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: Des figurines miniatures debout sur des piles de pièces de différentes hauteurs. Un concept illustrant les inégalités économiques.

Federalism: obstacle or engine of redistribution?

Lines of people bent over in prayer at night.

Religious literacy can help Quebec balance identity and inclusion

Attendees use their phones to record then-prime minister Justin Trudeau speaking.

Trudeau set a high bar on diversity in appointments. Will Carney match it?

A Tylenol bottle laying on red-white-and-blue capsules.

Tylenol, Trump and the crisis of public health communication

It’s time Canadian universities ventured abroad – to save themselves

A diverse crowd of university students in blue cap and gown.

Cultivating the pluralism dividend in Canada’s democracy

Four students are walking on the lawn in front of a black building with a “Dalhousie University” sign.

Canada needs a national strategy for generative AI in higher education

A couple dozen people line up behind a white food delivery van. A woman in the foreground walks away with stuffed bags.

Ending food insecurity is a democratic imperative

The man is walking with several other people, all holding homemade signs that say “Students deserve the best education our…” (the rest is obscured) and “Honk to support…” and “We are out here because we cannot fit in our classrooms anymore.”

The problem with illusory autonomy in Saskatchewan’s education funding

Media interview - journalists with microphones interviewing a formally dressed politician or businessman.

We must not allow our country to become a news desert

What’s at stake in supporting sex workers’ right to health

Several wings of the brick building are lined with evergreen hedges and small trees. At the top of one three-storey building, a white cross lets people know the hospital is faith-based.

Access to MAiD should not cater to faith-based interests

Three elementary-age girls sitting at desks are smiling with their hands up to ask a question. The room is bright with tall windows.

Chronic student absenteeism will require serious investment

Illustration d’une jeune femme assise dans une cage à oiseaux. Elle est vêtue d’un pantalon noir, de baskets blanches et d’un pull marron clair. Elle porte une paire de lunettes blanches et ses cheveux noirs sont coiffés en chignon sur le dessus de la tête. Ses bras entourent ses tibias. Le fond de l’image est de deux tons de marron.

Women’s economic empowerment is crucial to Canada’s strategies against gender-based violence

Picking a university or college? Better trust your gut

Illustration of a single wolf standing on a wide-open city street at night, looking at the towers twinkling in the distance. Part of the sky is bright yellow-orange.

The particularly Canadian “lone-wolf” tradition of studying the public service

La ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur du Québec, Pascale Déry, répond à l’opposition lors de la période de questions, le jeudi 28 septembre 2023 à l’Assemblée nationale.

When the Quebec minister of higher education attacks university autonomy

A teenage boy has his hands cuffed behind his back while lying on the ground near a car.

Why do young offenders return to prison?

The history of colonialism and slavery still impacts Black people in Canada

An Inukshuk is silhouetted against the last light of sunset.

Universities must uphold Indigenous rights to self-determine

When the economy becomes an obsession

A young man drives a motorcycle past a small grassy area where the sign stands next to five white wooden crosses with one or two words on them. In the distance is a city block with apartment buildings in white stucco.

The unfairness of Canada’s Latin American humanitarian program

Le patient est allongé sur un lit à roulettes et est vêtu d’un vêtement vert menthe. Une couverture en plastique bleu clair est éparpillée sur la couverture blanche qui recouvre la personne. L’homme qui pousse le lit est recouvert du même vêtement en plastique bleu et porte un masque blanc.

Social programs should unite, not divide, Canadians

Illustration of a young woman holding her temples with her eyes closed. She is sitting up in bed. A tangle of scribble lines floats above her head.

Chronically ill and disabled Canadians need a say in health-care reforms

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