OTTAWA – Canada’s ballooning public service has been bracing for spending and job cuts, and now unions are sounding the alarm that they are coming. With the federal deficit larger than anticipated, ...

Last July under idyllic summer conditions, the Canadian National Exhibition received a record number of visitors. The gate-crashing crowds didn’t come to fawn over farm animals or catch an airshow.

For climate-resilient development, an inclusive approach is a critical enabling factor. This is what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has argued. That means taking into account diverse ...

Is Ottawa negotiating the conditions for the transfer of child welfare to Indigenous communities to succeed, or programming their failure in advance with half-baked measures? The federal Act ...

Mark Beckles is vice-president, social impact and innovation, at RBC, where he leads the strategic execution of RBC’s social-impact portfolios and stakeholder relations to advance RBC’s ...

What do you do when a 18-lane highway can’t handle the 400,000 vehicles a day that pour onto it? A sensible person might conclude that perhaps it’s time to provide options for mass transit. Instead, ...

Policy Options magazine is a public forum for the informed discussion of public policy. We celebrate diverse viewpoints on the public policy issues that face our country and the world. Public policy ...

Canada does not have an Africa strategy and desperately needs one. Otherwise, we risk being left behind as it becomes a continent of increasing economic and geo-political significance. The federal ...

Pendant que Queen’s Park pense à creuser une autoroute sous la 401, Québec ressuscite le troisième lien pour les voitures.

One of the Liberal government’s marquee policies that promised to address climate change by dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Canada at little cost has transformed into a toxic ...

The news that Ontario will no longer allow international students to study medicine in the province starting in 2026 struck me profoundly as someone who recently immigrated to Canada with the hope of ...