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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

A bronze statue of a woman holding a proclamation to the sky with one hand.

Canada must reckon with its history of slavery

People rush past a man sitting on the street wrapped in a blanket.

Canada can choose to prevent youth homelessness. The U.K. shows the way

Line drawing of two sets of scales.

To understand poverty, governments need more than one measure

The federal government could implement two accountability measures to help eradicate racism

A kindergarten teacher helps a boy and girl with a class activity. They are looking at a piece of paper on a table in front of them while she is speaking with a red pen in hand.

Well-funded public schools are more important than election giveaways

With COVID-19, we’ve never been “all in this together”

When will Canadians benefit from the promised mental health transfer?

Young white woman holds a round, white pill to her mouth, with a glass of water in her other hand.

Put abortion pills into people’s hands

How to fix Canada’s broken employment insurance program

We’re too attached to our health-care system to properly fix it

Ottawa should push for water fluoridation

A young girl in a classroom wears a mask. She’s doing schoolwork at a desk, with two other students at desks nearby.

Masks in schools: have mask mandates become a proxy for trust in public health?

Pour une politique nationale en habitation

Moins de pauvres en pandémie

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

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