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Mark Carney speaking at a podium, viewed from the side, with dark background.

Carney’s industrial bet: Building Canada’s future while cutting the public service

Dirt roads ribbon a brown landscape in the foreground with a large terraced open pit cut into the ground in the background.

What 50 years of buried data tell us about Canada’s mining oversight

Mark Carney and François-Philippe Champaign joke together while children stand in the background looking unimpressed.

Fiscal rules and the return of discipline to Canada’s finances

Des passants traversent une intersection animée au centre-ville, sous un ciel gris. Les immeubles environnants, dont un avec le logo de Google, se reflètent dans une flaque d’eau au premier plan. Les décorations lumineuses des arbres évoquent la période des Fêtes.

Quebec since 1995: decline or progress?

Above their heads, they hold sheets of paper that outline calls for health-care accessibility.

Excluding people with disabilities from development initiatives must end

A fish-eye wide angle lens view of a corridor between servers.

The right way for Canada to secure cloud sovereignty

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.

An overhead view of a tanker stopped in open water along the B.C. coast.

Rethinking Canada’s oil tanker ban for a new era of reconciliation

Canada’s tech policies and priorities aren’t doing enough to make citizens safer online

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Catherine Luelo named clerk’s adviser on digital transformation

Where has the last five years’ growth in Quebec’s tax revenues come from?

Quebec and Ottawa must aim for balanced budgets

How sleepy Quebec City became an economic tiger

Cities can speed up climate action by slowing down traffic

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

A national school food program would do more than feed students

Canadians sharply more dissatisfied with direction of country at end of 2023

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

Colourful illustration of five hands each holding a puzzle piece that together make up a red heart in the middle of the drawing. The hands are connected to arms coming from five directions. Each arm is clothed in a different patterned sleeve. The sleeves are dark blue, pink, white or forest green.

Canadians are becoming less generous. But not all is lost

Canadian household purchasing power has increased despite inflation

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

A blue electric vehicle with a black cable attached to it.

Shaping the future of Canadian industry with zero-emission vehicles

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

Canada does not know how many seniors live in poverty

Aerial view of the city showing a district with skyscrapers, multi-lane streets and green spaces.

Canada should “de-risk” from China by updating its foreign-investment screening

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