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January 30, 2023

Building the Federation: Infrastructure within Federalism

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Public policy in Canada from an Indigenous perspective and A Multiplicity of Birdsong

Public policy in Canada from an Indigenous perspective and A Multiplicity of Birdsong

December 20, 2022

What does it mean to be a status Indian in Canada? Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii), a professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, answered this seemingly straightforward question in...

Why federalism matters

Why federalism matters

November 14, 2022

Tensions within a federation are a frequent, normal occurrence. In Canada, one only has to think about recurrent debates over health care funding to equalization payments. But recently, Canadian federalism has been experiencing more tension than usual. Alberta’s new...

Lessons for Adult Education in Canada from the Past and New Zealand

Lessons for Adult Education in Canada from the Past and New Zealand

Jude Walker | October 14, 2022

Adult education provides skills development opportunities to help Canadians find better jobs and improve well-being. Yet it remains a “poor cousin” of compulsory and higher education, disconnected from social policy and the education system at large, with its learners...

The puzzling persistence of racial inequality in Canada

The puzzling persistence of racial inequality in Canada

August 10, 2022

In June 2022, we organized a special lecture at the McCord Museum in Montreal. This is a recording of the lecture Queen’s University Professor Emeritus Keith Banting and McGill University Professor Debra Thompson delivered. They explore why Canada’s robust...

Canada’s Federal Budget 2022

Canada’s Federal Budget 2022

May 6, 2022

The federal government tabled the 2022 budget on April 7. Coming in the third year of the pandemic, hot off the Liberal-NDP agreement, and the escalating Russian invasion of Ukraine, the federal budget responds both to immediate needs and...

The federation in 2022

The federation in 2022

January 26, 2022

 Over the past few years, the need for governments to work with one another has been ramping up. Canada is facing a long and unpredictable pandemic, a changing economy and high expectations from Canadians. 2022 is upon us,...

Overhauling Canada’s sickness and caregiving leave regime

Overhauling Canada’s sickness and caregiving leave regime

Eric M. Tucker and Leah F. Vosko | October 18, 2021

Eric Tucker and Leah Vosko examine international norms in comparable economies for sickness and caregiving leaves.

Making EI work for workers

Making EI work for workers

Colin Busby, Stéphanie Lluis and Brian P. McCall | June 23, 2021

COVID-19 has shaken the Canadian labour market to its core, and it has revealed that our Employment Insurance system is not well equipped to handle a major disruption to the economy. In the first half of 2020, roughly 2.4...

Publicly funded skills training that works

Publicly funded skills training that works

Karen Myers, Simon Harding and Kelly Pasolli | May 26, 2021

We speak with Kelly Pasolli about what Canadian governments need to do to successfully retrain under- or unemployed workers for the post-pandemic future.

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