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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

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

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

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