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Why we took down an article published under the name Daniel Robson

Why we took down an article published under the name Daniel Robson

(Version française disponible ici.) In October 2025, Policy Options published an article by a contributor identifying himself as Daniel Robson, who...

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Les Perreaux

AI could overwhelm the public consultation process

AI could overwhelm the public consultation process

In Canada and other countries, governments are trying to build or develop more housing, transmission lines, mines, energy projects and data centres...

23.09.2026 0

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Kevin Powers

Canada’s food security strategy leaves too much off the table

Canada’s food security strategy leaves too much off the table

Prime Minister Mark Carney in June announced roughly $3 billion in funding over 10 years as part of Canada’s first national food security strategy...

22.09.2026 3

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Aaron Vansintjan

Education should be part of humanitarian aid from day one

Education should be part of humanitarian aid from day one

More than one in six children worldwide live in areas of conflict. This reality is compounded by a rise in attacks on students and teachers, which...

21.09.2026 5

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Sonal Marwah

What Canada should require when backing critical mineral projects in Africa

What Canada should require when backing critical mineral projects in Africa

In 2019, I argued that Canada’s mining sector could contribute to skills, accountability and more inclusive development in Africa. That argument...

18.09.2026 5

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Benjamin Musampa

Canada’s buildings can do more than consume electricity

Canada’s buildings can do more than consume electricity

Ask people across Canada about this summer’s wildfire season and they will tell you how the resulting smoke affected their daily lives. This...

17.09.2026 10

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Kevin Lockhart

As Canada regulates online design, where do video games fit?

As Canada regulates online design, where do video games fit?

Bill C-34 — Canada’s proposed legislation to protect children from the harms of social media — is seeking to bar anyone under the age of 16...

16.09.2026 6

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Kamran Shukoor

The longstanding link between absenteeism and graduation rates seems to be weakening

Chronic absenteeism is a critically important issue in high school education. Attendance has long been a key indicator of engagement, while...

15.09.2026 6

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Kelly Gallagher-Mackay

The hardest part of Canada’s health data space won’t be the technology

The Canadian government announced funding for a national health-sector data space in June 2026. The details are still to come, but data spaces...

15.09.2026 9

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Joseph Donia

Canada’s PISA scores hit record lows. Don’t let rankings drive reform

11.09.2026 10

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Louis Volante

Canada approved a contraceptive app. Now it needs to explain what approval means.

09.09.2026 10

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Marika Jeziorek

Canada should put its money where its mouth is on the Cadet Program

09.09.2026 10

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Michael Gendron

Broad tax reform belongs at the centre of Canada’s growth agenda

08.09.2026 10

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Glen Hodgson

We live in an age of underwork and overwork

04.09.2026 10

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Carlo Fanelli

Ontario’s new hydro rules give Indigenous equity real weight

03.09.2026 10

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Michael Fox

Canada must reckon with its history of slavery

02.09.2026 10

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Pascale Annoual Kaniasta

Municipal public meetings need more than a microphone

01.09.2026 10

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Nick Vlahos

Canada’s major-projects agenda has a carbon blind spot

31.08.2026 10

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Jennifer McHenry

To understand poverty, governments need more than one measure

28.08.2026 10

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Allen Zeesman

Canada can choose to prevent youth homelessness. The U.K. shows the way

28.08.2026 10

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Stephen Gaetz

Getting Canadian oil to Atlantic Canada is in the national interest

27.08.2026 10

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Larry Hughes

Canada is too rich to be failing this badly on economic and social rights

26.08.2026 10

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Alexi White

Caregiving is Canada’s invisible infrastructure. It’s time employers plan for it

24.08.2026 10

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Julie Cafley

Representation should not be an afterthought on Ottawa’s advisory councils

21.08.2026 20

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Lolade Ozomoge

Canada shouldn’t try to build everything it needs for the AI era

20.08.2026 20

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Jaxson Khan

Skilled-trades training needs a rethink

Canada is at a skills-training inflection point. Improved training outcomes and a more skilled workforce are essential to the success of Canada’s...

19.08.2026 10

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Nathaniel Barr

How governments are squeezing debate in Parliament

(Version française disponible ici) For the past fifty years, Canadian governments have increasingly resorted to closure and time allocation...

18.08.2026 20

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Yves Pelletier

Canadian governments are taking different paths back to the office

(Version française disponible ici.) During the pandemic, remote work became much more common for employees, including many public servants, whose...

14.08.2026 20

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Shaimaa Yassin

Financial markets can’t drive Canada’s climate transition alone

After years as a decarbonization and climate finance expert watching the progress of the financial sector in meeting its climate commitments – more...

13.08.2026 20

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Kyra Bell-Pasht

Ontario’s new law should make planning faster — not move the work elsewhere

A stormwater study removed from an application checklist does not make rain disappear. Nor does eliminating a technical review decide how a project...

11.08.2026 30

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Mohsen Alavi

One poverty measure cannot capture Canada’s economic hardship

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...

10.08.2026 30

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Richard Matern

Time for Canada to take a fix on defence cybersecurity provisions

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,...

07.08.2026 30

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Ron Lloyd

Provinces should fund citizens’ assemblies to rebuild local democracy

Local democracy in Canada is eroding from two directions at once. Voter turnout in municipal elections is shockingly low and, in Ontario, the...

06.08.2026 20

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Megan Mattes

Before schools embrace AI, Canada must protect children’s learning

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...

06.08.2026 50

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Mia Travers-Hayward

Resilient communities need more than GDP growth

(Version française disponible ici.) Earlier this summer, we were in Estevan, Sask., for a conference on rural innovation that started us thinking...

04.08.2026 30

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Abigail Jackson

Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech

Can you trust Mark Zuckerberg to design a socially responsible Facebook? How about Elon Musk with X or his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok? The...

30.07.2026 30

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Natasha Tusikov

The hidden cost of Canada’s measles outbreak

28.07.2026 30

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Dat Nguyen

Governments are gambling with Canadians’ well-being

27.07.2026 30

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Renze Nauta

Artificial intelligence regulation must not leave older adults behind

24.07.2026 30

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Rizwan Khan

Canada can stop surveillance pricing before it reaches the checkout

22.07.2026 30

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Sarah-Louise Ruder

Why repealing the law on spanking isn’t enough

21.07.2026 40

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Walid Jebili

The CAQ kept its promises. So why did it lose popular support?

20.07.2026 30

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Lisa Maureen Birch

Ottawa’s AI strategy is built to inspire trust, not protect Canadians

20.07.2026 30

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Ignacio Cofone

Canada has been dealt its demographic cards. Now it has to play them better

17.07.2026 30

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Myron Liew

The CAQ kept its promises. So why did it lose popular support?

(Version française disponible ici.) The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) made history in 2018 and 2022, winning two of the largest majorities in...

17.07.2026 50

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Lisa Maureen Birch

Canada’s electricity strategy is overlooking its most powerful asset

15.07.2026 30

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Martin Boucher

Harassment is becoming a threat to Canadian democracy — starting locally

13.07.2026 30

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Steewa Maria Philip

Canada’s national-security strategy needs three pillars

09.07.2026 30

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Naomi Abramovich

Health reform needs places where the system is allowed to learn

08.07.2026 30

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Lawrence Rosenberg

How the Global South finances the educated workforce in Canada and other wealthy countries

07.07.2026 30

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