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The conversation surrounding the COVID-19 recovery has been almost entirely centred on the economy. Governments have allocated countless resources to ...
En dépit de nombreux rapports qui préconisent depuis plus de 20 ans une réforme majeure des soins de longue durée au Québec, aucun gouvernement n’est ...
COVID-19 has shaken the Canadian labour market to its core, and it has revealed that our Employment Insurance system is not well equipped to handle a ...
The story of western alienation runs parallel to the story of Canada. Both stories have their roots in 1867, when a country was born out of the provin...
COVID-19 has been one of the largest disruptions in the Canadian labour market in the country’s history. Not only were some sectors like tourism nearl...
Canada has vaccinated nearly 40 per cent of its citizens, an important milestone in the fight against COVID-19. But underlying this success is a conce...
On April 19, 2021, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland presented the first federal budget in two years. Among the many new and updated policies, one st...
This special episode of the Policy Options Podcast is a recording of our recent webinar on the 2021 federal budget. The webinar can also be found onli...
In March 2020, Canada saw a major “office-drain,” as office workers made the sudden switch to working from home. Most were told that this would be a t...
Indigenous treaties are enormously significant for both First Nations groups and Canada. These treaties are constitutionally recognized agreements tha...