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One poverty measure cannot capture Canada’s economic hardship

One poverty measure cannot capture Canada’s economic hardship

Food Banks Canada’s latest poverty report card found that 28 per cent of people in Canada experienced a poverty-level standard of living, according...

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Richard Matern

Time for Canada to take a fix on defence cybersecurity provisions

Time for Canada to take a fix on defence cybersecurity provisions

Mariners call it taking a fix: verifying that a ship remains on its intended course and, if it’s not, adjusting direction accordingly. On July 13,...

07.08.2026 5

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Ron Lloyd

Provinces should fund citizens’ assemblies to rebuild local democracy

Provinces should fund citizens’ assemblies to rebuild local democracy

Local democracy in Canada is eroding from two directions at once. Voter turnout in municipal elections is shockingly low and, in Ontario, the...

06.08.2026 4

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Megan Mattes

Before schools embrace AI, Canada must protect children’s learning

Before schools embrace AI, Canada must protect children’s learning

Maybe you’ve felt it by now. Anxiety, with a hint of emptiness, when you release something into the world you’ve co-created with a chatbot. At the...

06.08.2026 20

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Mia Travers-Hayward

Resilient communities need more than GDP growth

Resilient communities need more than GDP growth

(Version française disponible ici.) Earlier this summer, we were in Estevan, Sask., for a conference on rural innovation that started us thinking...

04.08.2026 4

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Abigail Jackson

Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech

Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech

Can you trust Mark Zuckerberg to design a socially responsible Facebook? How about Elon Musk with X or his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok? The...

30.07.2026 10

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Natasha Tusikov

The hidden cost of Canada’s measles outbreak

28.07.2026 10

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Dat Nguyen

Governments are gambling with Canadians’ well-being

27.07.2026 10

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Renze Nauta

Artificial intelligence regulation must not leave older adults behind

24.07.2026 10

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Rizwan Khan

Canada can stop surveillance pricing before it reaches the checkout

22.07.2026 10

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Sarah-Louise Ruder

Why repealing the law on spanking isn’t enough

21.07.2026 10

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Walid Jebili

The CAQ kept its promises. So why did it lose popular support?

20.07.2026 10

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Lisa Maureen Birch

Ottawa’s AI strategy is built to inspire trust, not protect Canadians

20.07.2026 10

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Ignacio Cofone

Canada has been dealt its demographic cards. Now it has to play them better

17.07.2026 10

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Myron Liew

The CAQ kept its promises. So why did it lose popular support?

(Version française disponible ici.) The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) made history in 2018 and 2022, winning two of the largest majorities in...

17.07.2026 20

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Lisa Maureen Birch

Canada’s electricity strategy is overlooking its most powerful asset

15.07.2026 10

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Martin Boucher

Harassment is becoming a threat to Canadian democracy — starting locally

13.07.2026 10

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Steewa Maria Philip

Canada’s national-security strategy needs three pillars

09.07.2026 10

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Naomi Abramovich

Health reform needs places where the system is allowed to learn

08.07.2026 10

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Lawrence Rosenberg

How the Global South finances the educated workforce in Canada and other wealthy countries

07.07.2026 20

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Hari Kc

How some First Nations break the cycle of poverty

06.07.2026 30

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Mylon Ollila

When did Canada become sovereign, really?

02.07.2026 10

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Taki Sarantakis

Canada’s industrial ambitions require robust environmental governance

30.06.2026 20

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Dennis Murray

Why repealing the law on spanking isn’t enough

29.06.2026 10

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Walid Jebili

Canada can’t fix the gender wealth gap until it measures it

26.06.2026 20

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Maude Pugliese

New federal agencies won’t fix old problems with delivery

26.06.2026 20

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Kevin G. Lynch

Canada needs a new social union deal

23.06.2026 20

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Jared Wesley

“Buy Canadian” won’t fix defence procurement until Ottawa defines “Canadian”

22.06.2026 30

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Al Vigier

Decisions on major projects often ignore cultural and social losses

19.06.2026 10

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Robin Gregory

When Jewish Canadians lose confidence in public safety

18.06.2026 20

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Allen Zeesman

When aid retreats, Ebola advances

18.06.2026 20

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Béatrice Vaugrante

Canadians not confident public service is prepared for the future

18.06.2026 20

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Jennifer Ditchburn

Workplace AI is writing the rules. Workers need to see them

16.06.2026 20

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Farzad Shahinfard

Canada should keep its data out of U.S. hands

16.06.2026 20

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Cynthia Khoo

Canada has three immigration realities, not one

15.06.2026 20

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Qi Wu

Cities are managing the visible signs of social failure with homelessness

15.06.2026 20

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Mélanie Fournier

Online harassment must be recognized as an occupational risk

(Version française disponible ici.) When we think of the risks associated with an employee’s online presence, attention often focuses on the...

12.06.2026 20

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Nataly levesque

Universities need new ways to assess learning in the age of AI

12.06.2026 20

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Louis Volante

Grievances in Alberta: how deep, how broad?

11.06.2026 20

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Charles Breton

Buy Canadian won’t cost us much. That’s the problem

Can we spare $12 billion for a good cause? What about $3.6 billion? These figures have been suggested as the potential cost to the federal government...

10.06.2026 20

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Noah Fry

The Ebola story: how risk becomes politics

The broadcast opens with an aerial shot: a red-earth road threading through dense green forest, the camera slightly unstable, signaling distance and...

10.06.2026 20

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Joshua Greenberg

Canada doesn’t need AI independence. It needs exit plans for critical sectors

Canada has announced two tools that could shape the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) future. The Canada Strong Fund is an arm’s-length Crown...

09.06.2026 20

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Bruce tong

A weak carbon-price floor will not fix Alberta’s emissions market

The agreement recently signed between Alberta and the federal government is an uneven bargain. Alberta gets support for a pipeline and the waiver of...

08.06.2026 10

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Nicholas Rivers, Brandon Schaufele And Stewart Elgie

Canada needs a deeper municipal bond market

(Version française disponible ici) The Federation of Canadian Municipalities estimates that cities, towns and smaller local administrations own and...

05.06.2026 20

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Luciano Arvin

New immigration law could make Canada less secure, not more

Canadians are increasingly told that tougher immigration rules equal a safer country. With Bill C-12, the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System...

03.06.2026 10

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Pablo policzer

Canada’s sovereignty needs more than guns and steel

Prime Minister Mark Carney has staked his government on a sovereignty argument. The 2025 federal budget committed $115 billion to nationbuilding...

02.06.2026 20

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Creso sá

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

As condominium sales across Canada fall to their lowest levels in decades, what if unsold units could be repurposed for the public good? Governments...

01.06.2026 20

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Yuly chan

The CUSMA review is Canada’s last chance to govern AI

When Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette met U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington in late April, she named two priorities as...

29.05.2026 20

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Tiran rahimian bajgiran

Canada’s nuclear ambitions need fuel security, not just new reactors

A nuclear energy renaissance is upon us. The gloomy early 2000s, when anti-nuclear sentiment was on the rise, reactors were prematurely shut down and...

28.05.2026 20

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Alex Macdonald

Children’s privacy is now critical infrastructure in the AI era

Children’s digital privacy is often discussed as a consumer issue – a matter of parental settings, better consent notices or cleaner app design....

27.05.2026 20

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Muhammad irfan