Science and politics: always a stormy marriage

 The global Covid-19 pandemic seems an all-consuming issue these days, but it is by no means the first of a burgeoning new class of public policy issues. In trying to make sense out of the important issues public policy issues today, one must accommodate two important new facts of life.

How does Ottawa actually work?

 The city that fun forgot. That’s what some call Ottawa. And perhaps that was once true. But not anymore. Today, Ottawa is growing up (LRT) – and hitting the gym (restaurants, craft breweries, cannabis). A ‘government town’? That one sticks. In fact, based on a growing public service, one could