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Ottawa MPs Sudds, Fanjoy speak out against return-to-office order for public servants, as MPs debate ending hybrid Parliament

NewsBY MARLO GLASS
  • Liberal MP Jenna Sudds has called for 'flexibility' after fellow local caucus colleague Bruce Fanjoy criticized requirements that public servants work in-office four days a week starting in July, and executives five days a week starting in May.
When pressed if parliamentarians should also work in-person instead of a hybrid format, Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali said 'not on a routine basis, but under certain circumstances.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Ottawa MPs Sudds, Fanjoy speak out against return-to-office order for public servants, as MPs debate ending hybrid Parliament

NewsBY MARLO GLASS
  • Liberal MP Jenna Sudds has called for 'flexibility' after fellow local caucus colleague Bruce Fanjoy criticized requirements that public servants work in-office four days a week starting in July, and executives five days a week starting in May.

Ottawa MPs Sudds, Fanjoy speak out against return-to-office order for public servants, as MPs debate ending hybrid Parliament

NewsBY MARLO GLASS
  • Liberal MP Jenna Sudds has called for 'flexibility' after fellow local caucus colleague Bruce Fanjoy criticized requirements that public servants work in-office four days a week starting in July, and executives five days a week starting in May.
When pressed if parliamentarians should also work in-person instead of a hybrid format, Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali said 'not on a routine basis, but under certain circumstances.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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‘Back to the future’: Senators react to idea of turning Senate Building back into original train station for high-speed rail hub

Referring to the Senate Building's original purpose as downtown Ottawa's train station between 1912 and 1966, Canadian Senators Group Senator Scott Tannas says turning it into a train station is 'not a crazy idea ... It would be back to the future.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
NewsBY IREM KOCA
  • David Jeanes, a retired engineer and former president of Transport Action Canada, says the Senate Building would be an ideal spot for a downtown Ottawa station, and says it could be linked to the rest of the line with a tunnel going under part of the Rideau Canal.

‘Back to the future’: Senators react to idea of turning Senate Building back into original train station for high-speed rail hub

NewsBY IREM KOCA
  • David Jeanes, a retired engineer and former president of Transport Action Canada, says the Senate Building would be an ideal spot for a downtown

‘Our heart aches for, and breaks for, the families of Tumbler Ridge,’ says local MP Bob Zimmer

NewsBY MARLO GLASS
  • The British Columbia MP said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called him on Feb. 10 to offer words of comfort in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, one of the deadliest school shootings in Canadian history.
  • The British Columbia MP said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called him on Feb. 10 to offer words of comfort in the immediate aftermath of

‘Tumbler Ridge represents the very best of Canada’: House mourns victims in special address

NewsBY MARLO GLASS
  • Nine people are dead after a Feb. 10 mass killing in British Columbia, including the shooter. Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed the 'horrific, senseless violence' in the Chamber on Feb. 11 after normal parliamentary proceedings and committees were cancelled.
  • Nine people are dead after a Feb. 10 mass killing in British Columbia, including the shooter. Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed the 'horrific, senseless

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

NewsBY MARLO GLASS | UPDATED TODAY, 1:26 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.
  • 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
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The House goes back to business

  • Plus, the AFN national chief and a bundle of ministers appear before committees today.

OPINION & COLUMNISTS

Documents reveal more about powerful forces behind push for warrantless lawful access

  • The pressure for lawful warrantless access to surveil internet subscriber data is long-standing and began in the late 1990s. But recently acquired access-to-information documents shed some light on some of the actors driving the push for more lawful access.
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Trump finally went too far for Stephen Harper 

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‘Hang tight’: Why Quebec sovereignty and separatism are in the headlines again

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, pictured with his wife Anaida in Calgary on Jan. 30, has 'all of the fundamentals' he needs to win, but is equally dependent on how well the Liberal coalition holds together. The Hill Times photograph by Amir Said

‘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.

