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When a housing co-operative in Kamloops, B.C., needed money to build 53 affordable, net-zero homes, part of the financing came from an unusual source...
Canada is at a critical, historic juncture in the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. As we collectively strive to strengthen...
Canada is rapidly rethinking its global economic and trading relationships in the face of tariffs and other economic pressure from the Trump...
Few legal distinctions matter more than the line between life and death. It determines whether someone still has legal rights, whether medical...
Amid a nationwide housing crisis, co-operatives should be central to expanding affordable supply across Canada because they are owned and governed for...
For the families of the 329 people killed aboard Air India Flight 182, the search for justice has effectively reached another dead end. Four decades...
(Version française disponible ici) Every day, we hear about the need to reduce our reliance on trading with the United States. In 2025, total...
If an elephant is a victim of a crime in Canada, who is in charge of resolving it? Pachyderm penal policy may sound like a novelty but it is actually...
The Canada Health Act is often considered a third rail of Canadian politics. Politicians who dare speak of reforming, let alone repealing, it are...
Canada does not need to start from scratch to figure out how to govern artificial intelligence responsibly. Developing federal disability policy over...
At a recent meeting of Canadian freedom of information (FOI) researchers and advocates, the series of changes to provincial access legislation over...
(Version française disponible ici.) In October 2025, Policy Options published an article by a contributor identifying himself as Daniel Robson, who...
In Canada and other countries, governments are trying to build or develop more housing, transmission lines, mines, energy projects and data centres...
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...
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...
In 2019, I argued that Canada’s mining sector could contribute to skills, accountability and more inclusive development in Africa. That argument...
Ask people across Canada about this summer’s wildfire season and they will tell you how the resulting smoke affected their daily lives. This...
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...
Chronic absenteeism is a critically important issue in high school education. Attendance has long been a key indicator of engagement, while...
The Canadian government announced funding for a national health-sector data space in June 2026. The details are still to come, but data spaces...
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...
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