Op-eds, think pieces, & blogs

• A tale of two metropolitan regions. Joshua Medicoff. Institute for Research on Public Policy, April 2023.

• Canada’s oil and gas industry faces an existential crisis and a weak emissions cap won’t save it. Amy Janzwood, Sam Rowan, Joshua Medicoff. The Hill Times, March 2023.

• Some provincial governments seek conflict with municipalities – and gain from it. Joshua Medicoff, Daniel Béland. Institute for Research on Public Policy, September 2022.

• Understanding what lies beneath Montreal’s Grand Parc de L’Ouest. Joshua Medicoff. Urban Politics & Governance, May 2022.

• Partnerships and agility key to successful urban freight solutions: panel. Joshua Medicoff. Pembina Institute, June 25, 2021.

• Understanding the possibilities of on-demand transit in Laval. Joshua Medicoff. Blaise Transit, February 24, 2021.

• Urbanization has hurt small towns. Transit could help remedy their woes. Joshua Medicoff. Blaise Transit, October 2, 2020.

• Ridership will take time to rebound. Invest and innovate anyways. Joshua Medicoff. Blaise Transit, September 1, 2020.

Media

• Josh Medicoff on Regional Government. Radio interview with Brian Crombie, May 18, 2023.

Thesis

• Renewing questions about two-tier governance: Understanding how metropolitan governance impacts biodiversity protection in Greater Montreal and Greater Toronto. Joshua Medicoff. July 2023.

Freelance

• Q3 Product update: What’s new, what’s next. Spare Labs, August 2022. (Ghost-written by me.)

• 7 Most Helpful Takeaways from Our Interview with Ben Schutzman. Spare Labs, August 2022. (Ghost-written by me.)
  

Reports

• Comparing Immigration Policies: Canada and the World - Conference report. Joshua Medicoff. McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, 2022. (Version française disponible ici.)

• Facing Canada’s Future - Conference report. Joshua Medicoff. McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, 2021.

• Accountable Mining: A Risk Assessment of the Environmental Assessment Process - British Columbia Technical Report. Dr. Priya Bala-Miller, Abigail Cruickshank, Alice Guimarães, Sebastian Jarrin, Ayan Kanhai Aman, Riya Sirkhell, Joshua Medicoff. International Resources and Development Institute, 2020.

Policy briefs

• Policy brief on seabed mining in the Pacific ocean. Canadian International Resources and Development Institute, 2020. Unpublished.

• Policy brief on carbon taxation in Québec. Course work for Environmental Policy and Politics in Canada, University of British Columbia, 2019. Unpublished.

Technical writing

• Blaise Transit passenger manual. Blaise Transit, 2021.

• Blaise Transit bus operator manual. Blaise Transit, 2021.

• Blaise Transit transit operator manual. Blaise Transit, 2021.

News releases

• UMIT and Blaise Transit announce groundbreaking on-demand pilot on Manitoulin Island, Ont. Blaise Transit, 2020.

• Blaise and RideShark partner to leverage benefits of on-demand transit and multimodal Mobility-as-a-Service. Blaise Transit, 2020.

Personal essays

• Unbalanced Mobility: Migration, movement, and bodies in a time of tightening borders. Outside-In Photojournal, 2018. On migration, the “migrant crisis,” and privileged citizenship.

• Red Sea. The Ubyssey, 2017. On queerness.

Reviews

• VIFF: Moonlight is a powerful meditation on identify and adolescence. The Ubyssey, 2016.