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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 needs a lot more people, and soon

All Canadians deserve reliable high-speed internet

  • by Rob Black 

As Canadians work longer, pensions need to evolve

Age-tech will be huge for the silver economy

Let’s seize this historic opportunity in our agriculture sector

Why do foreign firms own so many patents on Canadian inventions?

Recession risk is a taboo subject for election campaigns

Taxing digital businesses requires global approach

Returning to balanced budgets requires a careful game plan

End the PhD bashing to end the PhD problem

Simplified rebates would get more electric buses on Canadian roads

The need for Canadian (business) diplomacy

Le blocage de nouveaux oléoducs au Canada

The PhD employment crisis is systemic

How the commuter vs. polluter narrative could backfire on Alberta

Saskatchewan’s long history of rejecting carbon pricing

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