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Canada must reckon with its history of slavery

Canada must reckon with its history of slavery

(Version française disponible ici.) On May 28, 2026, France adopted a bill officially repealing the Code Noir, the 1685 law that had regulated...

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Pascale Annoual Kaniasta

Municipal public meetings need more than a microphone

Municipal public meetings need more than a microphone

As concern grows about rising hostility and incivility in municipal politics, local leaders should pay attention to residents who describe feeling...

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Nick Vlahos

Canada’s major-projects agenda has a carbon blind spot

Canada’s major-projects agenda has a carbon blind spot

Canada is pursuing two major federal initiatives that are moving in opposite directions. Canada’s federal government pledged $3.8 billion on April...

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Jennifer McHenry

To understand poverty, governments need more than one measure

To understand poverty, governments need more than one measure

As one of the originators of Canada’s market basket measure (MBM), developed with my colleague Michael Hatfield, I was interested to read the...

28.08.2026 9

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Allen Zeesman

Canada can choose to prevent youth homelessness. The U.K. shows the way

Canada can choose to prevent youth homelessness. The U.K. shows the way

When Andy Burnham became prime minister of the United Kingdom in July, his first pledge was to end homelessness. That should tell you something about...

28.08.2026 6

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Stephen Gaetz

Getting Canadian oil to Atlantic Canada is in the national interest

Getting Canadian oil to Atlantic Canada is in the national interest

In a video last June, Prime Minister Mark Carney focused on affordability, security of supply and climate change as three prongs of an energy crisis...

27.08.2026 5

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Larry Hughes

Canada is too rich to be failing this badly on economic and social rights

Canada is too rich to be failing this badly on economic and social rights

Canada is one of the richest countries in the world. But you wouldn’t know it looking at how we protect people’s most basic economic and social...

26.08.2026 8

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Alexi White

Caregiving is Canada’s invisible infrastructure. It’s time employers plan for it

Caregiving is Canada’s invisible infrastructure. It’s time employers plan for it

National Caregiver Day — the first Tuesday in April — passes with little notice. Most caregivers likely miss it, not out of indifference, but...

24.08.2026 10

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Julie Cafley

Representation should not be an afterthought on Ottawa’s advisory councils

The most revealing moments in government are not always the decisions that attract criticism. They are the ones that leave people wondering how an...

21.08.2026 10

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Lolade Ozomoge

Canada shouldn’t try to build everything it needs for the AI era

When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced AI for All, the new federal artificial intelligence strategy, he was specific about how the country could...

20.08.2026 10

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Jaxson Khan

Skilled-trades training needs a rethink

Canada is at a skills-training inflection point. Improved training outcomes and a more skilled workforce are essential to the success of Canada’s...

19.08.2026 10

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Nathaniel Barr

How governments are squeezing debate in Parliament

(Version française disponible ici) For the past fifty years, Canadian governments have increasingly resorted to closure and time allocation...

18.08.2026 10

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Yves Pelletier

Canadian governments are taking different paths back to the office

(Version française disponible ici.) During the pandemic, remote work became much more common for employees, including many public servants, whose...

14.08.2026 10

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Shaimaa Yassin

Financial markets can’t drive Canada’s climate transition alone

After years as a decarbonization and climate finance expert watching the progress of the financial sector in meeting its climate commitments – more...

13.08.2026 10

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Kyra Bell-Pasht

Ontario’s new law should make planning faster — not move the work elsewhere

A stormwater study removed from an application checklist does not make rain disappear. Nor does eliminating a technical review decide how a project...

11.08.2026 20

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Mohsen Alavi

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...

10.08.2026 20

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Richard Matern

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 20

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Ron Lloyd

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 20

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Megan Mattes

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...

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Mia Travers-Hayward

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 20

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Abigail Jackson

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 20

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Natasha Tusikov

The hidden cost of Canada’s measles outbreak

28.07.2026 20

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Dat Nguyen

Governments are gambling with Canadians’ well-being

27.07.2026 20

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Renze Nauta

Artificial intelligence regulation must not leave older adults behind

24.07.2026 20

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Rizwan Khan

Canada can stop surveillance pricing before it reaches the checkout

22.07.2026 20

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Sarah-Louise Ruder

Why repealing the law on spanking isn’t enough

21.07.2026 30

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Walid Jebili

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

20.07.2026 20

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Lisa Maureen Birch

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

20.07.2026 30

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Ignacio Cofone

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

17.07.2026 20

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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...

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Lisa Maureen Birch

Canada’s electricity strategy is overlooking its most powerful asset

15.07.2026 20

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Martin Boucher

Harassment is becoming a threat to Canadian democracy — starting locally

13.07.2026 20

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Steewa Maria Philip

Canada’s national-security strategy needs three pillars

09.07.2026 30

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Naomi Abramovich

Health reform needs places where the system is allowed to learn

08.07.2026 30

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Lawrence Rosenberg

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

07.07.2026 30

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Hari Kc

How some First Nations break the cycle of poverty

06.07.2026 40

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Mylon Ollila

When did Canada become sovereign, really?

02.07.2026 30

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Taki Sarantakis

Canada’s industrial ambitions require robust environmental governance

30.06.2026 30

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Dennis Murray

Why repealing the law on spanking isn’t enough

29.06.2026 30

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Walid Jebili

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

26.06.2026 30

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Maude Pugliese

New federal agencies won’t fix old problems with delivery

26.06.2026 30

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Kevin G. Lynch

Canada needs a new social union deal

23.06.2026 40

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Jared Wesley

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

22.06.2026 40

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Al Vigier

Decisions on major projects often ignore cultural and social losses

19.06.2026 20

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Robin Gregory

When Jewish Canadians lose confidence in public safety

18.06.2026 30

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Allen Zeesman

When aid retreats, Ebola advances

18.06.2026 30

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Béatrice Vaugrante

Canadians not confident public service is prepared for the future

18.06.2026 30

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Jennifer Ditchburn

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

16.06.2026 30

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Farzad Shahinfard

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

16.06.2026 30

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Cynthia Khoo

Canada has three immigration realities, not one

15.06.2026 30

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Qi Wu