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Trudeau’s New Year’s Resolution: Improve Public Transit
Mohamad Yaghi Road works, traffic jams, and long drives – these are all typical everyday experiences urban commuters in major Canadian cities face. Often, many rightly complain that travel to […]
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PRESTO: Your Ticket to Ride
Amelia Bredo If you’ve ever experienced another city’s system of public transportation, your return to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) was likely accompanied by mixed emotions. Toronto’s...
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Precarious Housing and Psychiatric Disability: How to Ensure Development over...
Shelby Challis Individuals who experience psychiatric disability are too often forced to navigate their way through precarious housing situations and manage these situations with little support. The...
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Mycelium: Mapping the Mind with Mushrooms
Taylor Crane Rodrigues On September 24th, the Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy hosted Mycelium: Mapping the Mind with Mushrooms, a psychedelics conference focusing on psilocybin mushrooms, in...
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The Case for an Arts & Culture Policy Revamp
Jordann Thirgood As Canadian icon Gord Downie makes history and our nation approaches its 150th birthday, the time is ripe for government to promote and strategically invest in our artists and […]
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Do we have the tools to melt Toronto’s fiscal iceberg?
Lauren Birch Lessons Learned from Peter Wallace, Toronto’s City Manager An engaged crowd of policy wonks and academics gathered on the evening of October 17th at the Munk School of Global […]
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Experiments Are Not Just for Scientists Anymore
Marvin JS Ferrer The 4th Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop answers big questions about why citizens do what they do US Republicans who are aware that the fast-food chain Wendy’s donates […]
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Flip-flops and frenemies: The latest chapter of Toronto transit
Jonathan Kates When Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne kiboshed Toronto City Council’s plan to implement road tolls on the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway, it was clear to anyone who […]
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The Problem with Diversity in Policy and Academia
Anna-Kay Russell I recently came across a timely article published in the University of Toronto’s Bulletin Report. In the lead up to Black History Month, Huda Hassan, a Black female […]
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Alternative Methods to Food Waste: New Policy Interventions Supporting...
Priscilla Mak As we move into 2017, there are many pressing issues surrounding food security in Canada, especially as we work to ensure a more food secure future across the […]
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Canada Might Need to Get Off Its Immigration High-Horse
Terhas Ghebretecle and Talha Sadiq Against a backdrop of growing anti-immigrant sentiment around the world, Canada is often portrayed as a model for the successful integration of immigrants. But...
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Driving Policy Change: Are Governments Ready For Automated Vehicles?
Madeline Rowland At first glance it may seem as though the car, arguably one of the most significant innovations of the twentieth century, has remained relatively unchanged since its creation. Minor […]
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Toronto Will Reduce Harm Through Supervised Injection Services
Shannon Hazlett According to a 2013 Toronto report, 206 people died from drug overdoses in that year, the highest annual number to date. Toronto is following the lead of its […]
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Uncovering Racial Discrimination in Ontario: The Case for Race-based Data...
Srijoni Rahman “There hasn’t been a time in the last 50 years when we have not marched on the streets of Toronto calling out to put an end to racism,” […]
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A Safe Place to Rest Your Head: Homelessness In Canada – March 15, 2017
Good morning subscribers! With temperatures falling below zero again in much of central Canada, hopes of an early spring appear to have dissipated. For those without stable access to shelter, […]
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Disrespect Existence; Expect Resistance: A Discussion on Trump’s Green...
Anna-Kay Russell Ever since the Paris Agreement was signed on October 5, 2016, there have been many conferences, workshops and panel discussions devoted on the topic of environmental action and the...
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Freedom of the Press in Canada
Robert St. Pierre February 25th marked a day of action in Canada for press freedom and privacy activists to rally and have their voices heard by government. Chief among the […]
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Transit and Tax Credits: A Lesson in Preparing Your Audience
Jonathan Kates Immediately following the release of Budget 2017, I found myself caught up in a whirlwind of opposing viewpoints thanks to the Liberal government’s discontinuation of the Public Transit...
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What Budget 2017 means for young Canadians
Natalie Brunet & Caleb Holden Last March, a careful listener might have been able to pick out the collective sigh of Canadian youth as they realized that the Trudeau Government’s […]
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Exploring Alternatives to the Universal Basic Income
Andrew Abballe and Jonathan Kates If you’ve been following any discussion of 21st century economic adaptation, you’ve likely come across the term “universal basic income” (UBI). This is the concept […]
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