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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

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

Four issues to be resolved in cannabis legalization

Our health system is failing elderly patients

Promoting the use of Inuktut, a founding language

La réalité des mères qui accouchent pendant leur prise en charge

Can we avoid bias in hiring practices?

How a guaranteed income could work

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