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Des passants traversent une intersection animée au centre-ville, sous un ciel gris. Les immeubles environnants, dont un avec le logo de Google, se reflètent dans une flaque d’eau au premier plan. Les décorations lumineuses des arbres évoquent la période des Fêtes.

Quebec since 1995: decline or progress?

Above their heads, they hold sheets of paper that outline calls for health-care accessibility.

Excluding people with disabilities from development initiatives must end

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Canada cannot sell gender equality abroad without practising it at home

Two small children tussle under an arc of water.

Declining Indigenous fertility rates will reshape their communities – and Canada

All four are standing in front of a wall lined with provincial flags. Fraser is at a podium.

New hate-crime bill must confront the enforcement gap

A 20-something man reaches across a table in an office to shake hands with a colleague.

As AI claims entry-level jobs, we need to prioritize real-world experience for young people alongside learning

: 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

The end of the Quebec model in higher education?

We see about 20 storeys of two towers, one complete with floor-to-ceiling glass, the other partially finished, with the five upper floors less complete. The balconies on the new building have a decorative material, curved sheets of light grey metal. Taken together, they resemble a pattern of undulating small ocean waves.

Let’s stop calling it a housing crisis

Un bâtiment en briques de trois étages avec un toit plat est entouré de gazon et d’arbres adultes à l’arrière. Les fenêtres sont petites, horizontales et encadrées de blanc. Les grands cèdres pointus plantés autour des fondations sont si hauts que leurs pointes s’approchent du troisième étage et masquent certaines des fenêtres du deuxième étage et du rez-de-chaussée.

Ottawa picked the dicey road to lower rents; Quebec is right not to follow

Peddle is a white woman who looks to be in her 20s. She’s wearing an oversized fluorescent orange, yellow and grey safety jacket over a black hoodie. Her ballcap is white. She’s smiling and holds two fingers in the peace sign. Behind her are several camping tents, some grey and red, some blue and turquoise. The grass is green. An elegant building sits in the distance.

Advancing a Team Canada approach to housing

Hundreds of people stand on a busy city street that has a lot of overhead power lines crisscrossing above. The area in front of them has no traffic. Vendor stalls covered with tarps line the street.

Stop thinking of foreign aid as a tool for global influence

A four-storey building with is underway, with the top floor still in beginning stages and no roof yet. The balconies have their wooden beginnings, and the exterior wood walls are tinted green. Stacks of lumber sit on the far side of the building. Piles of construction debris are piled in front.

The precedent for a federal leadership role in housing

Wylde is sweeping a broom in front of the one-storey home. The home has a light-coloured siding, and the living-room window has a white frame and thin black shutters. Wylde is dressed in jeans, a white shirt and a black puffer vest. She has short brown hair and dark-rimmed glasses.

Yänonhchia’ would draw on First Nations’ proud history of sustainable housing

Can building more affordable housing be compatible with local democracy?

A low-rise condo project of about four storeys is partially built, with exposed concrete and lime-green membranes covering most of the surfaces. The spaces for window have no glass yet. Two men work on the roof and top floor.

Why bricks and mortar alone won’t solve the housing crisis

Making life truly affordable requires more than lowering inflation

B.C. ban on public consumption of some drugs would harm the vulnerable

A youth with pink hair holds a sign saying “Hands off trans rights” next to another youth with blonde hair with a sign saying “the youth are our future.” Other protesters are in the background.

Changes are needed to limit provincial use of the notwithstanding clause

Quebec’s university tuition policy is a loss for the province and the whole country

What Quebec’s cannabis strategy shows

A still-hazy picture of cannabis after five years of legalization

A woman in casual clothing studies a large wall panel full of information and statistics about legalization. The title of the info is “Cannabis Legalization in California: Why it Matters & What’s Next.”

A tale of two cannabis legalization experiments

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