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Environment

Trump: a suite of global dangers

OpinionBY BILL HENDERSON

• The DOGE initiative is an ideological wrecking ball set to destroy the U.S. government—arguably the most important government in the world— and threatening the health and security of the majority of Americans, along with multitudes globally.

Trump: a suite of global dangers

OpinionBY BILL HENDERSON

• The DOGE initiative is an ideological wrecking ball set to destroy the U.S. government—arguably the most important government in the world— and threatening the health and security of the majority of Americans, along with multitudes globally.

Electrify everything!

OpinionBY GREEN PARTY LEADER ELIZABETH MAY

Trade war could ‘upend’ EV sector, Canada must argue for integrated market, says CEO of vehicle manufacturing group

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

A free, mobile, and caring Canada, you say?  

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

Don’t let Maple MAGAs dictate Canada’s path

OpinionBY KEITH STEWART

Mid Mark Carney may not meet the moment

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Canada’s unnecessary carbon tax detour

OpinionBY MARK JACCARD

Losing the consumer carbon tax takes Canada a step backwards

OpinionBY NICHOLAS RIVERS

Future of the carbon tax

OpinionBY GARY STOREY

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What’s next for climate policy after carbon pricing?

OpinionBY JESSICA GREEN

• Abandoning the consumer carbon price frees up political space to recommit to policies that will address the climate crisis and the critical issues facing Canadians.

What’s next for climate policy after carbon pricing?

OpinionBY JESSICA GREEN

• Abandoning the consumer carbon price frees up political space to recommit to policies that will address the climate crisis and the critical issues facing Canadians.

Increased electrification, tighter building codes could be needed if consumer carbon tax scrapped, say experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Farewell, consumer carbon tax

OpinionBY DON DRUMMOND

Facing tariffs, Canada has a clever, cleaner trade-compliant tool to support its steel and aluminum industries

OpinionBY OLLIE SHELDRICK-MOYLE

Competition Bureau’s proposed anti-greenwashing guidelines are all bark, no bite

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR ROSA GALVEZ, ALEXANDRA TOUTANT

Trump is coming: quick, build a pipeline!

OpinionBY SUSAN RILEY

In the heart of Montreal, Liberals look to maintain dominance and avoid repeat of byelection shock

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

The growing threat of forever chemicals

OpinionBY BLAISE SALMON

Climate clarity needed: don’t pile up programs, focus on transformations

OpinionBY PIERRE-OLIVIER PINEAU

AGRICULTURE

Canada-U.S. farm ties in jeopardy

OpinionBY ASIM BISWAS

Digesting the need to eliminate internal trade barriers on food

OpinionBY JACQUES J.M. SHORE, SUZANNE SABOURIN

Trade anxiety creates ‘unprecedented’ risk to agriculture, requires bold advocacy, says sector experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

We need to build back Canada’s agricultural future

OpinionBY CONSERVATIVE MP JOHN BARLOW

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Biotechnology

Canada needs to catch up in the biotech sector

OpinionBY NDP MP RICHARD CANNINGS

Unlocking Canada’s greatest economic potential: life sciences

OpinionBY ALISON SYMINGTON, JASON FIELD

Canada’s biotech carpe diem

OpinionBY ANDREW CASEY

Harnessing the power of Canada’s growing biotechnology industry: a perspective from the West

OpinionBY STEPHANIE WILLERTH

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

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 REBECCA PATTERSON, SENATOR KRISTA ANN ROSS, SENATOR MARY ROBINSON, SENATOR FLORDELIZ (GIGI) OSLER

Leadership and risk tolerance stymie fixing CAF recruitment, retention

OpinionBY DAN A. DORAN

‘This cannot stand in Canada’: advocates push Liberals to showcase ‘zero tolerance’ after downplaying former candidate’s China bounty comments

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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FINANCE

Let’s celebrate the Canada Disability Benefit—but it must be strengthened

OpinionBY RABIA KHEDR, ISG SENATOR CHANTAL PETITCLERC

Q&A | The politics of pitching fiscal restraint and public service cuts with Sahir Khan

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Are unions braced for the storm ahead?

