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The familiar rise of anti-Indian racism in Canada
Nov 1, 2024 · An undercurrent of anti-Indian sentiment has taken root since Canada set out to significantly increase immigration to ease a tight labour market after the shutdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. By last year, Canada had surpassed its target, with people of Indian origin making up nearly 30 per cent of new permanent residents, the largest share.. Anti-immigrant rhetoric online is potent and further ...
Economic performance and policy during the Harper years
Oct 19, 2016 · Economic performance and policy during the Harper years This is an expanded version of a chapter in The Harper Factor: Assessing a Prime Minister’s Policy Legacy, edited by Jennifer Ditchburn and Graham Fox (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016).
What to do with the public-service pension surplus?
Nov 19, 2024 · Kathryn is Policy Options’ public-service reporter, covering and analyzing the complex issues facing Canada’s federal public service. She writes The Functionary newsletter, an easy digest of public-service insider roundups. She is also the Accenture fellow on the Future of the Public Service.Her work has been recognized with a National Newspaper Award and a Canadian Online Publishing Award.
The Functionary - Policy Options
May 28, 2024 · A newsletter that helps you connect the dots on what's happening in the federal public service.
Access to MAiD should not cater to faith-based interests - Policy …
Feb 14, 2024 · “B.C. Ministry of Health pledges to build a corridor of sin.” That should have been the headline attached to B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix’s recent announcement that he will instruct Vancouver Coastal Health to make room next to the city’s St. Paul’s Hospital for a dedicated clinical and care space where patients from the hospital can receive “compassionate and dignified MAiD ...
The long-term consequences of youth unemployment
Nov 14, 2024 · Government and private sector must create opportunities that respond to the realities of this cohort and recognize what is at stake in the long term.
The Bloc’s ultimatum on seniors’ benefits
Oct 10, 2024 · Thanks to a more precarious minority Parliament, the Bloc Québécois is flexing more policy muscle than it has in a while. It has laid out the conditions for its temporary willingness to support the minority Liberals, one of which would significantly increase key cash benefits paid to Canadian seniors.. The Bloc would like to see its draft bill C-319 become law, and it now has the symbolic ...
Evaluating Canada’s pledge to triple nuclear capacity
Nov 18, 2024 · As we watch negotiations at the COP29 climate change conference and mark the one-year anniversary of Canada’s pledge to triple its nuclear capacity by 2050, the reality would appear to be clear: there is no feasible net-zero future without the deployment of new nuclear power.. This pledge signals a shift for a country that just three years ago excluded nuclear from its clean energy funding ...
Mehmet Tohti - Policy Options
Aug 10, 2020 · Mehmet Tohti. Mehmet Tohti is a prominent Uyghur Canadian activist, campaigning for the rights of Uyghurs over a decade. He is a co-founder of the World Uyghur Congress and has twice served as vice-president.