The November federal budget allocated billions for nationbuilding projects to jump start the economy, to insulate Canada from geopolitical threats and to change our growth trajectory. All of that ...
As a PhD student and teaching assistant, I do not need a government report to understand the impact of artificial intelligence on post-secondary education. I see it every week. Students are already ...
What do recent elections indicate about Canada’s ability to integrate immigrants and visible minorities into political life? From 2015 to 2021, demographics and political realities have continued a ...
That is how much Canada’s “core” federal public administration — the civil service — has grown since Justin Trudeau’s government took office in 2015. The raw numbers are even more striking. There are ...
OTTAWA – Treasury Board President Anita Anand will propose legislative changes to the public service pension plan in the fall so border officers and hundreds of other workers can retire with pensions ...
In September’s speech from the throne, the federal government announced “a significant, long-term, sustained investment to create a Canada-wide early learning and child care system.” We were told that ...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith waited precisely one day after Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney’s federal election victory in April before introducing Bill 54, the Election Statutes Amendment Act, ...
When the French and the British started staking their land claims on Turtle Island, they also began what became a centuries-long, surreptitious and destructive practice of interfering with Indigenous ...
“On the question of religious hospitals, despite being a lesbian couple, Patricia and I would tolerate life-size crucifixes in the treatment room if it meant being safe from MAiD.” ~ Catherine Frazee, ...
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney isn’t pitching a sweeping public service overhaul — but his government is nudging changes to how Ottawa works. The passage of his signature major projects bill, a ...
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 ...
A Quebec commission appointed by the National Assembly recently recommended against allowing medical assistance in dying (MAiD) for people whose sole underlying medical issue is mental illness. As ...