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How Canada can prepare for high-pressure U.S. demands on sovereignty and trade

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How Canada can put Carney’s Davos speech into action

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Canada, Cuba and the price of tolerating coercive power

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Mark Carney preaches co-operative federalism but doesn’t practise it

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Slaying myths about income support

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Giving life to the Carney vision for Canada

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Visible minority women are still sidelined in competitive ridings

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Canada’s national amnesia on Islamophobia

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Cultivating the pluralism dividend in Canada’s democracy

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The secret to a successful defence industrial strategy is procurement reform

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Ending food insecurity is a democratic imperative

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Consent confusion and the Hockey Canada sexual-assault trial

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Only targeted industrial policy will fulfil Canada’s value-adding potential 

Industrial policy and Canada’s uncertain future

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Carney’s troubling silence on women and gender

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Bill C-3 could open the citizenship doors to people with little connection to Canada

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Greening the military: Why defence spending must align with climate action

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Carney’s 15-per-cent challenge: Cutting and rewiring Canada’s public service

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Recognizing the Tamil Canadian experience in public life

Integrating environmental considerations is key to Carney’s seven priorities

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

The Competition Act favoured concentration from the start

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Canadian businesses need a new government approach to cybercrime

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Canada’s foreign policy credibility begins at home

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

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