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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

Silas is holding a mic and raising a fist in front of a group of people holding protest signs.

Canadian governments are taking different paths back to the office

A crane operating in an open-pit mine against a grey sky with smoke billowing from a coal generating plant in the background.

Resilient communities need more than GDP growth

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

Middle-aged white man points to paper plans as three younger white workers (two men, one woman) look on. They are all wearing fluorescent green safety vests, standing near a brick building with scaffolding.

Could Quebec’s skills training model help solve Canada’s labour shortage?

Canada needs to address the issue of modern slavery

People, some sitting, some standing, sport light-blue masks during a stop at a station.

COVID-19 responses were always going to be inequitable

We need to better understand how racialized minorities are being hit by inflation

Recruiting and training is the number one concern for SMEs

Democratic life and the generational implications of pandemic school closures

Ontario’s deepening hydro mess

Tackling Islamophobia begins by rebuilding trust with the Muslim community

A green transition should prioritize the ocean’s carbon sinks over deep-sea mining

Top bureaucrat urges summer test drive of hybrid public service workforce

A mobile phone is shown with the icons of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the Apple store.

Online platforms challenge personal data protection and Canada’s cultural sovereignty

Corriger le tir du projet de loi C-11 sur la radiodiffusion

Canada needs to help farmers transition to low-carbon practices

Zero-emissions electricity by 2035 is possible

Canada needs to get on with tackling racism in concrete ways

Canada needs its own Indo-Pacific strategy – not an American economic policy

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