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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

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Speaking truth to power discouraged in public service

How to fix Canada’s broken employment insurance program

Ottawa should push for water fluoridation

Families and couples walk down an aisle in the market, looking at the food stalls on wheels. Bright signs light up the area.

What Canada should learn from the Asia Pacific COVID-19 experience

Moins de pauvres en pandémie

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Mental health care doesn’t need to cost anything

Canada’s parliamentary watchdogs struggle for more financial independence

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Taking data seriously: A call to public administrators

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Lessons from the U.S. on buying clean construction materials

The economic case against low-wage temporary foreign workers

White plumes of steam are released into the sky at the Imperial Oil plant, made up of a cluster of wide, round towers and skinny tanks.

The nuclear option has potential to reduce emissions from industrial heating

Canada’s Online News Act: Repeating Australia’s mistakes?

How the government used the pandemic to sharply increase immigration

An airplane wing frames the scene of Trudeau airport terminal below, with dozens of aircraft parked at the gates of the terminal.

The shocking rise of aviation emissions

Governments must match civil society efforts to welcome refugees

Assign unused wireless spectrum to Indigenous communities

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