OpinionBY STéPHANE LACROIX

Can Canada afford to cut the public service while Trump moves the goalposts?

NewsBY KATHRYN MAY

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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

Tariffs ‘still devastating’ despite ‘reciprocal’ reprieve, says Senator on Canada-U.S. council

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Canada urgently needs a new growth strategy in response to Trump’s economic war

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

What Canada needs now is more robust, visionary diplomacy, not more military spending

OpinionBY ERNIE REGEHR, DOUGLAS ROCHE

The third wave of nuclear weapons countries is upon us

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

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health

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

Liberals to push ahead with pharmacare, but program’s fate under Conservatives is unclear

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Restrictions on living abroad: the inequality of Canada’s pension portability 

OpinionBY CATI COE

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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

More needed to protect communities from rail disasters

OpinionBY NDP MP TAYLOR BACHRACH

Navigating uncertainty: telecom’s essential role in securing Canada’s future

OpinionBY ROBERT GHIZ

So, we all agree on what needs to happen next: let’s talk about how to get it done

OpinionBY RODRIGUE GILBERT

Building infrastructure to withstand the effects of climate change

OpinionBY JOSEPH DARAIO

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innovation

Beyond Trump’s tariffs: return of geoeconomics and Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy

OpinionBY DAVID ABONYI, GEORGE ABONYI

Science under pressure: a call to action

OpinionBY MONA NEMER, RéMI QUIRION

As the U.S. drives backwards, Canada must pull ahead

OpinionBY HONGYU XIAO

Canada’s next move starts a few thousand feet below the ground

OpinionBY ALEX GRECO

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intergovernmental

In rural Quebec, the wave looks red

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Ministers, ex-cabinet members and leadership aspirants seek to hold bellwethers for Liberals

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Is Quebec becoming an authoritarian ‘nation’?

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Using icebreakers and subs to protect against U.S. pressure  

OpinionBY PETER RAUTENBACH

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justice

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

Time for Canada to step up as a human rights world leader

OpinionBY ODETTE MCCARTHY, JEAN-SéBASTIEN VALLéE

Top court could offer clarity on ‘open question’ of constitutional status of parliamentary privilege, say experts

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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Labour & employment

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

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

‘Don’t make us compare you to Elon Musk’: public sector unions want job security assurances from feds as election looms

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Basic income a proactive policy in difficult times

OpinionBY MANDY KAY-RAINING BIRD, WIL ROBERTSON

Unions seek government to fix Phoenix problems ‘once and for all’

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

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Lobbying

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

Trade tensions with U.S. motivate economic lobbying in January

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Taiwan the top destination in quieter year for MPs’ sponsored travel

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

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natural resources and energy

Trump’s tariff barrage roils Canadian energy world

OpinionBY SHAWN MCCARTHY

What is suddenly, painfully clear: we need to get our own economic house in order

OpinionBY JAY KHOSLA, ARASH GOLSHAN

Hydrogen sector development: are we really on the right track?

OpinionBY IBRAHIM DINCER

Bolstering domestic manufacturing can make us resilient to tariffs, and help meet our sustainability goals

OpinionBY ALEX TAVASOLI, HOLLY CAGGIANO

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Invisible work: the unseen labour that powers Canada

OpinionBY LISE COURTEAU

Why gender parity matters in cabinet

OpinionBY ELIZABETH MCCALLION, REBECCA WALLACE

Incoming senator Tony Ince talks liberation from party apparatus, ‘whirlwind’ first days

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Carney’s cabinet a step backwards in the dark

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

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Indigenous Relations

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

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

The ‘artificial border’ and how it can be corrected

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Understanding the policy implications of Canada’s ‘hidden energy communities’

OpinionBY JULIE MACARTHUR, EMMANUEL ACKOM

Why Indigenous rights must be integrated into Canada’s regulatory process

OpinionBY BYRON LOUIS

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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