Policy Options

The Scripture tells us that when Joshua and the Israelites arrived at the gates of Jericho, they could not enter. The walls of the city were too steep for...

We’ve had some dark days in this democracy over the past seven years and today the sun is out. It is shining brightly. Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill Record low...

Canadians are paying an extraordinary amount of atten- tion to the US presidential race, particularly the Democratic contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It’s not primarily because people...

One thousand three hundred and fifty-four for Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton’s 1,263: at time of writing, that is the current, total delegate count in the race for the...

The best reality show in the media these days is unquestionably the US presidential primaries and caucuses. The two major parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, will both be...

Pour les adeptes de la prévision électorale, le tableau politique actuel aux États-Unis devrait, normalement, rendre la tâche infiniment plus simple qu’à l’habitude. Parmi les facteurs couramment cités par...

Les courses à l’investiture démocrate et républicaine ont connu des évolutions radicalement différentes (voir le tableau 1). Dans le camp républicain, le phénomène le plus étonnant est l’effondrement de...

This is the Democrats’ election to lose. That doesn’t mean that it cannot be lost; parties have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the past, but it...

The Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama presidential campaigns, both expecting that the remaining Democratic contests will split their votes and give neither candidate the nomination, are wooing intensely the...

The president of the University of British Columbia, Stephen Toope, has suggested recently that Canada should consider fostering greater stratification in higher education. Stratification means more hierarchy ”” a...

The Canada Health Act of 1984 ensures that all Canadian residents (with the exception of members of the Canadian Forces, the RCMP and prisoners, who are covered by federal...

Les discussions entourant l’éducation postsecondaire portent habituellement sur le financement des institutions et l’accessibilité aux études. On l’a vu encore tout récemment, alors que de nombreux étudiants manifestaient contre...

Canada’s regions have a long history of ”œlove-hate” rela- tionships with their industrial drivers. A lot of them resemble David Addison and Maddie Hayes, the lov- able private investigators...

Fireworks, happy faces and joyous toasts and anthems marked TV coverage around the world February 17 as crowds in Pristina celebrated Kosovo’s unilateral dec- laration of independence from Serbia....

Afghanistan presents a tangled and thorny policy quandary. But there’s a quick reference tool available to gauge the deluded, self-defeating nature of the US- dominated Western intervention ”” that...

Brooke Claxton, arguably Canada’s most effective minister of national defence, managed the transformation of Canada’s armed forces from 1946 to 1954 thorough the turbulent post-Second-World-War demobiliza- tion and into...

Canada’s National Round Table on the Economy and the Environment (NRTEE) has recently recommended that we adopt a carbon tax as the pre- ferred policy instrument for addressing the...

Dans son discours de Québec en décembre 2005, Stephen Harper dénonçait le pouvoir fédéral de dépenser, qu’il associait à un fédéralisme « dominateur », et il s’engageait à limiter...