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Canada’s next great project must be to build an AI nation

Seen from above, a combine passes diagonally through the field, which looks like a light-brown rug.

Reimagining the future Canadian economy in a changing world

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Build, baby, build. Or sell, baby, sell? Canada should reject Sunoco’s takeover of Parkland

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Lessons from the American 1950s defence boom for Canada’s prosperity today

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The secret to a successful defence industrial strategy is procurement reform

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Canada’s aging population needs more personal support workers

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Bridging the gap between publicly funded research and markets

Green smoke rises of a glob of molten copper.

Canadian critical mineral policy has evolved and now it’s time to level up

A crowd fills the street with some people holding signs. One large rectangular sheet of canvas is held up by three people. It says “Minister Freeland, stop funding climate chaos.” Yellow and orange flames are depicted as enveloping the last two words.

How to cut through the divisions hampering climate action

Better financial literacy can help control public debt. Newfoundland, take note

The growing tax threat from private charity foundations

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A $9.3-billion pension surplus could be the cushion Ottawa will need

The wired, wired west

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Adequate pay for graduate student researchers will require restructuring research budgets

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Why the Canada Disability Benefit won’t end disability poverty, and how it could

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Better co-ordination and governance needed to steer Canada’s migration policies

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Canada is implementing a forced-labour import ban. Will it help exploited workers?

A surplus in the federal public-service pension plan presents the government with many options

Evaluating Canada’s pledge to triple nuclear capacity

About a dozen young people pass through a crosswalk on a street lined with trees that have lost their leaves. A glass building sits opposite a modern brick building.

Youth unemployment isn’t just a summer problem

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Public service job cuts loom as Ottawa misses spending and deficit targets

Changes to permits for international students reward the worst colleges and hurt serious researchers

The tunnel vision of Doug Ford and François Legault

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Community wealth building is a strategy for Canada’s transition to net zero

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