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A windswept street corner with no sign of life.

When a major employer closes, the whole community feels it 

An illustration of a robot at a computer while a worker exits an office with a box full of belongings.

Canada’s labour protections aren’t ready for the age of AI

Four lanes of traffic.

What problem are return-to-office mandates meant to solve?

An immense dragline operates with a coal-powered generating station in the background. Smoke is coming out of a stack into a grey sky.

Canada missing opportunities to build community resilience amid global realignment

Ontario Premier Doug Ford leads Prime Minister Mark Carney off stage to the right leave following an announcement on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

What return-to-office mandates mean for women in the workforce

A line of Canada Post red, blue and white trucks with the slogan “de partout . . . jusqu’à vous” and “From anywhere . . . to anyone” written on the side.

Short termism is costing Canada billions

A white BrightDrop cube van at the entrance of a GM assembly plant with Made in Canada written on the side.

What one factory closure tells us about building resilient communities

Half a dozen workers in protective clothing put pieces of frozen fish into square white plastic pouches.

Voluntary corporate accountability doesn’t work. Canada needs to mandate it.

Indigenizing procurement policies must move beyond token gestures

How to create an adaptive culture in the public service

An oil pump in the foreground with wind turbines in the background.

Optimizing Canada’s policy toolbox for clean growth

Une femme vue de dos travaille sur un ordinateur portable sur une table en bois, entourée de papiers et de deux cahiers.

Prepare to give workers more say in back-to-office plans: survey

Loosen eligibility criteria to EI parental benefits to improve inclusion

Critical considerations for the future of the public service

Expanding immigration will not erase racism in Canadian society

The never-ending question of contracting in the public service

The biggest public service union prepares for the first national strike in decades

People ride a swinging carrousel carnival ride against a blue summer sky.

The pull and push of the centre that haunts the public service

A woman works a calculator at a table with a laptop computer while a baby watches a screen in the background.

Make remote work a plus instead of a penalty for gender equality

Two light-grey ships are tied up alongside a dock, each festooned with colourful nautical flags strewn from their bows to the top of their bridges. In front of them, a dais has been set up to face the crowd, which consists of four rows of seated navy personnel, all dressed in black uniforms with their flat-topped, white hats.

Tin pot navy 2.0

View from a high-rise showing snow-covered roofs of homes and shops on a few blocks of downtown streets, with street lights glowing with the backdrop of a flat grey sky at dusk.

Has immigration become a third rail in Canadian politics?

Looking up at man in hardhat and orange safety vest who is standing on a concrete platform with a larger concrete slab above him. He is talking to two similarly clad men who are standing in a small metal cage lifted up by machinery. They are several feet lower than the first man.

To reform Employment Insurance, Ottawa must change the way it is financed

Four steps to jump-start Canadian climate policy

Canada’s immigration policy is at a crossroads

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