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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

Three men sit, kneel or stand on the roof of a home covered in metal brackets.

Canada’s electricity strategy is overlooking its most powerful asset

In a hanger, Carney stands in front of a long row of people in military fatigues and a grey aircraft.

Canada’s national-security strategy needs three pillars

Row after row of university students sitting at tables in a large hall.

How the Global South finances the educated workforce in Canada and other wealthy countries

Carney walks across a clearing in the forest. An excavator and roller sit nearby.

Canada’s industrial ambitions require robust environmental governance

A gaggle of reporters in the foreground with the three men at a podium in the background.

New federal agencies won’t fix old problems with delivery

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Canada can’t fix the gender wealth gap until it measures it

Illustration of a single wolf standing on a wide-open city street at night, looking at the towers twinkling in the distance. Part of the sky is bright yellow-orange.

The particularly Canadian “lone-wolf” tradition of studying the public service

Illustration showing the outline of two heads back-to-back. The outline is meant to be a white power cord. It traces the shape of each face and ends with a stylized lightbulb in the middle of each head. The lightbulbs are made up of a cluster of tiny gears. The background for the illustration is turquoise.

Canada’s got AI talent. Let’s keep it here

The history of colonialism and slavery still impacts Black people in Canada

When the economy becomes an obsession

A young man drives a motorcycle past a small grassy area where the sign stands next to five white wooden crosses with one or two words on them. In the distance is a city block with apartment buildings in white stucco.

The unfairness of Canada’s Latin American humanitarian program

An aerial photo of the town shows the street grid of the commercial and residential areas bordered by an inland waterway on one side and the harbor on the other, with eight jetties dotted with ships and sailing vessels. Some of the waterfront buildings are bright red or blue.

Why the carbon tax often costs more in Atlantic Canada

A colourful long wall is made up of many black-framed squares showing images of people and things.

The missing voices at AI conferences

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

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

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