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October 30, 2020

Decolonizing post-secondary institutions takes a community

Indigenous youth are the youngest, fastest growing segment of Canada’s population. They hold tremendous potential to contribute to and transform the country’s economic, political and cultural life. The key...

Heather Burke, Sharon Hobenshield, Ariane Campbell
  • COE
  • Politics
October 30, 2020

25 ans après le référendum : le nationalisme québécois repris par la CAQ

Le 30 octobre 1995, les Québécois ont fait preuve d’une grande maturité démocratique : 93,5 % d’entre eux se sont déplacés pour choisir leur avenir. Après avoir débattu vivement,...

Eric Montigny
  • Social Policy
October 29, 2020

Are singles Canada’s forgotten poor?

Working-age singles are more likely than most to be living in deep poverty, with incomes that fall well short of what’s required to meet basic needs. So why are...

Colin Busby, Sherri Torjman
  • Environment
  • Politics
October 29, 2020

Breaking through on climate action and electoral reform

If climate change and electoral reform have one thing in common, it’s their intractability. Climate change is an issue for human civilization that requires a global effort to overcome...

Réal Lavergne, Megan Mattes
  • Economy
  • Health
October 29, 2020

Secure Canada’s critical drug supply with domestic manufacturing

The throne speech in September made numerous mentions of the fact that the government has stepped up and signed contracts to domestically produce personal protective equipment (to the tune...

Saad Ahmed
  • Economy
  • Environment
  • Indigenous
October 28, 2020

Moving forward on lobster fishery means addressing access and conservation

Back in 1999, the Supreme Court’s Marshall decision recognized that Mi’kmaq First Nations have had, and continue to have, a treaty right to catch and sell fish. As a...

Tony Charles
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 28, 2020

Do governments have a window of opportunity to raise taxes?

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the federal government to do two things. First, create and quickly implement new policies and programs to mitigate the health effects of the virus....

Antoine Genest-Grégoire, Luc Godbout, Jean-Herman Guay
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 27, 2020

Redesign parental leave system to enhance gender equality

What should parental leave benefits look like in post-pandemic Canada? While the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic have spurred critical attention to re-thinking approaches to care policies,...

Andrea Doucet, Sophie Mathieu, Lindsey McKay
  • Environment
  • Social Policy
October 27, 2020

L’urgence climatique et l’égalité hommes-femmes

Il est encourageant de constater que les mesures en faveur du climat ont été présentées dans le dernier discours du Trône comme la « pierre angulaire » du plan de relance...

Beatrice Olivastri, Anne Levesque
  • Health
  • Policy-making
October 27, 2020

Medical assistance in dying bill an important step forward for Canadians with dementia

On October 5, 2020, the federal Minister of Justice introduced Bill C-7 to amend Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation. Parliament will debate this bill over the coming...

Jocelyn Downie
  • Environment
  • Indigenous
October 26, 2020

When ESG investing hurts the people of the North American Arctic

Moral purpose or marketing? This summer, Deutsche Bank became the latest major bank to boycott Arctic resource investment. It’s part of a growing chorus of financial institutions demonstrating their...

Jessica Shadian, Nauja Bianco
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 26, 2020

More agricultural workers should become permanent residents

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the essential nature of agricultural work in Canada and our reliance on migrant workers to get the job done. Despite restrictions on travel to...

Naomi Alboim, Karen Cohl
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 23, 2020

Young Canadians and the long “tail” of the COVID crisis

How will today’s 15-year-olds remember 2020? What about the years just following the pandemic that uprooted their lives? Young people may not be hit directly by COVID-19, but they...

 Lisa Wolff, Terence Hamilton
  • Policy-making
  • Social Policy
October 22, 2020

Making online consultation more inclusive

There is no “one-size-fits-all” in democratic processes, and public consultations are no exception. Growing evidence suggests that consultation processes, through which policy-makers invite the public to share opinions on...

Stéphanie Pepin
  • Indigenous
  • Law
October 22, 2020

First Nations have their own legal authority to regulate their fishing rights

Note: the word L’nu means the people of the same tongue and is the preferred name of the tribe otherwise known as Mi’kmaq. L’nu is singular and L’nuk is...

The Eastern Door
  • Economy
  • Policy-making
October 21, 2020

The startling impact of COVID-19 on immigrant women in the workforce

While the mantra for the COVID-19 crisis has been “let’s build back better,” it will be impossible to do so without acknowledging that this pandemic has hit demographic groups...

Ana Ferrer, Bessma Momani
  • Politics
  • Social Policy
October 21, 2020

What new disaggregated data tells us about federal public service diversity

Just how diverse is the federal public service? This question recently has attracted more scrutiny, particularly when it comes to the inclusion of Black Canadians in the bureaucracy. Before...

