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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

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

Side view illustration of a woman whose head and shoulders have been split into six vertical segments with an orange background.

Mental health care doesn’t need to cost anything

Canada’s parliamentary watchdogs struggle for more financial independence

A bank of cables connect to network ports.

Taking data seriously: A call to public administrators

A dozen smiling people wearing orange safety vests and hard hats walk along the new span towards the camera.

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

Canadians’ rights to property need additional protection

The Liberal-NDP pact could have a big impact on the public service

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