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June 30, 2020

Le chant du cygne pour le Canada à l’ONU ?

L’échec de la candidature du Canada à l’un des deux sièges non permanents au Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies est avant tout celui d’une politique étrangère de confort,...

Loïc Bisson
  • Health
  • Social Policy
June 30, 2020

The case for moving long-term care into small households

In a few short months, COVID-19 has achieved what no individual, organization or advocacy group was able to do for decades: it has exposed the cracks in the way...

Rudy P. Friesen
  • Policy-making
  • Politics
June 29, 2020

A “Fair Deal” for Alberta?

Earlier in June, the Fair Deal Panel made public its final report to the Alberta government. The stated goal of the panel was to find ways to get Alberta...

Melanee Thomas, Trevor Tombe
  • Global Affairs
  • Health
June 29, 2020

Canada needs to beef up its global health diplomacy

There is growing evidence that COVID-19 is disrupting health, economic, political, and social systems in Canada and countries around the globe. The pandemic is challenging global institutions and national...

Erica Di Ruggiero, Garry Aslanyan
  • Politics
June 29, 2020

Do Canada’s most powerful federal posts reflect the country’s diversity?

The inclusion of Canadians from visible minority groups in the country’s major political and socio-economic institutions is an important indicator of the success that Canada can claim as a...

Jerome H. Black, Andrew Griffith
  • Economy
  • Media & culture
June 29, 2020

For the arts, the show must go on after COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has shattered the arts sector. The consequences for society will be devastating unless an agenda for innovation and inclusive growth is implemented to support the arts...

Shauna Brail, Nathalie Des Rosiers, Anita M. McGahan
  • Health
  • Policy-making
June 26, 2020

Our cities and city-regions need an urban policy observatory

The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive health, social, and economic shock to Canadian society. Nowhere is this more visible than in our cities, where physical distancing measures to contain...

Gabriel Eidelman, Kate Graham, Neil Bradford
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
June 26, 2020

Learning from Denmark’s socially inclusive approach to COVID-19

While the COVID-19 pandemic urgently requires new medical and social innovations, it also draws our attention to long-standing challenges in innovation policy. For example, the uneven health and economic...

Darius Ornston
  • Indigenous
  • Law
June 25, 2020

Mass incarceration of Indigenous people betrays Ottawa’s reconciliation efforts

When Justin Trudeau became prime minister of Canada in 2015, there was considerable hope that there was a partner in Ottawa whom Indigenous peoples could work with to deliver...

Kim Beaudin, Justin Piché
  • Economy
  • Science & Tech
June 25, 2020

How contact tracing by employers could change the economics of innovation

A thoughtful, well-managed and balanced system for contact tracing is essential for preserving our core values of privacy, freedom, equity and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. The system must...

Anita M. McGahan
  • Economy
  • Health
June 24, 2020

Redesigning CEWS for a partial reopening of the economy

The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program may need redesigning to adapt to the partial reopening of the economy. At the start, the federal government likely envisioned three or...

Amin Mawani
  • Economy
  • Global Affairs
June 24, 2020

Canada’s multi-faceted trade diversification challenge

Over its relatively short history, Canada has been hit with numerous trade shocks that shaped the direction of Canada’s trade, its economic policy, and indeed its very structure. These...

Dan Ciuriak
  • Economy
June 24, 2020

Is this Canada’s last chance to revive manufacturing and long-term prosperity?

The panic in Canada over the lack of masks and ventilators for COVID-19 has mostly eased, but it would be foolish to let the memory and lessons of those...

Dan Breznitz
  • Social Policy
June 23, 2020

Why Canada may become a great global power this century

The Canada that exits the Great Quarantine may, by mid-century, become a great power. Or it may, as a mirror opposite, become a deep vassal state. The possible futures...

Irvin Studin
  • Health
June 23, 2020

La couleur du coronavirus : l’importance des données sur l’origine ethnique

Certains groupes de personnes, et notamment les personnes racisées, sont plus durement frappées par la COVID-19. Je joins ma voix aux militants et aux organisateurs communautaires, aux scientifiques et...

Elisa Jean-Baptiste
  • Economy
June 23, 2020

An opportunity to reimagine the role for platform economy firms

As has been made abundantly clear, coronavirus touches all aspects of urban life – including the platform economy. Before the spread of COVID-19, the rise of platform firms such...

