May 21, 2021 | The power dynamics in United States-Israeli relations are exceedingly听complicated. David Shribman helps unpack that complexity in this episode of The Decibel podcast, produced by The听Globe and Mail.
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June 5, 2021 | Max Bell School professor Geoffrey Kelley has been appointed as the new negotiator between the Quebec government and the Kahnawake Mohawk community. Kelley takes on this critical role after having served as Quebec鈥檚 Indigenous Affairs minister from 2005 to 2007, from 2011 to 2012, and from 2014 to 2018.
May 20, 2021 | "That is why when you hear a Gen Xer talk about being the 鈥渓atchkey鈥 generation, they aren鈥檛 really complaining 鈥 they鈥檙e bragging. There鈥檚 another word for the neglect being described here, and that鈥檚听freedom."听Andrew Potter听explains why he's so grateful to count himself as a member of Gen X.
June 4, 2021 | In her latest piece for the Globe and Mail, Max Bell School professor Jennifer Welsh asserts that Canada must leverage its international relationships and听articulate its vision for upholding democracy around the world.
May 27, 2021 | In this article by CBC News, Max Bell School professor Ken Boessenkool expresses support for the burgeoning conservative movement to translate carbon pricing revenues into lower personal income tax rates.
April 26, 2021 | MPP candidate听Rudayna Bahubeshi writes in The Philanthropist about the impacts of听systemic anti-Blackness in the non-profit sector.
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August 2, 2021 | As part of their 2020 Policy Lab, a team of Max Bell School students examined ways to measure and mitigate the effects of sound pollution in Montreal. In this Montreal Gazette piece, read about their analysis and the impacts it's having on public policy.
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August 7, 2021 | In this听new National Post article, Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen argues that China's sweeping surveillance apparatus poses a threat to democracy the world over.
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April 26, 2021 | President Joe Biden's plan to fully withdraw American troops from Afghanistan has been met by extensive debate, but little of the discourse has centred on the plight of religious minorities鈥攑articularly Sikhs and Hindus鈥攚hose fate in Afghanistan remains worryingly uncertain.
April 28, 2021 | MPP alumna Paisley Sim, who recently wrote an IRPP policy brief on paid sick leave in Canada,听was interviewed by the CBC after the听Government of Ontario announced a plan to temporarily provide听workers in the province with three paid sick days.
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April 24, 2021 | In the contemporary First Hundred Days (the standard measure听of early presidential achievement that, in Joe Biden's case, ends听April 30),听a consequential question, which听will determine the course of the next several years and will shape the 46th President鈥檚 place in history, emerges: Has Mr. Biden鈥攚ho came to the White House as the avatar of moderation, the spokesman for unity, and the exemplar of bipartisanship鈥攃hanged?
April 28, 2021 | Max Bell School professor David Shribman reacts to U.S. President Joe Biden's first address to Congress, which leaned into the burgeoning sentiment among Americans that government can and should play a central role in addressing the biggest challenges of our time.
April 25, 2021听| Max Bell School professor Pearl Eliadis was interviewed by CTV News, providing听perspective on Quebec's Bill 21 and the听notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
June 1, 2020听| For years, carbon taxation has been anathema to Canada's conservatives. But, in a recent piece for听our MAX Policy听series,听Ken Boessenkool argued that a price on pollution could help shrink the size of government and achieve other conservative priorities.
April 28,听2021 | This article in the Columbia Journalism Review explores听a recent seminar鈥攃o-hosted by the Max Bell School's Taylor Owen鈥攖hat brought together competition ministers from across the globe to discuss the ramifications of the听News Media Bargaining Code and the changing dynamics between platforms and publishers.