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July 12, 2018

Parents in prison: A public policy blind spot

This article has been translated from French. Bill C-75, the criminal justice reform bill, aims to provide better protection for vulnerable individuals. Federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould also believes the...

Sophie de Saussure
  • Economy
  • Education
May 31, 2018

The quest for digital literacy in Canada

Across the country, libraries, community organizations and social programs are helping people apply for jobs online, open social media accounts and learn basic office software. Kids are playing with...

Annalise Huynh, Nisa Malli
  • Economy
  • Education
May 30, 2018

University-community exchange a must in age of disruption

Resilient communities are the bedrock of prosperous, stable societies. So what makes for resilient communities? First and foremost, it’s knowledge: the insight to recognize disruptive change, face challenges and...

Paul Davidson, Ian Bird
  • Global Affairs
  • Social Policy
May 29, 2018

Let’s stop talking about “empowering” African women

The “empowerment of women” is mentioned 32 times in Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, and $150 million has been allocated to related activities in developing countries over the next...

Michelle Savard
  • Health
  • Policy-making
May 28, 2018

The debate in Canada over paying plasma donors

Plasma-protein therapies save lives. Various types of plasma are used to treat bleeding from trauma and genetic bleeding disorders such as hemophilia; to treat several immunodeficiencies and neurological disorders;...

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
May 25, 2018

Child care in the Ontario election

For the first time ever, child care is a central policy plank in the programs of all three major parties in the Ontario election on June 7. But which...

Gordon Cleveland
  • Social Policy
May 25, 2018

Why benefits of citizenship aren’t always equal

The phrase “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” was first used during the 2015 election, in the context of ensuring Canadian citizens convicted of crimes of treason...

Andrew Griffith
  • Global Affairs
  • Science & Tech
May 24, 2018

Rediscovering Canada’s undervalued statecraft tools

For too long, culture, science and diplomacy have suffered from neglect in Canada. Yes, they share a high-toned reputation, but they have been widely misunderstood — disdained even —...

Daryl Copeland
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
May 24, 2018

Les sondages influencent-ils le comportement des électeurs ?

Dans un précédent article d’Options politiques, nous avons présenté notre analyse des résultats de sondages menés au cours de cinq campagnes électorales, et établi le profil sociodémographique et sociopolitique...

Claire Durand, John Goyder, Jean-François Daoust, André Blais
  • Indigenous
May 23, 2018

Canada’s surveillance of Indigenous movements

From the fight against the Northern Gateway pipeline to the anti-fracking protests involving Elsipogtog First Nation and the Idle No More movement, Canadian surveillance organizations have kept close watch...

Andrew Crosby, Jeffrey Monaghan
  • Law
  • Social Policy
May 23, 2018

A global uprising against rape case injustices

Tens of thousands of people marched in Spain in April, protesting for three days over a court’s failure to convict five men of the gang rape of an 18-year-old...

Emer O’Toole
  • Economy
  • Politics
May 23, 2018

Ontario’s hydro: some unwelcome truths

With the announcement in late April by Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford of his plan to reduce hydro rates, electricity costs have emerged as a central question in...

Mark Winfield
  • Law
  • Politics
May 22, 2018

Safeguarding the independence of the Senate

In April, Senator Peter Harder, the Trudeau government’s representative in the Senate, shared the government’s agenda for the upper chamber. His paper aims to advise senators from all parties...

Larry W. Smith
  • Health
  • Indigenous
May 22, 2018

Feds must allow First Nations to tax, regulate cannabis

There was little surprise when the Assembly of First Nations, at its Special Chiefs Assembly in early May, called on the government of Canada to amend Bill C-45, the...

Allan Clarke
  • Science & Tech
  • Social Policy
May 21, 2018

Use the Charter to guide AI governance

In a short time, the Canadian government has taken important steps toward better AI governance. This progress was evident at the Student Symposium on AI and Human Rights, held...

Fenwick McKelvey
  • Politics
May 18, 2018

In favour of a Senate business committee

Unlike the partisan and relatively docile “old” Senate of the past, the “new” Senate is becoming a political force to be reckoned with in the national policy process. The...

Paul G. Thomas
  • Health
  • Social Policy
May 18, 2018

Invest in families who support the developmentally disabled

(This article has been translated into French.) A combination of better medical care and good lives in the community has led to longer life expectancies for people with developmental disabilities...

Helen Ries, Becky Rossi
  • Media & culture
  • Science & Tech
May 17, 2018

Minimize harmfulness of bots but don’t ban them

As automated tools become increasingly common in the digital landscape, we need more transparent systems to identify bot accounts and ensure they are not causing harm to society. But...

Arjun Bisen, Yasodara Córdova
  • Economy
  • Indigenous
May 16, 2018

A federal equalization program that includes First Nations

The challenge of reconciliation hinges on a series of fundamental questions: How will Indigenous and settler Canadians live side by side? How are we to understand one another’s cultures...

Douglas Sanderson
  • Media & culture
  • Science & Tech
May 16, 2018

Crafting Internet policy with nuance, not kneejerks

In early April, members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others gathered to celebrate the life and legacy of John Perry Barlow, famed Internet libertarian and author of A...

Cynthia Khoo
  • Global Affairs
  • Health
May 15, 2018

Eight years of attacks and Obamacare still stands

Signed by President Barack Obama in March 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, has divided Democrats and Republicans since the very beginning....

Daniel Béland, Philip Rocco, Alex Waddan
  • Indigenous
  • Law
May 15, 2018

Should the MMIWG Inquiry be given more time?

Commissioner Marion Buller of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls recently published an essay in the Globe and Mail making the case for a two-year extension to her...

