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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

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

Viewing the CBC as a public good

Water, sanitation essential to international assistance

Health care system needs a new research model

Logic should not be optional in sexual assault trials

The war against smoking is still not won

A good year for Canadian women

Immigration : la prudence est de mise

Animal rights Bill threatened Canadians’ way of life

How policy can support intergenerational equity

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