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Diane Lebouthillier
Fisheries and Oceans Minister Diane Lebouthillier. In delaying action, Ottawa risks exacerbating conflicts in the Maritimes, particularly in the lucrative lobster and elver fisheries, where tensions already run high, writes Genna Carey. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY GARY D. MARTY | August 21, 2024
We can recognize the overall benefit of salmon farms for Indigenous Peoples, and fish health professionals can work to minimize farm salmon infectious diseases without the banning of salmon farms, writes Dr. Gary D. Marty. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY GARY D. MARTY | August 21, 2024
Opinion | BY GARY D. MARTY | August 21, 2024
We can recognize the overall benefit of salmon farms for Indigenous Peoples, and fish health professionals can work to minimize farm salmon infectious diseases without the banning of salmon farms, writes Dr. Gary D. Marty. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
News | BY STUART BENSON | August 1, 2024
On June 19, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Minister Diane Lebouthillier announced that existing open-net salmon farms in British Columbia will have five years to transition to land-based, closed-containment systems. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY STUART BENSON | August 1, 2024
News | BY STUART BENSON | August 1, 2024
On June 19, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Minister Diane Lebouthillier announced that existing open-net salmon farms in British Columbia will have five years to transition to land-based, closed-containment systems. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY TREVOR RUSS, JAMES LAWSON | July 24, 2024
Canada’s new Fisheries Act clearly empowers Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier to initiate this much needed and broadly supported change. All that is needed is her to give the green light, writes Trevor Russ. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY TREVOR RUSS, JAMES LAWSON | July 24, 2024
Opinion | BY TREVOR RUSS, JAMES LAWSON | July 24, 2024
Canada’s new Fisheries Act clearly empowers Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier to initiate this much needed and broadly supported change. All that is needed is her to give the green light, writes Trevor Russ. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ANERI GARG, PETER ROSS | July 22, 2024
Pablo Rodriguez
Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez needs to listen to what the killer whales have been trying to say, and should enact better shipping pollution regulations, write Aneri Garg and Peter Ross. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ANERI GARG, PETER ROSS | July 22, 2024
Opinion | BY ANERI GARG, PETER ROSS | July 22, 2024
Pablo Rodriguez
Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez needs to listen to what the killer whales have been trying to say, and should enact better shipping pollution regulations, write Aneri Garg and Peter Ross. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ABE SOLBERG | July 15, 2024
Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier. The Government of Canada must immediately reverse its decision to reopen the northern cod commercial fishery and re-implement a stewardship fishery, writes Abe Solberg. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ABE SOLBERG | July 15, 2024
Opinion | BY ABE SOLBERG | July 15, 2024
Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier. The Government of Canada must immediately reverse its decision to reopen the northern cod commercial fishery and re-implement a stewardship fishery, writes Abe Solberg. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY NEIL MOSS | July 8, 2020
Outgoing UN ambassador Marc-André Blanchard, left, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne spearheaded Canada's Security Council campaign. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and United Nations photograph by Manuel Elias
News | BY NEIL MOSS | July 8, 2020
News | BY NEIL MOSS | July 8, 2020
Outgoing UN ambassador Marc-André Blanchard, left, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne spearheaded Canada's Security Council campaign. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and United Nations photograph by Manuel Elias
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | May 20, 2020
Over the last two months in lobbying, Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan and Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, have both cracked the top three in cabinet. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | May 20, 2020
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | May 20, 2020
Over the last two months in lobbying, Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan and Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, have both cracked the top three in cabinet. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY PAUL LANSBERGEN | February 26, 2020
Bernadette Jordan, minister of fisheries, oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard, is pictured leaving a caucus meeting in December. The federal government has committed to conserving 25 per cent of our waters by 2025 and 30 per cent by 2030. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY PAUL LANSBERGEN | February 26, 2020
Opinion | BY PAUL LANSBERGEN | February 26, 2020
Bernadette Jordan, minister of fisheries, oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard, is pictured leaving a caucus meeting in December. The federal government has committed to conserving 25 per cent of our waters by 2025 and 30 per cent by 2030. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | September 4, 2019
