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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…

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…

Supports to First Nations, veterans, new Canadians, and international aid could be on the chopping block—just for starters

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

As the national public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada has a broad mandate to serve Canadians and to “reflect Canada and its regions to national and regional audiences,…

Like many of us, I grew up with the CBC as a daily and vital part of my life.

Ample research has painted a bleak picture: the crisis facing the media world is exacerbating the decline of democracy.

Around dinner time on the evening of May 10, 2024, communication services in the Yukon—internet, cell phone, and landline—wavered, guttered like a struck match, and …
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