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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

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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

Budget 2017: Right road, low fuel Column by Jennifer Ditchburn

Linking the classroom and the workplace

The nonprofit sector as a champion for decent work

Ensuring decent work for young Canadians

How to speedread the federal budget

Canada’s engineering shortfall

Building flexibility into parental leave

Flexible work in a Trump world

Equipping our kids for the new labour market

The policy disconnect on the labour market

Young Canadians and the digital job search

Les disparités de traitement dans les conventions collectives

Two ways Canada can increase its international clout

  • by Zach Paikin 

Constructing our future with low-carbon buildings

The automation elephant in the room

The CBC’s role in ‘the Internet Age’

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