Jennifer Wallner

Smoke billows from a teepee containing a sacred fire for the late Justice Murray Sinclair at the Manitoba Legislature grounds, Nov. 6, 2024, a couple of days after his passing. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Why Canadians need two dramatic educational shifts to honour reconciliation

Canada must act to support Indigenous governing autonomy and capacity in education and other matters, and also to reform public schooling.
Prime Minister Mark Carney walks with some provincial premiers and senior government officials as they arrive to take part in the first ministers meeting at the National War Museum in Ottawa in March 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

The new Carney government must tackle Canada’s outdated system of intergovernmental relations

Intergovernmental relations in Canadian federalism are notoriously weak and lack the legitimacy and transparency to bring about effective collective action. Here what needs to change.
The solution to better education in Canada isn’t a national department. Here, children sit at St. Barnabas Catholic School in Scarborough, Ont., on Oct. 27, 2020. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette)

COVID‑19 shows the cracks in public education – here’s how to repair them

Statistics Canada could help provinces and territories design and implement interventions to improve schooling quality, and governments should better engage with the public.

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