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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

Building back better, one vehicle at a time

The path ahead for Erin O’Toole on climate change

Why should taxpayers be on the hook for sick pay when multinationals are raking in money?

A rise in software-related R&D spending is a promising trend

Avoiding a honeymoon hangover with Biden

In Canada and abroad, new data reveal strong support for gender equality

It’s not about Canada. Biden is getting real about fossil fuels

The serious hidden problem facing Canada’s agricultural innovators

What role do unions have in addressing systemic racism?

Political barriers keep paid sick leave out of reach

Les politiques globales ne peuvent corriger les inégalités raciales

Low-income households should be a priority for federal energy efficiency funding

Consolidating two visions of recovery post-pandemic

Why Canada needs a national zero-emission vehicle standard in 2021

How can boards create anti-racist companies?

Make employee ownership a cornerstone of Canada’s economic recovery

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