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 in Canada. Melih has joined LISPOP as the R suite […]
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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, and finding solutions to crucial issues such as housing and […]
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 intricate web of politics and policy, illuminating the corridors of […]
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 penny of it. I speak for your legions of true […]
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 and House Affairs Committee (PROC) last week, I was filled […]
In Ottawa, the town where dreams go to die, cynicism is the helium that fills the political balloon as it floats away, far beyond the concerns of ordinary people. The distance between the governors and the governed has never seemed greater. Last week, with COVID dropping off the chart of […]
Thirty minutes into his address to Parliament on Friday afternoon, Joe Biden was talking about the values shared by United States and Canada when he turned to one of those values, a commitment to gender equality. He was proud, he said, to note a historic achievement: for the first time, […]
No one in their right mind would have volunteered for the job of the “special rapporteur” to chart a path through the tangled web of accusations, leaked intelligence reports, public controversy and political partisanship that surrounds allegations that agents of the Chinese state interfered in the two most recent federal […]
“My challenge to members is to find their better angels and put away the anger and false indignation. Criticize by all means, but do it with respect and maybe even wit. Make Canadians proud of this House and the people in it.” – Marc Garneau, scientist, naval officer, astronaut and […]
Is the frenzy on Parliament Hill over foreign activity in election campaigns the fallout from a legitimate national security scandal – or is it, as I will contend, much ado about nearly nothing, another example of the political playacting and hyper-partisanship that has marked the House of Commons in recent […]