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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

Un panneau solaire aux couleurs du drapeau du Québec est surplombé d’une petite éolienne.

Les zones d’innovation : un modèle à régionaliser

People need public delivery not just more spending for dental care

The hands of a pharmacist taking a medicine box and capsule pack from the shelves of a pharmacy.

How pharmacist prescribing can alleviate health-care system pressures

Being online isn’t enough for small businesses

All-powerful PMO, mistrust “destroying” the public service: Paul Tellier

A black-and-white image of reporters at tables listening to Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez.

The Online News Act doesn’t solve the long-term problem for news

Canada needs more independent, experimental and business-focused innovation. Shutterstock.com

Breaking Canada’s innovation inertia

A gas plant near Cochrane Alberta is pictured in front of a snow-capped mountain range.

Canada should focus on green, not blue, hydrogen

Understanding Doug Ford’s political durability

Talks stall as public service union seeks 13.5 per cent wage increase over three years

Quatre personnes discutent et échangent des documents à un bureau.

Masks no longer required for public servants at desks and in meetings with distancing

A kindergarten teacher helps a boy and girl with a class activity. They are looking at a piece of paper on a table in front of them while she is speaking with a red pen in hand.

Well-funded public schools are more important than election giveaways

With COVID-19, we’ve never been “all in this together”

Le meilleur des mondes selon Elon Musk

A photo of the sign at the entrance of Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council.

Speaking truth to power discouraged in public service

How to fix Canada’s broken employment insurance program

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