Clément Gagnon: Souveraineté numérique : le Canada doit protéger ses intérêts policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/2025/11/s...

Joshua Langston, Shawn Harmon & Janice E. Graham: On ostriches, polarizing politics and buried heads. Why CFIA needed to act decisively to enforce public health safety regulations in the controversial B.C. case. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ostr...

Rachel Samson: La capacité du budget à remplir ses promesses reste à démontrer. Pour réussir, la fonction publique devra exceller dans l’exécution, alors que son personnel et son financement réduits. policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/2025/11/b... @policyoptions.irpp.org @rsamson.bsky.social

Somebody should mobiliZe to buy Mark Carney a CANADIAN Oxford Dictionary.

This is going to be a fantastic event and I can’t wait to come up to Ottawa for it. See you there 💫

I stopped covering muncipal campaigns a few years ago and had to start reading up like a regular citizen before I vote. As I was perusing the CBC promise tracker, I was amused to find this on one of the biggest city challenges. (Yes, the details behind the promises are different, but still.)

Montreal has managed to go 12 years without a mayor resigning in disgrace. Thank you Valerie Plante and may new mayor Martinez Ferrada extend the streak to 16. (It’s a low bar I know but you should have seen the place before.)

There will be the usual lectures about turnout in the Montreal municipal election but in 34 years of voting I’ve never come closer to not bothering.

Pity the Sunday news reporters in Toronto who thought they’d be covering a victory party today but are instead chasing the red-head kid.

I thought the Jays were good at things like not falling asleep on bases.

There are a lot of Torontonians in this Montreal bar.

Shohei wearing those New Balances, like a dad

If Canadian PM Carney manages a “reset” with China, it will be the fifth reset in 20 years under three Prime Ministers. Two of those resets have required their own reset, by the same PM, after they went south. Heavy lies the hand on the China Reset button www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

My 11-year-old officially works harder to accommodate people at his birthday parties than the Quebec state.

My longstanding unpopular stance is that the beginning of the end was comment sections on news stories. The day we created this false narrative that everyone is entitled to "weigh in" on literal facts, we created the conditions for this BS where you have to "hear people out" or you're censoring.

Join us on Nov 18 for our annual Fall Lecture with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, one of North America’s top voices on health & science misinformation. He'll unpack the forces shaping our “information chaos” & what it takes to separate fact from fiction in today’s world. 🎟️Register now: irpp.org?p=20841

En tout cas, c'est pas le moment de se déguiser en Bob L'Éponge.

An amazing obituary with an unexpected appearance by the Raelian movement, a cult known for UFO belief and sexual libertinism.

Every once in a while I discover a hole in my news knowledge because I didn't get past the ragey internet discussion.

Michael M. Atkinson & Haizhen Mou: "Creating an independent fiscal council charged with designing fiscal rules and monitoring compliance would help restore discipline to Canada’s fiscal governance." policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/fede...

Et voila: The English version of Luc Godbout and Suzie St-Cerny on where Quebec has made progress and where it is falling back economically and fiscally since the 1995 referendum. policyoptions.irpp.org/issues/socio...

Tonight’s hockey opinion is they should eliminate the first and third TV timeout and just play ads between whistles since most stoppages are 25 seconds anyway. (Yes my hidden agenda is to make my DVR skip-ahead more efficient.)

Nous publions aujourd'hui un rapport sur l'appui à la souveraineté du Québec (et bien d'autres sujets connexes!). Ce rapport fait partie de l'enquête annuelle "Confédération de demain". centre.irpp.org/fr/research-...

Wouldn't it be great if someone found a way to do a crisp English-language summary of the excellent @irpp.org report from @cbreton.bsky.social on the state of Quebec politics 30 years after the 1995 referendum? cdnsurveystuff.substack.com/p/federalist...

Luc Godbout & Suzie St-Cerny: Trente ans après le référendum, le Québec est plus riche et plus égalitaire, mais il est confronté à de grands défis économiques, sociaux et de finances publiques. @policyoptions.irpp.org policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/2025/10/l... (English version to come!)