Grant Hoole
  • Law
  • Social Policy
May 14, 2018

Homelessness: criminalization or social integration?

(This article was translated from the French.) In Western societies, homelessness uncovers the social fragilities that are produced by those societies. In this sense, how homelessness is managed is indicative...

Saïd Bergheul
  • Environment
May 14, 2018

Stronger energy-saving measures just makes sense

A win for our economy, consumers and the climate? It may sound like an elusive unicorn, but energy efficiency checks all of the above boxes. Although they are under-reported,...

Merran Smith, Corey Diamond
  • Law
  • Social Policy
May 11, 2018

Moving restorative justice into the mainstream

(This article has been translated into French.) Restorative justice is a philosophy and an associated set of practices. A departure from both punishment and rehabilitation, restorative justice is a new...

Alana Abramson
  • Indigenous
  • Social Policy
May 10, 2018

Solving Canada’s food waste problem

When I was a child in Indonesia, I would always get the same advice from my mother and elders, “Tammara, finish every single grain of rice, if you don’t...

Tammara Soma
  • Law
  • Social Policy
May 10, 2018

Learning from our success in reducing youth imprisonment

(This article has been translated into French.) Where there is a will, there is a way. — Old English proverb On an average day in 1997, 3,825 young people (ages...

Anthony Doob, Jane Sprott, Cheryl Webster
  • Economy
  • Politics
May 10, 2018

Is the TFSA program serving all Canadians equally?

In the federal budget speech of February 26, 2008, Finance Minister James Flaherty introduced a new savings plan, the Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA), stating, “Mr. Speaker: The budget...

Ashraf Al Zaman
  • Economy
  • Science & Tech
May 9, 2018

How we stopped worrying and learned to love robots

As Bob Magee, chairman of the Woodbridge Group, walked us through his foam-manufacturing facility just north of Toronto, a familiar story emerged. Automation for this company isn’t a simple...

Creig Lamb, Daniel Munro
  • Global Affairs
May 9, 2018

Bangladesh has come a long way, but it still needs Canada

Bangladesh is still a poor country, but no longer the poorest, and it’s definitely not a “basket case,” the offensive term Henry Kissinger used for it in the 1970s....

John Sinclair
  • Global Affairs
  • Media & culture
May 9, 2018

Using culture to strengthen Mercosur ties

Now is the time to put Céline Dion and the Cirque du Soleil on a plane to South America. While we are at it, let’s not forget to book...

Eric Fillion
  • Law
  • Social Policy
May 8, 2018

Black Canadians and the justice system

Black people are dramatically over-represented in Canada’s prison system, making up 8.6 of the federal prison population, despite the fact they make up only 3 percent of the population....

Anthony N. Morgan
  • Law
  • Social Policy
May 8, 2018

Cleaning up the mandatory minimums mess

On April 10, Independent Senator Kim Pate announced her intention to introduce a bill, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Independence of the Judiciary), that would grant Canadian...

Elizabeth Sheehy Isabel Grant
  • Environment
  • Indigenous
May 8, 2018

Bill C-68 enshrines human dimensions in Canadian fisheries law

Canada’s GDP and the well-being of many rural communities in this country are tightly tied to our natural resources. Therefore, real sustainability in the primary resource sectors demands equal...

Jennifer Silver, Nathan Bennett
  • Policy-making
  • Science & Tech
May 7, 2018

The case against transparency in government AI

Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the potential for incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-assisted decision-making into their operations. The business case is compelling; AI has the ability to...

Mark Robbins
  • Economy
  • Education
May 7, 2018

Our planning for the future of work must include education

It’s hard to find anyone these days who’s not talking about artificial intelligence (AI), robots, automation, the gig economy and what it all means for the future of work....

Nobina Robinson, Daniel Komesch
  • Law
  • Social Policy
May 4, 2018

Finding a middle ground on prostitution

(This article has been translated into French.) If there was ever a topic within criminal justice that’s been hotly debated, it is prostitution. People may become entrenched in their views...

D. Scharie Tavcer, Jane Barker
  • Economy
  • Global Affairs
May 4, 2018

Focus on trade infrastructure to meet agri-food goals

Last year, the federal government set a lofty goal of boosting agri-food exports to $75 billion annually by 2025 — a whopping increase of $20 billion in seven years....

Naomi Christensen, Carlo Dade
  • Law
  • Social Policy
May 3, 2018

Lone attackers and violence against women

Lone attackers who use guns, knives or vehicles to inflict mass casualties are of increasing concern to governments, police and security forces. In Canada’s deadliest mass killing in decades,...

Jude McCulloch, JaneMaree Maher, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate
  • Media & culture
May 2, 2018

Hard work ahead on new emergency alert system

Shortly before 10 a.m. on October 22, 2014, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, standing guard at the steps of the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, tragically lost his life when...

Joshua Greenberg, John Rainford
  • Law
  • Social Policy
May 2, 2018

Realizing the full potential of restorative justice

(This article has been translated into French.) There is a wide consensus on the need for criminal justice system reform – a recognition that the system is slow, inaccessible, re-traumatizing,...

Jennifer Llewellyn
  • Indigenous
  • Law
May 1, 2018

The healing power of Gladue reports

(This article has been translated into French.) I asked a client to tell me a childhood story about his parents’ drinking patterns, and he answered with a deep sigh and...

Sarah Niman
  • Economy
  • Global Affairs
May 1, 2018

Lessons from Germany on youth employment policy

One of the most important things that a government can do to promote inclusive prosperity is to ensure that young people have access to the opportunities they need to...

Graeme Young

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