No longer America’s privileged neighbour, Canada today faces U.S. threats to diminish or even eliminate our sovereignty. That said, our economy and security remain so deeply dependent on America that ...

Le débat sur l’immigration se concentre souvent sur les seuils, la pénurie de logements ou les besoins économiques. Mais il laisse rarement place au vécu des immigrants eux-mêmes.

Le projet de constitution québécoise ne manque pas d’enfiévrer les passions. Néanmoins, il introduit d’importantes mesures pour l’autonomie constitutionnelle du Québec, qui doivent être sérieusement ...

Two Federal Court decisions delivered in December were a watershed moment. The rulings arose from two class actions, one led by St. Theresa Point First Nation in Manitoba and Sandy Lake First Nation ...

Canada risks enacting an artificial intelligence (AI) policy that protects people from harm, but not from irrelevance. That tension is already visible in recent debates over youth and technology.

Twenty-five years after Canada committed to building a national electronic health-record system, more than 70 per cent of electronic health information is still not shared among health-care providers ...

Justin Trudeau’s 2018 embrace of cannabis legalization, in addition to its political upside, was based on three policy premises: reducing crime, increasing tax revenue and protecting young people.

This newsletter is a window into the federal public service, written by award-winning reporter Kathryn May. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at departments dealing with policy changes, with insight into ...

Canada is feeling the increasing instability of the world in a number of ways – not least because we currently have secessionist movements in both Quebec and Alberta, as well as ongoing threats from U ...

A $300B global threat spans illegal fishing, pollution and wildlife trafficking. A UN deal could close enforcement gaps – if ...

Editor’s note: Among his many accomplishments, Thomas Courchene was a senior scholar at the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the publisher of Policy Options. He passed away November 4, 2025. A ...

L’heure est à la polarisation. Au Chili, par exemple, les élections de décembre dernier opposaient un candidat d’extrême-droite nostalgique des années de la dictature à une coalition de gauche dirigée ...