Ottawa needs to shift to shared governance that transcends departmental boundaries and includes an interdepartmental funding ...

“On the question of religious hospitals, despite being a lesbian couple, Patricia and I would tolerate life-size crucifixes in the treatment room if it meant being safe from MAiD.” ~ Catherine Frazee, ...

The 2018 Quebec provincial election was notable not only because it brought to power a new political party – the Coalition avenir Québec – but because it was a historic defeat for the sovereigntist ...

Tense family dinners during the pandemic, the “Freedom Convoy” in 2022 and, more recently, confrontations over the issue of gender identity: all bear witness to social polarization and the spread of ...

Welcome to Demystifying Community Housing, a special series from the IRPP’s Policy Options Podcast, which explores the different facets of community housing and its role in addressing Canada’s housing ...

Albertans have a distorted view of their political environment right down to what their “typical” fellow citizen is like. While the origins and persistence of Alberta’s political culture are ...

The Trudeau government’s latest budget contained a number of splashy items, ranging from housing policy to national defence. In the midst of a national housing crisis and with mounting geopolitical ...

In the 2022 budget, tabled on April 7 of that year, six weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Trudeau government announced it would undertake a “swift“ defence policy review. On April 8 of ...

The changing face of Canada and Quebec is leading to a transformation of the labour market. A growing proportion of the population comes from immigrant backgrounds and this trend will accelerate in ...

As a forester living and working in British Columbia, I have a good understanding of how BC’s forests are managed and harvested. Our current logging practices do not “risk devastating ecosystem ...

Senator Marc Gold is the Government Representative in the Senate, tasked with shepherding government business through the upper chamber and supporting modernization in the changing institution. He is ...

Ricardo Bonjean Montrose joined the IRPP in 2018. Previously he was a research assistant at the Institute of Cultural Affairs Japan in Tokyo, where he lived for two years. He holds a BA in history ...