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Two male black leaders stand at a podium while Jean Augustine appears on screen in the background.

Representation should not be an afterthought on Ottawa’s advisory councils

Construction workers Alt text: Single worker stands on a partially framed house.

Skilled-trades training needs a rethink

A sun sets behind the frame of a new home construction.

Ontario’s new law should make planning faster — not move the work elsewhere

An illustration showing a red line graph knocking apart a bag of groceries.

One poverty measure cannot capture Canada’s economic hardship

Four children gathered around a laptop with an adult standing behind it.

Before schools embrace AI, Canada must protect children’s learning

Two men look at a betting app on a telephone while watching soccer.

Governments are gambling with Canadians’ well-being

An illustration of two telephones communicating, one featuring an older man and the other a robot.

Artificial intelligence regulation must not leave older adults behind

A grey-haired man in a hard hat looks out over a factory floor.

Canada has been dealt its demographic cards. Now it has to play them better

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

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

Under a white, plastic tent filled with young cannabis plants, a seedling is held by a person wearing a black glove and a white plastic coat.

A course-correction on cannabis equity : the moment is now

A prison fence with razor wire along the top and a low guard tower in the corner stand against the green lawn outside and the blue sky above.

Canada’s youth justice system should extend beyond age 18

To be a policy optimist, try some rose-coloured realism

A blue and black illustration depicting a ChatGPT logo at the centre of a circuit board.

AI bias must move to accountability to address inequity

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