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Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, and Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc will be tested as the future of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement remains in doubt as its review approaches. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

CUSMA review approaching, but mechanism remains murky

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • The CUSMA document itself offers little information about how its mandated review is supposed to unfold, leaving stakeholders clamouring for more details about the process.

CUSMA review approaching, but mechanism remains murky

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • The CUSMA document itself offers little information about how its mandated review is supposed to unfold, leaving stakeholders clamouring for more details about the process.
Anita Anand. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Questions loom over future of Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy after China détente 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Warming Canada-China relations shouldn’t extend to Huawei ban, say security experts, parliamentarians

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE
Opinion

Far-right ideology is a prescription for bad health

When nations have turned to universities and their research partners in previous moments of crisis, the result is competitiveness and prosperity that reach far beyond the original scope, writes Timothy Chan. Pexels photograph by Polina Tankilevitch

Elbow patches up: universities and Canadian sovereignty

OpinionBY TIMOTHY CHAN
  • At a moment when Canadian values are threatened, universities can be counted on as a key partner in the journey to secure a future of our own design.

Elbow patches up: universities and Canadian sovereignty

OpinionBY TIMOTHY CHAN
  • At a moment when Canadian values are threatened, universities can be counted on as a key partner in the journey to secure a future of our own design.

‘Stark contrast’ between Carney and Trudeau’s approach to Indigenous relations, says ITK president Obed

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND
Donald Trump
Parliamentary Calendar

Carleton University hosts lecture on President Trump’s trade policies and upcoming CUSMA review on Jan. 22

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Mark Critch on Donald Trump, Canadian politics, and being TikTok famous

As Canada faces another year of uncertainty and its most serious challenges since the Second World War, Prime Minister Mark Carney, pictured, would be wise to employ a much stronger communications strategy to bring Canadians on board in a 'far more substantive way.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Carney needs a much stronger communications strategy with Canadians at this hinge moment

OpinionBY EDITORIAL
  • Canadians are worried, and the prime minister should be communicating more clearly and more regularly with them.

Carney needs a much stronger communications strategy with Canadians at this hinge moment

OpinionBY EDITORIAL
  • Canadians are worried, and the prime minister should be communicating more clearly and more regularly with them.

Depicting ‘Dad’ Carney, ‘angry face’ Poilievre, and Trump’s ‘bizarre’ brand of ‘chaos’: de Adder’s top cartoons of 2025

FeatureBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

Depicting ‘Dad’ Carney, ‘angry face’ Poilievre, and Trump’s ‘bizarre’ brand of ‘chaos’: de Adder’s top cartoons of 2025

FeatureBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN
eft, and U.S. President Donald Trump. The 'hostile America' propaganda line is writing itself and Beijing will slip easily into the gaps opened not only between the U.S. and Denmark/Greenland but between the U.S. and all its partners in the Arctic—and beyond, writes Adam Lajeunesse. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Flickr

Trump is reviving China’s Arctic ambitions

OpinionBY ADAM LAJEUNESSE
  • The Trump administration’s current Arctic policy is a high-stakes game of Russian roulette, risking the destruction of America’s regional alliances, and its own national security. From the ashes of that destruction, China will find an obvious path to revitalize its claim to prominence in the Arctic.

Trump is reviving China’s Arctic ambitions

OpinionBY ADAM LAJEUNESSE
  • The Trump administration’s current Arctic policy is a high-stakes game of Russian roulette, risking the destruction of America’s regional alliances, and its own national security. From the ashes of that destruction, China will find an obvious path to revitalize its claim to prominence in the Arctic.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s delay in implementing the foreign influence registry ‘sends a clear message’ that safeguarding Canadian institutions and diaspora communities ‘is not a priority for the government,' says the Canadian Foreign Influence Transparency Registry Coalition. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

‘Too weak, too vague, too slow’: PM Carney accused of ‘dragging his feet’ on foreign interference in pursuit of economic reset with China

NewsBY STUART BENSON
  • The Liberal government published the draft regulations for the long-awaited foreign agent registry nearly 18 months after royal assent, but opposition parties say they have yet to be consulted on a potential commissioner.

‘Too weak, too vague, too slow’: PM Carney accused of ‘dragging his feet’ on foreign interference in pursuit of economic reset with China

NewsBY STUART BENSON
  • The Liberal government published the draft regulations for the long-awaited foreign agent registry nearly 18 months after royal assent, but opposition parties say they have yet to be consulted on a potential commissioner.

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