Policy Options

What started as a conference became a community — one room in Montreal, networked with more than 70 other gatherings across Canada, and 25,000 individuals. Today’s technology was deployed...

It happens every year about this time. Stores stock up on the new clothes of the season, a quarterly ritual in which retailers convince shoppers (mostly women) of the...

The world economy is now emerging from the shock of the first global financial crisis and synchronized world-wide recession since the 1930s. Given the perceived sophistication of financial markets,...

When Manitoba’s rookie premier Greg hosts the annual meeting of the Council of the Federation this summer, he may be in for a bit of a surprise. The friendly...

The decline of trust and sociability in the United States is also evident…in the rise in violent crime and civil litigation, the breakdown of the family structure; the decline...

All is far from well on the federal-provincial fiscal arrangements front. The equalization-receiving provinces are concerned that the combination of a fixed equalization pool (albeit escalating annually), on the...

Un observateur du Canada qui aurait dormi pendant les trois dernières années n’en croirait pas ses yeux. Terre-Neuve, une « province riche » ? En effet, cette province n’a plus...

Canadians have long been told it is our duty as compassionate citizens to transfer money from the so-called have provinces to the have-nots. So they might be surprised to...

It’s time to lead again. The Wildrose Alliance is a new provincial party in Alberta, but it has garnered interest from across the country. Perhaps this is because when...

À cause de l’inégale croissance des populations des provinces et surtout de l’incapacité des politiciens fédéraux d’en accepter pleinement les conséquences, la redistribution électorale est devenue depuis les années...

A Canadian energy framework must be built within the scaffolding of a federal state where all governments have at least some constitutional purchase on energy policy. Just as the...

Under the division of powers of the British North America Act, energy and natural resources, along with other sectors, were entrusted to the provinces and fell forever within their jurisdiction....

When Stephen Harper’s minority Conservatives introduced the 2010 budget earlier this year, all eyes were on how the government would manage to reconcile its spending commitments to the provinces...

Throughout the three-day policy conference the Liberals held at the end of March in Montreal, Michael Ignatieff sat in the front row with his wife at his side, listening...

Can the Liberal Party renew its principles to enunciate policies that could lead to electoral success? Or, as Jim Travers asked in the Toronto Star, “what does it mean to...

Je songe à fonder un nouveau réseau social: le regroupement des intellectuels qui n’ont pas signé de pétition sur la question des accommodements raisonnables. Évidemment, nous serions peu nombreux,...