The Editorial Board, Author at Canadian Affairs

Editorial: Five lessons from covering the world’s top health-care system

We’ve spent weeks learning about the world’s best performing health-care system. Here are our key takeaways

By revisiting how donations are taxed, Ottawa could help reverse a decades-long decline in charitable giving

Monetary and fiscal policies stabilized economies. But did they also sow the seeds of higher prices and household strain?

A precedent from New Brunswick shows there is a simple fix to Parliament’s floor-crossing problem

Canadians would not tolerate in other social programs the inequities that exist in subsidized child care. There is a fix to this problem

The resignation of Air Canada’s CEO was justified. But the broader push for universal bilingual leadership is not

Recent school tragedies — both actual and averted — expose gaps in school safety, online oversight and public accountability

Canada’s leaders must prioritize the one issue we’ve entirely neglected, and which is known to cause population-level harms

Three-quarters of Canadians think floor crossing MPs should not automatically keep their seats. Parliament should listen

Nearly half of young adults globally suffer serious mental health challenges. A new report offers a surprising roadmap for change