U.S. President Donald Trump’s second administration has moved quickly to defund and dismantle key U.S. regulatory agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and ...

The federal budget has finally answered a long-running question: will Canada move ahead with open banking? Ottawa’s new consumer-driven banking framework, set to launch next year, is designed to ...

In one of his final acts as prime minister, Justin Trudeau signed the Big Tide Haida Title Lands Agreement. It was momentous. For the first time, Canada was handing back land through negotiations with ...

The April federal election outcome was dramatically different than what many had been predicting – in fact, assuming – only months earlier. What was expected to be a coronation for Conservative Leader ...

In 2021, the federal government pledged to build a diverse, equitable and inclusive public service by hiring and promoting more Black, Indigenous and racialized people. Historically, and with some ...

In Canada, men aged 20 to 39 account for 61 per cent of people incarcerated in federal institutions and 58 per cent in provincial facilities. Yet, they represent only 17 per cent of the Canadian ...

Jennifer Ditchburn is the President and CEO of the Institute for Research on Public Policy. From 2016 to 2021, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the IRPP’s influential digital magazine, Policy Options.

While responses to climate change have come a long way in the last 30 years, they have clearly not reduced emissions as well as might be expected despite a near-universal consensus that humans have ...

Consider these everyday experiences in today’s digitally dependent world rich with artificial intelligence (AI). A convenience store cashier struggles to make change. Your Uber driver gets lost on his ...

Canada is in a housing crisis, but we’re not giving ourselves a fighting chance to fix it. That needs to change. Instead of making widespread use of innovations in housing construction efficiency, ...

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, ...

In early October, B.C. NDP Premier David Eby and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth announced they intend to introduce legislation that will further criminalize people who use drugs, a move that ...