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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

Industrial policy and Canada’s uncertain future

Here’s why the income gap and its growth both matter

Montreal City Hall, close-up view from below, with the flags of Canada and Quebec flying in the foreground.

Staying the course toward sound public finances

A white semi-truck passes through a forest of evergreens on a two-lane stretch.

Four ways Ottawa can throttle ‘Driver Inc.’

A truck carrying two containers rolls in front of a stack of red, orange and white containers on a ship.

Why no trade deal with Trump might be good for Canada

A dozen bundles of copper wire tied together with white string.

New approach needed in mining critical minerals

A big fish follows a smaller fish, which follows an even smaller fish.

The Competition Act favoured concentration from the start

Three men in a small boat with the houses of a modern subdivision in the background. The water is about halfway up a stop sign and the garage doors.

Drowning in risk, Ottawa must fund a national flood insurance program

A verdant mountain valley with a numerous ponds and a stream winding stream running through it.

Canada must improve environmental reviews to speed major projects

Mark Carney in the distance speaking to a crowd of people in a room decorated with Indigenous symbols such as paintings and totem poles.

Carney’s “nation-building” is nothing but a blast from the past

The case for North American Indigenous free trade

Illustration of a diverse team of women and men collaborate over laptops and large monitors, while one man uses a stand-up desk.

The public service’s RTO policy needs to balance employees’ needs, too

An illustration with faces of people connected by a web of dotted lines. Everyone is wearing a mask.

The next leap forward: Clean air for Canadians

Vue aérienne de l'usine, avec son groupe de bâtiments longs et bas et les bassins de goudron situés à proximité des quartiers résidentiels de Sydney.

Why Canada’s nation-building moment demands a skills revolution

What will be the fate of the budget watchdog? “I think I would know by now”

What will be the fate of the budget watchdog? “I think I would know by now”

Seen from behind, an older white woman in a wheelchair facing an open window with the curtains pulled back.

Reducing poverty means looking at all its complexities

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