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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

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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

The trouble with prioritizing dads’ leave

Physicians, conscience, and assisted dying

La démocratie pour les réalistes
Chronique

Hold the applause on parental leave extension

Religious accommodation and school boards

Regulatory risk mismanagement and the abortion pill

Why the benefits of diversity are not theoretical

The “Mike Pence rule” and women political staff

The invisibility of people with developmental disabilities

Act now on science funding, or miss Canada’s moment

Know your history on pay equity

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False assumptions about sexual assault

What is academic freedom?

Precarious work and the passage to adulthood

Andrew Potter and trust in the academic brand

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