Mark Carney reframes defence spending as a tool for economic resilience, introducing a new political economy rooted in ...

Canada needs a whole-of-government competition policy to boost innovation, fairness and economic opportunity across sectors ...

The federal government should also introduce measures to ensure minimum standards for renter protections, which are a ...

If nature is central to Canadian identity, more Canadians should be able to experience the physical and mental benefits of ...

Danielle Smith’s Bill 54 makes it dramatically easier to launch referendums, fuelling separatist movements amid fierce Indigenous opposition.

Estimates suggest that older adults have some of the lowest poverty rates in Canada, but those rates vary depending on what you consider. The market basket measure (MBM) calculates the cost of a basic ...

(Version française disponible ici). What should a government do with parental leave surpluses? The recent drop in births in Quebec to their lowest level in 20 years has swelled the excess money in the ...

A groundbreaking meeting to be held on June 20 in Halifax is likely to proceed with little fanfare. However, given the subject matter, it should be front-page news across the country. This is, after ...

At the end of February, the Ford government introduced a package of measures under the banner of “getting it done,” with the stated intention of facilitating the construction of major infrastructure ...

Kathryn is Policy Options’ public-service reporter, covering and analyzing the complex issues facing Canada’s federal public service. She writes The Functionary newsletter, an easy digest of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic provided the perfect natural experiment to assess the extent of birth tourism in Canada. Dramatic declines of 50 per cent compared with the pre-pandemic 2016-20 average occurred ...

In December, Eagle Lake First Nation applied for judicial review of a controversial decision to locate a nuclear waste dump in northwestern Ontario. The lawsuit says there were serious flaws in the ...