Image caption: In Canada, immigrants are numerical “targets” to achieve in a given timeframe. International students are deemed the “ideal immigrants,” a common racist stereotype. SHITTERSTOCK This is ...

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 ...

Nazlee Maghsoudi is manager of the Policy Impact Unit at the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, chair of the New York NGO Committee on Drugs, and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. X: ...

Who would have thought ten years ago that Quebec sovereignty would return to the forefront of political debate, after the Parti Québécois (PQ) had been fading steadily since the 1995 referendum? In ...

Image caption: The result of mandatory charging policies has been a rise in the number of women being criminally charged on their own or together with their male partner. For more than four decades, ...

The climate debate is often regarded as a question requiring technological, economic or regulatory solutions. However, it is now facing a more fundamental tension, one that is especially political in ...

Rising inflation has put a significant financial strain on many households. By October 2023, for example, average consumer prices were more than 15 per cent higher than they were immediately before ...

The global demand for critical minerals is surging. Driven by the clean-energy transition, digital infrastructure, and geopolitical shifts, governments in Canada are pushing to unlock subsurface ...

Following Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement in Beijing that Canada will allow a limited annual quota of Chinese electric vehicles (EV) into the domestic market at reduced tariffs, the federal ...

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, ...

It’s harder than you think for the federal government to give away a few billion dollars. Maybe not for American philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, who has donated US$16 billion in the last five years – ...

Image caption: A survey conducted by the authors based on the paper "Housing for Me, but not for Thee: Values-Based Motivations of NIMBYism in Canada." When it comes to the cost of putting a roof over ...