Policy Options

Apré€s tant d’années, 50 ans de coopération internationale, pourquoi l’aide publique au développement a-t-elle produit si peu de résultats positifs, particulié€rement en éducation? On ne peut éviter de poser...

The company you keep says a lot about you. Take Saskatchewan, for example. In the run-up to the latest federal budget, Saskatchewan joined forces with Newfoundland and Labrador and...

”œYou see? Elections don’t matter! Look at Harper, aping the Liberals after only a year in power!” That’s the plaint of the Tory blogosphere. It’s almost a cliché among...

I have been in the public opinion research business for the past 14 years. My firm was the official pollster of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2003 to...

On the surface, a black South African going into a voting station to cast a ballot, a French-speaking Ontarian being pulled over for speeding some- where near North Bay,...

”œWhere has all the ice gone?” Joe Immaroitok asked. It was October 24, 2006, and he was staring at Foxe Basin. A shallow expanse of ocean the size of...

Les médias ont largement relayé le constat alarmant des scientifiques sur la fonte rapide de la banquise arctique. La publication récente du nouveau rapport du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur...

It is a saga. A story of love and betrayal; of heroics and scandal; of a fight to the death for the future of the planet. It is at...

The debate about the cost of mitigating climate change is as polarized as the debate about the scientific basis of climate change was until recently. At one end of...

Canada’s sovereignty over its Arctic waters will be chal- lenged as a warming climate decreases the levels of polar ice coverage, thereby making navigation easier for international marine traffic....

Fifty years ago, in 1957, I stood on my front porch in Vancouver and watched as a small light moved across the sky. That light was Sputnik, the first...

Les mé‚mes manchettes font la une, le mé‚me discours politique se fait entendre tel un leitmotiv des deux coÌ‚tés de la frontié€re : le débat entourant la souveraineté canadienne...

From a Privacy Commissioner’s perspective, it is remarkable that we have two Charters in Canada, only one of which expressly provides for the protection of privacy. Nonetheless, they are...

Au cours des dernié€res élections provinciales québé- coises, on a fait grand cas de l’échec du gouvernement sortant relativement aÌ€ son engagement de réduire l’impoÌ‚t personnel d’un milliard de...

In Canada, the stars align in such a way as to let the Conservative moon block out the Liberal sun about once in a generation. If every forecast were...

Since the unexpected election of 10 Conservative MPs from Quebec on January 23, 2006, many have tried to explain how Stephen Harper succeeded in achieving the breakthrough so few...

Qui, au Québec, n’est pas en faveur d’un nouveau mode de scrutin, plus proportionnel que notre actuel système majoritaire uninominal à un tour ? L’establishment des partis hésite encore,...