Legislation

Ottawa plans to modernize the Energy Efficiency Act. Here’s how to do it right

OpinionBY SARAH RIDDELL

• To reduce energy bills and reach net-zero emissions, Canada’s update to the legislation must strengthen standards and broaden its scope.

Ottawa plans to modernize the Energy Efficiency Act. Here’s how to do it right

OpinionBY SARAH RIDDELL

• To reduce energy bills and reach net-zero emissions, Canada’s update to the legislation must strengthen standards and broaden its scope.

The one where the minister called the Senate racist

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Bill S-209 is needed to protect children from pornography

OpinionBY DANIEL ZEKVELD

Bridging Canada’s divide on consent

OpinionBY MEGAN BUTTLE

The unintended consequences of stricter rules on public policy engagement

OpinionBY JACQUES J.M. SHORE, SUZANNE SABOURIN

It’s time for Canada to take control of stablecoins

OpinionBY JEREMY KRONICK, PETER MACKENZIE, MARK ZELMER

Canada’s Silent Health Crisis: Why Chronic Kidney Disease Needs a National Framework 

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News

• BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

Bill aimed at protecting telecom infrastructure against cyberattacks strikes at privacy rights, say civil society groups

Opinion

• BY INDEPENDENT SENATOR ROSA GALVEZ

Canada’s financial system needs a green upgrade

News

• BY PETER MAZEREEUW

Justice Minister Fraser unveils bill to tighten Canada’s bail and sentencing regimes

‘A platform to raise my voice’: youth activism at the centre of Sen. McPhedran’s Vote16 bill

NewsBY GRACE BESTARD

• The increasing demand from young people for the vote is a result of feeling that their interests and issues—such as housing affordability, a low happiness rate, high suicide rate, and opioid use among young Canadians—aren't being reflected in policy, says Vote16 co-founder Aleksi Toiviainen.

‘A platform to raise my voice’: youth activism at the centre of Sen. McPhedran’s Vote16 bill

NewsBY GRACE BESTARD

• The increasing demand from young people for the vote is a result of feeling that their interests and issues—such as housing affordability, a low happiness rate, high suicide rate, and opioid use among young Canadians—aren't being reflected in policy, says Vote16 co-founder Aleksi Toiviainen.

‘Disappointing but not surprising’: PBO forecasts Canada to fall short of 2030 emissions target  

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Cabinet spending tops $92-million in 2024-25, up 3.7 per cent

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Gripen fighter jet purchase would allow Canada to assert sovereignty, says past chair of House Defence Committee McKay

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

AI study and Senate bills on alcohol warnings and sickle cell disease framework on Senate Social Affairs Committee’s agenda

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Parliamentary Calendar

NDP leadership candidates face off for first debate in Montreal on Nov. 27

Podcast

Cut, not cap? The latest on public service downsizing, with Marlo Glass

News

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Lobbyists in 2025: lobbyists prepare for ‘significant reset’ as federal election begins

List

First-quarter expenses: MPs spent nearly $28-million

Podcast

Who wants an election? With David Coletto

Quebec’s new ‘constitution’ bill is an affront to democracy

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

• The Legault government’s document is a fantasy, especially when it comes to Quebec’s non-francophone population.

Quebec’s new ‘constitution’ bill is an affront to democracy

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

• The Legault government’s document is a fantasy, especially when it comes to Quebec’s non-francophone population.

Canada Strong and Free fundraising emails using ‘crisis rhetoric,’ to stoke distrust in government and media, say comms experts, pollsters

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

New border bill cuts controversial measures, keeps powers to tighten immigration

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Canada must keep its promises to protect animals

OpinionBY EWA DEMIANOWICZ

Military justice reform bill ‘a major step forward,’ but needs work at committee, say Bloc MPs as Tories favour more debate

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

Bill C-8’s moment of truth: draw the line on what’s ‘critical’

OpinionBY TYSON MACAULAY

Carney’s so-called Combatting Hate Act is an attack on pro-Palestine expression

OpinionBY ARASH GHIASSI, RIAZ SAYANI

Parliamentary Calendar

Bricker, Ibbitson to talk about their provocative new book, Breaking Point: The New Big Shifts Putting Canada at Risk on Nov. 25 in Waterloo, Ont.

Podcast

Building a highway to the Arctic, with Caroline Wawzonek

News

Always leave them wanting more: Fraser tops All Politics Poll as he looks to exit federal politics

News

This Parliament’s ethics roundup: blind trusts, recusals, gifts, and more

Podcast

No ‘I’ in team: why party discipline has gone too far, with Alex Marland

‘It’s not right’: interim PBO calls for legislative changes to avoid repeating the circumstances of his hiring

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Jason Jacques says he found out he was shortlisted for the six-month interim job just three days before his boss' term expired on Sept. 2.

