Five political scientists offer fresh insights into election campaigning in three provinces
ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—If all goes according to plan, on Oct. 26 voters in Saskatchewan will head to the polls, grab some hand sanitizer, and vote while wearing a face mask. In the weeks leading up to election day, the campaign will largely be conducted online, with candidates shaking hands on doorsteps and kissing babies a […]
Great defining event of 21st century expected to occur in three decades
The great defining event of the 21st century—one of the great defining events in human history—will occur in three decades, give or take, when the global population starts to decline. Once that decline begins, it will never end. We do not face the challenge of a population bomb, so rampant in the popular imagination, but […]
Wiseman surveys history of Canada’s political parties in engaging new book, Partisan Odysseys
Nelson Wiseman, director of the Canadian studies program at the University of Toronto and a longtime political science professor, says he realized Canadians weren’t terribly aware of some of the historical forces that have shaped our country’s federal political parties, so he wrote Partisan Odysseys: Canada’s Political Parties. The book, published by the University of […]
Cross-party Parliamentarians to urge feds to take strong response to new Hong Kong security law
As Chinese lawmakers have moved forward with national security legislation that threatens Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” bedrock, Parliamentarians across the partisan spectrum will be participating in a virtual press conference to urge the federal government to take strong action in opposition to the new law. Alongside human rights activists, such as Alex Neve […]
‘The rise of China is a central geoeconomic issue of our time’
The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic has put a spotlight on China’s changing role in the world. It has revealed the crucial role China plays in the dense global supply chain networks of a wide range of industries, raising new anxieties about globalization. It has provoked intense debate about how China handled the outbreak and […]
Flanagan documents how successful First Nations are achieving prosperity
Prior to the 19th century, the large majority of human beings lived in what today would be considered poverty. In all complex societies, an elite stratum used its control of political and economic institutions to enjoy a varied diet, clean water, formal education, and relief from long hours of manual labour, but such luxuries were […]
‘A very difficult few weeks’: MPs pay tribute to Snowbirds fatal crash victim Jennifer Casey
Parliamentarians commemorated the life of a Snowbird public affairs officer following a crash in Kamloops, B.C., which happened less than a month after six members of the Canadian Forces were killed in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. Snowbirds spokesperson Captain Jennifer Casey was killed in the crash on May 17 and pilot […]
Breakdown lays out a fulsome set of policy recommendations
An untenable risk for any future major development of resources or related infrastructure must be confronted. Do the Indigenous Peoples of Canada currently possess a de facto veto or not on major infrastructure projects in Canada? At the end of 2018, this issue remained unresolved, and it may yet undo TMX, despite the Trudeau government’s […]
‘Forever in their debt’: MPs mark 75 years since Canada’s liberation of the Netherlands and the end of World War II in Europe
Three quarters of a century ago, the Canadian Army advanced through the Netherlands in 1945 liberating it from nearly five years of Nazi occupation. MPs honoured those Canadians who fought in support of the Dutch liberation, including the more than 7,600 Canadians who died in the Netherlands. “The Liberation of the Netherlands was Canada’s last […]
If action’s further delayed ‘little or no chance of saving English Canada from complete absorption into U.S. cultural ecosystem’: Stursberg
Canadian governments have always known that if there was to be a Canada, there would have to be Canadian media. Since the 1930s, successive administrations, whether Liberal or Conservative, have struggled to strengthen the foundations of Canadian culture, often in opposition to the desires of the United States. They passed laws, created regulations and provided […]
