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Self-employed people deserve access to Canada’s social safety net

Compromises with for-profit dentistry leave the plan open to future attacks

Ecuador’s April 21 vote on investor-state dispute settlement could quash mining sector hopes in the looming negotiations

Five years into a six-year plan, Queen’s Park is still budgeting big but spending small

Permanently higher prices mean that younger people are struggling to keep up with housing, food, and transport costs. The feds need to take action—or risk losing the next election.

High housing costs are the key driver of inflation in Canada, and the biggest immediate driver of housing costs are Bank of Canada interest rates

Fair voting systems encourage parties to act for the common good, and work across partisan lines, to solve social problems

The 2024 provincial budget leaves Nova Scotians out in the cold when it comes to cost of living and public services

Universal access to birth control is popular, smart policy, and a building block for universal pharmacare in Canada

Shift Storm newsletter—January 2024 edition

No province in Canada gives less funding per student to post-secondary institutions than Ontario

The prairie province has a litany of problems—allowing young people to change their pronouns is not one of them

The legacy of slavery is alive in Canada, and reparations could begin the process of righting historical injustices

Incentivizing the private sector has been a resounding failure. What happens next?

Nova Scotia has the fiscal capacity to build that poverty-free future where kids can be kids, housed, fed, and thriving

Educators have an important role to play in challenging widespread erasure of Palestinian identity and anti-Palestinian racism