First Nations children and the cruel shadow of COVID: Melissa Mbarki in the Star
The pandemic has shone a revealing light on the disparity of rights and conditions for people who live in Indigenous communities, writes Melissa...
I’m a Public School Teacher. The Kids Aren’t Alright: Stacey Lance for Inside Policy
This article first appeared on the CommonSense substack. My students were taught to think of themselves as vectors of disease, writes Stacey Lance....
Canada pays higher price than peers for modest pandemic success: MLI’s COVID Misery Index
Jumping from 9th to 6th place out of 15 countries, Canada weathered the initial stages of Omicron better than most due to high...
Canada Improves Its Global CMI Ranking, But Faces a New Form of Misery
View the full, updated COVID Misery Index (CMI) here. Download the data for the January 20, 2022 update here. For more information, including a full...
Want to fix Canada’s crippled health system? We’ve had the plan for 20 years
With the pandemic exposing Canada’s underperforming, beleaguered health care system, a new MLI commentary by Janice MacKinnon looks back on recommendations from two...
Don’t count on COVID to convince us that medicare needs reform: Jeffrey Simpson in iPolitics
When compared to largely public health-care systems in advanced industrial countries, Canada's is poor to average, writes Jeffrey Simpson in iPolitics. Below is...
Senior-cession — the real losers of the pandemic: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
While the pandemic was hard on many parts of the workforce, seniors took it on the chin, writes Jack Mintz in the Financial...
Why we need a flexible, prudent approach to vaccine mandates: Shawn Whatley in the Hub
To date, most discussion on vaccine mandates reflects a principled approach. People must choose a side, for or against, writes Shawn Whatley in...
Remote work’s impact on mothers may include an unexpected effect - a potential higher birth rate: Nazareth in the Globe and Mail
The pandemic shift to working from home might unexpectedly nudge up Canadian birth rates over the next few years, writes Linda Nazareth in...
Persistent lockdowns, poor business investment drive surprise drop in GDP: New Quarterly Economic Report
OTTAWA, ON (September 28, 2021): The second quarter of 2021 saw an unexpected contraction of Canada’s economy, shrinking by 0.3 percent. What caused...
