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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

Beyond stealth in social programming

Public archives: more relevant today than ever

Canada’s approach toward Central American migrants

Social assistance requires more accountability and federal leadership

Central Americans need more than Canadian handwringing

What ride-sharing means for Canada’s cities

Ontario’s “welfare diet” in 2018

Canada’s shameful post-war treatment of unwed mothers

Indigenous workers and the mining rebound

Moving patient engagement to the centre of health care

Social policy-making still stealthy after all these years

The success of the privately sponsored refugee system

We can have open, respectful debates on immigration

Can the majority leave space for traditional views on marriage?

Social assistance is not improving health

Parents in prison: A public policy blind spot

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