Politics – Views & Research

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What the Nvidia allegations mean for Canada’s growing engagement with China

Kawser Ahmed, University of Manitoba

Thomas Markle allegations undo years of media attacks painting Meghan as cold and callous

Tiara Sukhan, Western University

What Bill C-39’s loosened environmental regulations could mean for Canadians

Kerry Black, United Nations University; University of Calgary

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Wab Kinew wants the Indian Act gone: It’s an opportunity to trade old colonial rules for new nation-to-nation relations

Frank Deer, University of Manitoba

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How political disagreement with our neighbours relates to whether we bother casting a ballot

Md Mujahedul Islam, Cornell University

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Canada’s international student cap hit Atlantic universities hard. Here’s why it matters

Dale Kirby, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Who does Budget 2026 help? Not the 1 in 3 Canadians skipping meals to cope with grocery costs

Tracy Smith-Carrier, Royal Roads University

Budget 2026 gives households a boost, but businesses get the biggest break

Preetika Joshi, McGill University

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Blue wave: The Democrats’ historic midterm election gains could also offer Canada a path to peace

Jason Opal, The Ohio State University

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Peak polycrisis? Why Trump’s midterm drubbing gives us reason for cautious hope

Andrew Heffernan, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

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A woman with shoulder-length brown hair speaks behind a podium that says Stronger Alberta Within a united Canada

After the referendum: What’s next for Premier Danielle Smith and her United Conservative Party?

Donald Barry, University of Calgary

Canada wants to rebuild its manufacturing sector, but it’s losing the immigrant workers it needs

Marshia Akbar, Toronto Metropolitan University and Devaanshi Khanzode, Toronto Metropolitan University

Misinformation won: How divisive politics doomed Canada’s carbon tax

Kathryn Harrison, University of British Columbia; Alice Lépissier, University of California, Santa Barbara; Chloé Boutron, University of British Columbia; Erick Lachapelle, Université de Montréal, and Matto Mildenberger, University of California, Santa Barbara

A man dressed in camouflage pants and a cowboy hat holds an 'axe the tax' sign as he walks along the side of a highway. mountains are in the background.

Why Québec separatism is unlikely despite the Parti Québecois election win

Gavin Furrey, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

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Why Mark Carney is still betting big on Europe

Katerina Sviderska, University of Cambridge

Two men and a woman walk along a boardwalk with a Canadian and EU flag behind them.

Ontario’s alcohol overhaul is costing taxpayers more than expected. The LCBO’s finances explain why

Michael J. Armstrong, Brock University

Albertans soundly vote to stay in Canada. Many are asking why they had to vote in the first place

Jared Wesley, University of Alberta

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Q&A with an Alberta politics expert: Taking the province’s pulse on the eve of the referendum

Jared Wesley, University of Alberta and The Conversation Canada, The Conversation

A dark-haired woman stands behind a Alberta referendum banner.

Two provinces, two paths: Alberta rejects independence as Québec weighs its own referendum

Donald Barry, University of Calgary

Several people wearing Canada t-shirts wave small Canadian flags.

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Eurovision 2027: Is Canada singing its way into the European Union?

Petra Dolata, University of Calgary

An inquiry into alleged COVID-19 vaccine injuries fails to weigh the ethics and risks of Canada’s response

Kari Pahlman, University of Sydney; Diego S. Silva, University of Sydney, and Maxwell J. Smith, Western University

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5 Ontario education unions hold strike votes as cuts squeeze classrooms

Chantal Mancini, McMaster University

People at a rally, one with a sign fund the future and another together for publicly funded education, in front of trees with orange leaves.

Wainwright fire shows the importance of health-care system resilience to Canadian security

Bhavini Gohel, University of Calgary and Marcia Clark, University of Calgary

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David Eby’s early election call backfires badly, putting Conservatives in power in B.C.

Stewart Prest, University of British Columbia

A tall man looks pained speaking in front of an orange and yellow BC NDP banner

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How Canada can better track what happens to trafficked wildlife after they’re seized

Mikaela Gerwing, Concordia University

Endangered species in Canada face extensive delays receiving protection

Peter R. Thompson, Simon Fraser University; Mary Ann C. Perron, Nipissing University; Sara Cannon, University of British Columbia, and William Bugg, University of British Columbia

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The politics of city rats: What urban rodents tell us about housing and sanitation

Christine Yanagawa, Simon Fraser University and Kaylee Byers, University of British Columbia; Simon Fraser University

From Ukraine to the Middle East: How drones and AI are rewriting the rules of modern warfare

James Horncastle, Simon Fraser University

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How Canada could defend itself against an American invasion

Aisha Ahmad, University of Toronto and Jeremy Wildeman, Carleton University; L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Playful satire or weaponized play? Why White House video games are so problematic

Scott DeJong, Concordia University

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Albertans disapprove of Donald Trump — and his brand is weakening separatism, too

Steven Nuss, Simon Fraser University; Clifton van der Linden, McMaster University, and Mark Pickup

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The cycle of hate: How Canada and the U.S. entered a cycle of hostility and how they can break it

Victoria Esses, Western University; Allison Harell, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); Hazel Rose Markus, Stanford University, and Prerna Singh, Brown University

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Canada must consider even unlikely threats — including an American invasion

Andrea Charron, University of Manitoba

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A crowd of students hold up protest signs. One reads 'alcohol is not consent.'

