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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

The familiar rise of anti-Indian racism in Canada

Canada should be opening more doors to gifted Afghan students, not closing them

For Canada, the 15-minute city is made trickier by sprawl

About two dozen band members raise their right arms as they stand in a line. Several wear red headbands. A small crowd stands along the walls of the large hall-like building.

Are Indigenous communities being set up to fail with the transfer of control of child welfare services?

What should Quebec do with $900 million in parental leave surpluses?

An older white man and woman sit on a sofa, looking through sheets of paper on a coffee table in front of them. He is using a calculator.

Shooting a fly with an elephant gun: The Bloc’s ultimatum on seniors’ benefits

Danielle Smith in profile. 

What does Alberta’s Provincial Priorities Act signal for Canadian research?

Une illustration montrant une femme se tenant seule face à la lumière.

Quebec (and Ottawa) fail victims of violence

Illustration of seven men and women standing around, sitting on or climbing four larger-than-life-size square puzzle pieces that they are trying to work together to make fit.

Government-led innovation strategy requires a more mission-driven approach

Three people are walking past an outlet with CA$SH4YOU and a Western Union logo on the front, with a “payday advance” neon sign in the window.

Loans and other financial products need detailed labelling like food and prescriptions

A child strapped into a wheel chair inclined slightly backwards holds hands with his mother who is talking to him.

Ottawa must do more to help parents of children with disabilities

A woman fishes in a small shallow channel cutting through a field as her granddaughter dozes off on her back.

Putting women and girls front and centre in climate leadership

Two women in black uniforms make a bed in a hotel room. 

Hotel workers are still waiting for their economic recovery

The unit is white and tan and is mounted on a bracket sitting several feet off the ground. The building has light grey wooden siding, and a single narrow window sits above the unit.

Financial incentives alone are not enough to get more heat pumps in homes

Chong stands at a podium in front of a nearly a dozen reporters. On the walls are large framed portraits of men. The walls are panelled in wood, the windows are tall and arched at the top.

Bill C-70 could further erode minority rights

Centre Block and the Peace Tower and construction cranes set against a deep blue sky are seen through a metal fence along the lawn of Parliament Hill.

People who request access to information need better privacy protection from the federal government

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