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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

A bronze statue of a woman holding a proclamation to the sky with one hand.

Canada must reckon with its history of slavery

Microphone at a podium in front of an audience.

Municipal public meetings need more than a microphone

Carney walks across the loading area in front of gantry cranes and a container ship alongside the port facilities.

Canada’s major-projects agenda has a carbon blind spot

People rush past a man sitting on the street wrapped in a blanket.

Canada can choose to prevent youth homelessness. The U.K. shows the way

Line drawing of two sets of scales.

To understand poverty, governments need more than one measure

Chart showing the volume of crude oil going to the Saint John refinery from other countries.

Getting Canadian oil to Atlantic Canada is in the national interest

Volunteers wearing green safety vests sort and pack food donations into cardboard boxes at a food bank warehouse.

Canada is too rich to be failing this badly on economic and social rights

An illustration of younger persons caring for older inform persons.

Caregiving is Canada’s invisible infrastructure. It’s time employers plan for it

Two male black leaders stand at a podium while Jean Augustine appears on screen in the background.

Representation should not be an afterthought on Ottawa’s advisory councils

He’s shaking hands on a stage in a crowded room.

Canada shouldn’t try to build everything it needs for the AI era

Construction workers Alt text: Single worker stands on a partially framed house.

Skilled-trades training needs a rethink

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