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People holding small Canadian flags and a sign saying “never 51st” sit in front of a larger Canadian flag.

How much are Canadians willing to pay to diversify trade?

A hospital waiting area.

Why it’s time to move past the Canada Health Act

An aerial perspective shows two tractors moving side by side along long rows of carrots as they are loaded into boxes on the two flatbeds.

Canada’s food security strategy leaves too much off the table

A dozen men in fatigues stand around a small opening in the ground where a man is either coming out or going down.

What Canada should require when backing critical mineral projects in Africa

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

Which provinces are meeting their climate targets?

How infrastructure funding can create ladders to opportunity

Canada’s investments in innovation need to be bolder

Income inequality has risen in Canada, but not in a straight line

Last election marked shift in the type of growth Canadians are seeking

Let’s build an innovation ecosystem that includes women, too

Why we should resist assumptions about the job market and inequality

Le déclin de l’empire Bombardier

A tale of two fundamentally different crises in Canada

Is there a “grand narrative” of inequality in rich countries?

The shifting lens through which Canadians see the Wet’suwet’en crisis

Time for new measures of economic success and social well-being?

The skilled trades are in need of strengthened apprenticeship programs

Canada can lead on net-zero transition for heavy industry

The changing strains of federalism

Canada needs an ambitious energy-retrofit plan for buildings

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