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Five Canadian provinces as well as the Northwest Territories will hold municipal elections this year. Increasing political polarization often occupies...
Canada’s national security is increasingly under threat. Territorial claims of the Arctic, targeted attacks on public cyberspaces and the growing...
(Version française disponible ici) Every government that sets out to fix its health system eventually reaches for the same instrument. It...
Canada’s debate about immigration usually revolves around borders, population growth and labour shortages. Far less attention is paid to another...
(Version française disponible ici.) Many First Nation communities in Canada are islands of poverty within an otherwise prosperous, developed country....
Today is Canada’s birthday, as our wonderful country celebrates its 159th year. One of the things that distinguishes this birthday from most other...
(Version française disponible ici.) When we think of the risks associated with an employee’s online presence, attention often focuses on the...
Can we spare $12 billion for a good cause? What about $3.6 billion? These figures have been suggested as the potential cost to the federal government...
The broadcast opens with an aerial shot: a red-earth road threading through dense green forest, the camera slightly unstable, signaling distance and...
Canada has announced two tools that could shape the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) future. The Canada Strong Fund is an arm’s-length Crown...
The agreement recently signed between Alberta and the federal government is an uneven bargain. Alberta gets support for a pipeline and the waiver of...
(Version française disponible ici) The Federation of Canadian Municipalities estimates that cities, towns and smaller local administrations own and...
Canadians are increasingly told that tougher immigration rules equal a safer country. With Bill C-12, the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has staked his government on a sovereignty argument. The 2025 federal budget committed $115 billion to nationbuilding...
As condominium sales across Canada fall to their lowest levels in decades, what if unsold units could be repurposed for the public good? Governments...
When Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette met U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington in late April, she named two priorities as...
A nuclear energy renaissance is upon us. The gloomy early 2000s, when anti-nuclear sentiment was on the rise, reactors were prematurely shut down and...
Children’s digital privacy is often discussed as a consumer issue – a matter of parental settings, better consent notices or cleaner app design....
Canada’s defence budget has never been larger. The federal government has committed $63 billion for defence since last June — the largest...
(Version française disponible ici) Cities now manage far more than just roads, waste, and snow removal. Housing, mental health, climate adaptation,...
Canada’s new federal nature strategy, launched in March 2026, lays out how the country plans to meet its commitment under the 2022 Kunming-Montreal...
The Canada Child Benefit (CCB), introduced in 2016, is widely considered to be successful in reducing child poverty, with research finding that it...
Canada prides itself on being a global leader in human rights, climate action and multicultural inclusion. Yet environmental harm in this country is...