Ontario bill aimed at ending encampments to strengthen trespass, drug penalties

CBC News, RCI Ontario premier has said he is willing to use notwithstanding clause to enact new legislation Premier Doug Ford’s government is introducing new legislation...

MAiD and the law: B.C. case shows how courts offer crucial oversight when lives are at stake

By Isabel Grant, University of British Columbia; Trudo Lemmens, University of Toronto; The Conversation A British Columbia judge recently issued an interim injunction, blocking a B.C. physician...

Alberta’s Bill 27: Consent education shouldn’t be optional

By Alexandra Ages, Policy Options Teaching children the concept of consent in relationships is imperative to reducing sexual violence and an essential element in supporting survivors...

Trudeau says Kamala Harris’s election loss was a setback for women’s progress

By John Paul Tasker, CBC News, RCI ‘We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult, march towards progress,’ prime minister says Prime Minister Justin...

Trudeau holding 2nd meeting with premiers to talk about Trump’s tariff threat

By Darren Major, CBC News, RCI This is their first meeting since Trudeau had dinner with Trump in Florida earlier this month Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...

How to cut through the divisions hampering climate action

By Policy Options How to respond to climate change is a highly polarized issue in Canada, a country divided along regional lines with competing economic interests,...

Housing for people with intellectual disabilities must be entirely rethought

By Policy Options (Version française disponible ici) While the housing crisis spares no one, it hits people with intellectual disabilities even harder than most people. In addition...

Deconstructing Canada’s ballooning $67-billion federal bureaucracy

By Policy Options Forty-three per cent. That is how much Canada’s “core” federal public administration — the civil service — has grown since Justin Trudeau’s government...

Better financial literacy can help control public debt. Newfoundland, take note

By Policy Options Newfoundland and Labrador’s finance minister painted an encouraging picture of the province’s outlook in a recent fiscal update in terms of growth, inflation...

Trump’s demonization of asylum-seekers undermines global protections — will Canada be complicit?