The Political Party in Canada fills a crucial gap for a comprehensive, updated study of Canadian political parties
The executive and legislative branches of government are the main ways to exert political influence, particularly in cabinet and the Prime Minister’s Office. But the route to exerting that influence runs through political parties and those connected to them.
Eisler offers sharp look into Saskatchewan politics in new book, From Left to Right
The howl of extremism intensifies, rattling windowpanes from the Privy Council Office to Bay Street, and the elites who occupy these high offices don’t know what to make of it, much less what to do about it. They are as surprised as anyone. As recently as the 2021 federal election—last summer—the political consensus was that […]
Valley of the Birdtail authors looking to shift attitudes, conversations, around Indigenous reconciliation
After working in the partisan trenches of Parliament Hill and Queen’s Park, the co-authors of an upcoming book exploring how neighbouring communities in Manitoba—a settler town and a First Nations reserve—founded two years apart became unequal are hoping to shift attitudes, and the conversation, around reconciliation from “outside of partisan politics,” and open eyes to […]
Prime ministers, unwittingly or not, have unleashed powerful forces when they told government managers to embrace private-sector management practices while leaving their accountability requirements intact
Presidents and prime ministers, in four countries with different political institutions, came to power with easy slogans: doing more with less; deliverology; joined-up government; empowering managers; drain the swamp; fix bureaucracy; and the list goes on. But once in office, their focus quickly shifted to more pressing issues and intense demands on their agenda. Presidents […]
Lessons from Cobalt for Ontario’s Ring of Fire
The Westminster Parliament boasts more than a few noteworthy prime ministers who were writers worth reading. Prime ministers Winston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli stand out as exceptionally popular authors of numerous works of fiction, history, and verse. And there is a long list of British MPs who have written crime and spy novels and some exposés. […]
Indigenomics is a process of claiming our Indigenous place at the economic table
This book sets out to examine the significance of the Indigenous presence in today’s modern economy and within the emerging economy here in Canada and beyond. This book is a contribution to a new world of thinking—where economics, productivity, development, progress, and prosperity are aligned with human values from an Indigenous perspective. This book is […]
Amid uncertainty lies great opportunities to build the engines of our shared prosperity
HUMILITY Humility matters. It matters because it is an attitude to leading and governing. Not an impediment to acting. Humility means recognising that there will be surprises. I have learned that it is worth asking what could happen if things go wrong, even when you think it unlikely. What if subprime isn’t contained? What if […]
Former Green leadership hopeful Dimitri Lascaris backs out of contest, calls for May to step away from process
Following what he describes as a “period of exceptional internal strife” within the Green Party of Canada, lawyer and eco-socialist Dimitri Lascaris recently made the decision not to run in the party’s leadership contest, calling for Green Party MP and called parliamentary leader in the House Elizabeth May’s departure from the process. Lascaris, who finished […]
China’s growing authoritarianism is a global story
Dear Joanna Chiu, I am (Dan). I am from China. I just graduated from (a Quebec university). I hesitated for a whole night before deciding to write this email … Now I am living in Canada, but I am living with fear from the Chinese government. Dan, whose name I’ve changed to protect his identity, […]
‘I wrote it because Canadians have forgotten Flora MacDonald’: Geoffrey Stevens
Following the 1979 election, what I needed most was to get out of Ottawa and away from the crazy, swirling rumour mill during the government transition. While Joe Clark worked on his cabinet, I returned to “my” convent in St Georges Ouest, telling people I wanted to work on my French. I was not worried. […]