Shauna Brail
  • Politics
June 23, 2020

Will Alberta be the buffalo in the federation’s china shop?

It is difficult to imagine the Fall of 2021. We can hope that a vaccine will have ended the COVID crisis, and normal life will be resuming. We don’t...

Lisa Young
  • Environment
  • Politics
June 22, 2020

Le Fonds des générations au service de l’équité fiscale et écologique

Nous sommes à un carrefour important : peut-on saisir l’occasion d’une relance économique pour accélérer la transition écologique ? Pour compenser les pertes économiques colossales dues à la crise de COVID-19,...

Sarah-Maude Belleville-Chenard, François Delorme
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
June 22, 2020

Canada should draw key lessons from the UN defeat

Losing an election is always tough. And especially when it is the second in a row. But Canada’s loss to Ireland and Norway in this past week’s Security Council...

Sergio Marchi, Allan Rock
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
June 22, 2020

Après deux référendums
Chronique d’Alain Noël

Que reste-t-il de lui dans la tempête brève? Qu’est devenu mon cœur, navire déserté? Hélas! Il a sombré dans l’abîme du Rêve! Émile Nelligan, Le Vaisseau d’or, 1899 Cette...

Alain Noël
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
  • Special Features
June 22, 2020

Building a More Inclusive Innovation Economy After the Pandemic

For decades, Canada has struggled with sub-par business investment in innovation – a “low-innovation equilibrium.” Where innovation is happening, opportunities to participate and benefit from it have been distributed...

  • Economy
  • Science & Tech
June 22, 2020

A chance to rethink our approach to innovation and inclusive growth

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed fragilities and inequities in Canada’s innovation economy. When the pandemic began, Canada was already a global laggard in the development and adoption of new...

Dan Breznitz, Daniel Munro
  • Health
  • Policy-making
June 19, 2020

Governments are about to face some very tough healthcare decisions

It is impossible to understate the seismic shift that has occurred over the past few months in the way our healthcare system is run. The experience of waging an...

Steve Vander Wal
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
June 19, 2020

Ottawa’s ill-fated quest for a UN Security Council seat

Canada’s quest for a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council has ended with a thud. The Security Council sits at the centre of the global governance system...

Adam Chapnick
  • Global Affairs
  • Health
June 19, 2020

How COVID-19 has impacted Canadian Forces missions abroad

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has been stretched by natural disaster relief efforts and is in even higher demand now with Operation Laser, the CAF response to COVID-19. The...

Stéfanie von Hlatky, Stephen Saideman
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
June 18, 2020

What can Ontario’s HST experience teach us about economic recovery?

July 1, 2020 is the 10-year anniversary of Ontario’s Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), a key part of Ontario’s comprehensive tax reform package. The package included major changes to the...

Carol Layton, Steve Orsini
  • Social Policy
June 17, 2020

Confinement and toxic boredom plagued long-term care before COVID-19

It’s bad news for civil rights when a government decides to sentence an entire population to house arrest, but for long-term care residents this pandemic policy is not new....

S.B. Julian
  • Energy
  • Environment
June 17, 2020

Why the real climate change fight is in Saskatchewan

Since March 2020, oil prices have been in such a free fall that politicians are now debating whether “oil is dead.” Financial experts had warned that the future of...

Emily Eaton, Andrea Olive, Angela Carter
  • Indigenous
  • Social Policy
June 16, 2020

COVID-19 has changed how we respond to northern homelessness

When the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in Canada, the concern was immediately palpable in northern communities. A persistent housing crisis, in combination with inequities in health care access,...

Julia Christensen
  • Law
June 16, 2020

The Charter’s forgotten fundamental freedoms

In April, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms turned 38 years old. The Charter, which forms part of our Constitution and thus part of Canada’s supreme law, is...

Brian Bird, Dwight Newman, Derek Ross
  • Health
  • Policy-making
June 15, 2020

Quebec’s clinical triage protocol opens door to discrimination

(This article has been translated from French.) Following serious public criticism, most recently by the Liberal MNA Jennifer Maccarone, of the intensive care triage protocol developed under the auspices...

Trudo Lemmens
  • Health
  • Social Policy
June 15, 2020

A restorative approach is key for a new normal after COVID-19

As plans for lifting the pandemic restrictions take effect, there is widespread recognition that things will not go back to the way they were. Government, community and corporate sectors...

