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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 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

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

Overlapping silhouettes of hands in a watercolour texture.

Let Indigenous youth lead. It’s their future

Illustration of a tree with leaves shaped like hearts. On the branches, they are red. Some of them turn into birds flying away. The fallen leaves are dark or light grey.

The mirage of “death as a benefit”

Cities need to get ahead of autonomous delivery robots

Birth tourism has doubled since the pandemic lull

Women hockey players from the Ottawa Charge and Toronto Sceptres battle for a puck in front of the Toronto net.

Alberta’s new sport legislation built on fear and discrimination

Hands holding a book.

Canadians need better skills training and recognition to tackle 21st century challenges

Quatre personnes mangent autour d'une table au milieu de laquelle se trouve une boîte de Cheerios.Une fresque murale représente un phare.

Foundations underpin the structure of Canadian charities

The worker is standing next to the wall in a hallway. She leans with one hand on a rounded wooden railing that runs the length of the wall at waist level. With her other hand, she lifts the hand of a man seated in a wheelchair facing the wall. He has a curve in his spine that bends him forward. Two other people watch from down the hallway. One is in a wheelchair, the other is seated under a window. The walls are pale yellow. The floor is brown linoleum.

When you think of green jobs, do you think of care work?

Bananes, tomates cerises, poivrons orange et autres produits d'épicerie dans un panier.

Reinforcing policies to improve Quebec’s food supply

A crowd of people with four protesters in the foreground hold multiingual signs saying “no human is illegal” and “respect the dignity of asylum seekers.”

The truth about asylum in Canada

The quiet separation / La séparation tranquille

A row of four adults sits in front of computers. Two men and a woman smile and lean in to look at something on one screen. They are all at least 40. One man has greying hair. They are in a classroom with a wall covered in posters.

For better social equity, invest in adult education and close the digital divide

A line graph showing 54 per cent of young people think they are worse off than their parents at the same age versus 25 per cent who think they are better off.

Five public-opinion trends to watch in 2025

Gould passes a thick stack of papers to a white man with dark hair and a beard dressed in a black suit. Gould is standing in the first row of desks, where several other people are sitting. She is white with glasses and long light-brown hair pulled back in an elastic. Her turtleneck is white with sleeves that reach her elbows. Her pants are black. The room has olive-green carpet, wood panelling and soft lighting.

A surgical way to salvage the fall economic statement

Happy people waving small Canadian flags and clapping.

Newcomer retention should be Canada’s priority

A simple line drawing showing a house and a key.

Housing for people with intellectual disabilities must be entirely rethought

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