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A grey-haired man in a hard hat looks out over a factory floor.

Canada has been dealt its demographic cards. Now it has to play them better

Row after row of university students sitting at tables in a large hall.

How the Global South finances the educated workforce in Canada and other wealthy countries

In illustration featuring a large eye of computerized surveillance in the form similar to webcam watches a the tiny figure of a worker.

Workplace AI is writing the rules. Workers need to see them

An animated figure of a person with a briefcase looking stressed out by pressures from a series of symbols representing time, energy, their boss.

Online harassment must be recognized as an occupational risk

Four people sitting on easy chairs holding microphones on a stage in front of Liberal Party of Canada colours and a logo for their 2026 convention.

Make AI policy about contribution, not just protection

Five men work amid scaffolding and beams.

Canada must stop exploiting migrant workers

A woman working on an aircraft engine.

The missing work of co-ordination in Canada’s skills ecosystem

An illustration featuring a person in red boots stands at a metaphorical starting line before a Canadian flag painted onto the pavement.

Opaque immigration screening threatens Canada’s global talent strategy

Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam listens to a question during a news conference January 5, 2021, in Ottawa.

Should it stay or go? Ottawa weighs the vaccine mandate for the public service

Microcredentials are surging in popularity, but how should they be shaped?

Never tweet. Social media is complicating the age-old neutrality of the public service

Ottawa and unions agree to simplify pay rules for public servants

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We need to talk about Canada’s painful lack of competition

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Canadian tech needs a deeper, more connected ecosystem for support

Ottawa races to collect Phoenix overpayments ahead of deadline

Federal public service leaves work-from-home decision to departments

Public service return to office thrown into doubt by Omicron variant

How COVID-19 could bring a downtown Ottawa revival

What’s driving depression and mental-health issues in the public service?

Labour shortages may bring an end to “crappy jobs”

Will nooks and lounges replace the office in the public service?

Speaking tech to power

Le télétravail survivra à la pandémie

Canada needs a gender-responsive pandemic preparedness plan

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