Pipeline protestors are pictured in Vancouver in 2017. Protests are widely expected to kick off amid the start of construction work at Trans Mountain sites in the Greater Vancouver Area, presenting an electoral risk to Liberals in the region. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | September 4, 2019
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | September 4, 2019
Pipeline protestors are pictured in Vancouver in 2017. Protests are widely expected to kick off amid the start of construction work at Trans Mountain sites in the Greater Vancouver Area, presenting an electoral risk to Liberals in the region. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion | BY SENATOR DAVID WELLS | July 3, 2019
Newfoundland and Labrador MP Seamus O’Regan gets sworn into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet in August 2017. If we listen to Trudeau, O’Regan and the federal environment minister, the only people opposed to Bill C-69 are lobbyists from Big Oil, not the province’s citizens. The Hill Times file photograph
Opinion | BY SENATOR DAVID WELLS | July 3, 2019
Opinion | BY SENATOR DAVID WELLS | July 3, 2019
Newfoundland and Labrador MP Seamus O’Regan gets sworn into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet in August 2017. If we listen to Trudeau, O’Regan and the federal environment minister, the only people opposed to Bill C-69 are lobbyists from Big Oil, not the province’s citizens. The Hill Times file photograph
Opinion | BY BILL WAREHAM | June 5, 2019
Fisheries and Oceans Minister Jonathan Wilkinson arrives for a cabinet meeting in Ottawa in February. In the upcoming federal election, Canadians will be looking for leaders willing to step forward as oceans champions, writes Bill Wareham. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY BILL WAREHAM | June 5, 2019
Opinion | BY BILL WAREHAM | June 5, 2019
Fisheries and Oceans Minister Jonathan Wilkinson arrives for a cabinet meeting in Ottawa in February. In the upcoming federal election, Canadians will be looking for leaders willing to step forward as oceans champions, writes Bill Wareham. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY AIDAN CHAMANDY | February 25, 2019
The Louis S. St-Laurent, first deployed in 1969, is the oldest ship in the Canadian Coast Guard's icebreaker fleet at 50 years old. Here it is seen conducting research in the Arctic Ocean during a joint project with the U.S. Navy in September 2014. Photograph courtesy of the John F. Williams and the U.S. Navy
News | BY AIDAN CHAMANDY | February 25, 2019
News | BY AIDAN CHAMANDY | February 25, 2019
The Louis S. St-Laurent, first deployed in 1969, is the oldest ship in the Canadian Coast Guard's icebreaker fleet at 50 years old. Here it is seen conducting research in the Arctic Ocean during a joint project with the U.S. Navy in September 2014. Photograph courtesy of the John F. Williams and the U.S. Navy
Opinion | BY MELANIE SONNENBERG | October 30, 2018
Fishing communities throughout the Atlantic, Quebec, and British Columbia, employ thousands of people and are the hidden socio-economic success story of Canada’s fishery policy, writes Melanie Sonnenberg of the Canadian Independent Fish Harvesters’ Federation. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay
Opinion | BY MELANIE SONNENBERG | October 30, 2018
Opinion | BY MELANIE SONNENBERG | October 30, 2018
Fishing communities throughout the Atlantic, Quebec, and British Columbia, employ thousands of people and are the hidden socio-economic success story of Canada’s fishery policy, writes Melanie Sonnenberg of the Canadian Independent Fish Harvesters’ Federation. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay
Rimouski, Que., located on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, has become a hub for ocean sciences and is home to the Marine Biotechnology Research Centre. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Thierry HL
Rimouski, Que., located on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, has become a hub for ocean sciences and is home to the Marine Biotechnology Research Centre. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Thierry HL
News | BY JOLSON LIM, BEATRICE PAEZ | July 18, 2018
Newly minted Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, flanked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Julie Payette, pose for a photo at a cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall on July 18 as other new ministers watch from behind. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY JOLSON LIM, BEATRICE PAEZ | July 18, 2018
News | BY JOLSON LIM, BEATRICE PAEZ | July 18, 2018
Newly minted Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, flanked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Julie Payette, pose for a photo at a cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall on July 18 as other new ministers watch from behind. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ARAN O’CARROLL | June 25, 2018
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is scheduled to sit down with her ministerial counterparts on Thursday to develop a national conservation strategy. The Hill Times file photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ARAN O’CARROLL | June 25, 2018
Opinion | BY ARAN O’CARROLL | June 25, 2018
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is scheduled to sit down with her ministerial counterparts on Thursday to develop a national conservation strategy. The Hill Times file photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY DAN KRAUS | June 8, 2018
The biggest challenge to our generation is stopping habitat loss, says conservation biologist Dan Kraus. Photograph courtesy of Pxhere
Opinion | BY DAN KRAUS | June 8, 2018
Opinion | BY DAN KRAUS | June 8, 2018
The biggest challenge to our generation is stopping habitat loss, says conservation biologist Dan Kraus. Photograph courtesy of Pxhere