Legislation

Bill C-29 an attack on Inuit self-determination

OpinionBY NATAN OBED

A national council for reconciliation will be an ineffectual body duplicating work that Indigenous representative groups are already undertaking with the federal government.

Bill C-29 an attack on Inuit self-determination

OpinionBY NATAN OBED

A national council for reconciliation will be an ineffectual body duplicating work that Indigenous representative groups are already undertaking with the federal government.

A structured, predictable, and transparent approach to seizing Russian state assets to help Ukraine

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR

Canada’s pledged forced labour bill should follow U.S. example banning Xinjiang imports, says Uyghur advocate

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Let’s improve our understanding of how we nominate candidates, and pass S-283

OpinionBY JEANETTE ASHE, TRACEY RANEY

Internet freedom can co-exist with child protection

OpinionBY ANU GEORGE CANJANATHOPPIL, JOHN TANAGHO

Space systems are too important to leave unprotected against cyber attack

OpinionBY PAUL MEYER

Transforming cancer care through the Pan-Canadian Cancer Data Strategy

Time to act on Canada Disability Benefit promise

BY RENZE NAUTA, ANDREAE SENNYAH

Opinion

Pharmacare bill offers too much ambiguity and too little ambition

BY CHRIS BONNETT

Opinion

Canadian writers, visual artists, and publishers need copyright reform now

BY JACK ILLINGWORTH, GENEVIèVE LAUZON

Income security cannot wait: it’s time to support Bill S-233

OpinionBY TRACY SMITH-CARRIER, LAUREN TOUCHANT, CHRIS HERGESHEIMER

Senators should support the National Framework for a Guaranteed Liveable Basic Income Act as a step towards alleviating poverty.

Income security cannot wait: it’s time to support Bill S-233

OpinionBY TRACY SMITH-CARRIER, LAUREN TOUCHANT, CHRIS HERGESHEIMER

Senators should support the National Framework for a Guaranteed Liveable Basic Income Act as a step towards alleviating poverty.

Federal procurement already feeling blowback from ArriveCan scandal, say experts

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Liberal talk of provincial clawbacks a tactic to distract from ‘insultingly low’ disability benefit, say advocates

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Liberal budget comms ‘a miss’ at catching young voters, unlikely to achieve ‘narrative shift,’ say pollsters

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Canada Should Lead in the Circular Economy

Justice Hogue to deliver interim inquiry report May 3

Podcast

Fixing family medicine, Part 2, with Dr. Kathleen Ross

feature

The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books of 2023

List

Cabinet’s communications and chiefs of staff list, 2024

Podcast

Jane Philpott on how to fix health care

Don’t experiment with First Nations’ rights

OpinionBY JASON BATISE

First Nations are entitled to ensure the federal government isn’t creating illegitimate groups simply for its own political reasons through Bill C-53.

Don’t experiment with First Nations’ rights

OpinionBY JASON BATISE

First Nations are entitled to ensure the federal government isn’t creating illegitimate groups simply for its own political reasons through Bill C-53.

Privacy and AI bill needs ‘right balance,’ and to pass in time for next federal election, says Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

AI bill ‘democratically illegitimate’ and litigation ‘likely’ without proper consultations, say AFN, civil society orgs

NewsBY STUART BENSON

New Democrat bid to snuff out oil and gas advertising sparks backlash from provincial counterparts, Indigenous partners

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Listen to those who’ve fought in the mental-health trenches on MAID

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

Free speech just as free, but safer with Online Harms Act

OpinionBY HARVEY GOLDBERG

Senate bill seeking to criminalize forced sterilizations raises concerns over unintended consequences

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Parliamentary Calendar

Environment commissioner to release five audits on April 30

Podcast

Should political parties be exempt from privacy laws?

feature

Housing Minister Fraser a 2023 fan favourite on Parliament Hill: All Politics Poll

List

U.S. election preoccupies Canada’s top 50 foreign influencers as feds’ focus gets pulled from Asia strategy

Podcast

The online hate speech bill, with Justice Minister Arif Virani

Wake up the Scrutiny of Regulations Committee—the rule of law is at stake

OpinionBY PENNY BECKLUMB

The joint Scrutiny of Regulations Committee’s lack of review in recent years and its reluctance to take any kind of effective action amount to a dereliction of duty, and a failure to protect the civil rights of Canadians.

Wake up the Scrutiny of Regulations Committee—the rule of law is at stake

OpinionBY PENNY BECKLUMB

The joint Scrutiny of Regulations Committee’s lack of review in recent years and its reluctance to take any kind of effective action amount to a dereliction of duty, and a failure to protect the civil rights of Canadians.

Online Harms Act a ‘step in the right direction,’ but social justice and civil society advocates united in commendation and concern

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Métis Nation of Ontario’s attempt to gain self-government recognition is not right

OpinionBY CLEM CHARTIER

New bill pushes for accountability from platforms that won’t police themselves

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

We don’t let children access porn offline. Why do we allow it online?

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, JOCELYN MONSMA SELBY, MARIANNE WILKINSON

MAID expansion advocates have wrongly appropriated the abortion debate

OpinionBY ISABEL GRANT, TRUDO LEMMENS

Abortion rights enable women to thrive in a society where they have historically faced inequality and access to safe abortions saves women’s lives. Track 2 medical assistance in dying ends the lives of disabled people, and disproportionately those of women. MAID for mental illness is not a disability right.

MAID expansion advocates have wrongly appropriated the abortion debate

OpinionBY ISABEL GRANT, TRUDO LEMMENS

Abortion rights enable women to thrive in a society where they have historically faced inequality and access to safe abortions saves women’s lives. Track 2 medical assistance in dying ends the lives of disabled people, and disproportionately those of women. MAID for mental illness is not a disability right.