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A man on an e-bike crosses an intersection with a boxy insulated food bag strapped to his back. He’s wearing bulky mitts, snow pants, and a cover for his nose and mouth under a ball cap and hoodie with a puffer jacket.

Gig-work delivery jobs are getting more dangerous

The man stands knee-deep in a clearing with tall grasses and an evergreen forest in the distance.

Why peatlands must be central to Canada’s climate and economic agendas

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Canada’s rising oil exports to U.S. refineries have become a risk

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Canada missing opportunities to build community resilience amid global realignment

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Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

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Escaping the housing trap: what the Carney budget reveals

Canada can lead the world in sovereign, sustainable, responsible AI

Students filling out participatory budget idea submission form.

Participatory budgeting is a low-risk, high-return democratic upgrade

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Doug Ford’s multibillion-dollar highway is not about solving Toronto traffic jams

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What can help save nature and increase climate resilience? Better accounting.

Who are the taxpayers affected by capital gains reform?

A crowd fills the street with some people holding signs. One large rectangular sheet of canvas is held up by three people. It says “Minister Freeland, stop funding climate chaos.” Yellow and orange flames are depicted as enveloping the last two words.

How to cut through the divisions hampering climate action

Better financial literacy can help control public debt. Newfoundland, take note

The growing tax threat from private charity foundations

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A $9.3-billion pension surplus could be the cushion Ottawa will need

The wired, wired west

A man uses a probe on a yellow machine.

Adequate pay for graduate student researchers will require restructuring research budgets

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Why the Canada Disability Benefit won’t end disability poverty, and how it could

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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

Evaluating Canada’s pledge to triple nuclear capacity

About a dozen young people pass through a crosswalk on a street lined with trees that have lost their leaves. A glass building sits opposite a modern brick building.

Youth unemployment isn’t just a summer problem

Anita Anand is viewed speaking in a slim space break between two people.

Public service job cuts loom as Ottawa misses spending and deficit targets

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