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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

Seasonal hunger, deprivation are under the radar

Walking a political tightrope on immigration

How do the feds track diversity of appointments?

Canadian stats and two-step immigration

Forget about “one-size-fits-all” counter-radicalization policies

Put art-driven data in the Canadian content picture

Demanding accountability for a judge’s failure

Government appointments and diversity

Canadians’ security and privacy don’t need to be at odds

Why proportional representation is doomed

The cross-party case for the Working Income Tax Benefit

Local media and the democracy deficit

The “noble failure” approach to electoral reform

Trump, Brexit, and political science’s failures

COP22 : la complexité du système multilatéral onusien

Gender discrimination and the Indian Act

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