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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

A boy in a red sweater is doubled over face-down in front of a box containing cards. Two women sit on the floor on either side of him.

Who pays when autism-care systems fall short? Mothers do

Drawing of a row of office workers sitting in front of computers.

The true test of Quebec’s new workplace stress law

A better way to help the working poor

Illustration of a grocery cart with two full paper bags surrounded by single items of food including fish, milk, sausage, bottle of olive oil, cheese, bread, berries, eggs etc.

A national plan to end food insecurity in Canada is within reach

Stylistic drawing of a white man leaning on an elbow at a desk, twirling a pencil in his other hand. On the desk is a laptop and a small plant.

The public service needs to get better at firing its underperformers

Four workers stand at a long stainless-steel table. They are in white coats. Blue plastic is used for their aprons and to cover their heads and forearms. They all wear high boots and stand on red rubber mats. Many lengths of salami links hang from a metal frame. The room is all grey with no windows.

Trade war heightens risks for immigrant factory workers

Cartoon drawing of half a dozen men and women holding large, interlocking puzzle pieces.

It is easy to pretend to be progressive at no cost

Four high-rise buildings are clustered together with small balconies filled with flower pots, chairs, etc.

The housing crisis is made worse by a policy mismatch

A line drawing of an older woman sitting on a bench with a cane. The outlines of homes and a tree with a few leaves sit on either side of her. A cyclist approaches from the right.

Canada’s social safety net is stuck in the 1960s

Dozens of workers carrying signs and union flags.

It’s time to put Canada’s employment insurance program on solid footing

An aerial view of dozens upon dozens of steel coils lined up in an outdoor lot.

Canada weighs bailouts as U.S. tariffs threaten businesses

A man holds a yellow sign saying “We’re studying, we’re the future…” with other protesters in the background.

Federal international student reforms sting communities across Canada

The global energy transition could disrupt 10 per cent of Canadians

The worker is standing next to the wall in a hallway. She leans with one hand on a rounded wooden railing that runs the length of the wall at waist level. With her other hand, she lifts the hand of a man seated in a wheelchair facing the wall. He has a curve in his spine that bends him forward. Two other people watch from down the hallway. One is in a wheelchair, the other is seated under a window. The walls are pale yellow. The floor is brown linoleum.

When you think of green jobs, do you think of care work?

A man uses a probe on a yellow machine.

Adequate pay for graduate student researchers will require restructuring research budgets

Members of a large crowd in an auditorium look on as the minister shakes hands. A small Canadian flag is in the foreground.

Better co-ordination and governance needed to steer Canada’s migration policies

About 10 young men and boys sit at tables of sewing machines, feeding fabric into them. Piles of fabric are heaped on the floor. The walls are pink, and a dirty tarp is pinned up in an opening in the wall.

Canada is implementing a forced-labour import ban. Will it help exploited workers?

A surplus in the federal public-service pension plan presents the government with many options

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