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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

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

Health care sector needs an ambitious skills agenda

Decoupling from China is hard to do

Les inégalités sociales de santé
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Canada must look beyond STEM and diversify its AI workforce

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