Policy Options

Welcome to our Year in Review special issue. It’s been a year of turmoil in markets, tumult in North Africa, and the Occupy movement spreading from Wall Street across...

As usual, there’s been much on the plates of western Canada’s politicians and economists in 2011. Here’s a summary of the Top 10 most important political and economic stories...

Canadians are in much better humour about their country, and its standing in the world, than they were a year ago. Fully 63.5 percent of Canadians think the country...

We are entering a new global normal. Things will not be as they were. What is emerging is a new multipolar world: economic power is being dramatically redistributed; political,...

“Big Years” come once a decade, or so historians tell us. They are defined by eruptions, wars and revolutions, often totally unforeseen. Churchill would argue that 1939 should have...

Dégage! Dégage! Tunis, January 2011 We haven’t seen such spirit here since 1969… The Eagles First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin… Leonard Cohen The usual story…one law...

January 2009. It is my second week as deputy news director at Al Jazeera English and the war between Gaza and Israel is starting. I had become a consultant for...

Les phénomènes les plus visibles sont ceux qui affectent douloureusement le mouvement souverainiste. La chute du Bloc québécois a été stupéfiante. Pendant les premiers mois de 2011, le Bloc...

The four western provinces are typically viewed as a demographically and economically dynamic region that is a growing source of fascination in Central and Eastern Canada. Yet the West...

From an international perspective, 2011 has been a tumultuous year: Occupy Wall Street, economic dominos lined up across Europe, the siege of Libya. Will 2012 bring more of the...

The recent argument over the potential provincial costs of implementing the federal government’s omnibus criminal justice bill has prompted some initial evaluations of federal-provincial relations in the Stephen Harper...

La nouvelle politique étrangère du gouvernement décoder. Elle est constituée d’éléments souvent disparates, parfois contradictoires et, à l’occasion, plutôt opaques. Commençons cependant par ce qui nous paraît le plus...

Franklin Roosevelt was a president who understood the strategic value of Canada. He determined on a policy of “good neighborship” in “the realization that the wellbeing of one nation depends...

And they’re off. The US presidential election is a little less than a year away, the first primary or caucus votes will not be cast until January, yet it...

Steve Jobs was exasperated but determined. It was 1983 and Jobs was in New York City meeting with PepsiCo executive John Sculley, whom he was attempting to persuade to...

On October 1, 1988 Mulroney called on Governor General Jeanne Sauvé and asked her to dissolve Parliament. Election day would be November 21, seven and a half weeks away....

In the 1962 federal election, eight of every 10 eligible Canadian citizens cast a vote. This close to universal participation was emblematic of the centrality of politics to Canadian...

The story of Afghanistan since 2001 has long been dominated by images of violence and bleak  predictions for the future of the country. In The Long Way Back, Canada’s...

Ron Graham has written a remarkable account of how and why Canadians finally became on November 5, 1981, a truly sovereign people. This occurred after Canadians had lived under...

In the matter of the United States v. Conrad Black the defendant declined to take the stand. Instead of facing his accusers from the witness box, Conrad Black wrote...

As the Great Republic prepares for its quadrennial presidential election cycle, the American voter will decide who will be the leader of the free world, the most powerful person...

Ross Paul’s new book on university presidents provides a well researched account of the various roles, responsibilities, challenges and opportunities university leaders face in today’s evolving post-secondary educational sector....

Plus on est fortuné, plus on se protège contre les risques de la vie. Dans les pays riches, les citoyens disposent d’un ensemble de services et de programmes publics...