Jennifer Llewellyn, Kristina Llewellyn
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
June 12, 2020

COVID-19’s devastating impacts on Nova Scotia’s non-profit sector

The non-profit and voluntary sector is the vital third leg of the stool – with government and business, it holds the province of Nova Scotia up and together. The...

Patricia Bradshaw
  • Politics
June 12, 2020

The political staff who help take care of government during elections

Many people gravitate to political jobs because they love the adrenalin of campaigning and are ideologically committed to building support for their party. Predictably, when an election is called,...

Paul Wilson, Michael McNair
  • Health
  • Social Policy
June 11, 2020

BC’s opioid users are unable to access safest drugs during pandemic

The confluence of two public health emergencies has made life even more dangerous for people at risk of overdose in British Columbia. COVID-19 comes at a time when the...

Jordan Westfall, Scott MacDonald
  • Economy
  • Indigenous
June 11, 2020

How Canadian policies can enable Indigenous economic development

When you visit diverse Indigenous communities across Canada, whether they be Inuit, First Nation or Métis, northern or southern, rural or urban, you hear a common refrain: a desire...

Tamara Krawchenko, Dawn Madahbee Leach
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
June 11, 2020

Sortir du racisme systémique

Au Canada, les manifestations en hommage à George Floyd ont montré une fois encore qu’en ce qui concerne les injustices et les inégalités liées au traitement de la différence,...

Amadou Sadjo Barry
  • Health
  • Social Policy
June 10, 2020

COVID-19 and support for the unemployed

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis is a formidable test for welfare states all over the world, including here in Canada. In this context, unemployment benefits are crucial because of the...

Shannon Dinan, Daniel Béland
  • Health
  • Social Policy
June 10, 2020

Long-term care work deserves our respect

Canada’s system of long-term care was a powder keg; COVID-19 the spark that set it alight. As the virus overtook nursing and care homes across the country, we began...

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
  • Media & culture
  • Politics
June 10, 2020

Party communications directors build the message backbone of a campaign

A political party’s director of communications promotes and protects the party brand, ensuring the vision, mission, and policies of a party align with its corporate identity and brand ethos,...

Stéphanie Yates, John Chenery
  • Health
  • Law
June 9, 2020

Will Parliament take steps to clarify medical assistance in dying law?

When the federal government introduced Canada’s medical assistance in dying legislation back in 2016, there was swift and fierce backlash against one of the eligibility criteria – a person’s...

Jocelyn Downie
  • Media & culture
  • Social Policy
June 9, 2020

A GBA+ case for understanding the impact of COVID-19

In the COVID-19 era, Canada needs to better understand the relationship between identity and health. To do that, we need to use intersectional analysis, the study of the way...

Rachael Johnstone, Bessma Momani
  • Politics
June 9, 2020

Le pari nationaliste de Dominique Anglade ?

En l’espace de 48 heures, en raison du désistement surprise de son seul adversaire, Dominique Anglade est devenue le 11 mai dernier cheffe du Parti libéral du Québec. Dix-huitième...

Eric Montigny
  • Politics
June 9, 2020

How election administrators operate the machinery of a campaign

Although Canadians tend to focus on political parties and candidates during an election campaign, the work of another important set of actors – election administrators – is often overlooked....

Andrea Lawlor, Marc Mayrand
  • Social Policy
June 8, 2020

The nearly impossible balance for working mothers during pandemic

A manager in the health sector in Montreal, Myriam has been juggling work with two young children, who have been out of school for over two months. “I was...

Eleonore Fournier-Tombs
  • Media & culture
  • Politics
June 8, 2020

Who are the senior advisors that keep party leaders on track?

In movies about political campaigns, we often see a character who whispers in a politician’s ear, providing strategic advice about what to say to the media or what information...

Mireille Lalancette
  • Health
  • Law
June 8, 2020

How should we enforce pandemic rules for those living with mental illness?

Under normal circumstances, the Ontario Mental Health Act allows involuntary hospitalization of a capable person who has a mental disorder that is “likely” to result in “serious bodily harm”...

Yasmin Khaliq, Mona Gupta, Jennifer Chandler
  • Media & culture
  • Social Policy
June 8, 2020

Density can work post-COVID-19, with good urban planning

More than 50 years ago, Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of American Cities, changed how a generation of urban planners and other policy-makers think about cities....

Glenn Miller
  • Economy
  • Environment
June 5, 2020

Ottawa’s new climate reporting requirement is good for business

In mid-May, the federal government announced a major program to help large companies address the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. The Large Employer Emergency Financing Facility (LEEFF) will...

