Prime Minister Justin Trudeau does basketball drills with youth from the Lady Ballers Camp, a charitable organization, in Mississauga, Ont., in May 2024.
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In democracies around the world, voters aged 18-34 are abandoning the incumbent in favour of opposition parties, often choosing populist-style politicians. Why? Blame the broken social contract.
New Canadians raise their right hands as Immigration Minister Marc Miller administers the Oath of Citizenship during a citizenship ceremony in Ottawa in February 2024.
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The rise in anti-immigration sentiments, especially amid challenging conditions, could have far-reaching consequences for Canada’s social harmony and economic prosperity.
Governments’ policy inaction and complacency bear much of the blame for the lack of affordable housing. But a new report detects signs of hope in Queensland.
A builder works on the construction of a new home.
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Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The opposition leader wants to restrict foreign investors to new properties. In 2016 and 2019 Labor wanted to restrict negative gearing to new properties.
In his budget reply on Thursday night, Dutton tapped into the electorally emotive issues of housing and immigration with the new measures he put forward.
A Coalition government would drastically slash migration as its main way of freeing up more than 100,000 homes over five years, Opposition leader Peter Dutton has promised in his budget reply.
Holding up Labor’s female vote will be vital, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has declared Tuesday will bring “a budget for mums and middle Australia”.
A construction worker uses a boom lift to move a piece of construction equipment at the site of an affordable housing project in Ottawa in September 2023.
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Community housing is not a silver bullet to Canada’s housing crisis. But a strong community housing sector can play a significant role in providing all Canadians with the right to adequate housing.
Gypsy and Traveller communities have long suffered from inadequate housing solutions.
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Amid a housing affordability crisis, new research suggests the federal government should allocate resources to the housing needs of children being raised by single mothers.