Le résultat des élections fédérales d’avril a été radicalement différent de ce que beaucoup avaient prédit quelques mois plus tôt. Ce qui devait être un couronnement pour le chef conservateur Pierre ...

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

The government's plan overlooks rising U.S. authoritarianism, data sovereignty and the risk of outsourcing public services to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everything from education and work to health care, social services, food and grocery orders, and social connection have had to change to deliver more services online in response to COVID-19. Even ...

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 ...

Allan Blakeney once reached for a popular drug-store pain reliever to describe the purpose of official commissions of inquiry. He said Canadians see them as a sort of Minard’s liniment – a ...

Colonel (retired) Charles Davies is a former Canadian Armed Forces logistics officer. He retired in 2013 following a 42-year military and public service career and is now a research fellow with the ...

The federal government is currently making decisions on its promised National Housing Strategy, and its 2017 budget has announced the funding involved. It seems timely to ask: What can we learn from ...