Climate policy today no longer suffers from a lack of targets. It suffers from a lack of fair and credible ways to meet them. For years, governments have relied on a familiar mix of carbon pricing, ...

Canada’s immigration policy is undergoing a major rethink. After years of rising admission numbers, Ottawa is now reducing immigration levels to try and relieve pressure on the country’s tight housing ...

Canada is feeling the increasing instability of the world in a number of ways – not least because we currently have secessionist movements in both Quebec and Alberta, as well as ongoing threats from U ...

With a minority government in Ottawa, a federal election is possible at any time – triggered either deliberately or by accident. This encourages political observers to check opinion polls as often as ...

In late 2022, the federal government released its much-anticipated critical minerals strategy. This is the latest in a series of national plans aimed at securing minerals vital for renewable energy, ...

This is the second of a two-part analysis of Canada’s GDP per capita. The first part can be found here. Some business and political commentators cite a growing gap between the per capita GDP of Canada ...

Income and wealth inequality is a persistent and growing challenge in Canada. This is occurring at a time when the cost of living has risen sharply and the lowest-income households find themselves ...

The former Trudeau government’s Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, part of the larger Bill C-27, died when Parliament was dissolved earlier this year for the April election. It has not been ...

Currently, almost all of our crude oil exports go to the U.S. and a big chunk of natural gas does too. This is clearly an export-oriented enterprise. Global demand for oil is already waning With the ...

Earlier this year, the Canadian Bar Association organized a conference of Canadian lawyers, judges and journalists to discuss judicial independence. It was certainly timely, coming on the heels of the ...

Recent leaks from inside the Canadian security establishment have raised questions about the proper roles of public servants and journalists in holding governments accountable. One prominent example ...

My first job after finishing university, involved editing videos and developing a database of potential funders for an arts organization. Today much of that work would be automated. In the coming ...