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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

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Skilled-trades training needs a rethink

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Canadian governments are taking different paths back to the office

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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

Red, orange and yellow peppers and other vegetables are shown in the grocery store produce aisle.

Want help with inflation? Reform the Competition Act

Honour Tommy Douglas and stand up for public denticare

The Achilles heel of the federal public service gives out again with passport fiasco

Le marché québécois de l’électricité doit s’ouvrir

Le Québec n’est pas prêt pour la transition énergétique

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Canada’s next industrial AI strategy needs to address adoption

Public service finally has a new boss, and she’s the old boss

How to improve long-term planning for pension funds

Give parents a choice in child care

A woman in a mask shops in front of a large display of white tulips with a small grocery store in the background.

Let’s help small family businesses eliminate tax uncertainty

“Sleeping rough” is a problem that needs tailored homelessness solutions

A large group of men and women in t-shirts, shorts and jeans walk down the road. Some of them carry signs.

The key to improving workers’ lives is hiding in plain sight

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How the Big Five banks control how money moves in Canada

Canada’s ineffective building energy regulations are the elephant in the warming room

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Four ideas to make Quebec’s child-care system a model for all of Canada

Canada-Indonesia trade deal risks deepening global troubles

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