What’s the point of parliamentary committees probing entities like Rogers and Hockey Canada?

House of Commons committees have had a high profile this summer, with inquiries into the Rogers outage and Hockey Canada’s handling of sexual violence. This is...

Multigenerational living: A strategy to cope with unaffordable housing?

Over the past 20 years, housing prices in Canada have increased at double the rate of income growth. As a result, a growing number of Canadian...

Why doesn’t Canada let schools provide child care?

  Canada is preventing provinces and territories from using federal child-care dollars to transform schools into one-stop centres for young children. (Pexels/Yan Krukov) Canada’s policy-makers could...

Canada’s disappearing ‘average farmer’ means one-size-fits-all policies no longer work

Canada’s agriculture industry has been undergoing significant changes over the past 45 years. Since the 1970s, the number of farms has been steadily declining, but not...

Street performers in Montréal are being displaced and excluded

Like many cities around the world, Montréal has embraced busking to generate a sense of friendliness and cultural vibrancy in the city. Once a marginal practice...

Recruiting and training is the number one concern for SMEs

Rising inflation. Increasing fuel costs. Supply chain backlogs. The list of issues facing businesses in 2022 is growing and while these challenges require solutions, the reality...

We need to better understand how racialized minorities are being hit by inflation

Rising prices have left no one’s wallet untouched. With inflation hitting a nearly four-decade high of 8.1 per cent in June, everyday essentials and basic needs...

Amid flight cancellations and airport chaos, is it worth traveling right now?

Lessons from a cancelled marathon: Athletic events, heat and the effects of climate change

The cancellation of the Manitoba Marathon due to extreme heat may provide a case study for athletic event management in extreme weather. As researchers in kinesiology...

Ontario’s deepening hydro mess

Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives went into the 2018 Ontario election campaign promising, among other things, to fix the province’s “hydro mess.” In practice, fixing the hydro...