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Volunteers wearing green safety vests sort and pack food donations into cardboard boxes at a food bank warehouse.

Canada is too rich to be failing this badly on economic and social rights

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

Construction workers Alt text: Single worker stands on a partially framed house.

Skilled-trades training needs a rethink

A sun sets behind the frame of a new home construction.

Ontario’s new law should make planning faster — not move the work elsewhere

An illustration showing a red line graph knocking apart a bag of groceries.

One poverty measure cannot capture Canada’s economic hardship

Four children gathered around a laptop with an adult standing behind it.

Before schools embrace AI, Canada must protect children’s learning

Two men look at a betting app on a telephone while watching soccer.

Governments are gambling with Canadians’ well-being

An illustration of two telephones communicating, one featuring an older man and the other a robot.

Artificial intelligence regulation must not leave older adults behind

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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Getting pension reform back on track

Protesting more, but alone

The spectators

Saving all the way home

Disappearing facts

Answering the university challenge

A global campus

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