Tonight’s baseball opinion is you shouldn’t take out players who are cooking.

My only baseball opinion tonight is you don’t risk taking the bat out of the hands of your last great batter.

It is funny that the AP headlines the least interesting home run of the night.

As with the Winnipeg Jets departure, it took me about 10 years to get past the Expos leaving to cheer for someone else. Probably helped that the Jays were good and fun about then.

Hey @apnews.com I fixed it for you.

Montrealers have a love/hate relationship with the Blue Jays. Older Montrealers tend to be less enthused, still bitter about the loss of the Expos. Younger Montrealers say 'Go Jays Go!'. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

Daniel Béland & André Lecours: Alberta’s independence movement borrows from Quebec’s playbook, but deep differences make secession far less likely. @danielbeland.bsky.social @policyoptions.irpp.org policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/queb...

Yesterday, The IRPP’s Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation launched a new series, "Barriers and Bridges: Rethinking Trade Within the Federation," a new series on the future of interprovincial trade. Over the next few days, we’ll feature each of the 6 essays from the series 👇

Rachel Margolis, Howard Ramos & Yue Teng: New data show Indigenous fertility rates have fallen below replacement level, reshaping communities and national demographics. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/indi... @policyoptions.irpp.org

Un petit chien perdu se promenait dans la rue seul dans Outremont sans collier ni laisse. Il est extrêmement mignon et gentil, et veut retrouver sa famille. Il est en sécurité chez nous en attendant. Signalé à la SPCA de Montréal.

Job opening. The Globe and Mail is seeking a Quebec-based reporter to team up with Eric Andrew-Gee. jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing

Wherein gang members kidnap, torture and murder a woman, are caught, and a series of missteps lead to face-saving and butt-covering guilty pleas to lesser charges.

New column, on federalism and redistribution policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/fede...

More innings more more

The Globe's new man in Calgary wants to chat. Don't leave him hanging!

Zach Battat: Russia can sustain a long war. The real urgency for peace lies in Western capitals, not in waiting for change in Moscow. @policyoptions.irpp.org policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/occi...

A propos of nothing: When you search "Arctic" in the photos through the world's wire services available via the Canadian Press, the results are filled with Russian and Danish military manoeuvres, Chinese icebreakers and "research" vessels, and not much at all from Canada.

Montréal really reached new levels of you-can’t-get-there-from-here this summer. I bike downtown twice a week and haven’t been able to use the same route two weeks in a row.

🧡 Today on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, hear Natan Obed of @inuittapiriit.bsky.social on why Inuit self-determination is vital to 🇨🇦 Canadian democracy. 🎧 Hosted by @jenditchburn.bsky.social ( @irpp.org @policyoptions.irpp.org ). Listen: buff.ly/PDkRckp

Alexander Dalziel & Jonathan Berkshire Miller: Canada must anchor its Arctic strategy in the North Pacific, with Japan and South Korea as central partners in science, security and shipbuilding. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/paci... @policyoptions.irpp.org

“It's not 50/50. It's 50% to the winner, 27.7% to the private company, Win50, and the charity at the end of the day gets around 20%.” The “staggering” amount paid to Win50 over the last 4 years raises a lot of questions about how the EOCF operates, Bahen said www.stalbertgazette.com/beyond-local...

The Parkland (🍁) sale to Sunoco (🗽) offers little benefit to Canada while risking jobs, innovation and sovereignty. Ottawa should say no. Read Sarah Doyle and @jonshell.bsky.social in Policy Options. #FDI #OwnershipMatters #AlwaysCanada #Never51 policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/suno...

I once heard a podcast episode where the guest theorized that the addiction to flying private eventually corrupts most prominent Americans. The rarity of this kind of sight reinforces the thesis.

ÉLECTIONS MUNICIPALES ALBERTAINS : Le 20 octobre s’approche rapidement… si vous n’êtes pas certain des bases à connaître pour le jour du vote, voici un résumé.