John Richards
Publisher
John Richards is a member of the faculty in the Graduate Public Policy School at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He has written extensively on social policy in Canada, primarily via the C.D. Howe Institute where he holds the Roger Phillips chair in social policy. In addition, he has undertaken teaching and research in Bangladesh over the last two decades. He heads the Centre for Policy Research, which is linked to the International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) in Dhaka. The centre’s most recent publications, available on line at http://www.iubat.edu/cpr, assess nutrition among women in low-income families in an urban slum and four rural villages, and the role of nutrition in school completion among children of these families.). Long ago, he was a MLA in Allan Blakeney’s initial NDP government in Saskatchewan. He crossed the floor to sit as an independent socialist, which not surprisingly assured subsequent electoral defeat and the need to complete a long-delayed doctorate. Married to a French woman, he is among an endangered minority – fluently French-English bilingual western Canadians.
Can the current good results continue?
But French and English political institutions are in disarray
The world’s eighth most populous country is drifting toward Islamism
Brexit, immigration and the fate of the European Union - An introduction by John Richards
The sexual violence in Cologne sparks a debate in France
Climate policy needs more than a change in tone
An unlikely policy wonk’s account of Iraq’s unravelling
The Conservatives’ “big idea” is a bad idea
Gareth Morley on immigration in the ideal, and in the real world
John Richards asks what now for First Nations education after Shawn Atleo’s resignation
