‘A nation mourns with you:’ Carney orders flags at half-mast after deadly Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting

NewsBY MARLO GLASS | UPDATED TODAY, 3:08 pm

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s previously announced trip to Munich, Germany, has been cancelled in the wake of the deadly Feb. 10 shooting in British Columbia, and Question Period, committee meetings, and other work on Parliament Hill was halted on Feb. 11.

Speaking to reporters ahead of the Liberal caucus meeting on Feb. 11, a visibly emotional Prime Minister Mark Carney said 'parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers in Tumbler Ridge will wake up without someone they love.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

‘A nation mourns with you:’ Carney orders flags at half-mast after deadly Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting

NewsBY MARLO GLASS | UPDATED TODAY, 3:08 pm

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s previously announced trip to Munich, Germany, has been cancelled in the wake of the deadly Feb. 10 shooting in British Columbia, and Question Period, committee meetings, and other work on Parliament Hill was halted on Feb. 11.

‘A nation mourns with you:’ Carney orders flags at half-mast after deadly Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting

NewsBY MARLO GLASS | UPDATED TODAY, 3:08 pm

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s previously announced trip to Munich, Germany, has been cancelled in the wake of the deadly Feb. 10 shooting in British Columbia, and Question Period, committee meetings, and other work on Parliament Hill was halted on Feb. 11.

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Liberal byelection candidates could either burst ‘boys’ club’ bubble or become ‘two more of many’ women on outside of PMO circle: strategists

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Recruiting former Ontario NDP deputy leader Doly Begum and doctor Danielle Martin may be 'phenomenal politics,' but more will ride on whether they would get a greater voice at the table if elected.

Liberal byelection candidates could either burst ‘boys’ club’ bubble or become ‘two more of many’ women on outside of PMO circle: strategists

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Recruiting former Ontario NDP deputy leader Doly Begum and doctor Danielle Martin may be 'phenomenal politics,' but more will ride on whether they would

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‘All the fundamentals are there’: Conservatives bank unity and cash, but need to buy time and ‘hope’ for a renewed NDP, say politicos

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Strategists say the Tories' massive war chest and support for its leader will keep the party in a strong position ahead of any potential election, but may require a rejuvenated NDP to weaken the Liberals' left flank for the current electoral math to work in its favour.

Strategists say the Tories' massive war chest and support for its leader will keep the party in a strong position ahead of any potential

Defence official says Canadian transiting of Taiwan Strait ‘likely’ to continue

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Since the launch of the Indo-Pacific Strategy in late 2022, Canadian warships have sailed through the Taiwan Strait seven times.

Since the launch of the Indo-Pacific Strategy in late 2022, Canadian warships have sailed through the Taiwan Strait seven times.

Scaffolding costs in the capital climb to $20.2-million in 2025

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Centre Block alone contributed almost $14.7-million to the bottom line in 2025, and scaffolding in and around the building has cost some $27.3-million overall since November 2022.

Centre Block alone contributed almost $14.7-million to the bottom line in 2025, and scaffolding in and around the building has cost some $27.3-million overall

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Canada must take lead in fighting health misinformation as vaccine hesitancy rises and U.S. pulls back from WHO, say sector experts

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In the face of bad advice coming out of the U.S., Health Minister Marjorie Michel needs to discuss how to best promote facts with federal agencies and departments, according to Canadian Medical Association president Margot Burnell.

Canada must take lead in fighting health misinformation as vaccine hesitancy rises and U.S. pulls back from WHO, say sector experts

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In the face of bad advice coming out of the U.S., Health Minister Marjorie Michel needs to discuss how to best promote facts with federal agencies and departments, according to Canadian Medical Association president Margot Burnell.

PCO struggling to address access-to-info requests, and ‘it is not getting better,’ says watchdog

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‘Something new is needed’: Ottawa’s diplomatic corps still trying to grasp Carney’s worldview after Davos

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Flags fly at half-mast after Tumbler Ridge tragedy

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Flags fly at half-mast after Tumbler Ridge tragedy

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Conservatives call for end to asylum claims by criminals

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The Carney doctrine and the Canadian Senate

OpinionBY GREG MACDOUGALL, RICHARD NOLAN

Carney lunches with Luxembourg’s Frieden

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Senate leaders pledge collaboration as Red Chamber reconvenes to ‘more rapid’ pace

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With seven Upper Chamber vacancies, PCO won’t say how new Senators will be appointed as Senate advisory board loses more members

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Pierre Poilievre came to Calgary and Canadians should be paying attention

OpinionBY ANNA MURPHY

The direction affirmed by the Conservative Party under Leader Pierre Poilievre is one in which policies deny lived experience, erase identity, and frame the existence of some Canadians as a threat.

