Canada’s talent for making important scientific discoveries that improve people’s health was recently honoured again – by the Gairdner Foundation International Awards. These awards recognized a number ...

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 ...

The Alberta government passed legislation in May that has fuelled growing anxiety within Canada’s research sector. The Provincial Priorities Act (formerly Bill 18) requires all provincial entities — ...

Thanks to a more precarious minority Parliament, the Bloc Québécois is flexing more policy muscle than it has in a while. It has laid out the conditions for its temporary willingness to support the ...

Stereotypes and rape myths about “real” victim responses continue to undermine fairness in the criminal-justice system. In an important decision concerning musician Jacob Hoggard, the Ontario Court of ...

What should a government do with parental leave surpluses? The recent drop in births in Quebec to their lowest level in 20 years has swelled the excess money in the province’s parental insurance fund ...

Jenina Ibañez Jenina Ibañez is a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions.She graduated from UBC’s master of public policy and global affairs program.

Trevor Potts Trevor Potts is the director of policy and research at Evidence for Democracy. His policy work focuses on government transparency, access to information systems, and research funding.

Election integrity has re-emerged as a serious concern for established democracies, including Canada. There are worries about foreign influence, rampant misinformation and campaigns to sow distrust in ...

Nico Trocmé Nico Trocmé, the Philip Fisher Chair in Social Work at McGill University, conducts research on Canadian child welfare services and policies.

The Functionary is a newsletter that helps you connect the dots on what’s happening in the federal public service. The people, the pain points and the policymaking. It’s written by Kathryn May, an ...

David Boroto is an infrastructure advisory consultant at Mott MacDonald Canada and board chair of Engineers Without Borders Canada. He holds a BSc in infrastructure engineering from the University of ...