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Generative AI and deeper thinking: What’s in our heads still matters*

Here’s why the income gap and its growth both matter

A white semi-truck passes through a forest of evergreens on a two-lane stretch.

Four ways Ottawa can throttle ‘Driver Inc.’

Some of the thousands of people standing and looking in the direction of a stage. Many are in red and some wave Canadian flags.

Bill C-3 could open the citizenship doors to people with little connection to Canada

A parade of men and women, many wearing black, walk with signs with pictures of people on them.

Iranian regime officials are entering Canada with alarming ease

Gary Anandasangaree with cameras and journalists in the unfocused background.

Recognizing the Tamil Canadian experience in public life

An illustration of the figure of a miniature human standing on the edge of a bread basket hauling up another person.

Don’t miss the good news on poverty reduction in 2025

Canada needs to move toward a public health model of supporting grief

Young man with an artificial leg is working in a furniture factory. He is standing next to a large stack of wood, holding a two-by-four. He is wearing grey coveralls, a plaid shirt and light-brown suede shoes. He uses an artificial limb from the knee down on his left leg. It is a thin metal pole with a slightly larger dark blue piece of plastic just below the knee.

A focus on work needs to be part of the new Canada disability benefit

The word "immigration" is written on a white line that divides an asphalt surface in two. On one side, the Canadian flag, painted on the ground. On the other, a red travel bag and a pair of feet in blue sneakers.

What good does immigration bring?

Austerity in public education financing is fostering growing inequities in Canada

Using simulations to teach civics in high school could improve voter turnout

Well-being of children with disabilities calls for rights-based policies

Des taxes régressives… et progressistes!

Artificial intelligence + basic income = Canadian innovation

French as a condition of immigration: the CAQ’s new reform

A one-click citizenship oath isn’t the way to go

Four women talk in a nurses’ station, where four computers are set up, and paper notices are taped to the walls and windows, which are covered with blinds on the other side of the glass. The women are all masked. One looks at a computer; another has her hand on the first woman’s shoulder.

Panacea or peril? Assessing private clinics in Canadian health care

The little heart is fashioned out of plywood and is attached to a long piece of plastic with purple ribbons a couple of inches long hanging from it. The wooden piece would fit in the palm of your hand. The woman holding it has wraparound sunglasses and a white shirt. She’s standing in a row of women who are holding similar items. The mood is somber, with shadows and sunlight intermingling across the faces of the group.

Historic meeting of ministers needs to look at international human rights

Students sit in a classroom with a teacher standing in front of a large screen. The rows of seating are tiered. Some of the students are using laptops.

Ontario needs to better protect international students

Brick, two-storey buildings stand behind a red and white sign for the college. Green grass, a couple small cedar hedges and several small trees with autumn-orange leaves surround the sign.

The case of McVety’s “university” has massive legal and constitutional implications

What was different about Ontario’s COVID-19 response

How federalism failed Canadian cities during COVID-19

La ligne rose est un meilleur projet que le REM de l’est

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