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Prime Minister Mark Carney, left and Chinese President Xi Jinping. We have entered a new era where trade, technology, and security are fused—and leverage is the currency of power, writes Vina Nadjibulla. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Handling Canada-China relations in an age of weaponized supply chains

OpinionBY VINA NADJIBULLA
  • If Canada wants to remain a G7 economy, it must approach economic relations with China through the lens of strategic caution, not short-term commercial convenience.

Handling Canada-China relations in an age of weaponized supply chains

OpinionBY VINA NADJIBULLA
  • If Canada wants to remain a G7 economy, it must approach economic relations with China through the lens of strategic caution, not short-term commercial convenience.
Argentina President Javier Milei, left, and Donald Trump. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore 

American contempt for Latin America on full display

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Canada can lead global efforts in tackling hunger

OpinionBY ANDY HARRINGTON
Opinion

Keystone XL is back from the dead, and so are the politics of pipelines

Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault told a gathering of media producers that streaming services have a role to play in investing in the success and sustainability of the country's cultural sectors. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

‘Culture is not on the table’ in trade talks amid film tariff threats and domestic digital policy uncertainty, says Guilbeault

NewsBY STUART BENSON
  • The Canadian Media Producers Association is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to ‘rethink’ any potential of using the Online Streaming Act as a ‘bargaining chip’ in his negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump.

‘Culture is not on the table’ in trade talks amid film tariff threats and domestic digital policy uncertainty, says Guilbeault

NewsBY STUART BENSON
  • The Canadian Media Producers Association is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to ‘rethink’ any potential of using the Online Streaming Act as a ‘bargaining chip’ in his negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Federal procurement watchdog finds risk of ‘bait and switch’ in government contracts

NewsBY IREM KOCA
Caroline Xavier
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CSE chief Xavier to deliver keynote on cyber resilience at Vancouver Security Summit on Oct. 17

Prime Minister Mark Carney looks on as then-Privy Council clerk John Hannaford, right, swears in then-transport minister Chrystia Freeland, left, on May 13. Carney has since recently given Freeland and Hannaford each their own diplomatic assignment. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garica

Complementary, but limited: how Carney’s use of ‘personal’ envoys can boost the foreign service

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • Although the government hasn’t yet reached that point, too many political appointments ‘is never ideal because it undermines morale in the diplomatic service,’ says professor Adam Chapnick.

Complementary, but limited: how Carney’s use of ‘personal’ envoys can boost the foreign service

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • Although the government hasn’t yet reached that point, too many political appointments ‘is never ideal because it undermines morale in the diplomatic service,’ says professor Adam Chapnick.

Anita Anand’s India challenge: engage without enabling

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU
Anita Anand
Anita Anand

Anita Anand’s India challenge: engage without enabling

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU
On Sept. 9, U.S. President Donald Trump obtained an expedited review by the U.S. Supreme Court, pictured, of the so-called global emergency tariffs that he has imposed on many countries around the world. The hearing by the court on these tariffs that has shaken the global economy and trade will begin on Nov. 5, 2025. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Here’s the best Canadian strategy on the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of Trump’s potentially illegal global tariffs

OpinionBY ERROL MENDES
  • Canada's focus should be on cementing rules-based, new trading partnerships with the Latin American countries in the Mercosur trade bloc, seeking even closers ties with the European Union, and expanding trade with the 11 Pacific Rim nations.

Here’s the best Canadian strategy on the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of Trump’s potentially illegal global tariffs

OpinionBY ERROL MENDES
  • Canada's focus should be on cementing rules-based, new trading partnerships with the Latin American countries in the Mercosur trade bloc, seeking even closers ties with the European Union, and expanding trade with the 11 Pacific Rim nations.
Chris Collenette is a former staffer in Jean Chrétien's PMO and Allan Rock's ministerial office. Photograph courtesy of Chris Collenette

How a former Hill staffer is lionizing a Canadian that helped end the Troubles 

FeatureBY NEIL MOSS
  • Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin remarked that a new scholarship named for John de Chastelain will 'help foster peace and reconciliation worldwide.'

How a former Hill staffer is lionizing a Canadian that helped end the Troubles 

FeatureBY NEIL MOSS
  • Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin remarked that a new scholarship named for John de Chastelain will 'help foster peace and reconciliation worldwide.'

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