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A row of white two-storey homes sits across from a couple standalone homes.

It should be easier to invest savings in community projects

People with their backs to the camera have their hands raised in a stock-photo meeting.

New housing co-ops need stronger democratic safeguards

Digital arrows are forming a loop and are surrounded by microchips.

Disability policy offers Canada a blueprint for governing AI

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

Healthcare workers wearing Ebola protective suits hold two young children at a treatment center in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo.

When aid retreats, Ebola advances

A tent, trash, and personal belongings at a homeless encampment on Notre-Dame Street in East Montreal.

Cities are managing the visible signs of social failure with homelessness

Electric-trolley wires connect overhead as a dozen people cross the street.

Canada has three immigration realities, not one

A student using AI app on mobile phone during university lecture in amphitheater.

Universities need new ways to assess learning in the age of AI

New immigration law could make Canada less secure, not more

The skyline is filled with glass towers and a couple of cranes.

Condos to co-ops: It makes sense to turn unsold units into social housing

Four young children using laptops sitting at a table side by

Children’s privacy is now critical infrastructure in the AI era

Pothole in a Montreal's street.

Cities are closer to Canada’s problems than they are to the money

Three children and an adult play a game on a carpet in a child-care centre while another adult looks on.

Child benefits work when they are generous and universal

A baseball diamond in the foreground with a chemical plant in the background.

Environmental racism: Canada must move from recognition to repair

A worker in a white helmet stands on scaffolding near the support beams for a roof.

How Build Canada Homes can build affordable housing fast

Three people standing over a hospital bed with a dummy baby.

Canada shouldn’t mistake immigrant entrepreneurship for inclusion

A dollar coin is photographed close-up standing on edge on a glass table with it’s reflection below. Other dollar coins surround it, laying down.

Financial literacy needs a co-ordinator, not more pamphlets

Typewriter with the words “Letter to the Editor” typed on a sheet of paper.

Academics should engage the public without replacing journalism

A pack of eight skaters lean hard into a curve.

A policy to safeguard female athletes

A multi-coloured illustration of people in a group.

When neutrality becomes policy, equity suffers in Canadian institutions

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