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Closing the Gap: How 2+1 Roads Can Save Time, Lives, and Taxpayer Dollars
Twinning highways has been used as the primary strategy for improving driving conditions and road safety in Northern Ontario for decades. This option carries high costs and a long completion time. The latest paper from NPI finds that 2+1 roads offer a better cost-benefit ratio compared to twinning. The piece recommends that, going forward, a […]
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A million new non-market homes in 10 years: That should be the goal – Policy Options
November 21, 2023 After 40 years of inaction on low-income housing, the stock of social and affordable housing needs to double. There are five ways to finance it. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, between 10 and 25 per cent of new housing construction in Canada was non-market: 20,000 to 40,000 public, community and co-op […]
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Bill C-11: Canadian Heritage issues final policy direction to the CRTC – It Business
November 16, 2023 Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge has issued the final policy direction to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for the regulation of Bill C-11, after it initiated a public proceeding in June. The legislation, which forces streaming services like Netflix, Disney Plus, and YouTube to pay to support Canadian media content, faced […]
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Bonnie Crombie promises to bring back basic Income pilot program – Thorold Today
The policy planks come two weeks before Liberal members vote for the new leader EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park. Ontario Liberal leadership candidate Bonnie Crombie’s economic plan includes reviving the previous Liberal government’s basic income pilot program and gender pay gap law. […]
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Yänonhchia’ would draw on First Nations’ proud history of sustainable housing – Policy Options
November 8, 2023 Scaling up an Indigenous-to-Indigenous housing finance model would get far more homes built where banks won’t go and where Ottawa won’t back loans. In better times for Canada, when safe, affordable and adequate housing was in far greater supply and taken for granted by most Canadians, First Nations housing was already in […]
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Shuttered Yukon mine is a canary for resource-dependent communities: Ken Coates and David Silar for Inside Policy
November 6, 2023 To the Selkirk First Nation the Minto Mine brought prosperity and hope As accountants scramble to find new owners for the Minto Mine in central Yukon, which abruptly shut down last spring, the closure continues to cost the territorial government millions of dollars for water treatment and environmental protection. It is also […]
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Balancing ambition with pragmatism in Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy – Policy Options
November 2, 2023 Less than a year after the release of Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy, the federal government can celebrate its first major victory. But challenges lie ahead. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau left the summit in Jakarta between Canada and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in September with a significant win in the form […]
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Revisiting Homelessness, Mental Health, and Substance Use in Northern Ontario; Moving Northern Ontario Communities Forward
October 26, 2023 – Northern Ontario communities are experiencing a homelessness, addiction, and mental health crisis. As established in Northern Policy Institute’s paper, More than Just a Number: Addressing the Homelessness, Addiction, and Mental Health Crisis in the North, current services and programs are not meeting the needs of northern communities. Further analysis was done […]
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Will Premier Kinew Choose the Indigenous Prosperity Path? – Frontier Centre For Public Policy
October 21, 2023 Wab Kinew being elected as the first Indigenous premier is historic, and a golden opportunity for him to set a different course for Indigenous peoples in Manitoba. Similarly, when Barack Obama was elected the first Black president, it was historic but there are different opinions on what that can mean. Manitobans should […]
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A course-correction on cannabis equity : the moment is now – Policy Options
October 16, 2023 The legislative review of the Cannabis Act is a crucial opportunity to move toward cannabis policies that advance racial justice and social equity. Five years after legalization, the landscape of cannabis equity in Canada remains unchanged. Those who are socially marginalized continue to be excluded from the cannabis industry and governments have […]
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