Policy Options

That is what this vote tomorrow is really about. Not about Scotland being a nation, we are a nation forever —  yesterday, today and tomorrow. It’s not about the Scottish...

September 15, 2014 We are a cross-section of individuals who have represented themselves in court over the past several years. We have different stories to tell — some of us...

August 26, 2014 A major insight into human behavior from pre-internet era studies of communication is the tendency of people not to speak up about policy issues in public...

Former CIA veteran Sherman Kent, who is widely regarded as the father of modern intelligence analysis, noted a half-century ago that most substantive intelligence is comprised of human judgment...

The old line about the unpleasantness of sausage-making applies to the creation of new laws: they are better if you don’t see them being made. It’s a crude analogy...

This September, hundreds of talented, hard-working, highly motivated people entered doctoral programs in the humanities at universities across Canada. The competition to get into these programs, especially the top-ranked...

Post-secondary education (PSE) student financial aid systems in Canada use parental income information to calculate how much money students are expected to receive from their parents and adjust the...

In a recent interview with National Public Radio, occasioned by the publication of his new book, World Order, Henry Kissinger made a curious and seemingly counterintuitive assertion about the...

In his 1952 book The Irony of American History, Reinhold Niebuhr warned that American decline, should it come, would be attributable to collective vainglory. National vainglory is ostentatious pride,...

Quand j’étais jeune, un groupuscule hantait les associations et les journaux étudiants, le PCC-ML, le Parti communiste du Canada (marxiste-léniniste). Soupçonné d’être un instrument des forces policières, qui l’infiltraient...

An emblematic industry in Colombia since pre-colonial times, gold mining has taken on much more economic and political importance with the rise of gold prices over the last decade....

Slum. It is a small word that carries a heavy weight of meaning. It evokes images of poverty and degradation, filthy cinder-block hells sprawling out in cramped misery. And...

Sur fond d’images magnifiques et de dialogues authentiques, L’empreinte traite de l’apport des Premières Nations à l’essor de l’identité proprement québécoise, en examinant notamment les propensions des Québécois à...

“I will never live in a nursing home!” This common refrain tells us that the vast majority of long-term care communities are not places for elders to grow and...

J’ai un rapport ambivalent avec les gratte-ciels. Ils me troublent et me fascinent à la fois, sans que je sache trop quel sentiment est le plus fort. Je suis...

From the earliest days of cinema, documentaries have provided a powerful way of engaging audiences with the world. In many ways they have been more effective at this than...

Every Saturday morning, my wife heads to the local farmers’ market to buy our weekly supply of fruit. She enjoys both the market’s friendly vibe and the interactions with...

Publication of a new Naomi Klein book is now presented as an event. The arrival of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate is accompanied by a proclamation from...