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Four young children using laptops sitting at a table side by

Children’s privacy is now critical infrastructure in the AI era

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

Canada should take an insurance approach to future disruption

Feminist Senators are critical actors in women’s representation

Will the new government do more to stop the opioid crisis?

Here’s a way for governments to buy positive outcomes

Canada needs a lot more people, and soon

Only a fifth of Canadian mayors are women

Canada’s polytechnics deserve to be recognized

Parties, not voters, to blame for slow rise of women MPs

Autocrats use feminism to undermine democracy

A post-election glimmer of hope for cultural pluralism?

As Canadians work longer, pensions need to evolve

What’s missing from the conversation about assisted death

Ten charts about broad trends in Canadian public opinion

Where’s the talk about a guaranteed livable income?

How tax break promises for new parents fall short

A watershed month for medical assistance in dying

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