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Four soldiers climbing snowy steps carrying gear from a boat.

Why Greenland doesn’t want Trump’s America

Four soldiers in camouflage laying in dead grass firing weapons.

Universities can help solve the Canadian military’s mobilization problem

Stone façade of a building with two signs advertising a 4½ apartment for rent. One is an orange “For rent” sign; the other is a handwritten notice with details.

Escaping the housing trap: what the Carney budget reveals

A woman dealing with a pile of bills with a calculator photographed from above.

Canada’s new code to prevent economic abuse lacks teeth

A small group of reporters surrounds the chief with microphones outstretched toward her. They are standing in a clearing of a wooded area next to a metal electricity tower.

How to combat reconciliatory backsliding

Three men in blue coveralls stand side by side looking at machinery in the distance.

Shifting Canada’s postsecondary system to shape future growth

Two boys at a chalkboard covered in math problems.

AI in the classroom is here. A policy patchwork is failing Canadian students

Ontario Premier Doug Ford leads Prime Minister Mark Carney off stage to the right leave following an announcement on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

What return-to-office mandates mean for women in the workforce

About 10 young men and boys sit at tables of sewing machines, feeding fabric into them. Piles of fabric are heaped on the floor. The walls are pink, and a dirty tarp is pinned up in an opening in the wall.

Canada is implementing a forced-labour import ban. Will it help exploited workers?

Dr. Boozary on the right is wearing a hospital scrub shirt and is holding a stethoscope. Fred Vitor holds a folder of papers while sitting on an examination table.

Patients benefit from providing health care alongside housing and other social supports

About a dozen young people pass through a crosswalk on a street lined with trees that have lost their leaves. A glass building sits opposite a modern brick building.

Youth unemployment isn’t just a summer problem

A stack of books with a stethoscope on top.

Scapegoating international medical students won’t solve Ontario’s health-care crisis

Changes to permits for international students reward the worst colleges and hurt serious researchers

Institutions, not international students, are to blame for rising asylum claims

The familiar rise of anti-Indian racism in Canada

Canada should be opening more doors to gifted Afghan students, not closing them

For Canada, the 15-minute city is made trickier by sprawl

About two dozen band members raise their right arms as they stand in a line. Several wear red headbands. A small crowd stands along the walls of the large hall-like building.

Are Indigenous communities being set up to fail with the transfer of control of child welfare services?

What should Quebec do with $900 million in parental leave surpluses?

An older white man and woman sit on a sofa, looking through sheets of paper on a coffee table in front of them. He is using a calculator.

Shooting a fly with an elephant gun: The Bloc’s ultimatum on seniors’ benefits

Danielle Smith in profile. 

What does Alberta’s Provincial Priorities Act signal for Canadian research?

Une illustration montrant une femme se tenant seule face à la lumière.

Quebec (and Ottawa) fail victims of violence

Illustration of seven men and women standing around, sitting on or climbing four larger-than-life-size square puzzle pieces that they are trying to work together to make fit.

Government-led innovation strategy requires a more mission-driven approach

Three people are walking past an outlet with CA$SH4YOU and a Western Union logo on the front, with a “payday advance” neon sign in the window.

Loans and other financial products need detailed labelling like food and prescriptions

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