‘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.
Her Majesty's Canadian Ship VILLE DE QUéBEC patrols off the coast of Norway during Exercise TRIDENT JUNCTURE 18, while deployed on Operation REASSURANCE on November 3, 2018. MCpl Gabrielle DesRochers, Canadian Forces Combat Camera IS04-2018-0005-075

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

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
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Former Trudeau chief of staff Katie Telford sits down to discuss being ‘the right hand’ in Ottawa on Feb. 12

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Senators Pierre Moreau, left, Lucie Moncion, Flordeliz Osler, and Brian Francis are the leaders of their respective groups. Osler says members of the Canadian Senators Group see the 'new' balance between moving quickly and analyzing legislation as a 'positive.' The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia

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

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND
  • Senators now have a series of government bills to study after a slow trickle of legislation left the House last fall, but leaders say a balance needs to be struck between speed and scrutiny.

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

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND
  • Senators now have a series of government bills to study after a slow trickle of legislation left the House last fall, but leaders say a balance needs to be struck between speed and scrutiny.

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OPINION & COLUMNISTS

Poilievre, the Super Bowl, and the cautionary tale of the Buffalo Bills

OpinionBY KEN POLK
  • Pierre Poilievre will have to do much more than stand pat if he seriously plans on finally winning the Canadian political Super Bowl. Otherwise, he and his party may have to content themselves, like Buffalo Bills fans, with having come so close that one time.
Official access-to-information systems are beginning to use tax-paid AI tools to help exempt even more data, refine sanitized talking points, and take control of the flow of information, writes Ken Rubin. Pexels photograph by Anete Lusina

Driving accountability when AI has its hand on the wheel

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN
  • In a world of co-pilots and chat bots, this public interest researcher feels the growing impacts of artificial intelligence.

Driving accountability when AI has its hand on the wheel

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN
  • In a world of co-pilots and chat bots, this public interest researcher feels the growing impacts of artificial intelligence.
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EDITORIAL CARTOON BY DE ADDER

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FOREIGN POLICY

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Ottawa-based diplomats have differing interpretations of what Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, spelled out as a new direction for Canada. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand recently gathered the diplomatic corps to 'outline' Canada's foreign policy priorities. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • 'Carney broke out of that binary between unacceptable subordination and self-destructive resistance, and he gave a third way,' says South African envoy Rieaz Shaik.

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

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • 'Carney broke out of that binary between unacceptable subordination and self-destructive resistance, and he gave a third way,' says South African envoy Rieaz Shaik.

BOOKS, BIG IDEAS, Q&As

Then-U.S. president Richard Nixon, left, and then-prime minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau inside the Prime Minister's Office in Centre Block on April 14, 1972. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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.
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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.
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

AI is already in our clinics, but Canada is failing to train the people who use it

OpinionBY SAMIRA ABBASGHOLIZADEH-RAHIMI
  • Too many clinicians interact with AI tools without a clear understanding of how they work, what data they rely on, or where their limitations lie.
Despite AI’s growing footprint in care delivery, most Canadian medical schools do not require structured training in AI competency, writes Samira A. Rahimi. Pexels photograph by Alex Knight

AI is already in our clinics, but Canada is failing to train the people who use it

OpinionBY SAMIRA ABBASGHOLIZADEH-RAHIMI
  • Too many clinicians interact with AI tools without a clear understanding of how they work, what data they rely on, or where their limitations lie.

AI is already in our clinics, but Canada is failing to train the people who use it

OpinionBY SAMIRA ABBASGHOLIZADEH-RAHIMI
  • Too many clinicians interact with AI tools without a clear understanding of how they work, what data they rely on, or where their limitations lie.
Despite AI’s growing footprint in care delivery, most Canadian medical schools do not require structured training in AI competency, writes Samira A. Rahimi. Pexels photograph by Alex Knight
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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.

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Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand recently added a new issues manager to her office. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Issues manager added to Minister Anand’s boosted 20-person team

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

Issues manager added to Minister Anand’s boosted 20-person team

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT
  • 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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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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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