Poilievre’s next hurdle: winning broader support
Party faithful have affirmed their loyalty to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, but not corrected the deeper dilemma: can the populist conservatism he embodies expand beyond its base?
Minister Lightbound, Secretary of State van Koeverden add to teams
Recent additions in Secretary of State for Sport Adam van Koeverden’s shop include Charlie Skipworth as a senior strategy and insight adviser.
The missing mandate in Canadian innovation policy
Economic sovereignty in an era of global competition
‘A Davos bump’: surge in Carney’s popularity eclipses Liberal support in polls
Pollster Angus Reid says the prime minister is getting ‘top marks’ for his international performance, while Nik Nanos says people like Mark Carney, but he cannot erase Liberal fatigue as the party marks more than 10 years in power.
Referendum fever: it’s like Waiting for Godot
The Parti Québécois has preached separation for more than half a century. Clear the air sooner rather than later. This half century has been like Waiting for Godot.
Harper’s official portrait to be unveiled on Tuesday, Feb. 3
MONDAY, FEB. 2 House Schedule—The House of Commons resumed on Monday, Jan. 26, and is scheduled to sit for 117 days this year. Here’s the schedule for 2026: it will sit Monday to Friday, Jan. 26-Feb. 13; Feb. 23-27; March 9-13; March 23-Thursday, March 26; April 13-May 8; May 25-June 19; Sept. 21-Oct. 9; Oct. […]
Prime ministers’ portraits, through the years
With the official unveiling of former prime minister Stephen Harper’s portrait on Feb. 3, here are some stories from the history of the Hill’s prime ministerial collection. By the way, John Diefenbaker loved his flowing academic robe from the University of the Punjab. Like he really loved it, a lot, until it was stolen out of his hotel room one night when he went out for dinner with his wife Olive.
Carney has a new moniker, Captain Canada
U.S. President Donald Trump’s negative response to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos declaration has mobilized the majority of Canadians—including premiers—in unity.
U.S. pressures Canada to roll back on data sovereignty, a high-priority issue in CUSMA renegotiation
Every dollar U.S. Big Tech can extract from Canada makes America richer and U.S. Big Tech more powerful—while making Canada more dependent on U.S. Big Tech giants and more vulnerable to their laws. And the more powerful U.S. Big Tech becomes here, the less the potential to build up Canadian firms and generate wealth and good jobs for Canada.
Carney’s Davos speech helped ‘stiffen spines,’ but PM will have to make tough choices to protect Canada’s sovereignty, say two former cabinet ministers
Now that U.S. President Donald Trump has ‘decided to weaponize the interdependence’ between Canada and the U.S. ‘as a means of compromising our sovereignty,’ John Manley says that the focus should be on bringing Canadians along as Prime Minister Mark Carney makes difficult decisions.
