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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

Canada’s pandemic plans must guard against the rise of racism

A deep retrofit of homes and buildings is the megaproject Canada needs

Rethinking the Canada-US relationship after the pandemic

COVID-19 will force a change to Canada’s fiscal arrangements

Can we design a more equitable “business as usual” after COVID-19?

Canada is falling behind on transition to electric vehicles

Will COVID-19 unite or divide Canada over its energy and climate future?

First Nations need to play a role in post-COVID recovery

A North American strategy on medical devices would benefit all three nations

Economy and climate need more than stimulus after COVID-19

Consider the age of workers when reopening the economy

Here’s how municipalities should respond to COVID-19

A temporary rent top-up for renters receiving the emergency benefit

How COVID-19 could reshape the federal public service

Une allocation universelle en temps de «paix» comme de «guerre»

From gin to gel, why Canada’s manufacturing capacity matters

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