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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

With more than 250,000 households in arrears, it’s time for rent forgiveness

Tackling racism against Asian-Canadians as multiculturalism turns 50

New gun-control legislation needs to control replica guns to keep Canadians safe

Canada needs a university-based, domestic vaccine-making capability

L’égalité raciale comme valeur fondamentale de la Francophonie

Will COVID-19 finally force us to address the devaluation of long-term care workers?

Building a national child-care system requires a coherent, ambitious approach

Les idées directrices de la réforme de la Loi sur les langues officielles

Canada’s problematic military culture warrants an oversight agency

A new voluntary EI program would bring more workers under safety net

La liberté universitaire à l’épreuve de la diversité

During COVID-19, officials fell back on unnecessary policing

Why should taxpayers be on the hook for sick pay when multinationals are raking in money?

Pour une Assemblée nationale réellement diversifiée

In Canada and abroad, new data reveal strong support for gender equality

Only a fundamental culture change will address military sexual misconduct

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