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A wallet, with some cash peaking out, sitting on a tax form.

Broad tax reform belongs at the centre of Canada’s growth agenda

As he stands in a line of his coworkers, a man holds a sign high in the air that says: “Unpaid work won’t fly.”

We live in an age of underwork and overwork

Carney walks across the loading area in front of gantry cranes and a container ship alongside the port facilities.

Canada’s major-projects agenda has a carbon blind spot

Construction workers Alt text: Single worker stands on a partially framed house.

Skilled-trades training needs a rethink

Silas is holding a mic and raising a fist in front of a group of people holding protest signs.

Canadian governments are taking different paths back to the office

A crane operating in an open-pit mine against a grey sky with smoke billowing from a coal generating plant in the background.

Resilient communities need more than GDP growth

A man holds apples while a woman works the register screen with a pile of produce on the conveyor belt.

Canada can stop surveillance pricing before it reaches the checkout

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

Illustration of seven men and women standing around, sitting on or climbing four larger-than-life-size square puzzle pieces that they are trying to work together to make fit.

Government-led innovation strategy requires a more mission-driven approach

It’s time to humanize criminal records to help former convicts find jobs

Three people are walking past an outlet with CA$SH4YOU and a Western Union logo on the front, with a “payday advance” neon sign in the window.

Loans and other financial products need detailed labelling like food and prescriptions

Canadian cities need a new funding model and the national capital is a prime example

The men are standing in three rows in front of a bank of flags representing many African countries. In front of the three long wooden tables are long rows of potted flowers in light and dark pink blooms. The mean are all in dark western business suits, except one, who wears a white top, pants and flat-top white hat.

As China courts Africa, Canada must rethink its strategy for the continent

Two women in black uniforms make a bed in a hotel room. 

Hotel workers are still waiting for their economic recovery

A man in a blue suit with an insulated backpack stands in front of a woman holding a plastic bag. 

Canada’s platform economy boom is a risk to workers

Un navire-citerne rouge passe à côté du pont partiellement construit.

There is no easy path ahead for U.S. trading partners

Six red-headed pumpjacks stand amid green and yellow grain fields.

Forging a new industrial policy in Canada

Sheinbaum is walking next to a black car and is surrounded by men and women. She is smiling. A man next to her is in a T-shirt that says “United we stand.” Some people are taking pictures with their phones, holding them up.

We need to deepen our relationship with Mexico

Two rows of flags fly in front of a glass-walled building that is curved. The flags are colourful, representing all the member countries of the EU.

Prepare for an EU that’s less open to trade

Eight lanes of traffic are shown. Most lanes are bumper to bumper. The green-and-white commuter train passes on tracks running parallel to the highway.

Out of thick air: Converting carbon emissions to fuel

The ride will not be easy for Canada no matter who wins the U.S. election

Contemporary architecture is showcased in this photo of the city at dusk, where the headlights of passing cars leave golden streaks. Skyscrapers frame the skyline. In the middle are two towers connected at the top and bottom.

The evolution of China Inc. and the challenges for Canada

A ball representing the flag of the United States swings toward Canada’s, with Mexico, the E.U. and China on the other side.

Canada needs to find new ideas in geopolitical and economic strategy to avoid getting squeezed

Seen from the side of a length of rail line, the locomotive is yellow with an illustration of a waving American flag painted on its side.

A new trade policy for the “geopolitical turn”

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