I thought I had a new headshot, but the discourse being what it is, it is now unusable.

We are honoured and thrilled to welcome Kurtis at the Centre. What a way to launch the Alphonsine Lafond-Tom Molloy fellowship with such a fantastic scholar doing essential work.

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If you’re in Montréal for CPSA and want what Dom is talking about, I have a place for you!

To mark National Indigenous Peoples Day, we are very pleased to release the annual Confederation of Tomorrow report on attitudes towards reconciliation in Canada. #IndigenousPeoplesDay First Nations Financial Management Board IRPP/Policy Options Canada West Foundation The Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Alain-G. Gagnon #CoT2024 environicsinstitute.org/projects/proje…

ICYMI: new #CoT2024 report on Canadian identity, just in time for 🇨🇦 Day! "national and regional or cultural identities tend to overlap, meaning that most people express multiple identities rather than selecting only one over others" environicsinstitute.org/projects/proje…

Ally Hays-Alberstat and I study Canadians' opinion of the health care system. The evaluation of the systm has worsened even more since last year. This assessment of crisis levels in health care opens a space for calls for its further privatization. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/july…

It's time for the summer 🇨🇦 premiers' meeting - and so time for a🧵on public perceptions of the state of federal-provincial relations. #CanadasPremiers #CouncilOfTheFederation #CoT2024

Je vais être honnête, ce matin je répondais aux demandes de trois enfants en même temps et quand j’ai entendu le gars de la revue de presse, j’ai compris un bus. Et je ne comprenais vraiment pas pourquoi le juge en chef de la Cour suprême avait un bus. Maintenant je comprends.

The state of health care systems has become ever more important to federal-provincial relations in Canada. As Alexandra Hays-Alberstat and Olivier Jacques explain in this Centre of Excellence research bulletin, both orders of government have work to do. centre.irpp.org/research-studi…

Good stuff from someone who's been working on this for a few years 😉

Nouveau bulletin du Centre: L'impression que les systèmes de santé sont en crise augmente et tous les gouvernements ont du pain sur la planche.

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En rappel. Chronique de juillet 2023 où je disais tout le bien que je pense de Tim Walz et de son administration. Les Perreaux IRPP/Policy Options policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/magazines/j…

Today, our research associate Ji Yoon Han came out with a research bulletin about the confusion over bilateral agreements between the federal and provincial/territorial governments. Here's a quick recap: centre.irpp.org/research-studi…

Luc Godbout: Is the federal health transfer really growing faster than provincial spending? Luc Godbout IRPP/Policy Options policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/sept…

Apropos of nothing, as in maybe nobody cares, but removing the carbon tax + rebate is a very regressive action (ie. hurts the poor, helps richer households). But hey, populism! 🥳 sigh…