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AI literacy as a Canadian policy imperative

OpinionBY DAVID MATSINHE

• If Canada does not embed AI skills in education, our workforce risks becoming dependent consumers of global technologies rather than leaders in shaping them.

AI literacy as a Canadian policy imperative

OpinionBY DAVID MATSINHE

• If Canada does not embed AI skills in education, our workforce risks becoming dependent consumers of global technologies rather than leaders in shaping them.

Why Canada can no longer trust U.S. regulatory agencies

OpinionBY NATASHA TUSIKOV

‘The honeymoon period will be over’: politicos expect high bar for Carney’s first budget, and omnibus-bill headaches

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Observers eye fall sitting for bills to implement still-secret trade pacts with Indonesia and Ecuador 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

A new session of Parliament is a time to recommit to some basic principles

OpinionBY CSG SENATOR SCOTT TANNAS

Shoring up supports for people and communities in a turbulent trade climate

OpinionBY SHAIMAA YASSIN

Public opinion is the real opposition

OpinionBY DARRELL BRICKER

News

• BY TESSIE SANCI

Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories all open to pharmacare talks, but say they’re not taking place

Opinion

• BY KYRA WILSON

Time for a public national first ministers’ meeting with First Nations

Opinion

• BY JOHANNE WHITMORE, FRANçOIS DELORME

Bill C-5 revealing itself as a Trojan horse designed to appease Alberta’s fossil fuel interests

Senator Harder wants to legislate how the feds handle the notwithstanding clause—his colleagues have some concerns

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

• Ontario Senator Peter Harder’s Bill S-218 follows a motion last Parliament that sought to foster reflection on use of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ notwithstanding clause.

Senator Harder wants to legislate how the feds handle the notwithstanding clause—his colleagues have some concerns

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

• Ontario Senator Peter Harder’s Bill S-218 follows a motion last Parliament that sought to foster reflection on use of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ notwithstanding clause.

Carney will need to show results for trade concessions, says Canada-U.S. council member 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Air Canada strike intervention shortens Carney’s domestic runway to land ‘Trump and trade’ deals, say strategists

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Canada needs ‘eyes wide open’ approach to China amid diversification efforts, say observers 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

We’re still here. We still say ‘no’

OpinionBY NIKKI SKUCE

Parliamentary Calendar

Sen. Seidman’s official farewell to the Red Chamber happens as she marks her 75th birthday on Sept. 1

Podcast

‘Pierre has to be Pierre’: How the Conservatives will tackle the return of Parliament

News

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

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Podcast

Plastics pollution treaty in jeopardy

Disorganization mars Bill C-5 summit, but progress possible if Liberals commit to consultation, chiefs say

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

• The rushed summit is receiving mixed reviews from First Nations’ leadership, who say there are still ‘conversations that need to happen’ going forward.

Disorganization mars Bill C-5 summit, but progress possible if Liberals commit to consultation, chiefs say

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

• The rushed summit is receiving mixed reviews from First Nations’ leadership, who say there are still ‘conversations that need to happen’ going forward.

Where to begin: restarting a failed access-to-information system 

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

Q&A | Ontario First Nations launch court challenge against law fast-tracking major projects

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

Bill C-5: RIP reconciliation?

OpinionBY DOREEN BARRIE

Winning the legislation lottery: MPs eye causes that hit close to home for fall bills

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Courts unlikely to provide fifth extension to Ottawa to address Lost Canadians before November, says immigration lawyer

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Federal major projects office ‘should not take the place of proper consultation with First Nations,’ says AFN national chief

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Parliamentary Calendar

Mexican embassy to launch new book on cultural diplomacy and free trade

Podcast

‘We’re living in a pretty dynamic time’: Inuit leader Natan Obed

feature

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2024

Opinion

Ranking the best and worst federal departments, by public service survey results

Podcast

‘Just a slash and burn’: Bhagwant Sandhu on Carney’s public service cuts

Environment groups want ‘national interest’ defined in Liberals’ One Economy law

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

• The government needs to have a 'national conversation' about what it means to have a project meet Bill C-5's criteria, says Anna Johnston, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law.

Environment groups want ‘national interest’ defined in Liberals’ One Economy law

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

• The government needs to have a 'national conversation' about what it means to have a project meet Bill C-5's criteria, says Anna Johnston, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law.

