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As Canada regulates online design, where do video games fit?  

Canada’s online-safety bill should give regulators power to scrutinize harmful video-game design, including loot boxes and engagement traps.
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The hardest part of Canada’s health data space won’t be the technology

A graduate in gown and cap rushes to join a group of classmates.

The longstanding link between absenteeism and graduation rates seems to be weakening

A closeup of a student’s hand, writing with a pencil.

Canada’s PISA scores hit record lows. Don’t let rankings drive reform

Cadets in formation standing at attention, many with their caps at their hearts.

Canada should put its money where its mouth is on the Cadet Program

A photo showing a phone with an image of a red circle that says “use protection” in it.

Canada approved a contraceptive app. Now it needs to explain what approval means.

A wallet, with some cash peaking out, sitting on a tax form.

Broad tax reform belongs at the centre of Canada’s growth agenda

As he stands in a line of his coworkers, a man holds a sign high in the air that says: “Unpaid work won’t fly.”

We live in an age of underwork and overwork

Water rushing through dam sluices.

Ontario’s new hydro rules give Indigenous equity real weight

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Resilient communities need more than GDP growth

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Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech

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Canada can stop surveillance pricing before it reaches the checkout

Christine Fréchette is standing while shaping a heart with her hands in a press conference.

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Indigenous defence procurement must be more than a policy line

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