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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

Density can work post-COVID-19, with good urban planning

Ottawa’s new climate reporting requirement is good for business

Les défis politiques et économiques du gouvernement albertain

Canada’s most vulnerable need extra help in getting COVID-19 help

Canada needs a new Plan A in dealing with pandemic global trade rules

As global protectionism grows, Canada must look for new ways to operate

Retool the tax system to help pay for COVID-19’s costs

Il nous faut un nouveau pacte social pour redresser les inégalités

Defence procurement won’t be so easy to cut in a time of COVID-19

Pandemic shouldn’t impede meaningful Indigenous engagement on Ring of Fire

COVID-19’s effect on work is a shift, not a major revolution

Ensure the success of the PACME training program

Unlocking the expanding wealth of charitable foundations

Canada’s COVID-19 blind spots on race, immigration and labour

A simple, low-cost bankruptcy option for Canada’s insolvency system

Rethink executive pay as workers struggle with COVID-19 fallout

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