TVO’s The Agenda: An Ontario State of Mind
March 20, 2019
Andrew Parkin is on the Agenda discussing our findings about regional differences in Ontario, from Mowat report Portraits 2017: Regional Differences in Ontario. Read More
March 20, 2019
Andrew Parkin is on the Agenda discussing our findings about regional differences in Ontario, from Mowat report Portraits 2017: Regional Differences in Ontario. Read More
March 12, 2019
In November 2018, the federal government announced its intention to unilaterally develop a new international education strategy. This report argues that it would be more effective for the federal government to eschew grand strategies and instead use international education strategically in advancing other, and more properly federal, policy goals. Read More
February 21, 2019
Most Ontarians believe that urban and rural Canadians have different values. Our new analysis of data from an Ontario-wide survey conducted in November 2017 shows that, on most issues in Ontario, such an urban-rural divide is not evident.
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January 10, 2018
The controversy stemming from the decision of Ontario senator Lynn Beyak to publish comments she received from the public about the residential school system – comments that her own party leader called “racist” – has raised some uncomfortable questions about the attitudes of Canadians towards Indigenous peoples and the issue of reconciliation. Read More
August 4, 2016
The federal government has announced the long-awaited launch of a national inquiry into violence against Indigenous women and girls. Read More
January 14, 2016
The recent concerns over the “advocacy chill” highlighted systemic problems in the relationship between the government and sector. The newly elected federal government has given the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and the Department of Finance the mandate to clarify the rules governing political activity and develop a new legislative framework to “strengthen the sector”. Read More