“I’m a firm believer and practitioner in co-operative federalism,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said in his year-end interview with Global News – a commitment he has repeatedly made since the signing of ...

International students live, work and pay taxes in Ontario like any other residents. National data show more than 275,000 international students in Canada work while enrolled. Yet those who fall ill ...

The Liberal government is about to enter the first full parliamentary year of its mandate, and the policy machinery is already in full motion. Because the House of Commons normally sits for nine ...

That is how much Canada’s “core” federal public administration — the civil service — has grown since Justin Trudeau’s government took office in 2015. The raw numbers are even more striking. There are ...

Digital Connectivity in the COVID Era and Beyond ...

In late 2022, the federal government released its much-anticipated critical minerals strategy. This is the latest in a series of national plans aimed at securing minerals vital for renewable energy, ...

I wish I could speak to “competition policy” without using those two words. They mean very little to the average Canadian. Yet Canada’s toothless Competition Act facilitates your pricey cell phone ...

Following Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, many governments worldwide woke to the reality that the infrastructure fueling the rise of the digital economy also posed serious security ...

OTTAWA – Treasury Board President Anita Anand will propose legislative changes to the public service pension plan in the fall so border officers and hundreds of other workers can retire with pensions ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging time. It threatened our lives and our health, upset our jobs and our livelihoods, and distanced us from friends and family. In the spring of 2020, it would have ...

Since the early January U.S. arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the Trump White House has doubled down on the idea that the United States should acquire Greenland, which has ...

Saskatchewan and Alberta are provincial twins, created by the federal government on the same day in 1905. In the ensuing 117 years, there has been a persistent sense of alienation from the federal ...