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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

How to create early childhood spaces: lessons from Quebec

Un homme travaille sur un ordinateur portable. On ne voit que ses mains et ses bras, avec les manches retroussées d’une chemise turquoise. Un petit symbole de droit d’auteur (un "c" blanc dans un cercle) est superposé à l’image, ainsi que d’autres petites images représentant un cadenas, un triangle avec un point d’exclamation (un signe d’avertissement), une ampoule, un écran d’ordinateur, un presse-papiers avec une coche.

Four things to fix in Canada’s Copyright Act

Harnessing growth to create positive neighbourhood change

Worsening gender inequality in Waterloo is a warning for all of Canada

Canada needs new immigrants, but must plan for the consequences

Four steps to relieving the Canadian housing crisis

Seen from above sits a box of canned foods. We see the arms and hands of a man holding one of the tins. Another person’s hand holds a clear plastic bag of flat noodles.

Provinces must join effort to help disabled escape poverty

Six étudiants en médecine portant leur uniforme bleu et leur stéthoscope, deux garçons, quatre filles, sourient à la caméra.

How to train more doctors in Quebec

A close up photo of mobile phone parts.

The empty success of recent amendments to Canada’s right-to-repair bill

High-quality training programs needed to weather labour market disruptions

Des présentoirs de magasin colorés et attrayants, avec des personnages enfantins, montrent des friandises.

Mignons, mais néfastes

CMHC is supportive of renovations, but our tax laws are not

Time to ban non-disclosure agreements

Community self-determination can address the Northern housing crisis

The eternal land shortage municipal planning departments can fix

Quebec’s other quiet revolution

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