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A unified front for climate equity

OpinionBY LINDA NOWLAN

Federal elected officials and staff can inspire action at all levels of governance through a commitment to equity and justice in every aspect of climate policy.

A unified front for climate equity

OpinionBY LINDA NOWLAN

Federal elected officials and staff can inspire action at all levels of governance through a commitment to equity and justice in every aspect of climate policy.

Bill C-29 an attack on Inuit self-determination

OpinionBY NATAN OBED

A structured, predictable, and transparent approach to seizing Russian state assets to help Ukraine

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR RATNA OMIDVAR

Canada’s pledged forced labour bill should follow U.S. example banning Xinjiang imports, says Uyghur advocate

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Let’s improve our understanding of how we nominate candidates, and pass S-283

OpinionBY JEANETTE ASHE, TRACEY RANEY

Internet freedom can co-exist with child protection

OpinionBY ANU GEORGE CANJANATHOPPIL, JOHN TANAGHO

Farmers facing head winds investing in new migrant worker housing

Space systems are too important to leave unprotected against cyber attack

BY PAUL MEYER

Opinion

Time to act on Canada Disability Benefit promise

BY RENZE NAUTA, ANDREAE SENNYAH

Opinion

Pharmacare bill offers too much ambiguity and too little ambition

BY CHRIS BONNETT

Canadian writers, visual artists, and publishers need copyright reform now

OpinionBY JACK ILLINGWORTH, GENEVIèVE LAUZON

Collective licensing has been severely eroded over the last decade in Canada. Continued inaction by the government only serves to legitimize a growing culture of taking without paying.

Canadian writers, visual artists, and publishers need copyright reform now

OpinionBY JACK ILLINGWORTH, GENEVIèVE LAUZON

Collective licensing has been severely eroded over the last decade in Canada. Continued inaction by the government only serves to legitimize a growing culture of taking without paying.

Liberal MP Carr says it’s hard to reach voters in current media landscape, while Tory MP Rempel Garner welcomes the changes

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

CBSA’s access-to-information woes continue with 12,000 requests inaccessible, requestors encouraged to resubmit

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Once a strategy, later a framework, Canada now unwilling to define Africa engagement rethink

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Income security cannot wait: it’s time to support Bill S-233

OpinionBY TRACY SMITH-CARRIER, LAUREN TOUCHANT, CHRIS HERGESHEIMER

Parliamentary Calendar

Ministers Rodriguez, Khera host inaugural Air Accessibility Summit in Ottawa on May 9

Podcast

MP Scott Reid: The House rules

feature

The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books of 2023

List

Cabinet’s communications and chiefs of staff list, 2024

Podcast

Fixing family medicine, Part 2, with Dr. Kathleen Ross

Don’t experiment with First Nations’ rights

OpinionBY JASON BATISE

First Nations are entitled to ensure the federal government isn’t creating illegitimate groups simply for its own political reasons through Bill C-53.

Don’t experiment with First Nations’ rights

OpinionBY JASON BATISE

First Nations are entitled to ensure the federal government isn’t creating illegitimate groups simply for its own political reasons through Bill C-53.

Privacy and AI bill needs ‘right balance,’ and to pass in time for next federal election, says Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

AI bill ‘democratically illegitimate’ and litigation ‘likely’ without proper consultations, say AFN, civil society orgs

NewsBY STUART BENSON

New Democrat bid to snuff out oil and gas advertising sparks backlash from provincial counterparts, Indigenous partners

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Listen to those who’ve fought in the mental-health trenches on MAID

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

Free speech just as free, but safer with Online Harms Act

OpinionBY HARVEY GOLDBERG

Senate bill seeking to criminalize forced sterilizations raises concerns over unintended consequences

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Parliamentary Calendar

India’s high commissioner to Canada to deliver speech to Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on May 7

Podcast

Jane Philpott on how to fix health care

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

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U.S. election preoccupies Canada’s top 50 foreign influencers as feds’ focus gets pulled from Asia strategy

Podcast

Should political parties be exempt from privacy laws?

Wake up the Scrutiny of Regulations Committee—the rule of law is at stake

OpinionBY PENNY BECKLUMB

The joint Scrutiny of Regulations Committee’s lack of review in recent years and its reluctance to take any kind of effective action amount to a dereliction of duty, and a failure to protect the civil rights of Canadians.

Wake up the Scrutiny of Regulations Committee—the rule of law is at stake

OpinionBY PENNY BECKLUMB

The joint Scrutiny of Regulations Committee’s lack of review in recent years and its reluctance to take any kind of effective action amount to a dereliction of duty, and a failure to protect the civil rights of Canadians.

Online Harms Act a ‘step in the right direction,’ but social justice and civil society advocates united in commendation and concern

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Métis Nation of Ontario’s attempt to gain self-government recognition is not right

OpinionBY CLEM CHARTIER

New bill pushes for accountability from platforms that won’t police themselves

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

We don’t let children access porn offline. Why do we allow it online?

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR JULIE MIVILLE-DECHêNE, JOCELYN MONSMA SELBY, MARIANNE WILKINSON

MAID expansion advocates have wrongly appropriated the abortion debate

OpinionBY ISABEL GRANT, TRUDO LEMMENS

Abortion rights enable women to thrive in a society where they have historically faced inequality and access to safe abortions saves women’s lives. Track 2 medical assistance in dying ends the lives of disabled people, and disproportionately those of women. MAID for mental illness is not a disability right.

MAID expansion advocates have wrongly appropriated the abortion debate

OpinionBY ISABEL GRANT, TRUDO LEMMENS

Abortion rights enable women to thrive in a society where they have historically faced inequality and access to safe abortions saves women’s lives. Track 2 medical assistance in dying ends the lives of disabled people, and disproportionately those of women. MAID for mental illness is not a disability right.