For much of the post-Second World War period, the growth of many national economies was closely correlated with an increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The strong coupling of economic growth ...

Eugene Lang is an assistant professor at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University, where he teaches in the master of public administration program.

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 ...

OTTAWA — There’s growing chatter in senior bureaucratic circles that the new Carney government is exploring a different way to govern – one that could execute plans for the biggest remake of Canada’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OTTAWA – Treasury Board President Anita Anand will propose legislative changes to the public service pension plan in the fall so border officers and hundreds of other workers can retire with pensions ...

A Quebec commission appointed by the National Assembly recently recommended against allowing medical assistance in dying (MAiD) for people whose sole underlying medical issue is mental illness. As ...

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 ...

Craig Scott is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He served as the member of Parliament for Toronto-Danforth from 2012 to 2015, during which time he was the official ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith waited precisely one day after Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney’s federal election victory in April before introducing Bill 54, the Election Statutes Amendment Act, ...