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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

A fully-loaded container ship heads out to sea.

Protectionism won’t help the Canadian economy in a future pandemic or emergency

Build back softer

Federal public service leaves work-from-home decision to departments

Le miracle québécois

Building on Canada’s electrical advantage

Diesel fuel could be replaced quicker for Indigenous communities through monetization

Sweeping deputy minister shuffle raises the question, “what took so long?”

What will the federal government and the provinces argue about in 2022?

Urgence climatique : la contribution des villes

High-tech workers use robotics to build engine parts.

How innovation can build the Canadian economy

Public service return to office thrown into doubt by Omicron variant

Le point sur la mise à jour économique du Québec

How COVID-19 could bring a downtown Ottawa revival

Pursuing Canada’s COP commitments requires changing how energy decisions are made

What’s driving depression and mental-health issues in the public service?

Labour shortages may bring an end to “crappy jobs”

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