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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

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

An illustration showing a red line graph knocking apart a bag of groceries.

One poverty measure cannot capture Canada’s economic hardship

Healthcare workers wearing Ebola protective suits hold two young children at a treatment center in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo.

When aid retreats, Ebola advances

A tent, trash, and personal belongings at a homeless encampment on Notre-Dame Street in East Montreal.

Cities are managing the visible signs of social failure with homelessness

The skyline is filled with glass towers and a couple of cranes.

Condos to co-ops: It makes sense to turn unsold units into social housing

Three children and an adult play a game on a carpet in a child-care centre while another adult looks on.

Child benefits work when they are generous and universal

From the air, a sprawling subdivision covers several kilometres of land surrounded by swaths of forest and snow-capped mountains in the distance.

Adding community housing can help solve the productivity problem

A million new non-market homes in 10 years: That should be the goal

Peddle is a white woman who looks to be in her 20s. She’s wearing an oversized fluorescent orange, yellow and grey safety jacket over a black hoodie. Her ballcap is white. She’s smiling and holds two fingers in the peace sign. Behind her are several camping tents, some grey and red, some blue and turquoise. The grass is green. An elegant building sits in the distance.

Advancing a Team Canada approach to housing

B.C. ban on public consumption of some drugs would harm the vulnerable

Good data is key to addressing economic disparities in Canada

The case for the legislative protection of cash

A worker installs solar panels on the roof of a house in Scugog, Ontario.

Governments need to better reflect affordability concerns in climate policies

Making the Canada Disability Benefit work

Young man with an artificial leg is working in a furniture factory. He is standing next to a large stack of wood, holding a two-by-four. He is wearing grey coveralls, a plaid shirt and light-brown suede shoes. He uses an artificial limb from the knee down on his left leg. It is a thin metal pole with a slightly larger dark blue piece of plastic just below the knee.

A focus on work needs to be part of the new Canada disability benefit

Artificial intelligence + basic income = Canadian innovation

The little heart is fashioned out of plywood and is attached to a long piece of plastic with purple ribbons a couple of inches long hanging from it. The wooden piece would fit in the palm of your hand. The woman holding it has wraparound sunglasses and a white shirt. She’s standing in a row of women who are holding similar items. The mood is somber, with shadows and sunlight intermingling across the faces of the group.

Historic meeting of ministers needs to look at international human rights

Smith stands in front of a row of large blue Alberta flags draped on their poles. She is holding a black plastic binder. She’s wearing a black jacket and a green shirt with a necklace.

Who would benefit from the UCP personal income tax proposal in Alberta?

Racial disparities are barriers to progress that can’t be ignored

Harnessing growth to create positive neighbourhood change

Quebec’s other quiet revolution

Who won and lost with the Canada Emergency Response Benefit

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