Andrew Griffith
  • Health
October 21, 2020

Les soins en milieu rural doivent favoriser les soins virtuels

Dans son récent discours du Trône, le gouvernement fédéral a promis à la population des régions rurales et éloignées l’accès à un médecin de famille ou à une équipe...

Kathleen Walsh, Alexandra Dozzi, Margaret Tromp
  • Health
  • Social Policy
October 20, 2020

A drug, dental and mental health plan for uninsured Canadians

As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, more and more people are losing their workplace health insurance. Even before the pandemic, an estimated 10 to 20 percent of Canadians were not...

Colin Busby
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 20, 2020

Improving the lives of workers will help disaster-proof Canada

It is of the utmost importance that the lessons we have learned throughout this pandemic help us shape a brighter future for people living in Canada. This crisis has...

Hassan Yussuff
  • Economy
  • Policy-making
October 20, 2020

Projets d’infrastructure et relance économique au Québec

La crise sanitaire et économique provoquée par la COVID-19 est un test majeur pour la viabilité financière des provinces canadiennes. Alors même que leurs dépenses augmentent (en santé et...

Marcelin Joanis
  • Health
October 19, 2020

Lack of palliative care is a failure in too many MAiD requests

Implanting a defective device or prescribing the wrong medication are two examples of medical errors causing death and ravaging lives. Doing the wrong thing to someone is vastly more...

Romayne Gallagher
  • Media & culture
  • Social Policy
October 19, 2020

Stop asking us to be resilient

Please, I implore you. Can we just retire the term resilience? This might seem like a strange request, but I can’t muster the, uh, resilience to endure prolonged exposure...

Michael Orsini
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 19, 2020

Economic inequality made the U.S. more vulnerable to the pandemic

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and the resulting recession is best understood in the context of what has happened to the U.S. economy over...

Heather Boushey
  • Economy
  • Environment
October 16, 2020

Canadians need not give up the farm to achieve net-zero emissions

This summer, in the middle of a health and economic crisis, Canada’s finance minister resigned.  His concerns over the cost and scope of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s green economic...

Alan Keeso
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 16, 2020

Corporate Canada needs to take on child care

If there’s one group of Canadians that have really taken a hard hit by COVID-19, it’s working parents, especially mothers. If anyone needs a break, it’s them. And they...

Rick Peterson
  • Education
October 16, 2020

Offrir des formations professionnelles de courte durée

L’annonce faite dans le discours du Trône de faire de la formation des travailleurs et des jeunes une priorité est une excellente nouvelle. Au fil des ans, les gouvernements...

David Agnew
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 16, 2020

COVID-19 benefits exclude sex workers in Canada

The global impact of COVID-19 on people who sell sexual services has been shattering, worsening their already precarious situation. Findings from a recent study of sex workers from six...

Cecilia Benoit
  • Economy
October 15, 2020

We’d better get to know the growing gig economy

The number of people doing “gig work” has been rising for decades, and the precarity of gig workers has been underscored by the pandemic. Gig workers have been on...

Elle Ziegler, Karen E. McCallum
  • Social Policy
October 15, 2020

Navigating the pandemic as a newcomer to Canada

The last seven months haven’t been easy on any of us. But newcomers, especially asylum seekers and refugee claimants, have had an especially hard time. To understand the unique...

Dorota Blumczynska
  • Social Policy
October 15, 2020

COVID-19 et itinérance : enjeux et prospective

L’itinérance comporte de multiples aspects, mais toutes les personnes qui n’ont aucun lieu d’habitation fixe, sécuritaire et abordable, sont plus vulnérables à la pandémie de COVID-19. En effet, ces...

Céline Bellot
  • Health
  • Social Policy
October 14, 2020

The missing voice of women in COVID-19 policy-making

Women remain conspicuously absent from decision-making tables across Canada despite being disproportionately affected by COVID-19 at work and at home. Women’s voices in policy-making would amplify the message that...

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
  • COE
  • Indigenous
October 14, 2020

Établir un équilibre relationnel avec les Autochtones

Le drame que représente le décès de Joyce Echaquan s’inscrit dans une longue suite d’événements dont la récurrence aussi mathématique qu’historique ne laisse aucun doute sur la part systémique...

Sébastien Brodeur-Girard
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 14, 2020

Economic recovery has to focus on long-term well-being, not just GDP

Canadians must not miss the opportunity to use the pandemic recovery to redefine what we think of as national progress. Rather than continuing to rely on gross domestic product...

