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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

Laurentian is a clash of capitalism against academic values

The Liberals’ second budget with a gendered approach could be more robust

Increasing immigration to boost population? Not so fast.

Le RQAP doit corriger des inégalités créées par les prestations bonifiées

Lessons learned from global financial crisis are a model for post-pandemic reforms

Smart regulations for long-term care would focus on helping the workforce

Open banking is an opportunity, not a threat

Can Atlantic Canada benefit from immigration?

Coping with COVID requires a return to co-operative federalism

The COVID-19 crisis is about physical infrastructure too

Le trilemme fiscal du Québec
Chronique

Four lessons from Quebec’s early child care model

To accelerate inclusive economic recovery, place-based policy matters

Action is needed to support Ontario farmers

Why COVID-19 is an inequality virus

How to fix the patchwork system of paid sick leave in Canada

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