economy

Published Nov. 18, 2013, in The Waterloo Region Record.

This may be difficult, but please try to forget — for just a moment — all that lurid Rob Ford news exploding out of Toronto city hall. Can you do that?

And try to forget about the ugly Senate expenses scandal with the unprecedented ouster of erstwhile celebrities Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau. Stars no longer, they remain senators in name only.

Published Oct. 15, 2013, in The Waterloo Regional Record

Parliament sits so infrequently — just 76 days so far this year — that we almost forget it exists, which, of course, may be what the Harper Conservatives have in mind.

Published Oct. 2, 2013, in The Guelph Mercury. 

It has been just over two years since the Republican congressional leadership forced U.S. President Barack Obama to blink in an eyeball-to-eyeball game of chicken between these two branches of the American government.

Published June 20, 2013, in The Waterloo Region Record.

Aboriginal people are one of the most impoverished demographic groups in Canada, and over the last several years, there has been a vigorous debate on how to address this seemingly unending cycle of poverty.

Authors: Christopher Cochrane and Andrea M.L. Perrella

Published December 2012 in Canadian Journal of Political Science.