Pierre Poilievre came to Calgary and Canadians should be paying attention

OpinionBY ANNA MURPHY

The direction affirmed by the Conservative Party under Leader Pierre Poilievre is one in which policies deny lived experience, erase identity, and frame the existence of some Canadians as a threat.

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A partial table cannot deliver justice for Indigenous people

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Driving accountability when AI has its hand on the wheel

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Canada can do better than more defence dollars and the Golden Dome

Alberta MPs shouldn’t just quietly wait for separatist issue to blow over

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It shouldn’t only fall to Albertan public figures who no longer hold political office, like former premier Jason Kenney or past prime minister Stephen Harper, to speak up for federalism.

A climate disaster unfolds as Trump dismantles the science

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Access to what?

OpinionBY IVY OANDASAN

The health minister expanded who can provide primary care—now we must define what services Canadians are entitled to receive.

Access to what?

OpinionBY IVY OANDASAN

The health minister expanded who can provide primary care—now we must define what services Canadians are entitled to receive.

Health care is a human right

OpinionBY LINDA SILAS

Can Canada be truly sovereign without health independence?

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Public Service

New in-office mandate could send more public servants out the door, union says

NDP MP Heather McPherson says introducing the new four-day, in-office mandate for the core public service during widespread job cuts is 'a bad choice' by the Liberal government.

BY MARLO GLASS

Ministers could exempt businesses from laws within ‘regulatory sandbox’ outlined in budget bill

Treasury Board Secretariat official Jenelle Power said the bill would not allow ministers to exempt people or businesses from law for 'broad policy purposes,' and there are 'strict limitations' to such legal exceptions, including time limits.

BY MARLO GLASS

Bringing investment banking rigor to Ottawa

Ministers must be equipped to interrogate advice with the same skepticism, financial scrutiny, and risk discipline that any serious investor would demand before committing billions of dollars of capital.

BY RAM MATHILAKATH

Treasury Board outlines more than 8,000 job cuts in first phases of public service revamp

Since the 2025 budget was tabled, more than 22,000 staff and 882 executives in 24 departments have been notified they may be affected by a workforce adjustment.

BY MARLO GLASS

Federal public servants rally on Hill against job cuts

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FOREIGN POLICY

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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Canada must respond to U.S. policy by increasing our support for pharmaceutical innovation

OpinionBY LIAM MACDONALD

From neighbour to nation: why Canada must rethink defence

OpinionBY JENNIFER STEWART, VERNON WHITE

The curious case of China’s disappearing generals

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

What price will Trump demand and where will Carney draw the line?

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Opposition MPs press Liberals to intervene with Canadian companies’ business with ICE

NewsBY IREM KOCA

There are mechanisms the federal government could use to stop Canadian firms from contracting with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, but there's no political will to do so, critics say.

Opposition MPs press Liberals to intervene with Canadian companies’ business with ICE

NewsBY IREM KOCA

There are mechanisms the federal government could use to stop Canadian firms from contracting with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, but there's no political will to do so, critics say.

BOOKS, BIG IDEAS, Q&As

The Coutts Diaries is the most revealing book ever written about Canadian politics

FeatureBY DAVID HERLE

This is a previously unseen view of Pierre Trudeau, one that is sure to alter your opinions of him. It is an unvarnished look inside the government that brought you wage and price controls, the Charter of Rights, and the National Energy Program. And it is a darkly moving account of the life of a senior political staffer.

The Coutts Diaries is the most revealing book ever written about Canadian politics

FeatureBY DAVID HERLE

This is a previously unseen view of Pierre Trudeau, one that is sure to alter your opinions of him. It is an unvarnished look inside the government that brought you wage and price controls, the Charter of Rights, and the National Energy Program. And it is a darkly moving account of the life of a senior political staffer.

‘Don’t be indifferent’: Iranian-Canadian author shares story of his life inside infamous Tehran prison in new book

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‘Treating politics as a system of balance, not battle’: new book brings fresh insights into Mackenzie King and lessons for today’s leaders

FeatureBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

First Nations are ‘ready’ to move beyond the Indian Act, but time’s running out, says author Bob Joseph

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The Finest Hotel in Kabul is a window into Afghan endurance through the eyes of locals working at the Intercontinental Hotel

FeatureBY ELEANOR WAND

Canada on path to become a superaged country

OpinionBY SHARON STRAUS, FRANçOISE BAYLIS

To successfully address the pending demographic shift to a superaged society, we need to be nimble and bold.

