Infrastructure

A lake with rolling hills in the background on a sunny day. The leaves are just starting to change colours on the trees.

Canada’s $650M water plan risks repeating old mistakes

Vue aérienne de l'usine, avec son groupe de bâtiments longs et bas et les bassins de goudron situés à proximité des quartiers résidentiels de Sydney.

Why Canada’s nation-building moment demands a skills revolution

Floods, fires and mudslides: The climate-insurance crisis in real estate

Nine people stand under a white canvas tent surrounded by mud and puddles on a cloudy day. A long line of men in fluorescent orange and lime-green work vests and hardhats is behind them along with a couple of crane trucks.

Equity and transparency: how to even the playing field in infrastructure spending

A series of glass towers fill the image.

From boardrooms to beds: Can empty offices ease hospital overcrowding?

A man works on a shiny large steel wheel more than twice his size.

A stronger Canadian economy starts with a circular economy in cities and regions

A-frame wooden homes sit side by side on a road. They are surrounded by mature trees but the paint on each is peeling.

Effective rural policy is critical to Canada’s security, stability and sovereignty

The Canadian and U.S. flags are in the foreground with the Ambassador bridge in the background before a pink sunset.

Canada’s policy reset needs to go much further than trade to address Trump shock effects

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Canada’s health care crisis demands a digital solution

New models of shared rule can secure better infrastructure in Indigenous communities

For Canada, the 15-minute city is made trickier by sprawl

Canada needs an immediate strategy for Africa

Seen from the side of a length of rail line, the locomotive is yellow with an illustration of a waving American flag painted on its side.

A new trade policy for the “geopolitical turn”

How Canada can better adapt to extreme weather

The struggle for affordable internet in remote Canada

Dark mist swirls on a white sky, with dark mountains all around. Dark lichen-covered boulders sit amid golden tall grass in the foreground.

Looking North: Pension funds are key to developing Canada’s critical minerals

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