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Volunteers wearing green safety vests sort and pack food donations into cardboard boxes at a food bank warehouse.

Canada is too rich to be failing this badly on economic and social rights

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

AI on a social mission

Is experimentation just the latest policy buzzword?

Make trade work for women

The real “justice” denied to Boushie

Who benefits from accessible infrastructure?

Development assistance and violence against women

Revoir le financement public des écoles privées : une réforme complexe

The rise of food policy councils in Canada

Pour un développement plus égalitaire de l’IA

Can government fix the loneliness problem?

Precarious work and the changing nature of employment

Values-based AI and the new smart cities

Allow Salvadorans to make a safe claim in Canada

La version française de la Constitution canadienne vue du Québec

A few modest amendments to the Constitution

Active bystanders can stop abuse in the halls of power

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