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Budget 2026 offers help, but won’t reach everyone who needs it

New benefits and housing investments could reduce poverty and homelessness. Temporary support and gaps in eligibility limit their impact.
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Why it’s time to move past the Canada Health Act

A wallet, with some cash peaking out, sitting on a tax form.

Broad tax reform belongs at the centre of Canada’s growth agenda

In a hanger, Carney stands in front of a long row of people in military fatigues and a grey aircraft.

Canada’s national-security strategy needs three pillars

The first ministers standing in front of the prime minister’s residence, from left to right: Glen Clark, B.C.; Gary Filmon, Man.; Ralph Klein Alta.; Lucien Bouchard, Que.; Piers McDonald, Yukon; Roy Ramanow, Sask.; Jean Chrétien, Brian Tobin, Nfld.; Camille Thériault,N.B.; Miike Harris, Ont.; Patrick Binns, P.E.I.; Russell MacLellan, N.S.; and Jim Antoine, N.W.T.

Canada needs a new social union deal

Cyclists ride along a bike lane in downtown Toronto.

Canada needs a deeper municipal bond market

Mark Carney photographed in profile with an old Canadian Pacific train in the background. The word “Canadian” appears in front of him.

The Canada Strong Fund isn’t a sovereign wealth fund — and that’s OK

A line drawing of scrambled lines being placed in order by a dollar sign inside a cog.

Canada is spending billions to fix the wrong productivity problem

Thomas Courchene in a suit standing for a portrait.

Tom Courchene showed how economists can shape public policy

A worker in a yellow safety vest wrangles three shopping carts in a driving snowstorm.

A youth employment supplement could rebalance Canada’s generational divide

The man stands knee-deep in a clearing with tall grasses and an evergreen forest in the distance.

Why peatlands must be central to Canada’s climate and economic agendas

Students filling out participatory budget idea submission form.

Participatory budgeting is a low-risk, high-return democratic upgrade

Tiff macklem gestures with his hands while speaking at a microphone with a Canadian flag in the background.

Canada needs an open finance roadmap, not just open banking

A shiny new foodbank with food organized on shelves with aisles like a supermarket.

Ten million Canadians live in food-insecure households. The federal budget doesn’t help them

Mark Carney speaking at a podium, viewed from the side, with dark background.

Carney’s industrial bet: Building Canada’s future while cutting the public service

Mark Carney and François-Philippe Champaign joke together while children stand in the background looking unimpressed.

Fiscal rules and the return of discipline to Canada’s finances

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Quebec since 1995: decline or progress?

Montreal City Hall, close-up view from below, with the flags of Canada and Quebec flying in the foreground.

Staying the course toward sound public finances

Mark Carney, vêtu d’un complet foncé et portant plusieurs dossiers, marche dans un couloir en direction de la caméra, avant une réunion du cabinet sur la Colline du Parlement.

The forgotten project of tax reform

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Tariffs and a possible carbon-rebate rollback show the need for targeted income support

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Foundations underpin the structure of Canadian charities

Justin Trudeau’s fiscal legacy

Gould passes a thick stack of papers to a white man with dark hair and a beard dressed in a black suit. Gould is standing in the first row of desks, where several other people are sitting. She is white with glasses and long light-brown hair pulled back in an elastic. Her turtleneck is white with sleeves that reach her elbows. Her pants are black. The room has olive-green carpet, wood panelling and soft lighting.

A surgical way to salvage the fall economic statement

How much more tax will Ottawa levy, and how much will come from the dead?

Capital gains reform really did target the wealthiest

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