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Le Premier ministre Mark Carney, debout derrière un pupitre, regarde la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen, assise à sa gauche, alors qu’il s’adresse au Parlement européen.

Nine years under a European trade agreement show tariffs were only the starting point

The yellow CL-415 flies in contrast against a bright blue sky.

Canada needs to plan further ahead to diversify its trade

Pink coloured minerals.

Potash could anchor a new Canada-India trade partnership

Three stacks of burlap sacks hold 15 bags of beans.

Canada’s trade pivot has a blind spot: the food we import

Brightly coloured crayons in pots with an empty daycare centre in the background.

Child-care policy should serve families, not just the economy

A portrait of Mark Carney surrounded by the yellow stars of the European Union flag.

Effective trade diversification depends on small and medium businesses

A row of white two-storey homes sits across from a couple standalone homes.

It should be easier to invest savings in community projects

Beans, fruit, tomatoes and bread in a waste bag.

Canada should borrow the EU’s playbook to cut food waste

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

Elbows up for trans people, too

Are consultations with First Nations really the obstacle to fast-tracking national projects?

Why doesn’t equalization apply to Indian reserves?

Mark Carney, vêtu d’un complet foncé et portant plusieurs dossiers, marche dans un couloir en direction de la caméra, avant une réunion du cabinet sur la Colline du Parlement.

Remember who the tax system is for

A man in a hard hat is adjusting a wire being held by a co-worker. The man is standing on an orange metal platform near the grey metal beams and scaffolding of the building.

Changes to open work permits undermine women’s self-sufficiency

A fully gowned nurse tends to a patient with numerous monitors and tubes connected to them.

Ontario’s nurses are fighting back

Mark Carney est assis à table avec les premiers ministres canadiens. On voit le premier ministre de l'Ontario Doug Ford sur sa gauche.

Barriers to interprovincial trade are falling. What comes next might be even more important

Mark Carney, vêtu d’un complet foncé et portant plusieurs dossiers, marche dans un couloir en direction de la caméra, avant une réunion du cabinet sur la Colline du Parlement.

The forgotten project of tax reform

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