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Op-Eds

Dive into informed, balanced and non-partisan commentary from some of the nation’s leading policy minds.

Who pays for forest fire damage?

Disaster-related costs are expected to double in the next decade. Canada needs a new system to manage the risks, writes  Action Canada Fellow Jimmy Lou in the Financial Post

Why population growth matters

In pursuit of productivity, Canada can’t afford to ignore the importance of vibrant communities 

Indigenous participation is the future of major projects

After decades of failed efforts, major LNG projects are finally moving ahead — and only with Indigenous communities as genuine economic partners  

How Canada could become a global life sciences leader

PPF CEO Inez Jabalpurwala writes in the Toronto Star about why, in the age of AI and big data, Canada should be focusing on clinical trails

How humanity can thrive in an AI world

Inez Jabalpurwala, PPF president and CEO, and Andrew Nevin, inaugural director of Brainomics Venture at the Center for BrainHealth, write in The Globe and Mail about skills in the AI age

The world is turning to nuclear. Canada should lead 

In the global search for reliable sources of energy, Canada has an opportunity and a head start

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Why Canadian energy isn’t saving the world

In an oil shock, Canada should be helping allies — but our infrastructure still leaves us on the sidelines 

Canada is missing a golden opportunity to lead a global movement

In the Toronto Star, Inez Jabalpurwala and Chris Hobson write that Canada is a highly desirable place for health research, but we’ve been moving in the wrong direction.

What the next major projects list needs

The first list of nation-building projects showed real intent. The second list needs to show there is strategy aimed at key results.

‘Team Canada’ needs a rethink

What Canada requires is a truly all-hands, enduring response that will pay dividends in this crisis and future ones

How to bring Canada’s Arctic in from the cold

As interest in the region grows — along with foreign competition — Canada needs a policy rethink to reverse decades of underinvestment

A provincial plan to ‘punch back’ at Trump tariffs

Provinces can protect their resource sectors and help fight Trump tariffs. The key is setting minimum prices for the resources they own.

Budget 2024: A glaring omission in Canada’s health security defenses  

The federal government outlined a number of small steps in pandemic preparedness while other countries are making giant leaps  

Budget 2024: A major step forward for Indigenous project ownership

A document imbued with incrementalism offered at least one big energy policy advance with the long-awaited Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program