Publications
Our faculty and students publish academic books and journal articles, policy reports, and journalistic writing and op-eds.
Featured faculty and student publications
Op-Eds
2024
- Alex Rivard and Benjamin Ferland (2024) "Good news for Quebec’s sovereigntists," Policy Options.
- Kora DeBeck and Perry Kendall (2024) "B.C.’s plan for involuntary addiction treatment is a step back in our response to the overdose crisis," The Conversation.
- Kennedy Stewart (2024) "B.C. can reduce toxic drug deaths by removing politics from the issue," The Globe and Mail.
- William Scott (2024) "Climate change costs British Columbians, whether or not we have a carbon tax," Vancouver Sun.
- Alex B. Rivard, Eric Merkley, Dominik Stecuła (2024) “Combat NIMBYism with transparency to help resolve Canada’s housing crisis,” Policy Options.
- Mohsen Javdani (2024) “Canada at a crossroads: Understanding the shifting sands of immigration attitudes,” The Conversation.
- Kora DeBeck and Perry Kendall (2024) “Drug prohibition is fuelling the overdose crisis: Regulating drugs is the way out,” The Conversation.
- Ali Bhagat and Genevieve LeBaron (2024) “Rich countries are paying poorer ones to manage their refugee crises: 3 reasons this is dangerous,” The Conversation.
- Ali Bhagat (2024) “Wildfires foreshadow the looming crisis of internal displacement,” The Globe and Mail.
2023
- Kennedy Stewart (2023) "Canada has left itself vulnerable to election interference at the provincial and city level," The Globe and Mail.
- Kennedy Stewart (2023) "How federalism failed Canadian cities during COVID-19," Policy Options.
- Kennedy Stewart (2023) "Justin Trudeau is Canada’s greatest drug policy reformer – but he can, and must, do even more," The Globe and Mail.
- Kam Phung and Genevieve LeBaron (2023) "Canada’s Modern Slavery Act is the Start—Not the End— Of Efforts to Address the Issue in Supply Chains," The Conversation.
2022
- Genevieve LeBaron and Priscilla Fisher (2022) ‘Canada’s Supply Chains Have a Forced Labour Problem. Are We Ready to Seriously Act?’ The Globe and Mail.
- Rhys Kesselman (2022) “Financing the Health Care Canadians Deserve,” The Globe and Mail.
- Rhys Kesselman (2023) “Challenge for the Upcoming Budget: Capital Gains Tax Reform,” National Newswatch.
- Rhys Kesselman (2023) “It’s Past Time to Reform Capital Gains Tax—But How Exactly?” The Financial Post.
- Rhys Kesselman (2023) “Forget the Alternative Minimum Tax; Fix the Regular Income Tax,” The Financial Post.
- Rhys Kesselman (2023) “A Better Alternative to the Alternative Minimum Tax,” The Globe and Mail.
2021
- David Green, Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, and Lindsay Tedds (2021) “What Can the CERB Teach Canada about Establishing a Universal Basic Income? Very Little,” Globe and Mail.
- Genevieve LeBaron, Andrew Crane, Kam Phung, Laya Behbahani & Jean Allain (2021) ‘Business Models Have Evolved to Keep Profiting from Slave Labour.’ Reuters.
- Genevieve LeBaron & Penelope Kyritsis (2021) ‘Without Action, Modern Slavery Will Surge in Supply Chains.’ The Globe & Mail.
- Rhys Kesselman (2021) “Fraser Institute: Getting the Facts Straight on Capital Gains Tax,” The Financial Pos.
2019
- Mohsen Javdani (2019) “The Way to Fix Bias in Economics is to Recruit More Women,” The Financial Times.
- Mohsen Javdani and Ha-Joon Chang (2019) “Ideology is Dead! Long Live Ideology!” Institute for New Economic Thinking.
- Ha-Joon Chang and Mohsen Javdani (2019) “Neoclassical Economics and Ideological Bias,” Progressive Economy Forum.
- Rhys Kesselman (2019) “How Childhood Poverty Can Be Further Reduced by Retargeting the Canada Child Benefit,” The Financial Post.
2018
- Andreas Pilarinos, Perry Kendall, Danya Fast, and Kora DeBeck (2018) "Secure care: more harm than good," Vulnerable Populations.
- Rhys Kesselman (2018) “Fine-Tuning BC’s New Employer Payroll Tax,” The Vancouver Sun.
- Rhys Kesselman (2018) “What Is This New, Radical, Confiscatory B.C. Tax?” [property surtax], The Vancouver Sun.
- Rhys Kesselman (2018) “Why Opponents of BC’s New Surtax on Homes Over $3 Million Are Wrong,” The Tyee.
- Rhys Kesselman and Adrienne Montani (2018) “Expand British Columbia’s Child Benefit,” The Vancouver Sun.
2017
- Tessa Cheng, and Kora DeBeck (2017) "Between a rock and a hard place: Prescription opioid restrictions in the time of fentanyl and other street drug adulterants," Canadian Journal of Public Health.
- Brittany Barker, Ashley Goodman, Kora DeBeck (2017) "Reclaiming Indigenous identities: Culture as strength against suicide among Indigenous youth in Canada," Canadian Journal of Public Health.
- Rhys Kesselman (2017) “A Capital-Gains Tax Would Go Far To Cool Toronto’s Housing Market,” The Globe and Mail, Report on Business.
- Rhys Kesselman (2017) “‘Tax Competitiveness’ in BC a Narrow Measure of Economic Health,” The Vancouver Sun.
- Rhys Kesselman and John Richards (2017) “Real-World Guidance for BC’s Proposed $10-a-Day Child-Care Plans” (with John Richards), The Vancouver Sun.
- Rhys Kesselman (2017) “Broader Policies Needed To Restore Housing Affordability,” Intelligence Memo, C.D. Howe Institute.
- Rhys Kesselman and Nancy Olewiler (2017) “What’s Efficient about a Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax?”, The Vancouver Sun.
- Rhys Kesselman (2017) “How Liberal Child-Benefit Changes Really Do Help Most Middle-Class Families,” The Financial Post.
- Rhys Kesselman and Benn Proctor (2017) “An Economics Lesson on Ride-Hailing in B.C.”, The Vancouver Sun Rhys Kesselman and Benn Proctor (2017) “An Economics Lesson on Ride-Hailing in British Columbia,” Commentary, Wilson Centre Canada Institute