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Black public servants locked in three-year legal battle with Ottawa with no end in sight

Le Canada a besoin d’un programme national de repas à l’école.

A national school food program would do more than feed students

Boxing week sales should remind us of garment workers’ fight for a living wage

A clearer right-to-repair picture emerges in Canada, but uncertainties remain

Un livreur de nourriture avec un casque rose et un sac à dos isolant carré rose conduit un scooter à Vancouver.

Filling the gap in employment insurance for self-employed and gig workers

From the air, a sprawling subdivision covers several kilometres of land surrounded by swaths of forest and snow-capped mountains in the distance.

Adding community housing can help solve the productivity problem

In a lab, a pair of hands in blue latex gloves holds an instrument that drops liquid into a clear shallow, round piece of plastic. Above the specimen is a machine with a tube aiming down. A rack holding several small tubes sits nearby.

Dismantling systemic ableism in health research

Wylde is sweeping a broom in front of the one-storey home. The home has a light-coloured siding, and the living-room window has a white frame and thin black shutters. Wylde is dressed in jeans, a white shirt and a black puffer vest. She has short brown hair and dark-rimmed glasses.

Yänonhchia’ would draw on First Nations’ proud history of sustainable housing

A crowd of people fill the street carrying a wide black banner with big red letters that say “Y’a des limites.” “There are limits.” The workers are all dressed in black shirts and many are waving small blue and white flags with the initials of their union, the FIQ.

Canadian health care needs a dose of retention and a shot of tech innovation

A low-rise condo project of about four storeys is partially built, with exposed concrete and lime-green membranes covering most of the surfaces. The spaces for window have no glass yet. Two men work on the roof and top floor.

Why bricks and mortar alone won’t solve the housing crisis

Making life truly affordable requires more than lowering inflation

Towards regulating AI : A natural, labour and capital resources perspective

Terry Beech’s tall order: revamping service delivery

Australia’s infrastructure review: A cautionary tale for Canada

Young man with an artificial leg is working in a furniture factory. He is standing next to a large stack of wood, holding a two-by-four. He is wearing grey coveralls, a plaid shirt and light-brown suede shoes. He uses an artificial limb from the knee down on his left leg. It is a thin metal pole with a slightly larger dark blue piece of plastic just below the knee.

A focus on work needs to be part of the new Canada disability benefit

Artificial intelligence + basic income = Canadian innovation

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