Fixing the Fisc: Free Advice for Canada’s Next Prime Minister
For as long as Mark Carney is Canada’s new prime minister, and beyond that into the outcome of the upcoming...
Life on hold – How Canada’s drug approval delays endanger patients: Nigel S.B. Rawson and John Adams
Health care across Canada is in crisis. In addition to known burdens of disease and therapies, Canada’s processes have become...
Historic injustice: Canada’s misguided betrayal of school system founder Egerton Ryerson
Canada’s best known school system founder Egerton Ryerson and the United States’ Horace Mann are each towering figures in the...
Canada After Trump: Why the Indo-Pacific Can’t Be an Afterthought
Canada, like much of the world, anticipated a transactional and volatile ‘Trump 2.0’ administration. Even so, the ‘shock and awe’...
Fuelling addiction – The “safe supply” disaster
As the death toll from the ongoing opioid poisoning crisis in Canada continues to rise, jurisdictions across the country struggle...
Canada’s Global Standing: Prosperous, Progressive, and Peaceful
Canadian national spirit is high. The positive emotional reaction to the Team Canada hockey victory over the U.S. in the...
Breaking barriers: How provinces can drive Canada’s prosperity by unlocking trade and labour mobility
Canada’s economy is tightly interconnected across provinces, but significant barriers to internal trade and limited worker mobility are holding back...
Canada’s greenwashing amendment: A failure of process and policy
On April 30, 2024, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance pushed through a late-stage amendment to the Competition...
Interprovincial trade arguments are vastly overstated
A lot of public discourse in Canada right now is about how we need to urgently remove interprovincial trade barriers...
Swimming against the tide: The case for salmon fish farming in British Columbia
Ken S. Coates explains how salmon farming could benefit Canada by providing economic stability to coastal communities, fostering greater co-operation...
The Court Challenges Program – How your tax dollars fuel social justice activism through the courts
The federal government is spending several million dollars a year to do indirectly what it is unwilling to do directly...
Canada at a Crossroads – Volume 1: The housing crunch
Canada is at a crossroads. The issues confronting Canada in 2025 go beyond mere setbacks and can more accurately be...
Trump’s Chokepoint Playbook and How to Deal with It
Once hailed as cornerstones of economic efficiency and globalization, global supply chains have transformed into geopolitical battlegrounds, where countries exploit...
Trump’s Non-Stop Trade War: Tariffs Are Only the Beginning
U.S. President Donald Trump made many promises on the campaign trail, but repeatedly returned to the application of tariffs as...
A Faulty Case: Deconstructing Trump’s Call for a Trade War on Canada
On February 1, 2025, Canada found itself on the brink of a devastating trade war with the United States. As...
Promoting excellence – or activism? Equity, diversity, and inclusion at Canada’s federal granting agencies
Higher education in Canada has reached a tenuous moment. For too long, it has focused on “equity, diversity, and inclusion”...
The Arctic Submarine Narrative
This summer, the Government of Canada confirmed its intention to procure up to 12 conventionally powered submarines to replace the...
India in 2025: The Year Ahead in Politics, Economics, and Foreign Affairs
India enters 2025 with elements of continuity and change. Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads a new coalition government in New...
TCI Energy Brief: Early TMX Pipeline Expansion Data Reveals China’s Emerging Role as a Significant Buyer of Canadian Crude, Offering Some Diversification From the U.S. Market
Completion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) project in May 2024 marked a transformative moment for Canada’s crude oil...
Why is Canada falling behind the science in treating gender-distressed youth?: Chan Kulatunga-Moruzi
Primum non cencere – do no harm – is a foundational principle of modern medicine. And yet, in Canada, advocates...
Canada’s national pharmacare plan – boon or bane?
National pharmacare, as proposed by the federal government, will not improve patient access to innovative medicines without major changes to...
Getting Canada back on track: How to build major projects in the coming decade: Jack Middleton
Can Canada still build big projects or are we doomed to infrastructure decay and with it a stagnant and weak...
The Challenge is Global: Getting ready for the Trump 2.0 roller-coaster
Americans voted for Trump with full knowledge of who he was and what he intended to do. The impacts of...
To respond to U.S. tariffs, Canada should hit Trump where it hurts
Canada is on tenterhooks as Donald Trump prepares to be sworn in as 47th President of the United States of...
Trump and the Asia Pacific: Five Key Questions Shaping 2025
Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency will loom large over the Indo-Pacific in 2025. The global economic and security...
Canada and America First: A New Way Forward
40 years ago, the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, also known as the Macdonald...
5 Things We Learned about Canada and Asia in 2024
In 2024, a record number of voters across Asia exercised their democratic rights and, in many cases, used the ballot...
Does Emissions Pricing Hurt Affordability? Quantifying the Effects on Canadian Households
This report investigates the effects of emissions pricing, such as the federal fuel charge or B.C. carbon tax. It focuses...
Explainer: Democracy Under Pressure: Yoon's Failed Martial Law and South Korea's Political Turmoil
South Korea entered a sudden political crisis on December 3 when President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law — an...
Free Russia: How Canada and the West can counter Russia’s authoritarian regime and help democracy flourish
The long-term security of Canada and its allies hinges not only on the outcome of the war in Ukraine but...
Trump’s tariff threat is about borders, not trade
Late Monday night, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump used his Truth Social platform to announce he would impose across-the-board 25 per...
Canada-Indonesia Trade Agreement Marks a New Chapter in Indo-Pacific Relations
On November 15, Canada and Indonesia announced the completion of the negotiations for the Canada-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)...