuktut, a founding language

Comparatively speaking, Inuktut is a strong Indigenous language. In Nunavut, 65 percent of the population identify Inuktut as their mother tongue. This means that Nunavut is the only jurisdiction...

Aluki Kotierk
  • Indigenous
  • Social Policy
July 9, 2018

La réalité des mères qui accouchent pendant leur prise en charge

Il existe un lien bien établi entre la grossesse chez les adolescentes et les services de protection de l’enfance. Les filles qui, à un moment ou un autre, ont...

Elizabeth Wall-Wieler
  • Economy
  • Environment
July 9, 2018

Electric vehicles as part of Canada’s climate change solution

Driving electric vehicles (EVs) is a relatively new experience for Canadians, but they are becoming more popular. EV sales in Canada grew 68 percent from 2016 to 2017 alone,...

Pete Poovanna, Ryan Davis, Charlotte Argue
  • Policy-making
  • Social Policy
July 6, 2018

Can we avoid bias in hiring practices?

Ottawa’s Name-Blind Recruitment Pilot Project was launched in April 2017 to explore whether masking applicants’ names would remove bias in the hiring process for the federal public service. There...

Jeffrey G. Reitz, Rupa Banerjee, Philip Oreopoulos
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
July 5, 2018

How a guaranteed income could work

Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in Canada in the idea of a guaranteed or basic income. The essential idea is that everyone would be entitled to...

Michael Wolfson
  • Global Affairs
  • Social Policy
July 5, 2018

Research on the developing world: Breaking the Western monopoly

A recent report published by the University of Southern California entitled Refugees and Migration Movements in the Middle East contains 15 chapters about refugees and displaced persons in the...

Themrise Khan
  • Law
  • Politics
July 4, 2018

The future of the Safe Third Country Agreement

As the Trump administration persists with its harsh immigration policy south of the border, calls are mounting for Canada to suspend or rescind the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement...

Sharry Aiken
  • Politics
  • Science & Tech
July 4, 2018

Protecting our information in the age of data-driven politics

The Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (Ethics committee) released its interim report on the “breach of personal information involving Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.” The...

Fenwick McKelvey
  • Environment
  • Health
July 4, 2018

Quebec takes action on regulating pesticides

In 1992, Quebec implemented an agricultural pest-management strategy aimed at reducing pesticide use by half by the year 2000. Despite undeniable progress, this objective was not met. The government...

Nadine Bachand
  • Economy
  • Science & Tech
July 3, 2018

How partnerships can help cities cope with technological disruption

How do you usually get to work? Do you walk or bike? Do you take public transit? Do you drive in a car that you own? Do you take...

Shauna Brail
  • Law
  • Social Policy
July 2, 2018

Améliorer la protection des données personnelles au Canada

Les Canadiens s’inquiètent de la protection de leurs renseignements personnels. C’est pourquoi le Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada avait commandé en décembre 2016 un...

Art Eggleton, Raymonde Saint-Germain

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