Leadership changes can redefine a party’s brand. Survey data show how leaders like Mark Carney reshaped voter perceptions.

Too often, our only exposure to public policy experts is in the handful of quotes slipped into articles or short soundbites included in on-air news reports. The Policy Options Podcast gives listeners ...

The COVID-19 pandemic provided the perfect natural experiment to assess the extent of birth tourism in Canada. Dramatic declines of 50 per cent compared with the pre-pandemic 2016-20 average occurred ...

Who would have thought ten years ago that Quebec sovereignty would return to the forefront of political debate, after the Parti Québécois (PQ) had been fading steadily since the 1995 referendum? In ...

The day before Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized in 2008 for the harms done to Indigenous children in residential schools, I was in Ottawa’s Beechwood Cemetery, visiting the grave of Peter ...

Canada’s Ismaili Muslim community was thrust into the spotlight recently following Justin Trudeau’s New Year’s getaway to a private island in the Bahamas owned by the Aga Khan. However, commentators ...

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 ...

Brian Mulroney’s tenure as prime minister from 1984 to 1993 demonstrates the appropriateness of the hoary Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times.” For Mulroney was prime minister at a time ...

The future of the public service is one of the key policy issues of our time in both Canada and the United States. Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, Elon Musk and his ...

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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 ...

In early October, B.C. NDP Premier David Eby and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth announced they intend to introduce legislation that will further criminalize people who use drugs, a move that ...