Policy Options

You may have read news articles about foreign aid that are filled with big generalizations based on small examples. They tend to cite anecdotes about waste in some program...

Q. How would you explain the significance of this campaign on a larger scale for the global health community? A. The success of India, the fact that India can...

I will stick rigidly to what Thomas Carlyle described as the dismal science. Any arrangement to retain sterling in an independent Scotland would need to be negotiated between the...

Systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations have been, and are being, committed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, its institutions and officials. In many instances, the violations...

Un droit fondamental Louise Arbour 7 février 2014 | «Le chant des sirènes», La Presse, Débats Tout semble avoir été dit sur la proposition de Charte de la laïcité présentée...

Many environmentalists and social commentators argue that the world’s citizens should resist the common appeal of economic growth and instead embrace the idea that we need to slow the...

A fter dithering under political pressure from abroad, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni finally agreed in February to sign into law a bill that increases criminal penalties for “aggravated homosexuality.”...

In 1972, the Club of Rome published The Limits to Growth, a warning about the ecological consequences of exponential economic growth. It was immediately controversial met with a cacophony...

Le vieillissement de la population représente un défi de taille pour l’ensemble des pays développés. Globalement, les pays de l’OCDE vont connaître des changements démographiques majeurs au cours des...

Longtemps reléguée aux marges du débat économique, la question de la stagnation séculaire est entrée dans les discussions et analyses économiques plus convenues depuis que Larry Summers s’en est...

Avec leurs populations vieillissantes et leurs secteurs manufacturiers en reconversion, les provinces du Canada central et maritime font, depuis quelques années déjà, la difficile expérience de ce qui pourrait...

The sluggish recovery from the great recession of 2008 has left some observers asking if we have entered an era of permanent slow growth. That question carries particular implications for Quebec,...

David Seymour brings up excellent points about the future of urban transportation (“Urban Planners vs. Democracy,” November-December 2013). New technologies and new institutional arrangements are radically changing the transportation...

I have three close friends who are all expecting their first child in the next few months. One is a lawyer in a midsized firm, another is an entrepreneur...

Graduate students from 12 public policy and administration schools across Canada gathered in Toronto in February to compete against one another in a case competition. Their challenge was to...

In May 1924, two young men set out to kidnap and murder a child of an affluent family. Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., aged nineteen, and Richard Loeb, eighteen, had...

Le budget présenté par Jim Flaherty à la mi-février prévoit un léger déficit de 2,9 milliards de dollars en 2014-2015 et un surplus de 6,4 milliards en 2015-2016, à...

Enshrine our right to clear air and water in the Constitution DAVID R. BOYD It has largely been forgotten in the mists of our constitutional odyssey, but when Prime...

Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan officially ends in March 2014. It began in 2001 with the dispatch of a small number of special operations troops to oust the Taliban...

On August 14, 2013, as Egyptian police were in the middle of perpetrating the largest single massacre in modern Egyptian history, Mahmoud Abdel Hakim wrote on his Twitter account:...

During the national anthem at the recent Super Bowl, the television audience got the now customary military component of the pregame presentation: an Army colour guard on the field, live images...

What if parents could access the genetic makeup of a fetus in the first trimester of a pregnancy? And what if they could gather this information through a procedure...

A faded, wind-torn Danish flag is mounted on the wall in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Raised on Hans Island by Danish troops, the flag was later taken...

As the 21st century unfolds we find ourselves on the leading edge of a new phenomenon: the un-natural child. We have become an indoors civilization that is dangerous not...

Stephen Harper prides himself on seeing the world in black and white. It fits with the decisive image he forges at home, but it falls morally short when applied...