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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

The role of data and evidence in Canada’s economic recovery

Government should change outmoded fundraising rules for charities

BC’s green stimulus should include a portfolio of policies

A tax-cut led recovery is entirely achievable

Petites nations, grandes ambitions
Chronique

An attention to equity must guide our pandemic responses

More than ever, climate debt swaps should be the financial tool of choice

A bold Conservative platform would include universal basic income

Canada can’t achieve climate goals without supercharging carbon removal

COVID-19 exacerbates existing inequities in the agrifood labour force

Freeland and Carney may be Canada’s last, best chance for a green recovery

Canada needs to close the “logging loophole” in its boreal forest

A sovereign wealth fund for our health care system isn’t far-fetched

Now, with a deal made to help cities, the work begins

Des politiques sectorielles pour soutenir l’économie durant la pandémie

It’s time for Canada to follow Ontario’s critical care triage protocol

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