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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

Side view illustration of a woman whose head and shoulders have been split into six vertical segments with an orange background.

Mental health care doesn’t need to cost anything

Ontario’s tutoring investment is big money with low expectations and limited equity

Le Québec est plus fort que ce que la droite identitaire veut nous faire croire

The economic case against low-wage temporary foreign workers

How the government used the pandemic to sharply increase immigration

A racial justice agenda for medicare

A cluster of bungalows, one orange, one green, sits near a playground among dry brown grass under a big blue sky with long clouds.

Transfer authority of child welfare to Indigenous communities

La ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur, Danielle McCann, s’adressant aux députés réunis au Salon bleu, le 6 avril 2022.

Liberté académique : pas assez et trop, en même temps

Governments must match civil society efforts to welcome refugees

On a snow-covered street, a dingy-looking yellow and white camper covered with dozens of words like “freedom” is loaded onto a flatbed as two police officers supervise the operation.

The trucker protests and the blatant failure of citizenship education

L’image représente une jeune femme noir tapant au clavier, entourée de diagrammes techniques translucides.

COVID was harmful for youth employment

Minority language rights: Charter’s Section 23 needs to be revised

Les détransitions ne sont pas un argument contre les transitions

Pushing through snow accumulating on a major downtown street, a man pedals a converted bike whose front end has been converted to carry a large, heavy container for goods.

Quality of work goes beyond income

Deux employés de St-Viateur Bagel, à Montréal.

Using the talents of newcomers to Canada

Strengthening French language laws in Canada: Three major legislative initiatives

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