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 ...

My first job after finishing university, involved editing videos and developing a database of potential funders for an arts organization. Today much of that work would be automated. In the coming ...

The recent Cowichan Tribes decision – where the Supreme Court of B.C. ruled they had never surrendered their territory and therefore still have Aboriginal title to it – has stirred confusion and fear ...

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 ...

Jim Stanford is an economist and director of the Centre for Future Work. He was a member of the steering group for the IRPP’s industrial policy project. X: @JimboStanford; Bluesky.

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, ...

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, ...

The day before Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized in 2008 for the harms done to Indigenous children in residential schools, I was in Ottawa’s Beechwood Cemetery, visiting the grave of Peter ...

Earlier this year, the Canadian Bar Association organized a conference of Canadian lawyers, judges and journalists to discuss judicial independence. It was certainly timely, coming on the heels of the ...

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The Mark Carney government has made “deploying AI at scale” a cornerstone of its attempt to make government more productive and slash costs by cutting 28,000jobs by 2029. The goal is to achieve ...

Birth tourism has risen to pre-pandemic levels after it dropped in half during the shutdowns of COVID-19. In the U.S., Donald Trump has set about trying to end birthright citizenship. What impact his ...