Foreign Policy

Industrial benefits policy needs a ‘relook,’ says ex-senior public servant, as Conservative MP pushes for contract records

NewsBY IREM KOCA

• 'There has to be better alignment between the ITB policy and the needs of the Canadian Armed Forces,' says former public servant Clem Srour.

Industrial benefits policy needs a ‘relook,’ says ex-senior public servant, as Conservative MP pushes for contract records

NewsBY IREM KOCA

• 'There has to be better alignment between the ITB policy and the needs of the Canadian Armed Forces,' says former public servant Clem Srour.

‘With or without you’: policy sovereignty in a Trumpian world

OpinionBY KEVIN LYNCH, PAUL DEEGAN

Iran an active case study on whether massacres work

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Japan salutes Canadian business ties

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Thailand throws national day party

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Advancing the new China-Canada strategic partnership will need full implementation of the leaders’ consensus

OpinionBY WANG DI

After decades of progress on smoking, Canada faces new nicotine challenges

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Opinion

• BY ALEX NEVE

Time to close the U.S. arms export loophole

Opinion

• BY LES WHITTINGTON

Canada-U.S. relations heading into uncharted territory

News

• BY NEIL MOSS

Union warns foreign ministry cuts will hamper delivery of Carney doctrine 

Learning to exhale when dealing with Trump

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

• When it comes to dealing with the president and his pronouncements, follow the 24-hour rule when angry or upset.

Learning to exhale when dealing with Trump

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

• When it comes to dealing with the president and his pronouncements, follow the 24-hour rule when angry or upset.

‘The best is yet to come’: Poilievre takes Conservative leadership vote with 87% support after final pitch

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Conservatives ‘ready to go’ in case of a snap election, says Conservative Fund chair Staley and MP Cooper

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Treasury Board outlines more than 8,000 job cuts in first phases of public service revamp

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

After Davos, Trump confronts an inflection point

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Parliamentary Calendar

Conservatives converge on Calgary, cast ballots on Poilievre’s leadership at convention happening Jan. 29-31

Podcast

Sheila Copps on Greenland, a 2026 election, and the return of Parliament

feature

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2025

News

Who’s backing the NDP leadership contenders?

Podcast

Re-engaging with China, with Senator Yuen Pau Woo

In defence of Canada

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

• It’s truly insane that the Canadian military is having to war game such a heretofore unfathomable scenario of a looming U.S. invasion.

In defence of Canada

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

• It’s truly insane that the Canadian military is having to war game such a heretofore unfathomable scenario of a looming U.S. invasion.

Why zero‑sum thinking is not strength

OpinionBY CATHY ORLANDO

Why zero‑sum thinking is not strength

OpinionBY CATHY ORLANDO

Carney has thrown his hat over the wall, now what?

OpinionBY MATT GURNEY

Carney has thrown his hat over the wall, now what?

OpinionBY MATT GURNEY

With threats to Canada’s sovereignty and mounting economic challenges, MPs should work together or face an early election, says Coteau

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

With threats to Canada’s sovereignty and mounting economic challenges, MPs should work together or face an early election, says Coteau

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Parliamentary Calendar

Cory Doctorow to talk his bestselling book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It, on Jan. 28 in Ottawa

Podcast

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

News

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Lobbyists in 2025: lobbyists prepare for ‘significant reset’ as federal election begins

News

Tracking job cuts in the federal public service

Podcast

Cut, not cap? The latest on public service downsizing, with Marlo Glass

IMF report says Canada’s elevated trade uncertainty reinforces long-standing weaknesses in productivity and competitiveness

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

• So while Mark Carney’s efforts to develop new markets and new partnerships around the world matter, without a corresponding effort to boost Canadian innovation and support our ambitious entrepreneurs in building and growing new companies, the new market opportunities won’t lead to new exports and investments.

IMF report says Canada’s elevated trade uncertainty reinforces long-standing weaknesses in productivity and competitiveness

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

• So while Mark Carney’s efforts to develop new markets and new partnerships around the world matter, without a corresponding effort to boost Canadian innovation and support our ambitious entrepreneurs in building and growing new companies, the new market opportunities won’t lead to new exports and investments.

MPs from all parties must work together to deal with external and internal challenges facing Canada

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

Going along to get along is over

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

One Danish soldier

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

In a world filled with conflict, Yamanouchi reflects on diplomacy

OpinionBY ROSEANN O’REILLY RUNTE

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‘These times are not like any other’: Carney’s Davos speech that ‘electrified the world’ draws bipartisan praise

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

• In his address to world leaders on June 20, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that 'the old world order is not coming back' and 'nostalgia is not a strategy.'

‘These times are not like any other’: Carney’s Davos speech that ‘electrified the world’ draws bipartisan praise

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

• In his address to world leaders on June 20, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that 'the old world order is not coming back' and 'nostalgia is not a strategy.'

Debating creating a Canadian CIA? Never say never, but now is not the time

OpinionBY MARTIN GREEN

Debating creating a Canadian CIA? Never say never, but now is not the time

OpinionBY MARTIN GREEN

Albanian embassy marks national day

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Albanian embassy marks national day

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Latvian envoy plays host at War Museum 

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Latvian envoy plays host at War Museum 

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Diplomatic Circles

Joint co-operation needed to tackle spread of narcotics, says Colombian defence minister 

‘Canada is getting more and more important for us,’ says visiting German Bundestag member

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

‘I’ve had to run to keep up’: U.K. envoy trumpets ‘new energy’ in Canadian relationship, but questions loom over trade talks

trade

MPs celebrate canola tariff relief, but national security, pork, remain opposition concerns with China

Carney must walk a tightrope in 2026, dealing with an unpredictable neighbour

‘Unprecedented’ 2025 for canola industry, with record-breaking economic lobbying

CUSMA review approaching, but mechanism remains murky

international development

Senate committee casts doubt on feds’ ability to move on Africa strategy without new funds, calls for action plan

Senate’s Africa report exposes Canada’s strategic blind spot

Foreign aid is not charity, but an investment in stability and peace

Canada’s G7 leadership: the ambition is there, but is the budget?

immigration

‘We ask the government not to send us back to the ruins’: Turkish earthquake survivors call on feds to ease path to permanent residency

Why all governments must follow Ontario in scrapping the ‘Canadian experience’ requirement

Facing reality: Canada and the challenge of refugee protection

Canada is falling behind in the global race for skilled workers

refugees

‘End our suffering’: refugees from Africa face inequity and delays resettling in Canada

Constituent seeking help for brother and others fleeing Sudan civil war says immigration minister ‘angry, rude, and dismissive’ in phone call

IRCC forecasts 30 per cent spending cut by 2028 amid lower immigration targets

Government’s border security bill draws heavy criticism from civil rights groups

inside defence

New helicopters on the horizon

How to foil Trump’s annexation of Greenland

All eyes on the Arctic

In Canada’s defence: re-establishing a true militia

gwynne dyer

Trump versus NATO, target Greenland

Why America intervening in Iran is a bad idea

How NATO members can take on Trump’s Greenland—and Canadian—obsession

Trump’s case for a Greenland invasion is utter hogwash

canada and the 21st century

Canada now needs a backup plan for our auto industry

Trump wants to squeeze us hard enough so we come begging

Transforming Canada’s economy for a better future is an enormous challenge

Trump’s new national security strategy raises alarms, fears over threats posed to Canada’s sovereignty and prosperity

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