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Canada’s rural-urban divide

OPINION

Canada’s rural-urban divide is getting deeper, and that hurts all Canadians

Much of Canada’s political power lives in cities, and that has led to cultural biases and blind spots that risk erasing a vital kind of diversity in the country

DONALD J. SAVOIE
GLOBE AND MAIL
DECEMBER 10, 2021

Higgs II Polimeter

June 22, 2021

Higgs II Polimeter: 80 New Promises

Moncton, NB – The Donald J. Savoie Institute (DJSI) launches its Higgs II Polimeter to measure the Progressive Conservative government’s success at fulfilling its electoral promises during its second term.

Jacques Paul Couturier, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Donald J. Savoie Institute, is pleased to announce that Gabriel Arsenault has been appointed Research Fellow at the Institute.

Professor Arsenault has been at l’École des hautes études publiques at the Université de Moncton since 2016. He has published widely in Canadian Politics and Canadian Public Policy.

Donald J. Savoie Institute and McGill–Queen’s University Press Reach Agreement on Louis J. Robichaud Collection

The Donald J. Savoie Institute (DJSI) has signed a four-year agreement with McGill–Queen’s University Press (MQUP) concerning the creation of the Louis J. Robichaud Collection.

Loud Reads: The Disintegration of Our Institutions with Donald Savoie

Alexi White sits down with Professor Donald J Savoie from the University of Moncton to talk about his 2019 book "Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of our Institutions.", 2018 »

Lessons learned and prospects for the future

An intimate discussion with Donald J. Savoie during the Canada Council for the Art's 2015 Killam Prize.

Our top public servant should not be wearing so many hats

An op-ed by Donald J. Savoie in the Globe and Mail, 4 March 2019 »

Timely book warns that Canada's democracy is threatened by political abuse

John Ivison, National Post, 3 September 2019 »

Is it time to start worrying more about growing regional inequalities in Canada?

Much has been written recently about the rise of within-country inequality and growing imbalances of regional fortunes in the US and EU. In this paper, we apply a novel geo-visualization technique that combines local indicators of spatial association (LISAs) with directional statistics to a unique dataset in order to explore the spatial dimensions of regional income inequalities in Canada from 1981 to 2016. After describing a pattern of growing spatial divergence among regions, we briefly discuss the need for the federal government to explore new types of place-sensitive development policies.

La démocratie au Canada

Philippe-Vincent Foisy, Radio-Canada : Plus on est de fous, plu on lit!, 23 January 2020 »

Polimetre Project

Tracking Blaine Higgs's Campaign Promises »

Quel avenir face à l'augmentation des inégalités régionales?

Sébastien Breau, September 29, 2020 »