‘It’s not right’: interim PBO calls for legislative changes to avoid repeating the circumstances of his hiring

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Jason Jacques says he found out he was shortlisted for the six-month interim job just three days before his boss' term expired on Sept. 2.

The politics of fear: what ‘tough on crime’ gets wrong about public safety

OpinionBY DERICO SYMONDS

Canada has the legislative tool to break through seizing Russian assets—it’s time to use it

OpinionBY MICHAEL CHOLOD, GEOFFREY GOODELL

The feds’ newest go-to attack on workers’ rights must be repealed  

OpinionBY SHARON DESOUSA

AI can’t save farming if our soils keep dying

OpinionBY ASIM BISWAS

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AI literacy as a Canadian policy imperative

OpinionBY DAVID MATSINHE

• If Canada does not embed AI skills in education, our workforce risks becoming dependent consumers of global technologies rather than leaders in shaping them.

AI literacy as a Canadian policy imperative

OpinionBY DAVID MATSINHE

• If Canada does not embed AI skills in education, our workforce risks becoming dependent consumers of global technologies rather than leaders in shaping them.

Why Canada can no longer trust U.S. regulatory agencies

OpinionBY NATASHA TUSIKOV

Why Canada can no longer trust U.S. regulatory agencies

OpinionBY NATASHA TUSIKOV

‘The honeymoon period will be over’: politicos expect high bar for Carney’s first budget, and omnibus-bill headaches

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

‘The honeymoon period will be over’: politicos expect high bar for Carney’s first budget, and omnibus-bill headaches

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Observers eye fall sitting for bills to implement still-secret trade pacts with Indonesia and Ecuador 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Observers eye fall sitting for bills to implement still-secret trade pacts with Indonesia and Ecuador 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Politics This Morning

The return of pipeline politics

MPs to honour record-setter Plamondon

‘Coalition of the willing’ meets on Trump’s Ukraine plan

Joly heads to Korea and Japan

all politics poll: best & worst of the year in politics

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

Poilievre doubles as most valuable, least valuable politician in 2022 in The Hill Times’ All Politics Poll

Anand named most valuable politician, climate change voted most important issue in The Hill Times’ 23rd Annual All Politics Poll

Freeland named most valuable politician, NAFTA voted biggest story in The Hill Times’ 22nd Annual All Politics Poll

Election

Conservatives float electoral reform to combat ‘political prank’ protest group from flooding ballots with names

Advance voting in Canada continues to rise—and it’s changing campaigning

At least three safe Liberal seats poised to open as high-profile contenders line up

The NDP race is on

Politics

Trump and Putin’s goal is to destroy the international rule of law

Are there too few or too many MPs?

A fresh glimpse inside the Centre Block renovation site

Industry Minister Joly hires defence adviser, new operations director

Foreign Policy

Joint co-operation needed to tackle spread of narcotics, says Colombian defence minister 

With even Conservatives conspiring to pass Carney’s budget, PM turns attention to the wider world

Budget investments in transportation, trade require long-term strategy and private sector support, say experts

Ukraine: once more around the loop

Finance and Budget

In the murky new world order, Canada needs a growth plan

The federal budget misses Canada’s biggest AI opportunity

Brookfield executive grilled by House Ethics Committee on Carney’s ties to company, says he met Carney in October on the Hill to talk about rising antisemitism in Canada

PBO repeats calls for transparency after he says budget uses ‘made-in-Ottawa’ definition of capital spending

Lobbying

Blanchard defends Carney’s ethics screen as a ‘rigorous process’

Budget a step in the right direction, but fails to deliver on the ‘hype,’ say lobbyists

‘Cut through the table talk’: tech firms launch new group to help feds fix procurement woes 

CMA leads health lobbying in lead up to budget

Legislation

Don’t forget the kids, health advocates tell feds

Methane regulation is a climate-competitive home run

Civil liberties groups urge Liberals to withdraw ‘vague’ anti-hate bill that opposition MPs say is ‘trying to lower the bar’ for prosecution

Carney government bills: tracking their progress into law

Public Service

Seeing beyond the cave: bridging culture in defence and procurement

Skeptics say billions of dollars in AI-driven government efficiencies ‘fiscally dubious’

It’s time to fix how Canada delivers citizen services

OGGO hearing confirms: our government continues to persecute whistleblowers rather than protect them

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