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Environment

Fighting U.S. threats by fighting climate change

OpinionBY MILI ROY

• The current industrial carbon price is the most important policy driving emissions reductions in Canada today.  

Fighting U.S. threats by fighting climate change

OpinionBY MILI ROY

• The current industrial carbon price is the most important policy driving emissions reductions in Canada today.  

As the climate changes, so does my world

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR NANCY KARETAK-LINDELL

Reindustrializing Canada: where the real critical mineral opportunity lies

OpinionBY MARILYN SPINK

Climate, costs, and cold truths: rethinking northern policy

OpinionBY PSG SEN. MARGARET DAWN ANDERSON

Engineers of the future need to be trained in disaster adaptation, mitigation, and recovery

OpinionBY JAMES OLSON

The Arctic is heating up—and not just its temperature. Are we ready for an Arctic science surge in Canada?

OpinionBY JACKIE DAWSON

Sustaining Canada’s forests: a model for responsible management

OpinionBY KATE LINDSAY, ÉTIENNE BéLANGER, DARREN SLEEP

The election was a win for nature, but now comes the real work

OpinionBY MEGAN LESLIE

Environment implications for proposed Liberal energy corridor unclear; ‘the devil is in the details,’ says uWaterloo academic

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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Green, red, and blue

OpinionBY BILL HENDERSON

• Economic realities, post-COVID inflation, cost of living, and now U.S. President Donald Trump’s MAGA economic warfare are all fuelling a renewed neoliberal surge.

Green, red, and blue

OpinionBY BILL HENDERSON

• Economic realities, post-COVID inflation, cost of living, and now U.S. President Donald Trump’s MAGA economic warfare are all fuelling a renewed neoliberal surge.

Fighting for air: keeping health and justice at the forefront of Canadian environmental policy

OpinionBY JULIA SAWATZKY

Canada needs net-zero industrial policy to address tariffs—not a short-term resource export boom

OpinionBY DANIEL ROSENBLOOM, STEVEN BERNSTEIN

Canada should act decisively to modernize industrial carbon pricing

OpinionBY DALE BEUGIN

Efforts underway to bury Pope Francis’ legacy as a climate radical

OpinionBY NATHANIEL MONG’ARE

Canada must not join the deregulation race to the bottom

OpinionBY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN, MICHAEL POLANYI

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

AGRICULTURE

Canada can be an agriculture powerhouse if we meet the moment

OpinionBY SENATOR MARY ROBINSON

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

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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

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

Biotechnology momentum in Canada needs infusion of talent and anchor firms, say industry reps

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada needs to catch up in the biotech sector

OpinionBY NDP MP RICHARD CANNINGS

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Canada’s opportunity to redefine its defence, and its value to allies

OpinionBY ANN FITZ-GERALD, HALYNA PADALKO

Canada must act now to welcome displaced Arctic researchers

OpinionBY PHILIPPE ARCHAUMBAULT, CHRISTINE BARNARD, JOANNA HOSA

Access-to-info fiasco continues as DND says memo lost 52 months after request  

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Impunity in Gaza: Israel and the Great Eviction

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

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FINANCE

Carney just signalled the end of market liberalism—and the start of sovereign reconstruction

OpinionBY DEREK J. PATTERSON

Canada’s small businesses and consumers need open finance to navigate economic uncertainty

OpinionBY ANDREW MOOR, JASON ROSEN, KARIM NANJI, STEVE BOMS

Women’s safety is economic policy—what our next government must do now

OpinionBY ANURADHA DUGAL, ALINE NIZIGAMA

Canada must lead global debt cancellation, like it did 25 years ago

OpinionBY BETH LORIMER, DEAN DETTLOFF

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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

India and Israel on parallel tracks

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

‘Trump isn’t interested in making a deal’: Carney’s fraught path towards U.S. trade talks 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Cuba, Romania, and Qatar mark special occassions

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Questions loom over funding and timeliness for Carney’s new foreign policy vision

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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health

Time to make more pharmacare deals after election stalled momentum 

OpinionBY MONIKA DUTT, DANYAAL RAZA

Feds must step up to protect Canada’s natural health product industry

OpinionBY AARON SKELTON

A cost-effective solution to our family physician access crisis

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR STANLEY KUTCHER, ISG SENATOR MOHAMED-IQBAL RAVALIA

Health care matters at the federal ballot box

OpinionBY JOSS REIMER, ELIZABETH MYLES

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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

Challenges in building out the necessary infrastructure for transition to electric vehicles

OpinionBY MEHRDAD KAZERANI

Trade infrastructure pulls ahead of housing crisis as election priority, says industry experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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innovation

Why AI self-regulation has left Canada’s elections vulnerable

OpinionBY RYAN SYDOR

AI and the innovation-regulation pendulum

OpinionBY ULRIKE BAHR-GEDALIA

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

OpinionBY JATIN NATHWANI, MUNUR SACIT HERDEM

Renewed resolve: commit to DEI principles to advance health equity

OpinionBY NNAMDI NDUBUKA, JULIE SOBOWALE

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intergovernmental

Here’s a list of demands for Alberta’s future, not the past

OpinionBY STEPHEN LEGAULT

Current, former NDP MPs reflect on ‘heartbreaking’ and ‘numbing’ loss, but say party is ‘laser focused’ on rebuilding

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Carney facing calls for action, change as Liberals dive into rare fourth term

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Blanchet’s Bloc doesn’t add value to Parliament

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

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justice

Kelly looks at how governments react to judicial invalidation in Constraining the Court

FeatureBY JAMES B. KELLY

‘This is a book about gender-based violence, with a focus on intimate partner abuse,’ says Donner-nominated author of And Sometimes They Kill You

FeatureBY PAMELA CROSS

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

OpinionBY JORY COHEN

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

OpinionBY CATHERINE FRAZEE

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Labour & employment

Time for NDP ‘soul searching’ and ‘reconnecting’ with workers, say labour leaders after electoral collapse

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

Parties’ housing platforms unlikely to significantly improve affordability: experts

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

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

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Modernizing EI: an imperative in this era of uncertainty

OpinionBY DIANE BELLEMARE

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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

Vote to end gender-based violence

OpinionBY ERIN LEE, JULIE LALONDE, HEATHER MCGREGOR

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

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Indigenous Relations

A letter to Prime Minister Carney, from Rose LeMay

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

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

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

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

OpinionBY JASON RASEVYCH, MICHAEL TWIGG, SHAUGHN MCARTHUR

Questions that should be asked at the political leaders’ debates

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

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Grits and Tories dominated the 109 safest seats this election

Grits and Tories dominated the 109 safest seats this election

The election outcomes for Mark Carney’s first cabinet

The election outcomes for Mark Carney’s first cabinet

How many questions did federal leaders take at their daily campaign press events?

How many questions did federal leaders take at their daily campaign press events?

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