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People holding small Canadian flags and a sign saying “never 51st” sit in front of a larger Canadian flag.

How much are Canadians willing to pay to diversify trade?

A hospital waiting area.

Why it’s time to move past the Canada Health Act

An aerial perspective shows two tractors moving side by side along long rows of carrots as they are loaded into boxes on the two flatbeds.

Canada’s food security strategy leaves too much off the table

A dozen men in fatigues stand around a small opening in the ground where a man is either coming out or going down.

What Canada should require when backing critical mineral projects in Africa

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

A coherent global health strategy would help Canada lead in the world

A coherent global health strategy would help Canada lead in the world

In a lab, a pair of hands in blue latex gloves holds an instrument that drops liquid into a clear shallow, round piece of plastic. Above the specimen is a machine with a tube aiming down. A rack holding several small tubes sits nearby.

Dismantling systemic ableism in health research

A million new non-market homes in 10 years: That should be the goal

Next to a tall glass tower, the exposed storeys of a new tower are going up. The concrete floors are held up by temporary orange-coloured steel supports. The metal fence around the project has five signs identifying the construction company and warning trucks not to back up without a flag man. Directions for an on-site defibrillator are there as well as warning signs.

Ottawa must make sure it’s truly boosting housing supply with its funding surge

A man in a black jacket looks at a row of watches. On the wall above are two shelves of smart phones.

Can openness stop digital platforms from exploiting users?

Dozens of containers are stacked on top of each other. The stacks are six high and probably higher. Most containers are rusty-red in colour, and others are white, green, yellow, green, dark blue and grey.

Canada needs an integrated economic-security strategy

In a glass-walled room in the factory, a yellow and black robotic arm places a dozen or so small silver cylinders into a large, flat yellow surface with hundreds of holes that hold cylinders. Several dozen cylinders are already sitting in the holes.

What will happen when all those EV batteries reach their end of life?

We see about 20 storeys of two towers, one complete with floor-to-ceiling glass, the other partially finished, with the five upper floors less complete. The balconies on the new building have a decorative material, curved sheets of light grey metal. Taken together, they resemble a pattern of undulating small ocean waves.

Let’s stop calling it a housing crisis

Un bâtiment en briques de trois étages avec un toit plat est entouré de gazon et d’arbres adultes à l’arrière. Les fenêtres sont petites, horizontales et encadrées de blanc. Les grands cèdres pointus plantés autour des fondations sont si hauts que leurs pointes s’approchent du troisième étage et masquent certaines des fenêtres du deuxième étage et du rez-de-chaussée.

Ottawa picked the dicey road to lower rents; Quebec is right not to follow

Hundreds of people stand on a busy city street that has a lot of overhead power lines crisscrossing above. The area in front of them has no traffic. Vendor stalls covered with tarps line the street.

Stop thinking of foreign aid as a tool for global influence

Peddle is a white woman who looks to be in her 20s. She’s wearing an oversized fluorescent orange, yellow and grey safety jacket over a black hoodie. Her ballcap is white. She’s smiling and holds two fingers in the peace sign. Behind her are several camping tents, some grey and red, some blue and turquoise. The grass is green. An elegant building sits in the distance.

Advancing a Team Canada approach to housing

A four-storey building with is underway, with the top floor still in beginning stages and no roof yet. The balconies have their wooden beginnings, and the exterior wood walls are tinted green. Stacks of lumber sit on the far side of the building. Piles of construction debris are piled in front.

The precedent for a federal leadership role in housing

Wylde is sweeping a broom in front of the one-storey home. The home has a light-coloured siding, and the living-room window has a white frame and thin black shutters. Wylde is dressed in jeans, a white shirt and a black puffer vest. She has short brown hair and dark-rimmed glasses.

Yänonhchia’ would draw on First Nations’ proud history of sustainable housing

Can building more affordable housing be compatible with local democracy?

A crowd of people fill the street carrying a wide black banner with big red letters that say “Y’a des limites.” “There are limits.” The workers are all dressed in black shirts and many are waving small blue and white flags with the initials of their union, the FIQ.

Canadian health care needs a dose of retention and a shot of tech innovation

A low-rise condo project of about four storeys is partially built, with exposed concrete and lime-green membranes covering most of the surfaces. The spaces for window have no glass yet. Two men work on the roof and top floor.

Why bricks and mortar alone won’t solve the housing crisis

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