Apr 23 2021 — Public Policy Forum — Canadians have seen the inadequacies of Canada’s senior home system in this pandemic. What’s less clear – how do we solve these? Policy Speaking is joined by Deloitte Canada’s Georgina Black to talk about what good senior support looks like around the world, and where Canada can start to innovate. Should we be looking for […]
Apr 22 2021 — Christine Beevis Trickett — Nature Conservancy of Canada — During the pandemic, many of us have spent several months at home. To pass the time, we have started tackling projects that have been on our to-do lists for months, even years. For me, that meant cleaning out our spare rooms, which led to unearthing a number of treasures, including a sweater I thought I’d […]
Apr 17 2021 — Mackenzie Moir and and Bacchus Barua — Fraser Institute — With a full year of life-with-COVID behind us, and the hope of mass vaccination on the horizon, it’s time for policymakers to refocus some of their attention on our other health care crisis—long wait times for medical care. Although the number of patients affected by wait times are rarely included in televised updates from provincial […]
Apr 13 2021 — IRPP — Canada’s long-term care (LTC) system needs an overhaul. Most older Canadians have only limited access to care that is often of poor quality and fragmented. There are long wait times for admission to LTC institutions, and many who receive care at home report having unmet needs. As a result, family and friends often have to […]
Apr 13 2021 — Alex Whalen and Elmira Aliakbari — Fraser Institute — As the New Brunswick economy emerges from the pandemic and recession, the Trudeau government’s new plan to raise the federal carbon tax will have major economic consequences for the province. Under the federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, the original plan was to raise the carbon tax (from $30 per tonne) by $10 per tonne […]
Apr 8 2021 — Public Policy Forum — The pandemic presents an opportunity to breathe new life into the story of rail in Canada. Former Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Yves Desjardins Siciliano, CEO at Siemens Mobility Canada and former VIA Rail CEO join Policy Speaking to talk the ghost of divestment past, Canada’s present inter-city train network, why Quebec’s system seems different, […]
Apr 6 2021 — Zach Paikin — The Institute for Peace & Diplomacy — Canada’s reaction to the 2013-14 Ukraine crisis during Stephen Harper’s premiership stood out as among the sternest in the Western community. Although diplomatic ties were not formally severed, the level of engagement between Ottawa and Moscow has been severely curtailed. Apart from a limited and brief overture following the 2015 federal election under Stéphane Dion’s […]
Apr 1 2021 — Public Policy Forum — Vaccines are rolling out and many Canadians are hoping for an economic upswing in the summer and fall. Is that what we should expect? David Dodge, former Governor of the Bank of Canada, joins us to talk about the economic factors he’s following and the impact of the economic stimulus so far in Canada versus […]
Mar 31 2021 — Naval Association of Canada — The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) plays an important role in Canadian foreign policy by offering a unique national instrument of both soft and hard power. For a middle power such as Canada, it is especially critical that policy-makers fully understand that having a capable navy presents them with a range of potential policy options. Navies […]
Mar 30 2021 — Steve Lafleur and Jake Fuss — Fraser Institute — As expected, every budget in Canada this year has been covered in red ink. The pandemic has squeezed tax revenue while governments have boosted spending to combat the public health crisis and deep recession. But after a year of social distancing and the rollout of life saving vaccinations underway, governments should start planning for the […]
Mar 25 2021 — Public Policy Forum — Canada has four COVID-19 vaccines ready for distribution in half (if not 1/3) the time many predicted. Yet none are homegrown. Dr. Alan Bernstein, CEO of the global research organization CIFAR, and Dr. Vivek Goel, soon-to-be President of the University of Waterloo and a public health physician on the federal government’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, […]
Mar 25 2021 — Elmira Aliakbari and Jason Clemens — Fraser Institute — As Ontarians in the 519 are readily aware, the last 15 years has not been kind economically. In many ways, this part of the province never recovered from the 2008-09 recession. Now, the Trudeau government’s plan to increase the federal carbon tax to $170 per tonne from its current $30 per tonne will impose yet […]
Mar 24 2021 — IRPP — In the first eight months of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 80 percent of Canadian deaths occurred in long-term care facilities. There have been calls for the federal government to play a stronger role, but this is complicated by the fact that provinces have adopted a wide range of long-term care policies. Nevertheless, governments could […]
Mar 24 2021 — IRPP — Yukon has been at the forefront of Indigenous treaty-making for over forty years. Today, 11 of its 14 First Nations have land claims and self-government agreements, accounting for almost half of the total in Canada. By redefining the relationship between First Nations and non-First Nations people, these agreements have fundamentally altered Yukon society. But the […]
Mar 18 2021 — Public Policy Forum — When the pandemic ends, do we return to the office of 2019? Over half of surveyed workers would like to continue working from home, even just a bit. Managers, employees, commuters and families have lived new options and Tania Saba, professor and expert on workforce and digital transformation, explores how back-to-office may – or may […]