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(Version française disponible ici.) On May 28, 2026, France adopted a bill officially repealing the Code Noir, the 1685 law that had regulated...
As concern grows about rising hostility and incivility in municipal politics, local leaders should pay attention to residents who describe feeling...
Canada is pursuing two major federal initiatives that are moving in opposite directions. Canada’s federal government pledged $3.8 billion on April...
As one of the originators of Canada’s market basket measure (MBM), developed with my colleague Michael Hatfield, I was interested to read the...
When Andy Burnham became prime minister of the United Kingdom in July, his first pledge was to end homelessness. That should tell you something about...
In a video last June, Prime Minister Mark Carney focused on affordability, security of supply and climate change as three prongs of an energy crisis...
Canada is one of the richest countries in the world. But you wouldn’t know it looking at how we protect people’s most basic economic and social...
National Caregiver Day — the first Tuesday in April — passes with little notice. Most caregivers likely miss it, not out of indifference, but...
The most revealing moments in government are not always the decisions that attract criticism. They are the ones that leave people wondering how an...
When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced AI for All, the new federal artificial intelligence strategy, he was specific about how the country could...
Canada is at a skills-training inflection point. Improved training outcomes and a more skilled workforce are essential to the success of Canada’s...
(Version française disponible ici) For the past fifty years, Canadian governments have increasingly resorted to closure and time allocation...
(Version française disponible ici.) During the pandemic, remote work became much more common for employees, including many public servants, whose...
After years as a decarbonization and climate finance expert watching the progress of the financial sector in meeting its climate commitments – more...
A stormwater study removed from an application checklist does not make rain disappear. Nor does eliminating a technical review decide how a project...
Food Banks Canada’s latest poverty report card found that 28 per cent of people in Canada experienced a poverty-level standard of living, according...
Mariners call it taking a fix: verifying that a ship remains on its intended course and, if it’s not, adjusting direction accordingly. On July 13,...
Local democracy in Canada is eroding from two directions at once. Voter turnout in municipal elections is shockingly low and, in Ontario, the...
Maybe you’ve felt it by now. Anxiety, with a hint of emptiness, when you release something into the world you’ve co-created with a chatbot. At the...
(Version française disponible ici.) Earlier this summer, we were in Estevan, Sask., for a conference on rural innovation that started us thinking...
Can you trust Mark Zuckerberg to design a socially responsible Facebook? How about Elon Musk with X or his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok? The...
(Version française disponible ici.) The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) made history in 2018 and 2022, winning two of the largest majorities in...