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Defence & security

Canada’s national security depends on a productive economy

OpinionBY SENATOR KRISTA ANN ROSS

• Sourcing products from new suppliers, finding new markets for our domestic products, being conscious of foreign investment, and increasing our digital security is not an easy task.

Canada’s national security depends on a productive economy

OpinionBY SENATOR KRISTA ANN ROSS

• Sourcing products from new suppliers, finding new markets for our domestic products, being conscious of foreign investment, and increasing our digital security is not an easy task.

Read it on Reddit? Project looks to help Canadians navigate online political conversations

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Federal election brings new crop of defence promises to break

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Gaza exposes a crisis of conscience in federal election

OpinionBY TAHA GHAYYUR

The future of Canadian defence will not look like the past

OpinionBY JAMIE CARROLL, PHILIPPE LAGASSé, TIM PAGE

Liberals’ recycled plan to fix ‘badly busted’ defence procurement can take root in Trump era, say experts

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Enhancing Arctic security a must to mount sovereignty defence

OpinionBY SENATOR REBECCA PATTERSON

Foreign interference didn’t damage our democratic institutions—our institutions did it to themselves

OpinionBY MARK JOHNSON

Navigating a new global era

OpinionBY ANDREW TZEMBELICOS

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There goes the neighbourhood

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

• If our old relationship with the U.S. ‘is over,’ then we can learn from our southernmost neighbour how to be creative in rethinking what constitutes defence spending in Canada.

There goes the neighbourhood

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

• If our old relationship with the U.S. ‘is over,’ then we can learn from our southernmost neighbour how to be creative in rethinking what constitutes defence spending in Canada.

This isn’t the ‘Whisky War’: in defence of Greenland and Denmark

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

We, the media, haven’t done enough to explain how devastating foreign interference can be for individual Canadians

OpinionBY MATT GURNEY

Trump-led U.S. an ‘unreliable partner’ for Canada, says expert group: ‘we’re dealing with an administration that doesn’t believe our country has a right to exist’

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

Carney is clearly the most qualified candidate to take on Trump  

OpinionBY MICHAEL HARRIS

Canada needs a national strategy for security, trade, and economy to contend with Trump, say political science experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Arctic security takes spotlight as Canadian sovereignty remains key campaign issue

NewsBY SERGIY SLIPCHENKO

Health security must be recognized as a pillar of national security

OpinionBY SENATOR FLORDELIZ (GIGI) OSLER

Leadership and risk tolerance stymie fixing CAF recruitment, retention

OpinionBY DAN A. DORAN

AGRICULTURE

Supply management consensus emerges but Grits, Tories accuse each other of past capitulation

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Canada can be an agriculture powerhouse if we meet the moment

OpinionBY SENATOR MARY ROBINSON

No more scraps: making the election about ending hunger in Canada

OpinionBY NICK SAUL, JASMINE RAMZE REZAEE

Is Canada keeping pace with agricultural innovation?

OpinionBY ASIM BISWAS

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Biotechnology

Biotechnology must factor into a broader Canadian industrial policy

OpinionBY FRANK BAYLIS

From crisis to catalyst: Canada’s opportunity to drive global health and research innovation

OpinionBY PAMELA SHAVER-WALKER, EDWARD SHORT

A flourishing biotech sector starts by innovating education

OpinionBY VALERIE WARD, MARC AUCOIN, HECTOR BUDMAN

The prescription for Canada’s health care future

OpinionBY BETTINA HAMELIN

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Environment

Collaboration is Canada’s innovation superpower

OpinionBY ANDREA NEMTIN

Why health, environment, and justice must be centred in election platforms

OpinionBY TRIYA TESSA RAMBURN, KRISTINA SWAIN

Recreation and parks: infrastructure Canada can’t afford to ignore

OpinionBY MARTIN SAMPSON

Unlocking the economic potential in Canada’s lands, forests, and waters

OpinionBY JASON RASEVYCH, MICHAEL TWIGG, SHAUGHN MCARTHUR

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FINANCE

Cost of living, housing the top priority for young voters, not Trump

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Alberta Premier Smith calls retaliatory tariffs ‘most harmful’ to Canadian business, wants CUSMA negotiation after federal election

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada’s productivity is declining. So how do we fix it?

OpinionBY JOSEPH INGRAM

The world waits to see how long Trump’s attack on the global economy can last

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

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Fisheries and oceans

B.C. suit says feds used consultations to justify ‘bad-faith’ Discovery Island salmon farming ban

NewsBY STUART BENSON

To protect nature, Canada must ratify the High Seas Treaty

OpinionBY SUSANNA FULLER

Feds’ plan for fish-farm transition no catch, say wild salmon, industry advocates

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Reconciliation that works for all in Canada’s fisheries

OpinionBY GENNA CAREY

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FOREIGN POLICY

Treat Africa as part of Canada’s trade war response

OpinionBY NDIDI OKONKWO NWUNELI, DOROTHY NYAMBE

Canada, the European Union, and the Eurozone

OpinionBY NELSON WISEMAN

The Canadian dream doesn’t have to be built, we are already living it

OpinionBY AL ETMANSKI

Canada needs an economic and social council to tackle trade war

OpinionBY DIANE BELLEMARE

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health

Health care matters at the federal ballot box

OpinionBY JOSS REIMER, ELIZABETH MYLES

Canada can be a leader in women’s health in South Sudan

OpinionBY TONIA OCCHIONERO

UN disability rights report on assisted-dying regime deserves a fair hearing

OpinionBY CATHERINE FRAZEE

Renewed resolve: commit to DEI principles to advance health equity

OpinionBY NNAMDI NDUBUKA, JULIE SOBOWALE

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Industry and Manufacturing

Future-proofing our manufacturing sector

OpinionBY GREG MOFFATT

Sister cities under strain: U.S. steel tariffs threaten to divide Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., from its American twin city

