The Harper Decade: Recent Episodes
The Harper Decade
The Harper Decade is a digital series featuring expert commentary on the changes that have occurred in Canada over the past decade of Conservative rule.
Richie Assaly, Amy Sanderson, and Avnish Nanda offer a concluding overview of The Harper Decade, and examine what is at stake on October 19.
Nazlee Maghsoudi argues that Harper's drug policy and aggressive opposition to harm reduction strategies have put the health and safety of Canadians at risk.
Joseph Rosen examines Harper's cozy friendship with Israel, his truculent attitude towards its detractors, and whether or not this arrangement is truly beneficial to anyone.
Face aux changements faits par le premier ministre Stephen Harper en environnement depuis son arrivée à la tête du gouvernement en 2006, Eve Bourgeois discute des répercussions de ces politiques sur la scène nationale et internationale.
Paul Heinbecker, a Canadian diplomat and former chief foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of Harper's foreign policy record.
Canadian politics scholar Dave Whitson explains how the Harper government's stubborn idealogical distaste for social science has undermined both the effectiveness and spirit of Canada's once robust public service.
Political philosopher Richard Day offers a stirring overview of the Canadian state's ongoing colonialism, both within our borders and abroad.
Carey Doberstein and Alison Smith argue that the federal government's ambitious plan to tackle homelessness in Canada has been rendered impotent by the pitiful scale of financial investment by the federal government.
Trina Moyles shares a personal account of her development experience in Central America, and reports on the harmful environmental and ethical consequences of Canada's international extractive industry.
Micha Kurz provides a unique perspective on Canada's controversial embrace of Israel, and its perilous implications for the Palestinian population.
University of Western Ontario Professor of Law Michael Lynk weighs in on Canada's increasingly close relationship with the State of Israel.
Prison and sentencing expert Lisa Kerr and criminology scholar Anthony N. Doob detail the Conservative's peculiar and politically polarizing attempt to reform Canada's criminal justice policy at a time when crime is in a longstanding state of decline.
Dr. Ryan Meili explains how the loss of information, the muzzling of government scientists, and federal cuts to health care have compromised the health and wellbeing of Canadians.
Surveillance expert David Murakami Wood explains how the Conservative's steady expansion of security and control, including the passage of the controversial Bill C-51, has eroded the right to privacy in Canada.
Award-winning journalist and author David Macfarlane wryly grapples with what he considers Prime Minister Harper's most essential quality — smallness.
Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, evaluates the Conservative government's tangled fiscal record
Pamela Palmater explains how the Conservatives’ abysmal relationship with First Nations has exacerbated the socio-economic gap separating Canadians and Indigenous peoples.
Marc Lee measures the success – and heavy cost – of the Conservatives’ ambitious energy policy
Chloe Shantz-Hilkes details the struggle for information and access to science under the tight watch of the Conservative government.
Raj Sharma and Ram Sankaran outline the Conservative government’s contentious immigration and refugee policy, and the alarming legacy it will leave behind.
Peter H. Russell argues that deliberation in Canada’s parliament has been stifled, paving the way for a transformative period of “lean and mean corporate management.”
Rishi Kumar Nagar, a Canadian Punjabi language journalist, explores the inroads and emerging tensions stemming from the Conservatives’ unique relationship with Canada’s ethnic communities.
Tyler Dawson reports on the press gallery's increasingly limited access to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Tzeporah Berman laments Canada’s greatly diminished role as a global leader on climate change.
Lorne Sossin surveys the rocky, complex, and ultimately resilient dynamic between the Judiciary and the Executive during the Harper era
Steve Patten dissects the Conservative government’s divisive and hyper-partisan approach to governance, and the calculated risk this strategy entails.
Margrit Eichler explores the Conservative government’s murky decision to replace the long form census with a voluntary survey in 2010.
Dr. David Schindler, a world-renowned scientist and Professor of Ecology at the University of Alberta, explores how the Harper government "has significantly and systematically weakened laws that protect the environment and environmental research in order to further industrial development."