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Prescription drug prices are very likely to increase in Canada
Canada has a drug price problem, and it risks getting a lot worse in the near future. Canadian prices for patented drugs are already the…
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Federal government cuts are a gift to Canada’s authoritarian populists.
For cuts this is deep, it would require across-the-board job losses and major service reductions. In other words, if it proceeded it would represent a…
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Potential cuts to Women and Gender Equality Canada could take us back to the Harper days
On April 28, women voters delivered a major victory for the Liberal party, turning around the electoral fortunes of a party that had been trailing…
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Time for a real poverty reduction strategy in Ontario
The word “poverty” has been conspicuously absent from the Ontario government’s 2025 budget and any plans to “protect Ontario” from tariff-related uncertainty. This is bad…
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Don’t be fooled by the “productivity” panic in Canada
Canada is facing an affordability crisis. But instead of confronting the root causes, political leaders have turned to an old culprit: low productivity. If we…
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Housing isn’t just shelter
The housing challenges we are experiencing in Canada are not unique, but Canada is falling behind other countries.
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Most provinces are refusing hundreds of millions in federal pharmacare funding
Provinces and territories that have not joined the new national universal pharmacare program are missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars in potential federal…
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A sober second thought on direct-to-consumer alcohol sales
Through all the talk of Trump, tariffs and interprovincial trade, direct-to-consumer (DTC) alcohol sales have emerged as a somewhat unexpected cause célèbre among policymakers. During…
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The price is not right (yet): $10-a-day child care falling short of target
By early 2026 parents in Canada should be able to put their young kids in child care for an average of $10 a day. With…
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Le prix n’est pas encore le bon : Les frais de garde n’atteignent pas l’objectif de 10 $ par jour
D’ici le début de l’année 2026, les parents canadiens sont censés pouvoir inscrire leurs jeunes enfants à des services de garde pour une moyenne de…
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The premiers’ new clothes: A critical look at the race to remove interprovincial trade barriers
The costs of interprovincial trade barriers have been vastly overstated, while the rush to remove them risks a race to the bottom in areas like…
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Remembering the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
On July 6, 2013, a train carrying 72 tank cars of toxic shale oil derailed and exploded. It killed 47 people, spilling six million litres…
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Local news media is declining in Canada—we have to reverse the trend
The state of local news media in Canada is in sharp decline, which has serious implications for local communities and for the larger national dialogue…
