Canada's (Changing?) Role in the World

Canada’s universal healthcare system remains a major social and economic asset. But years of tightly controlling costs have also left it with too few beds, too little resilience, burned-out health professionals and patients rationed through wait times. We may have made health care financially susta…

Canada and the United States have gone over the tariff cliff. Was walking away really the only acceptable choice? Now can Canada retaliate without doing ourselves harm or alienating those American businesses and consumers who may be its best allies? And, will emergency support help vulnerable firms…

With President Donald Trump’s August 19 tariff deadline just days away, Canadian negotiators have remained in Washington trying to avert a show-stopping escalation in the trade war. But despite the rightful attention, these are not yet CUSMA renegotiations. They are a narrower — and increasingly ur…

Canada has spent more than half a century talking about diversifying its trade. Donald Trump’s assault on the Canada-U.S. economic relationship has made the old “Third Option” newly urgent – but the numbers remain sobering. Modelling discussed in this episode suggests that even a successful push wo…