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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

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

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Canadian agriculture cannot become an innovation engine without competition

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Lack of competition blunts Canadian innovation

Big Tech, little oversight

Competition policy in Canada is guided by narrow interests

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We need to talk about Canada’s painful lack of competition

What is the path to net-zero emissions for oilsands producers?

Singles in deep poverty neglected by pandemic supports

No good reason for Ontario to delay signing child-care agreement

Canada must invest in critical minerals

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Update legislation to help non-profits in Canada

Diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics won’t sever Canada-China relations

Canada’s offshore winds could power Eastern Canada

AI accountability can’t be left to the CRTC

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What is clean electricity?

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Canadian tech needs a deeper, more connected ecosystem for support

Ottawa races to collect Phoenix overpayments ahead of deadline

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