It’s time to end Canada’s control over First Nations identity

OpinionBY KYRA WILSON

Carney’s record on foreign interference is uninspiring, so far

OpinionBY HENRY CHAN

Senate passes Carney’s controversial nation-building bill, citing ‘trust’ in the government

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

What good is a social safety net that doesn’t catch you?

OpinionBY AMANDA THERRIEN

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Breaking down C-5: Carney’s ‘build, baby, build’ bill draws support from business sector, but heavy pushback from environmental, Indigenous groups

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

• Bill C-5's two major components seek to address internal trade barriers, and to fast-track national interest projects.

Breaking down C-5: Carney’s ‘build, baby, build’ bill draws support from business sector, but heavy pushback from environmental, Indigenous groups

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

• Bill C-5's two major components seek to address internal trade barriers, and to fast-track national interest projects.

‘They were emphatic in their foolishness’: Senate defers to House on Bloc supply management bill despite concerns

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

‘They were emphatic in their foolishness’: Senate defers to House on Bloc supply management bill despite concerns

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Carney ‘buries Caesar’ by admitting his own mistakes

OpinionBY JAMIE CARROLL

Carney ‘buries Caesar’ by admitting his own mistakes

OpinionBY JAMIE CARROLL

Carney’s sweeping, omnibus bills called both undemocratic, and meeting the moment

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Carney’s sweeping, omnibus bills called both undemocratic, and meeting the moment

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Politics This Morning

Budget consultation extended

Carney and McGuinty meet the troops

Carney meets Merz in Germany

PM Carney and Poland’s Tusk talk trade and Ukraine

all politics poll: best & worst of the year in politics

Housing Minister Fraser a 2023 fan favourite on Parliament Hill: All Politics Poll

Poilievre doubles as most valuable, least valuable politician in 2022 in The Hill Times’ All Politics Poll

Anand named most valuable politician, climate change voted most important issue in The Hill Times’ 23rd Annual All Politics Poll

Freeland named most valuable politician, NAFTA voted biggest story in The Hill Times’ 22nd Annual All Politics Poll

Election

 Are the Poilievres working on Operation Seduction?

Conservatives’ ad hoc nomination rules committee for next election to report back to national council in September, say sources

‘The road to success is never a straight line’: politicos eye whether re-elected Poilievre tries a new tone in Parliament

Battle River—Crowfoot byelection parallels a defeated prime minister’s attempt to return to House nearly 100 years ago

Politics

A dozen staffers accounted for so far on Treasury Board President Ali’s team

Canada’s defence pact with Indonesia a modest but necessary first step in the Indo-Pacific

Distraction season is here—but Trump still demands attention

Bound to Alberta? Poilievre has yet to commit to reclaiming Carleton next election

Foreign Policy

America, Greenland, and upending the territorial status quo

Canada’s deafening silence defending the International Criminal Court 

Was Trump’s Alaska Summit his Chamberlain moment?

UN Rohingya conference is Canada’s moment to renew its humanitarian commitments

Finance and Budget

Feds must consider oil and gas conflicts for Canada Pension Plan appointees 

Transport Canada projects 1,000 fewer jobs by 2027-28, with green programs on the chopping block

Economic lobbying in July rises to meet demand for nation-building projects, interprovincial trade

Steel, auto sectors seek relief after latest ‘crushing’ tariff hike 

Lobbying

Canada ‘should not relent’ in trade talks, say industry reps who say auto sector needs zero tariffs

U.S. trade approach ‘changes the rules of the game,’ with canola sector leading economic lobbying in first six months of 2025

Lobbyists address Canada-U.S. dynamic in face of shifting tariffs from unpredictable Trump: ‘it’s changed’

High engagement with oil and gas industry a ‘bad look’ for feds, say environmental advocates: ‘pick a lane’

Legislation

Canadians’ right to a healthy environment is already being tested

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

‘Survivors are waiting for it’: Sen. Boyer reintroduces bill to criminalize forced, coerced sterilizations

Senate passes Bloc’s supply management bill on division as ex-diplomat warns law will ‘handicap’ negotiators

Public Service

‘We should be embracing change’: federal public servants more likely to have jobs exposed to AI, study finds

From power corridors to fiction world: former deputy minister Sheikh pens second novel

Thousands respond to false message promoting 1,400 jobs with Department of National Defence

Our bilingual character is threatened, but by whom?

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