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November 1, 2016

Preparing for the transition in Washington, DC

The race for the Oval Office is closerthanthis, and both candidates are preparing for victory. Their transition teams are putting in place plans for the aftermath of the election,...

Gary Doer, Jennifer Ditchburn
  • Education
  • Politics
October 31, 2016

Educational monopoly doesn’t serve students or society

The more provincial governments clash with school boards and unions over education issues, the more parents consider alternatives to government-run schools. The common objection is that social outcomes such...

Beth Green
  • Environment
  • Global Affairs
October 31, 2016

A strategic path forward for Canada-US climate action

Climate change advocates in Canada and the United States have experienced several wins over the past few years on the multilateral, trilateral and bilateral fronts.  The United States and...

Kathryn Friedman
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
October 28, 2016

Quelques clés des succès électoraux de Trump

Au cours des derniers mois, plusieurs journalistes (pour ne citer que La Presse et le Globe and Mail) se sont prononcés sur le caractère unique de l’actuelle campagne présidentielle...

Vincent Raynauld
  • Law
  • Politics
October 28, 2016

Understanding the factors that lead to terrorism

The other day, I set a Google alert for the term “terrorism” and synchronized it to my Gmail account. Needless to say, my inbox is overflowing. Reports of terror...

Reem Zaia
  • Law
  • Politics
October 27, 2016

Don’t knock Canada’s federal political fundraising system

I recently responded on Twitter to two articles, one by Don Martin and the other by Robert Fife, about fundraisers featuring Finance Minister Bill Morneau. Quite a few people...

Howard Anglin
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
October 27, 2016

Confessions of a dual citizen surviving the US campaign

“Are you moving to Canada if Donald Trump wins?” my liberal friends and relatives have been asking me for months. I have lived in the United States since the...

Leonora Dodge
  • Economy
  • Politics
October 26, 2016

Justin Trudeau’s promises, one year later

The Polimeter is an online application created in 2011 by a team of political scientists at Laval University to monitor the fulfillment of campaign promises in Canada and Quebec....

François Pétry, Lisa Birch
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
  • Special Features
October 26, 2016

The US Presidential Election

Forget about Game of Thrones and the Walking Dead – Canadians can’t stop talking about that other addictive piece of American entertainment, the presidential election. This year’s campaign is...

  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
October 26, 2016

Déroute républicaine à l’heure de Trump

Alors qu’une très forte majorité de Canadiens craignent l’éventualité d’une présidence de Donald Trump, l’une des questions que l’on pose souvent aux chercheurs de l’Observatoire sur les États-Unis de...

Frédérick Gagnon
  • Education
  • Social Policy
October 25, 2016

A million Canadian kids missing out on free education money

Since the 2015 election, the Liberal government has made two major adjustments to federal programs targeted at children and youth.  First, the uniform payment to every family with children...

Andrew Parkin
  • Economy
  • Global Affairs
October 25, 2016

How can Atlantic Canada benefit from CETA?

The Canada-European Union trade agreement known as CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) sits in limbo, with Belgium stating it could not sign on with one of its regions...

Jon Penney
  • Environment
  • Politics
October 24, 2016

Assessing our emerging pan-Canadian climate policy

For almost three years, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission has been actively engaged in discussions about carbon pricing across the country. We have spoken with many governments, opposition parties, business groups...

Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission
  • Health
  • Science & Tech
October 24, 2016

Timothy Caulfield: Vaccines work and “natural” alternatives are bunk!

Popular culture is filled with science-free noise about vaccines. And much of the noise is aimed directly at parents. From Donald Trump’s nasty anti-vax Twitter activity to celebrities raising...

Timothy Caulfield
  • Economy
  • Environment
October 21, 2016

Why Canadians shouldn’t fear carbon pricing

It’s been two weeks since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood in the House of Commons and said that we’re going to have a price on carbon across Canada. And I have...

Clare Demerse
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 21, 2016

Le salaire minimum : la voie du compromis

Le débat sur l’augmentation du salaire minimum ne cesse de faire la une au Canada depuis quelque temps. Lors de la dernière campagne électorale, le Nouveau Parti démocratique (NPD)...

Olivier Jacques
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
October 20, 2016

Can you hear me now? Young people and the 2015 federal election

In the weeks after the October 19, 2015, general election, Samara Canada, a national charity, surveyed 2,030 Canadians about the recent campaign. The survey responses were analyzed by age:...

Jane Hilderman, Laura Anthony
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
October 20, 2016

Les jeunes et l’action politique

Depuis des décennies, un doute persiste dans l’opinion publique quant à l’engagement des jeunes dans la vie politique. Les élections de 2008 au Québec ont contribué à amplifier ce...

Madeleine Gauthier
  • Environment
  • Politics
October 19, 2016

How do Canadians rate the state of our democracy?

With the debate around our electoral system still in full swing, the time is ripe to explore how Canadians perceive the performance of our democratic institutions. In a major...

André Blais, Filip Kostelka
  • Economy
  • Politics
October 19, 2016

Economic performance and policy during the Harper years

How did the Canadian economy perform during the Harper government years, what factors drove this performance, and what role did Harper government policies play in achieving broad economic objectives?...

David Dodge, Richard Dion
  • Education
  • Science & Tech
October 18, 2016

Why more academics should engage with the media

Imagine putting months of work into an article to have it read by only 10 people. This is the situation in much of academia right now, where the influx...

Noralou Roos
  • Environment
  • Indigenous
October 18, 2016

When wild salmon win — toward a renewed Fisheries Act?

No matter how many legally binding conditions are included in the Pacific Northwest liquefied natural gas (PNW LNG) project approval, the problem is that this industrial project is just...

