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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

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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

Two small children laying among building blocks and looking through blocks with holes in them.

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

Canada-Indonesia trade deal risks deepening global troubles

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

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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

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