The Cornell 7 case proves we’re still trapped in a rape culture déjà vu

Meredith Ralston, Mount Saint Vincent University

Russian team ‘misused’ Claude AI to train a killer drone on scraped Ukrainian war footage

John R. Heckman, Brock University

A man walks through a harvested corn field with a rifle slung over this back and a destroyed drone hanging from his hand, as the field burns to his right

What Canada could gain from joining the EU’s Erasmus+ program, and what’s unresolved

Dale Kirby, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Thanks, Trump: Why Canada may become the European Union’s first ever ‘associate member’

Stewart Prest, University of British Columbia

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From French outpost to Euro-Canadian corridor? Why Carney and Macron met in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Paco Milhiet, Institut catholique de Paris (ICP)

A man with short grey hair and a man with short dark hair clasp hands standing front of the Canadian and French flags on a sunny day.

A man walks by a wall with a large graffiti depicting a man and a woman with the words 'traitors' in Hebrew across their faces.

Should soldiers who confess to atrocities get anonymity in journalism? The dilemma at the heart of NAZA

Shenaz Kermalli, Toronto Metropolitan University

Canada and the U.S. are giving children money to build savings. But the rules on keeping it are very different

Denis Schweizer, Concordia University and Juliane Proelss, Concordia University

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Cost overruns aren’t just due to incompetence, bureaucracy and bad faith

Hicham Rahali, HEC Montréal and Miguel Hernandez, HEC Montréal

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A culturally diverse group of people using phones, sat on a bench in a row

Canada’s settlement services are going digital. AI should support workers, not replace them

Hamed Kazemzadeh, University of Calgary; L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

A rotund man in a white polo shirt in the back of a black SUV. An American flag hangs from a tree overhead.

Decoding Trump’s chaos: What science tells us about how Canada — and the world — should respond

Eric Cadesky, University of British Columbia

Trump’s geopolitical aims, not economics, are behind his trade hostility towards Canada

Greg Poelzer, University of Saskatchewan

A rotund man waves as he gets into a large jet with United States emblazoned on its fuselage.

Trump’s ‘renaming’ of Lake Ontario is emblematic of centuries of colonial erasure

Nicole Rosen, University of Manitoba

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Trump’s Lake Ontario bluster: Why treating his sovereignty threats as a joke is dangerous

Cornel Grey, Western University

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Trump’s new tariffs give Ontario and Québec the perfect excuse to sell their unsold American booze

Michael J. Armstrong, Brock University

Empty shelves in a liquor store with signs hanging on them saying 'Buy Canadian instead'

Donald Trump’s ‘art of the deal’ means reneging on them. That’s why Canada cannot capitulate

Eric Van Rythoven, Carleton University

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Donald Trump’s dilemma: Ending the Iran war to appease Americans will anger his evangelical base

André Gagné, Concordia University and Jason Piché, Concordia University

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Donald Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke — but global warming is loading the wildfire dice

Andrew Weaver, University of Victoria

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A man speaks from a podium next to red flags. A NATO banner is behind him.

From east to west: Why Turkey is playing both sides

Spyros A. Sofos, Simon Fraser University

A long shot of a refugee camp where people are seen walking along a dusty road.

The ICJ prepares a landmark ruling on the Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar

San Beauchemin, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Democracy from the front lines: How Taiwan and the Taiwanese diaspora combat global isolation

Hokbi Tiunn, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Taiwanese protesters hold the flags of Taiwan and the U.S.

Street dogs: Why India can’t — and shouldn’t — evict its canines

Mitu Sengupta, Toronto Metropolitan University

A tea vendor is surrounded by friendly stray dogs.

How Taiwan is balancing between American and Chinese visions of energy dominance

Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia

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The sinking of the MV Barima puts Guyanese inequities under a global spotlight

Janette Bulkan, University of British Columbia

Buddhist monks sit on red tarps in a muddy expanse conducting death rituals

Nepal could show the world how to recover sustainably from a major disaster

Sara Shneiderman, University of British Columbia and Amy Leigh Johnson, Berry College

I lived through the first Taliban girls’ school ban — watching it happen again is heartbreaking

Ghazaal Habibyar, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

A group of young girls strand shoulder to shoulder facing the camera with solemn looks.

How Gen Z and India’s Cockroach Janata Party are successfully challenging Narendra Modi

Shivaji Mukherjee, Simon Fraser University

What India’s ‘cockroach’ protests reveal about youth, solidarity and hope

Alka Kumar, Toronto Metropolitan University

A large group of protesters holding up flags and signage as they chant.

A blonde woman with tears in her eyes carries a cat out of destroyed apartment building.

Russia’s nuclear strategy in Ukraine isn’t deterrence – it’s terror

Svitlana Matviyenko, Simon Fraser University

Myanmar’s forgotten war: How the world is failing the test of the UN’s Responsibility to Protect