Cuts. Hiring. Pensions. Reform. The Functionary newsletter covers what’s happening across the federal public service and why it matters. Award-winning journalist Kathryn May tracks what’s changing in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent CBC reporting that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are examining large-scale mobilization scenarios has drawn understandable attention. The prospect of dramatically expanding Canada’s reserve ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are rapidly transforming our world, but the critical issues of the sovereignty of Indigenous data and Indigenous digital self-determination remain ...

The ebb and flow of economic patterns reveals a paradox in Canada’s monetary landscape. Amid the march toward digitization, cash-based transactions fell in 2009 from 54 per cent of the total volume of ...

Recent actions and national security rhetoric from the United States and President Donald Trump have made clear a new desire for U.S. control in the Western Hemisphere that poses significant ...

Since the early January U.S. arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the Trump White House has doubled down on the idea that the United States should acquire Greenland, which has ...

Mention “deliverology” to a public servant working on the policy frontlines, and you’ll get either a shrug or a grumble. The trendy management theory that took the federal bureaucracy by storm three ...