Appearing behind a podium with the phrase “Your Pension, Your Choice,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith promised that the province’s proposed withdrawal from the Canada Pension Plan, in favour of a homemade solution, will result in lower rates and bigger benefits.
A new political party arrived on the scene on Wednesday promising a move away from “extreme positions.” But Conservatives aren’t shaking in their boots about losing votes to the new party, insiders and strategists say.
The Hub announced today the launch of Hub Forum, a new email and online discussion feature that will be a venue for substantive discussion and debate about the important public policy…
Some experts say groupthink has clouded the judgment of central bank governors. Bankers may have learned the wrong lesson from recent downturns, setting the stage for the recent burst of inflation.
An actually compassionate approach to drug addiction requires that we prevent people from dying and possibly manage the symptoms of their condition, and possibly, eventually, curb consumption in some cases.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the federal Cabinet retreat in Charlottetown, including its focus on the country’s housing crisis. They also discuss new polling that finds a majority of Canadians believe that Prime Minister Trudeau should step down.
The fight over new housing permissions is ultimately a fight for the future. The strategies and tactics proposed for that fight are critical and should be critically considered, as are the conviction and will of the fighter.
The priority today must be to unblock the restrictions at all levels of government that prevent our private sector from building. That’s it. In many cases, those restrictions come packaged in policies called “green standards” or “sustainable design requirements”, but these all add up to more bureaucracy, more costs, and fewer units of housing getting built.
This episode of In Conversation with Amanda Lang features discussion on the growing tensions between Ottawa and the provinces over the federal government’s new regulations for net-zero emissions for electricity grids by 2035.
Properly used, behavioural science tools and insights, like nudge policies, can empower us. But not just us as individuals—large organizations like government could also use similar tools to improve their own operations.
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