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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

Thinking about work as more than a paycheque

More research needed to break down job barriers for racialized Canadians

Canada is missing the boat on China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Technology isn’t shaping work the way we think

Deciphering the skills we need for the new world of work

More support needed to help Canadians reskill at post-secondary institutions

We’ll need a balancing act to profit from the skills revolution

Pharmaceutical policy excludes the most vulnerable

The widespread benefit of having Alberta refine its bitumen at home

Five game changers that could shape the future of work

Change needs to come faster for Ontario cannabis

How Alberta became Canada’s runaway cannabis leader

Federal union members reject new organization for gig workers

What have we learned from one year of cannabis legalization?

Can we ensure everyone has an affordable life?

The cannabis shift needs to happen for opioids, too

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