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A dozen or so teen girls sit at desks in rows, listening to a teacher speaking.

Education should be part of humanitarian aid from day one

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

Cadets in formation standing at attention, many with their caps at their hearts.

Canada should put its money where its mouth is on the Cadet Program

Microphone at a podium in front of an audience.

Municipal public meetings need more than a microphone

Chart showing the volume of crude oil going to the Saint John refinery from other countries.

Getting Canadian oil to Atlantic Canada is in the national interest

Two male black leaders stand at a podium while Jean Augustine appears on screen in the background.

Representation should not be an afterthought on Ottawa’s advisory councils

He’s shaking hands on a stage in a crowded room.

Canada shouldn’t try to build everything it needs for the AI era

Mark Carney, wearing a blue suit, speaks in the House of Commons, surrounded by members of Parliament seated on the House benches.

How governments are squeezing debate in Parliament

Seen from the side of a length of rail line, the locomotive is yellow with an illustration of a waving American flag painted on its side.

A new trade policy for the “geopolitical turn”

Federal public servants are to report back to the office again. Their bosses say they mean it this time

A child wearing a scarf around their head fills a plastic water bottle at a communal tap.

Canada must do more for the Rohingya

Shoppers pushing carts in a parking lot are kept at a distance by a maze of stacked wooden pallets.

Empowering public health officials requires trust in government

Illustration of a small plant whose flower is a dollar coin. A pair of hands is holding it and another coin.

Acting pay is a complication that runs deep in the public service

The curious case of Quebec’s linguistic directive for the health system

La main d'un nouveau-né, avec un bracelet d'hôpital rose.

A Quebec case shows the need for more regulation on sperm donation in Canada

Ottawa needs to act on a proposal for a guaranteed basic income for P.E.I.

A head-and-shoulders shot of him. He is wearing brown eyeglasses, a dark grey jacket and light blue shirt. His hair is dark and short, with grey at the temples.

Fact-checking BC United’s tax-cut proposal

A cluster of signs stand along a roadside, with the names of candidates and information about voting day.

A voter ID law: Coming to an election near you?

Parliament’s peace tower is seen through the shadows of a wrought-iron fence.

When Ottawa uses the Official Languages Act to deny access to information

Une personne portant un gilet réfléchissant, un masque et un casque transporte une cruche blanche translucide contenant de l’eau jaune.

Scaling back on wastewater testing in Ontario leaves people vulnerable to illness

The two prime ministers sit in armchairs with their respective flags behind them.

Canada’s poor relations with India underscore short-term thinking and failures

Illustration depicting colouful machine gears as and interlocking work station where a handful of people work with laptops.

A relatively simple measure of productivity

A man in a light grey suit gestures with his hands while sitting in front of Canadian flags.

Ottawa eyeing ways to simplify public sector pay rules, fix Phoenix problems

Federal funding for research prompts call for more partners in health care

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