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Canada is facing a national productivity crisis. One counterintuitive solution? Give workers more time off.

Apps have gamified meeting and mating. Canadians should log off to find love.

Food waste, cooking oil and landfill debris will power our future air travel

Companies need to stop their emissions from polluting the skies. Direct air capture can help absorb what’s already up there.

Nurses regularly face physical and emotional abuse on the job. An employment protection called presumptive care would give them the support they so desperately need.

Asylum seekers are arriving in Canada in record numbers, sleeping in shelters, churches and sometimes on the street. Reception centres are a more humane approach. 

Teachers, daycare workers, firefighters and nurses keep our cities running. Too bad most essential workers can’t afford to live in them.

Canada’s risk-averse banking system is full of potential dangers for customers. A simple security update would change everything. 

Sixty per cent of Canada’s food is thrown out every year. Together, we could drive that number down to zero.

Serious flooding is in our future—here’s one way we can take it on