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

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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

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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

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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

Ontario’s growth targets won’t solve the province’s housing crisis

Dozens of men, women and children sit or stand on the beach, some laying down. Several Indonesian officials stand among them.

Rohingya refugees are an untapped source for Canada’s workforce

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Disability needs a new story

Travellers including a young child holding stuffed animals walk with luggage through an airport arrivals area in front of a welcome sign.

Why are some refugees more welcome in Canada than others?

An oil pump in the foreground with wind turbines in the background.

Optimizing Canada’s policy toolbox for clean growth

A critical look at critical minerals

Une femme vue de dos travaille sur un ordinateur portable sur une table en bois, entourée de papiers et de deux cahiers.

Prepare to give workers more say in back-to-office plans: survey

Loosen eligibility criteria to EI parental benefits to improve inclusion

Critical considerations for the future of the public service

Expanding immigration will not erase racism in Canadian society

A photo illustration of a page with blurred words surrounding the word “profit.”

Canada needs a minimum tax on corporate book profits

The never-ending question of contracting in the public service

Heritage properties need not be sacrificed for housing growth

The biggest public service union prepares for the first national strike in decades

The circular opportunity to fix food waste

Rising electricity demand will complicate electrification and decarbonization

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