Around the world, there is an urgent need to increase income supports to low-income households. This report outlines the various cash-transfer mechanisms that the Canadian government could use.

This report explores how digital technologies have the potential to enhance urban mobility to achieve a variety of benefits. That includes increased access to public transit for those who are underserved, helping transit users optimise routes and combine various modes of transportation, and improving public transportation systems through increasing electrification.

This report calls on the federal government to appoint an expert panel to lead a comprehensive pan-Canadian examination into how public institutions performed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Canada’s long-term care system faces enormous challenges, which are expected to get worse in coming years. This analysis provides important insights that can inform federal, provincial and territorial perspectives on the pending Canadian Safe Long-Term Care Act and ageing at home benefit, as well as future deliberations on federal transfer payments.

This paper asserts that the Canadian Dental Care Plan is a major step forward in reforming dental care, but argues that the 'payer of last resort model' the government has chosen to implement falls short, and will result in inefficiencies, as well as failing to ensure equitable access to primary and preventive dental care.