August 1, 2004
Osons le savoir
Les jeunes font aujourd’hui des choses qui ne se faisaient pas au Québec il y a 20, ou mé‚me 10 ans. Ils travaillent sur des molécules ou sur des...
August 1, 2004
An Inuit way of knowing and the making of Nunavut
On April 1, 1999, after decades of discussion, Nunavut was finally created as Canada’s newest territory. Carved off the Northwest Territories to form an eastern-Arctic homeland for the majority-Inuit...
August 1, 2004
Back to the future – the rear-view mirror provides glimpses of what lies ahead for income security in the 21st century
To predict income security policies and programs a hundred years into the future, it is helpful, and perhaps necessary, to look back a hundred years. To know where we’re...
August 1, 2004
New century, new risks: the Marsh Report and the post-war welfare state in Canada
A few years ago, while still an assistant professor of political science at McGill University, I was invited to debate a senior colleague in the Department of Economics on...
August 1, 2004
“In the national interest”: a social policy agenda for a new century – restore cooperative federalism, modernize medicare, put children first
Even in politics, change now comes fast. Social policies need belated re-shaping to fit the times. This article suggests how the necessary coopera- tion can be restored to our federalism;...
August 1, 2004
Social policy and the knowledge economy: new century, new paradigm
It is surely paradoxical that the advent of the so-called new economic order has led to the catapulting of the social envelope to policy centre stage. To be sure,...
August 1, 2004
Relative poverty – it can’t be erased, but it must be addressed, at home and abroad
Poverty is, of course, a relative term. And, while for some on the right that relativity is a call to do nothing and let the marketplace sort things out,...
August 1, 2004
Choix politiques et solidarité sociale à l’heure de la mondialisation
Tenons-nous encore bien en main notre avenir social? AÌ€ l’heure de la mondialisation, entend-on souvent, les pressions qui s’exercent au-delaÌ€ de nos frontié€res restreignent nos choix et nous imposent...
August 1, 2004
Health care markets and the health care guarantee: baking a better loaf, or baking enough bread?
Canada’s public health care system is widely regarded as a model for equity of access. This is traditionally credited to a system characterized as having a single-tier structure, i.e.,...
August 1, 2004
The “other” health system: reflections on the dark side of the moon of health and health care in Canada
”œHealth services: Feed the monster.” ”œThe health system put in place 30 years ago is no longer viable.” ”œMedicare costs threaten education.” These are but a small selection of...
August 1, 2004
L’école à l’aube du XXIe siècle : retour vers le futur
L’école joue un roÌ‚le de premié€re importance dans les sociétés modernes. Sur le plan culturel, elle instruit la jeune génération, l’amé€ne aÌ€ découvrir les divers domaines de savoir qui...
August 1, 2004
Universities in the new millennium: heading toward a new culture
Nature abhors monocultures. Forests with only one species of trees are sitting targets for devastating diseases. Institutions also are threatened by a monocultural environment. When monocultures occur, natural forces...
August 1, 2004
Access to degrees in the knowledge economy
The demand for access to degrees in Canada has been well documented over the past decade or so, as has the continued growth in that demand. The partici- pation...
August 1, 2004
Time for plain talk about social policy
As this is written, two days after the televised leaders’ debates in the 2004 federal election, the news is filled with stories about a Liberal collapse and a Tory...
August 1, 2004
Inside the Olympics (book excerpt)
Not long before the 1960 Olympic Games, International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage announced with great portent that the Olympics had got along very well without television for sixty...
August 1, 2004
Gas prices, taxes, and other fixations
For a while now I’ve been trying to figure out which is more irra- tional: the way people freak out about gasoline prices, or the way they complain about...