Foreign Policy

Canada-U.S. relations heading into uncharted territory

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

• PM Mark Carney’s takedown of the president in the world spotlight, while popular, has added profound new uncertainties to the entire Ottawa-Washington matrix.

Canada-U.S. relations heading into uncharted territory

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

• PM Mark Carney’s takedown of the president in the world spotlight, while popular, has added profound new uncertainties to the entire Ottawa-Washington matrix.

Union warns foreign ministry cuts will hamper delivery of Carney doctrine 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Learning to exhale when dealing with Trump

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

After Davos, Trump confronts an inflection point

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

In defence of Canada

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Why zero‑sum thinking is not strength

OpinionBY CATHY ORLANDO

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

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Opinion

• BY MATT GURNEY

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

News

• BY ABBAS RANA

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

Opinion

• BY DAVID CRANE

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

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

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

• The responsibility to deal with these challenges does not rest only with Prime Minister Mark Carney. All party leaders and MPs, regardless of their political affiliation, should set aside their differences and work together to get the country through and out of these turbulent times. 

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

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

• The responsibility to deal with these challenges does not rest only with Prime Minister Mark Carney. All party leaders and MPs, regardless of their political affiliation, should set aside their differences and work together to get the country through and out of these turbulent times. 

MPs eye support for expat voters as PROC study on special ballot challenges wraps

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Emergencies Act architect says courts checked government overreach, advises against further appeal

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Housing Minister Robertson ‘well regarded’ for municipal background, but needs a vision for housing, say sector experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

200,000 Job-Years of Sustained Employment: Why Hanwha’s Submarine Bid is an Economic Engine for Canada

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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

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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

Going along to get along is over

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

• Canadians are waiting to see how Donald Trump retaliates, but Davos proved one thing: America is alone.

Going along to get along is over

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

• Canadians are waiting to see how Donald Trump retaliates, but Davos proved one thing: America is alone.

One Danish soldier

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

One Danish soldier

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

In a world filled with conflict, Yamanouchi reflects on diplomacy

OpinionBY ROSEANN O’REILLY RUNTE

In a world filled with conflict, Yamanouchi reflects on diplomacy

OpinionBY ROSEANN O’REILLY RUNTE

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

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

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

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

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

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

OpinionBY MARTIN GREEN

• Canada needs to bolster its national security apparatus. That’s not a compelling reason to launch a new agency, which would be a disruptive, time consuming, and costly machinery change.

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

OpinionBY MARTIN GREEN

• Canada needs to bolster its national security apparatus. That’s not a compelling reason to launch a new agency, which would be a disruptive, time consuming, and costly machinery change.

Albanian embassy marks national day

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Latvian envoy plays host at War Museum 

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

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

OpinionBY MARC SNYDER

CUSMA review approaching, but mechanism remains murky

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

• Although Prime Minister Mark Carney is seen as embarking on a more 'pragmatic' and 'interests-based' foreign policy, Ottawa-based foreign diplomats are wary about the potential for misplaced trust in the Asian superpower.

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

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

• Although Prime Minister Mark Carney is seen as embarking on a more 'pragmatic' and 'interests-based' foreign policy, Ottawa-based foreign diplomats are wary about the potential for misplaced trust in the Asian superpower.

Libya was a warning, Venezuela is the test

OpinionBY AKOLISA UFODIKE

Libya was a warning, Venezuela is the test

OpinionBY AKOLISA UFODIKE

Do Conservatives want the best for the West, or not?

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Do Conservatives want the best for the West, or not?

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

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

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

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

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

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

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

Canada will have to expand trade with undemocratic countries to fight losses in U.S. trade war, say foreign policy experts

Time for Team Canada 2.0

Trump exposed the risk of complacency. Will Canada learn from its mistakes?

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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