The 2025 Ontario election is just under a week away. As an exercise, we thought we would try to identify which ridings might be the closest ridings. To do so, we pulled the results from the 2018 and 2022 election […]

Melih Can is a third-year Ph.D. student in Social Psychology with a keen focus on how group-level concerns shape outgroup attitudes and sociopolitical preferences. Currently, he delves deep into the exploration of these concerns in the context of historical injustices […]

Anyone who has ever thought about buying a house in Ontario (especially first-time homebuyers) might have noticed an uptick in housing prices in the last decade (even prior to the COVID-19 price explosion). Between 2005 and 2020, the average cost […]

by Andrew R. Basso & Andrea Perrella Why has Reconciliation in Canada stalled? What barriers exist to the implementation of transitional justice? Sometimes the simplest questions can yield the most important findings. That is certainly the case for our multi-year […]

Hello everyone!   My name is Gabrielle and I am going into my third year of Political Science and Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. I’m excited to be a part of LISPOP because I am interested in politics, the development of policy, […]

Geoffrey Stevens, the esteemed Canadian journalist, leaves behind a remarkable legacy through a journalistic journey that spanned decades. From his first position as a reporter through his ascension to managing editor at The Globe and Mail, he fearlessly navigated the […]

Rt. Hon. Justin TrudeauPrime Minister of CanadaRideau Cottage1 Sussex DriveOttawa, ON  K1A 0A1 My Dear Prime Minister, Please forgive me for taking so long to come to your aid with my counsel. It is, as always, gratuitous, gratis, and worth every […]

As I watched Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives brutalize former governor general David Johnston – a better man than they, in my view – coarsely cross-examining him like a hostile witness at a war crimes trial when he appeared before the Procedure […]