Linda Nowlan
  • Education
  • Social Policy
October 15, 2016

Unlocking the potential of campus clubs

Across Canada, on every university campus, youth get together to learn, debate, fundraise, support one another, provide social services to the surrounding community, and much more. Whether you call...

Benjamin Miller
  • Environment
  • Politics
October 14, 2016

Trudeau’s carbon price clever politics, not credible climate policy

The federal government’s recently announced national carbon price may be clever politics, but a credible, evidence-based climate change policy it most certainly is not. The government’s national carbon price,...

Jason MacLean
  • Social Policy
October 14, 2016

Youth and urban citizenship in Canada

Our world is experiencing the largest wave of urban growth in human history. The United Nations Population Fund estimates that by 2030, over 5 billion people will live in...

Celine Cooper
  • Economy
  • Global Affairs
October 13, 2016

Encouraging Canadian SME exports to emerging markets

In the midst of heated debates about trade deals, there’s one trade topic that everyone seems to agree on: we need to encourage more exports by small and medium-sized...

Stephen Tapp
  • Law
  • Social Policy
October 13, 2016

Canada still an animal welfare laggard

I still remember the first time I read the “Modernizing Animal Protections Act,” Nathaniel Erskine-Smith’s private member’s Bill C-246, which aimed to reform the Criminal Code’s treatment of animal...

Peter Sankoff
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 13, 2016

Millennials aren’t really taking vacation. What gives?

Summer feels over. Did you take your vacation? Chances are, if you are a millennial, the answer is: not really. We looked at some data from the Canadian Labour...

Melissa Pogue, Vasiliki (Vass) Bednar
  • Environment
  • Politics
October 12, 2016

Hurricane Matthew and the problem of communicating fear

The history of risk communication is chock full of examples where threats are ignored or downplayed (Ebola in West Africa), details of the threat are concealed (SARS), or populations...

Joshua Greenberg, John Rainford
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
October 12, 2016

The impact of citizenship fees on naturalization

The previous Conservative government’s hiking up of citizenship application fees – from $100 to $530 – revealed a particular philosophy: that citizenship is a private, rather than a public,...

Andrew Griffith
  • Energy
  • Environment
October 11, 2016

Penny wise and pound foolish on climate policy?

Last week, the House of Commons endorsed the Paris climate agreement, under which Canada commits to reduce greenhouse gases by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Simultaneously, Prime...

Mark Jaccard
  • Indigenous
  • Social Policy
October 11, 2016

In the MMIW inquiry, don’t forget about girls

On August 3, 2016, the federal government formally launched the long-awaited, hard-won National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Indigenous women and girls and their allies...

Cherry Smiley
  • Global Affairs
October 11, 2016

Canada’s outdated foreign service recruitment system

Former Canadian diplomat Gordon Houlden, now with the University of Alberta’s China Institute, detailed recently in Policy Options how Ottawa has difficulty finding skilled Mandarin speakers to fill Canadian...

Wela Quan
  • Education
  • Global Affairs
October 10, 2016

Welcome to campus. Now go abroad.

Now that students are settled back on campus for another academic year, they should also start thinking about packing their bags. In addition to planning for essays, exams and...

Paul Davidson
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
October 7, 2016

The land where we first loved

Pundits recently made a big deal about a paper Valérie-Anne Mahéo and Éric Bélanger presented at this year’s conference of the American Political Science Association. The paper announced the...

Alain Noël
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
October 7, 2016

A year in, do we have a feminist prime minister?

The Prime Minister has gone to great lengths to reiterate that he is a feminist. Last year, I set out 10 ways Trudeau could fulfil this identity. Nearly a...

Lauren Dobson-Hughes
  • Energy
  • Science & Tech
October 6, 2016

How one province met Canada’s 2030 emissions reduction target

One of Prime Minister Trudeau’s many commitments at the COP21 climate conference held in Paris in December 2015 was to meet Canada’s intended nationally determined contributions (INDC) emissions reduction target. ...

Larry Hughes
  • Health
  • Indigenous
  • Politics
October 6, 2016

The long history of discrimination against First Nations children

The day before Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized in 2008 for the harms done to Indigenous children in residential schools, I was in Ottawa’s Beechwood Cemetery, visiting the grave...

Cindy Blackstock
  • Politics
  • Science & Tech
October 5, 2016

Protecting Canadians’ privacy

Last week, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada submitted its 2015-2016 Annual Report to parliament. As well as giving a thorough account of the privacy risks facing...

Daniel Therrien
  • Law
  • Politics
October 5, 2016

Bringing privacy protection into the 21st century

Smart phones, cloud computing, Internet-connected gadgets, and algorithms that track our every move online – it’s all putting undue pressure on privacy. Unfortunately, in Canada we remain hampered by...

Daniel Therrien
  • Education
  • Politics
October 5, 2016

Parliament Hill’s youth paradox

Political engagement has become something of an oxymoron for many young Canadians. Youth have no trouble engaging with each other on issues that we care about, but many of...

Jeremy Ryant
  • Environment
  • Global Affairs
October 3, 2016

China’s clean energy ambition creates Canadian opportunities

What happens when the world’s largest economy decides it wants to be a leader in tackling climate change? We’re about to find out. For years, the only headlines about...

Dan Woynillowicz, Nicholas Parker
  • Politics
October 3, 2016

Ensuring young people are heard on electoral reform

While the special committee on electoral reform continues to study voting systems, 16- and 17- year-olds will be able to cast a ballot in Prince Edward Island’s province-wide referendum...

André Blais, Semra Sevi

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