Dec 9 2022 — Thomas Axworthy — Policy Magazine — All great cities have their seasons. For London, the city where Charles Dickens reinvented Christmas with the publication of his spooky morality fable, A Christmas Carol, in 1843, this is it. When John Betjeman published Christmas in 1954, more than a century and two world wars later, it was as if he was telling the […]
Nov 30 2022 — Geoff Norquay — Policy Magazine — The strength of liberal democracies like Canada’s is often measured in terms of social cohesion. It’s the glue that holds society together — the common values and goals shared by citizens that inspire trust in each other and in our country’s institutions. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) defines a society as cohesive […]
Nov 27 2022 — Lisa Van Dusen — Policy Magazine — At this writing, in the streets, on university campuses, in public squares, at the world’s largest iPhone factory — people across China are courageously protesting Beijing’s latest human rights violations. “In multiple videos seen by CNN, people could be heard shouting demands for China’s leader Xi Jinping and the Communist Party to ‘step down,’” the […]
Nov 27 2022 — Mary-Jane Bennett — Policy Magazine — On November 22nd, Massey College hosted a conference: Responsible Economics: Are Canadian Fiscal and Monetary Policies Appropriately Aligned? Panelists looked at ways to get Canada out of the spiraling debt and inflation crisis. Time is running out to avoid a painful recession — and the job losses, business closures and lost opportunities that would come […]
Nov 24 2022 — Policy Magazine — If last year’s Halifax Security Forum was preoccupied by the US withdrawal and Taliban re-taking of Afghanistan and the threat of a rising China, this year’s was largely focused on Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Forum Founding President Peter van Praagh set the tone, underlining that the “tenacious bravery, defiance, and courage displayed by […]
Nov 21 2022 — Policy Magazine — When I first began following the UN climate talks in 2007, I felt powerless to influence their outcome. So I started a not-for-profit in my community instead and set out to reduce local climate impacts. Fifteen years later and now as the MP for Kitchener Centre, I recently returned for my second one: COP27 in […]
Nov 17 2022 — Lisa Van Dusen — Policy Magazine — Two events have happened in the past 10 days that mark the unofficial launch of the 2024 presidential election cycle as might have, in previous eras, the early formation of Super PACs or a dewy new facelift on an undeclared contender. The first was the November 8th midterm election result of a slim Democratic majority […]
Nov 7 2022 — Elizabeth May — Policy Magazine — Sharm el-Sheikh — the Egyptian beach resort shorthanded as “Sharm” hosting this year’s United Nations climate change conference — is known as a Red Sea tourist magnet for its stunning scenery, conference facilities and nightlife. It remains to be seen whether it will take its place on the catastrophe or success side in the catalogue […]
Nov 4 2022 — Lisa Van Dusen — Policy Magazine — Lisa Van Dusen: Prof. Hoodfar, as you know, Friday the 4th of November is the anniversary of the 1979 siege of the US Embassy in Tehran by Iranian students during the Islamic Revolution. It is also the anniversary of the 2009 protests in Iran, marking the anniversary with protests asserting that America was not the […]
Nov 4 2022 — Kevin Page — Policy Magazine — The purpose of the midyear update is to inform Parliament and Canadians on the changes to the economic outlook and what this means for the government’s policy agenda and fiscal plan. In the leadup to the release of the FES, the government faced two principal challenges. One, the economic challenge to align federal fiscal policy […]
Nov 1 2022 — Lisa Van Dusen — Policy Magazine — In a piece for Policy magazine filed last June 18th headlined Being an MP in the Age of Conspiracy, Theoretical and Not, NDP MP Charlie Angus wrote about how the internet-fuelled spread of crazy conspiracy theories had changed his job, from dealing with the need for heightened security at public events to the amount of […]
Oct 28 2022 — Jamie Irving and Paul Deegan — Policy Magazine — In a column published in September, David Walmsley, editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail wrote, “Making a positive difference to someone’s life is the greatest gift a journalist can give. Perhaps an individual is heard for the first time, or an injustice is settled. Those moments when a news editor picks up a phone to […]
Oct 27 2022 — L. Ian MacDonald — Policy Magazine — The year 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of CPAC, the Cable Public Affairs Channel. In truth, it was for years essentially a Parliamentary video service, featuring Question Period, committees and the like. It wasn’t until the arrival of Peter Van Dusen nearly a decade later in 2001 that it was transformed into a network of […]
Oct 24 2022 — Jeremy Kinsman — Policy Magazine — Two political clichés leap to mind as Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s Prime Minister: “A week is a long time in politics,” the caution issued to a reporter by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson during one of many economic crises he faced in the 1960s — and, “It’s the economy stupid,” from Bill Clinton strategist James […]
Oct 20 2022 — Jeremy Kinsman — Policy Magazine — The traditional Irish folk song, Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye, was appropriated by former JFK aides Ken O’Donnell and Dave Powers to title a memoir of their hero, brought down by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas on November 22, 1963. When Liz Truss was chosen as leader of the Conservative Party of the UK and […]