Robert Smith
  • Economy
  • Science & Tech
October 13, 2020

Écosystèmes d’innovation et supergrappes au Canada

La pandémie de COVID-19 a mis en évidence plusieurs faiblesses des chaînes d’approvisionnement dont dépendent le Canada et le Québec, mais aussi la grande résilience et la capacité d’adaptation...

Catherine Beaudry, Laurence Solar-Pelletier, France St-Hilaire
  • Law
  • Social Policy
October 13, 2020

The punishing response to the defence of extreme intoxication

When the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the criminal defence of extreme intoxication this summer, the public backlash was swift and withering. Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath urged the...

Lisa M. Kelly, Nadya Gill
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 13, 2020

Funding for youth employment services must reflect COVID challenges

This article uses information gathered from the Canadian Council for Youth Prosperity and partners in national town halls for youth employment service providers. It is important to note that...

Gladys Okine-Ahovi, Shalini Sharma, Lina Pulido
  • COE
  • Indigenous
October 9, 2020

La mort inacceptable de Joyce Echaquan révèle l’échec de nos institutions

Il est difficile en tant que femme autochtone d’écrire sur la mort de Joyce Echaquan. Cette mort ravive toutes les blessures de la colonisation. Comment réfléchir alors froidement aux...

Annie O’Bomsawin-Bégin
  • Economy
October 8, 2020

Recovery plans must be built on a foundation of economic growth

The recent spike in COVID-19 cases across the country is a sober reminder that a return to normalcy is still far away. But that doesn’t mean that policy-makers shouldn’t...

Sean Speer, Drew Fagan, Luka Glozic
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 8, 2020

Les femmes, grandes perdantes de la pandémie

La pandémie de COVID-19 affecte toutes les sphères de la société, mais ce sont les personnes vulnérables qui demeurent les plus durement touchées, car la crise sanitaire a aussi...

Agnès Lys Granier
  • Economy
  • Environment
October 7, 2020

Throne speech laid down markers for a clean and caring economy

A key goal laid out in the federal government’s recent speech from the throne was to “build back better to create a stronger, more resilient Canada.” In our view,...

Toby Heaps, Céline Bak, Ralph Torrie
  • Health
  • Social Policy
October 7, 2020

Fix the mental health system as part of an inclusive recovery

There has been much discussion about the mental health crisis that is upon us due to the lasting impacts of the pandemic. But the crisis was not the making...

Lori Spadorcia
  • Education
October 7, 2020

La pandémie a aggravé le stress chez les professeures d’université

Avant même que ne débute la pandémie de COVID‑19,  la santé mentale des étudiants universitaires était un sujet de préoccupation grandissant. On parlait surtout de dépression et d’anxiété chez...

Christina Young
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 6, 2020

Single workers are Canada’s forgotten poor

Early 2020 sent COVID-19 shock waves around the world. The devastation saved its knockout punch for groups already struggling to find steady ground: racialized communities, Indigenous Canadians and persons...

Sherri Torjman
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 5, 2020

Current tax system won’t pay for COVID recovery

COVID-19 has imposed a global economic shock the like of which hasn’t been seen since the Great Depression. Pre-COVID, the world was just starting to come to terms with...

Alex Himelfarb, Andrew Jackson, Brian Topp
  • Economy
  • Social Policy
October 5, 2020

Emploi et formation des jeunes durant la pandémie

L’analyse des effets de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur les jeunes exige tout d’abord une compréhension approfondie de la nature de cette étape de la vie qui va de...

María Eugenia Longo, Sylvain Bourdon
  • Health
  • Social Policy
October 2, 2020

Expertise of people who use drugs must be central to design of safe supply

The COVID-19 pandemic has painfully illustrated what people who use drugs have long known: that the current overdose crisis is more of a “drug poisoning crisis,” and that until...

Matthew Bonn, Sheila Wildeman, Matthew Herder
  • Health
  • Social Policy
October 2, 2020

Disabled Canadians ignored in policies on COVID-19

Despite their status of being at an increased risk of contracting COVID-19, people with disabilities have largely been left out of the conversation around supporting Canadians throughout this global...

Carolyn Abel, Jonathan Lai
  • Media & culture
  • Social Policy
October 1, 2020

Islamophobia is on the rise during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic came with many challenges other than the virus itself. In many situations it has magnified societal ills. This is especially apparent in the rise of Islamophobia...

Khaled Al-Qazzaz
  • Economy
  • Health
October 1, 2020

Rural Canadians need to be included in pandemic recovery plans

As the Rural Forum Chair with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), I’ve seen first-hand how rural communities have shaped Canada’s pandemic response. I’ve seen them protect frontline services...

Ray Orb

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