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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

The circular opportunity to fix food waste

Rising electricity demand will complicate electrification and decarbonization

La supercherie des retombées économiques

People ride a swinging carrousel carnival ride against a blue summer sky.

The pull and push of the centre that haunts the public service

A woman works a calculator at a table with a laptop computer while a baby watches a screen in the background.

Make remote work a plus instead of a penalty for gender equality

Non-profits were tested by COVID-19 but proved resilient

People sit at rows of desks oriented toward the middle of the room, where a central desk and the Quebec flag are located. A second-floor gallery is populated with a row of observers. At the back of the room is a large gilt-framed painting, in keeping with the ornate details that make up the room.

Diversity lags in provincial and territorial legislatures but is improving

Home decarbonization requires tailored policies

Emissions from destruction of nature hidden by rhetoric

Multi-coloured car illustrations hang on a wall above small lockers with baskets and backpacks in a daycare in Langley, B.C.

Building an anti-racist child-care system in Canada

Two light-grey ships are tied up alongside a dock, each festooned with colourful nautical flags strewn from their bows to the top of their bridges. In front of them, a dais has been set up to face the crowd, which consists of four rows of seated navy personnel, all dressed in black uniforms with their flat-topped, white hats.

Tin pot navy 2.0

A broader approach to AI would cut bias in immigration decisions while adding speed

View from a high-rise showing snow-covered roofs of homes and shops on a few blocks of downtown streets, with street lights glowing with the backdrop of a flat grey sky at dusk.

Has immigration become a third rail in Canadian politics?

Looking up at man in hardhat and orange safety vest who is standing on a concrete platform with a larger concrete slab above him. He is talking to two similarly clad men who are standing in a small metal cage lifted up by machinery. They are several feet lower than the first man.

To reform Employment Insurance, Ottawa must change the way it is financed

Indigenous-settler relations need bold solutions and strong political will

The differences between Canada and the U.S. remain significant

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