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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 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 bridge is in the foreground and a small passenger plane in the background amid an orange haze.

Canada’s buildings can do more than consume electricity

A closeup of a student’s hand, writing with a pencil.

Canada’s PISA scores hit record lows. Don’t let rankings drive reform

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

A bronze statue of a woman holding a proclamation to the sky with one hand.

Canada must reckon with its history of slavery

People rush past a man sitting on the street wrapped in a blanket.

Canada can choose to prevent youth homelessness. The U.K. shows the way

Line drawing of two sets of scales.

To understand poverty, governments need more than one measure

Meanwhile, in the rest of Canada…

“The Future of Food”

The destiny of demographic change

Pour une assurance publique des soins de longue durée

Saskatchewan vikings

Think twice about all that spending on transportation infrastructure

Government must regain a sense of caring for the next generation

Growth is essential to reducing poverty in developing countries

What colleges and universities can do

How to appraise performance

How to get better research – and teaching – from universities

Commercialization creep

Telling our stories

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Le pari de la diversité

Let’s give students better guidance

Applying behavioural economics to challenging social problems

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