Secretary of State for Seniors Stephanie McLean. Meeting the health and social care needs of aging adults demands integration across health care, social care, public health, housing, transportation, and community services, write Sharon Straus and Françoise Baylis. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada on path to become a superaged country

OpinionBY SHARON STRAUS, FRANçOISE BAYLIS

To successfully address the pending demographic shift to a superaged society, we need to be nimble and bold.

Canada on path to become a superaged country

OpinionBY SHARON STRAUS, FRANçOISE BAYLIS

To successfully address the pending demographic shift to a superaged society, we need to be nimble and bold.

Securing sovereignty: why defending the care economy is a $100-million bargain

OpinionBY KATE MULLIGAN

By adopting new standards and social prescribing, Canada can turn an overstretched health system into a strategic reserve.

Canada’s health-care crisis is fuelled by too little public spending, not too much

OpinionBY DANYAAL RAZA

The federal government must substantially increase public health-care funding, financed by a fairer tax system that asks more from those who can most afford it.

One country, one standard of care

OpinionBY BUKUN ADEGBEMBO

Pan-Canadian health data and risk-based screening are essential for equitable care.

People across the country who have been diagnosed with, or are living with, breast cancer want Canadian health data to guide domestic health-care decisions, writes Bukun Adegbembo. Unsplash photograph by National Cancer Institute

One country, one standard of care

OpinionBY BUKUN ADEGBEMBO

Pan-Canadian health data and risk-based screening are essential for equitable care.

One country, one standard of care

OpinionBY BUKUN ADEGBEMBO

Pan-Canadian health data and risk-based screening are essential for equitable care.

More doctors won’t save us if we keep creating new patients

OpinionBY DAWN BOWDISH, JESSICA BUCKLEY

A sustainable health-care system must pair workforce reform with prevention, and nowhere is the prevention gap more obvious than with smoking and vaping.

Implementation matters: why Canada keeps leaving life-saving research on the shelf

OpinionBY MELANIE BARWICK

If governments want research to improve lives, implementation must be funded, measured, and led—not assumed.

A plan to strengthen health care and measure outcomes

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP HEDY FRY

Working together, we can examine existing Canada Health Transfers, and look at innovation in the system.

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Gavin Menzies is in place as director of operations to the minister, while Nadia Hadj Mohamed continues as deputy director of policy.

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Gavin Menzies is in place as director of operations to the minister, while Nadia Hadj Mohamed continues as deputy director of policy.

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Irish ambassador Concannon to speak at Edmonton Chamber of Commerce on Feb. 9

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Parliament could pick up pace on trade and economic issues, but unclear about other bills on agenda, say political players

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Canada’s Nuuk consulate opens for business

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Ministers blitz the committees

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Finance & Budget

Bill C-15 is one of the biggest threats yet to Canada’s rule of law

The omnibus budget bill gives unprecedented power to federal ministers to exempt virtually any entity from all federal laws and regulations—except the Criminal Code.

BY GENEVIèVE PAUL, ANAïS BUSSIèRES MCNICOLL

Bringing investment banking rigor to Ottawa

Ministers must be equipped to interrogate advice with the same skepticism, financial scrutiny, and risk discipline that any serious investor would demand before committing billions of dollars of capital.

BY RAM MATHILAKATH

Canada’s largest pension manager ‘backsliding’ on climate, risks being unable to pay out pensions: report

Last year, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board invested $7.1-billion in new fossil fuel assets and ‘quietly removed’ its public net-zero commitment, which Senator Rosa Galvez says means 'Canadian pensions are gambling with the retirement of millions of Canadians.'

BY ELEANOR WAND

Three measures to tackle ‘wicked’ health policy problems

With spending projections increasing while patients struggle to access care, it is well past time to tackle our health care problems.

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Liberals ‘taking a sledgehammer’ to the public service, says interim NDP leader Davies

Approximately 8,500 public servants were notified this week that they may be impacted by potential job cuts, and more than 17,000 such notifications have gone out since December, public sector unions have confirmed.

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Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

PostBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.

A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

PostBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.

Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez said the national supply chain office “will enhance the resilience, efficiency, and reliability of our transportation systems,” in a Transport Canada press release on Dec. 1, 2023.

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

PostBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.