Policy Options

The foundation of good policy is engagement. It’s getting people excited about where they live and what they think and what they want their future to be. And that...

There’s something I’ve noticed lately, you probably have too. Maybe just because I grew up in a different time, but though often disagree with Republicans, I actually never learned...

Il n’y a pas lieu pour autant d’accepter le statu quo qui nous fait tourner en rond. L’obligation de remettre le Québec sur les rails s’impose à tous les...

More than anything else, societal progress has been advanced by enlightened public policy that marshals our collective resources toward a larger public good. It has been reason and scientific...

The Bank’s view is that a large, sustained increase in demand is the primary driver of elevated prices. Rapid urbanization underpins this growth. Since 1990, the number of people...

Jonathan Haidt has exposed a truth most people have known all along: conservatives don’t get liberals and liberals don’t get conservatives. These differences are not because liberals are smart...

In The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt tries to explain the moral origins of the left-right political divide, arguing that the roots of our partisanship lie in moral philosophy. A self-proclaimed...

Ian Brodie makes bold recommendations in his article, which has created a buzz in the university community. His “challenge” should be a welcome one: Canada needs to back its...

Sainted founders, sacred relics and heroic fables are the necessary ingredients of party-building for any serious political movement. They bind activists to the cause in dark times and are...

War, the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously observed, is a continuation of politics by other means. Yet there are times, writes Canadian military historian Tim Cook, when...

The bad news from Benghazi hit hard at the University of California, Berkeley, where scholars had gathered in September for a conference on the challenges of moving societies from...

It’s not the first time Canada has been down this road, but a new set of hikers has emerged, eager to blaze a trail toward a pan-Canadian energy strategy....

Notice was given quietly by Statistics Canada last June: “This is the last release of longitudinal data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). Effective with next...

American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt struck a cord with the US political class this year when he published The Righteous Mind, an examination, as his subtitle puts it, of...

The $15.1-billion bid for Nexen Inc. by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has triggered a debate in Canada about how far to go in allowing China’s national...

Policy Options: What does Canada look like when viewed from Asia? Are Asians even aware of Canada? Kishore Mahbubani: Overall the view of Canada is very positive in Asia....

The view of earth from space can still tingle, its vulnerable beauty cast against the vast blackness beyond. But orbit also offers a more hard-headed perspective of home. Since...

Avec 31,2 p. 100 des voix et 50 sièges à l’Assemblée nationale, le Parti libéral a fait mieux que prévu le 4 septembre. Ceux qui soupçonnaient que les indécis...

Depuis 15 ans, les jeunes boudent les urnes. En 2008, à peine le tiers des 18-24 ans ont voté aux élections québécoises. Cette auto-exclusion du processus électoral confinait à un...

Élue première ministre du Québec le 4 septembre dernier, Pauline Marois a décidé de doter son gouvernement minoritaire d’un « ministre délégué aux affaires intergouvernementales canadiennes et à la...

Au lendemain de l’élection du Parti québécois, début septembre, on a surtout insisté sur la mince victoire de Pauline Marois et la faible marge de manœuvre dont elle dispose...

Visiting China in February, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Chinese leaders made an astonishing announcement: they agreed to find ways to send 100,000 students to study in each other’s...

Giving birth should be a time of joy but for too many women around the world it leads to death or serious illness for the mother or baby, or...

Over the last year, my writing with W.R. Morrison has sparked some interesting debate about the role and future of universities in Canada. We have been frequently surprised by...

You can’t move out of a country for more than a dozen years and not expect big changes upon your return. Canada is clearly a different place than it...

With this, his inaugural issue, it is our pleasure to introduce Policy Options‘ new editor, Bruce Wallace. A veteran of journalism in Canada and abroad, Bruce comes to us...