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

Manufacturing sector and others lobbying hard for federal government support during 30-day tariff pause

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Strong ‘political will’ provides ‘catalyst’ to breakdown stubborn internal trade barriers, says Anand

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

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infrastructure and transport

Public transit can’t wait for politics to catch up

OpinionBY MARCO D’ANGELO

More needed to protect communities from rail disasters

OpinionBY NDP MP TAYLOR BACHRACH

Canada can solidify its position as a global trade leader by modernizing infrastructure

OpinionBY HOSSEIN BONAKDARI

Trade infrastructure: seize the moment, or lose the future

OpinionBY RANDALL ZALAZAR

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innovation

Canada’s talent dilemma: how to win the global innovation and technology race

OpinionBY JATIN NATHWANI, MUNUR SACIT HERDEM

Pharma, tech giants complained of Canada’s drug pricing system, digital service tax to U.S. trade rep

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Why retaliatory tariffs could cost lives and what we should do instead

OpinionBY JASON FIELD

Seizing the moment to grow Canada’s biomedical research enterprise as the U.S. falters

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR STANLEY KUTCHER, JOHN BERGERON, KATHLEEN DICKSON

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intergovernmental

Trump top of mind in Ottawa Centre as Liberals fight to keep riding red

NewsBY IREM KOCA

A wrong is a wrong is a wrong: new CAQ bills attack minorities

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

The West wants out? That’s not how this works

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

Liberals could pick up five to six seats in Alberta, but NDP’s bleed in votes could also help Conservatives, say strategists

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

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justice

DEI: love it or hate it, it’s more profitable

OpinionBY JORY COHEN

If you think that assisted dying in Canada is a mess, think again

OpinionBY JAMES DOWNAR AND JOCELYN DOWNIE

Historic ‘Indian hospitals’ settlement a step forward for Canada

OpinionBY SOLOMON REECE

Black Justice Strategy’s 10-year plan ‘too little, too late,’ says NDP MP Green

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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Labour & employment

Parties’ housing platforms unlikely to significantly improve affordability: experts

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Modernizing EI: an imperative in this era of uncertainty

OpinionBY DIANE BELLEMARE

Conservatives target labour vote as NDP support wanes, but union leader says there’s ‘no substance’ behind catchy slogans

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Anti-Black racism complaint bound for Canadian Human Rights Commission after court denies public service class action

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

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Lobbying

Poilievre’s ethics pitch more about framing Carney as a ‘corrupt politician’ than attempt at reform, but some ideas are good, say observers

NewsBY IREM KOCA

No ‘perfect’ solution in Carney asset disclosure calls, say law and political science experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT AND SERGIY SLIPCHENKO

Mexico and the U.S. play rough with public records and information regulators. What about Canada?

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

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natural resources and energy

Digging up a hidden election issue: development and control of critical minerals

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

The roadmap to protecting Canada’s economy with energy

OpinionBY DENNIS DARBY

There is no Team Canada strategy without Indigenous people

OpinionBY STEPHEN BUFFALO

Electrify everything!

OpinionBY GREEN PARTY LEADER ELIZABETH MAY

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Canada’s economic future depends on women—the next government has an opportunity to deliver

OpinionBY MITZIE HUNTER

Black and racialized Canadians could be a powerful force in this election if they harness the power of block voting

OpinionBY AKOLISA UFODIKE, OLADAPO AKINSIPE

‘I want to be the proof that the Canadian dream is alive,’ says country’s first female Turkish Canadian federal candidate

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Red-pill populism

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

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Indigenous Relations

Vote for ‘we’ instead of ‘me’ in this election

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Questions that should be asked at the political leaders’ debates

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

AFN election priority report urges parties to make ‘clear, firm’ pledges to First Nations

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

Pen to paper: recent letter of intent formalizes plan to create Indigenous Peoples Space

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

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Election promise tracker: key pledges parties are making this campaign

Election promise tracker: key pledges parties are making this campaign

The federal public servants running in election 2025

The federal public servants running in election 2025

Daily snapshots of the key ridings leaders are targeting on the campaign trail

Daily snapshots of the key ridings leaders are targeting on the campaign trail

Tracking federal parties’ Meta spending in the campaign

Tracking federal parties’ Meta spending in the campaign

New riding map gives Tories slight boost compared to 2021 election

New riding map gives Tories slight boost compared to 2021 election

This federal election could cost $570-million: Elections Canada

This federal election could cost $570-million: Elections Canada

Toronto top donor city for Carney, Freeland, and Gould’s Liberal leadership campaigns

Toronto top donor city for Carney, Freeland, and Gould’s Liberal leadership campaigns

Poilievre’s riding among seats with highest turnout in Liberal leadership race

Poilievre’s riding among seats with highest turnout in Liberal leadership race