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 ...

Over the past few weeks, word has begun to reach Ontario of a series of stories in the Australian media in which the province is being held up as a model for climate and energy policy Down Under. It ...

Canada faces numerous complex challenges: accelerating the transition to net-zero, adapting to a more hostile and unpredictable climate, addressing the health impacts of an aging society, and bridging ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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.

The recent attacks in Lebanon using pagers and two-way radios weaponized into bombs is an unprecedented and deeply problematic change in how countries undertake war. The novelty is not in the sabotage ...

Quebec has one of the most inclusive compensation programs for victims of violent crime in Canada, but a crucial reduction of benefits three years ago will soon push many victims into poverty. The ...

In March 2024, all parties represented in the Quebec legislature agreed to cancel the redrawing of the provincial electoral map, which was supposed to take place after two general elections. A new map ...

Governments in Canada are increasingly turning to employment policy to help people convicted of crimes rebuild their lives on a legal foundation. Ontario has made people with criminal records a ...

More than 80 per cent of Canada’s 41 million people live in a city, more than double from a hundred years ago, yet the way we fund cities hasn’t changed since the 19th century. And while cities are ...