Stewart Elgie, Andrea Moffat
  • Science & Tech
  • Social Policy
June 5, 2020

Applications de traçage : des enjeux au-delà de la vie privée

À l’émission Tout le monde en parle du 17 mai dernier, Yoshua Bengio, directeur scientifique de Mila et professeur au Département d’informatique de l’Université de Montréal, et Valérie Pisano,...

Alexandra Bahary-Dionne, Christine Vézina
  • Health
  • Social Policy
June 5, 2020

We can draw lessons from countries with strong long-term care systems

Relative to our international peers, Canada is experiencing alarmingly high fatality and mortality rates due to COVID-19 in long-term care (LTC) facilities. Lessons from other countries are useful in...

Ito Peng
  • Politics
  • Science & Tech
June 4, 2020

If Black lives matter, it’s time for true policy action and accountability

Over the past several days, in the midst of the protests related to the killing of George Floyd and death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto, many people have asked...

Celina Caesar-Chavannes
  • Economy
  • Politics
June 4, 2020

Les défis politiques et économiques du gouvernement albertain

En Alberta, la lutte contre le coronavirus a été plutôt efficace, et ce, malgré quelques ratés, notamment une éclosion importante de cas dans un centre de transformation de viande....

Frédéric Boily
  • Politics
June 4, 2020

New generation of party fundraisers are multi-skilled innovators

A great idea is priceless. A great campaign to share that idea, however, comes with a big price tag. Election campaigns cost money, making fundraisers integral to any successful...

Erin Crandall, Michael Roy
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
June 4, 2020

Canada’s most vulnerable need extra help in getting COVID-19 help

Financial security can be thought of as an island where everyone has enough money to meet their needs, now and in the future, while financial insecurity is the sea...

Elizabeth Mulholland
  • Global Affairs
  • Health
June 3, 2020

A post-pandemic review of security and intelligence is essential

Should Canadian intelligence agencies report on pandemics? Yes. Deploying the warning and analysis capabilities of the community should be part of a whole-of-government approach to a global health emergency....

Greg Fyffe
  • Global Affairs
  • Health
June 3, 2020

Reassessing Canada’s refugee policy in the COVID-19 era

The decision by the Trump administration on April 22nd to effectively freeze immigration flows into the United States is the latest in a series of moves by that government...

Nicholas A. R. Fraser
  • Media & culture
  • Politics
June 3, 2020

News editors crucial to national election campaign coverage

(This article has been translated into French.) During a federal election campaign, the news agenda is often set by national media organizations such as broadcasters CBC-Radio-Canada, CTV, TVA and Global; newspapers...

Colette Brin, Ryan MacDonald
  • Health
  • Social Policy
June 2, 2020

Pandemic triage protocols lack consultation and transparency

(This article has been translated into French.) In the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, Quebec, like other parts of Canada, feared that the horrifying experiences of overflowing hospitals in...

Vardit Ravitsky, Bryn Williams-Jones
  • Politics
June 2, 2020

All-seeing campaign directors bring parties strategic calm

The actions of national campaign directors are consequential for the success or failure of political parties in Canadian federal elections. Like the head coach of a hockey team, they...

David McGrane, Anne McGrath
  • Health
  • Media & culture
June 1, 2020

Pandemic puts public trust to the test

Canadians have never had greater access to news and information than they do today. In addition to daily newspapers, television, radio and Internet news sites – many of which...

Joshua Greenberg, Sarah Everts
  • Media & culture
  • Politics
  • Special Features
June 1, 2020

The Insider’s View Behind the Scenes of Election Campaigns

Relatively few Canadians know what happens beyond the headlines of election campaigns, and the workers behind the scenes who make it all come together. But to understand politics, citizens...

  • Media & culture
  • Policy-making
June 1, 2020

What goes on in an election? Ask the people doing the job

(This article has been translated into French.) Even in the midst of a global pandemic, electoral politics marches on. Right now, there is an organizing frenzy unfolding around the Conservative and...

Alex Marland, Anna Lennox Esselment
  • Economy
  • Global Affairs
June 1, 2020

Canada needs a new Plan A in dealing with pandemic global trade rules

For Canada, one of the disturbing realities arising from the pandemic response is the breakdown in the global, rules-based trade system when we needed it most for critical supplies...

Colleen Collins, Carlo Dade

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