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Ontario national councillor Mitas expected to challenge Barber for Conservative Party presidency

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• Senior Conservative sources tell The Hill Times that current party president Stephen Barber and Christina Mitas have been strategizing and reaching out to potential supporters ahead of the national council election at the end of this month.

Ontario national councillor Mitas expected to challenge Barber for Conservative Party presidency

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• Senior Conservative sources tell The Hill Times that current party president Stephen Barber and Christina Mitas have been strategizing and reaching out to potential supporters ahead of the national council election at the end of this month.

Liberal MPs shrug off Trump’s latest tariff threat if Canada pursues trade agreement with China

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Lack of pre-sitting cabinet shuffle doesn’t take it off the table for the winter, say political strategists

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Public service watchdog sounds alarm over funding shortfall to investigate whistleblower complaints

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Liberals ‘taking a sledgehammer’ to the public service, says interim NDP leader Davies

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Who’s backing the NDP leadership contenders?

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

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Experts say 6G networks still years away, but Canada’s already preparing for the technology of the future

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Public service job cuts will be ‘minimal’ in procurement and contracting roles, says PSPC

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CBC says bureau expansion will address ‘news deserts,’ despite concerns from local media outlets

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

NewsBY IREM KOCA

• IRCC says the measures that allowed 2023 earthquake survivors to stay in Canada were intended to be temporary, but many of those from hometowns that were decimated are looking for a 'fair' and 'reasonable' pathway to continue the lives they've built in this country.

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

NewsBY IREM KOCA

• IRCC says the measures that allowed 2023 earthquake survivors to stay in Canada were intended to be temporary, but many of those from hometowns that were decimated are looking for a 'fair' and 'reasonable' pathway to continue the lives they've built in this country.

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

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Senators renew push to see their pensions become funded

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Leaked PMO travel advisory tests fragile trust with press gallery as ‘universal respect’ still found lacking, say journos

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

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Balsillie School for International Affairs hosts lecture on President Trump’s trade policies and upcoming CUSMA review on Jan. 22

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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

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Tracking job cuts in the federal public service

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Re-engaging with China, with Senator Yuen Pau Woo

Big-name staffers steal candidate spotlight as B.C. Conservative leadership race takes shape

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• Pollster Shachi Kurl warns Ottawa against over-reading staffing tea leaves as 'outsider' Caroline Elliott's star-studded campaign team competed with her official B.C. Conservative leadership launch last week.

Big-name staffers steal candidate spotlight as B.C. Conservative leadership race takes shape

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• Pollster Shachi Kurl warns Ottawa against over-reading staffing tea leaves as 'outsider' Caroline Elliott's star-studded campaign team competed with her official B.C. Conservative leadership launch last week.

CUSMA review approaching, but mechanism remains murky

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

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‘If not now, when?’ Canada should ‘stand up’ to U.S. threats against Greenland, say Senators, ex-MP McKay

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

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‘Stark contrast’ between Carney and Trudeau’s approach to Indigenous relations, says ITK president Obed

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‘We’re in real trouble’: Carney faces historic crisis amid trade war, U.S. annexation threat, and two potential separatist referendums, say politicos

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Parliamentary Calendar

Former CSIS director Vigneault to talk about national defence, economic security at CDAI roundtable on Jan. 28 in Montreal

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

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

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

PHAC says creating national vaccination registry would be ‘difficult’ as Canada contends with high measles count, loss of measles-free status

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• The Canadian Medical Association wants to see a national registry while the Canadian Public Health Association says the feds should provide funds to provinces and territories specifically to improve the availability of interoperable data.

PHAC says creating national vaccination registry would be ‘difficult’ as Canada contends with high measles count, loss of measles-free status

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• The Canadian Medical Association wants to see a national registry while the Canadian Public Health Association says the feds should provide funds to provinces and territories specifically to improve the availability of interoperable data.

Conservative national council confirms Kurek as candidate in Battle River-Crowfoot, Poilievre to run in a different riding in next election

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‘A catalyst for change’: MPs bullish on Heated Rivalry’s impact on Canadian hockey culture

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Scientists rally against coming job cuts as notices hit desks across the public service

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‘Very few truly understand how it currently works’: procurement watchdog puts defence contracting under microscope

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Opposition MPs, media veterans call for ‘long overdue’ CBC mandate review

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• A source familiar with government deliberations expects Ottawa will move forward with a review later this year, while stakeholders wait impatiently for the mandate’s first update in nearly 35 years. Meanwhile, CBC announced it will hire 33 reporters to populate new and pre-existing local newsrooms, and will offer local news coverage in 77 localities across the country.

Opposition MPs, media veterans call for ‘long overdue’ CBC mandate review

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

• A source familiar with government deliberations expects Ottawa will move forward with a review later this year, while stakeholders wait impatiently for the mandate’s first update in nearly 35 years. Meanwhile, CBC announced it will hire 33 reporters to populate new and pre-existing local newsrooms, and will offer local news coverage in 77 localities across the country.

Legault’s resignation leaves ‘a big vacuum’ as Quebec gears up for an election amid two leadership races, say politicos

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Legault’s resignation leaves ‘a big vacuum’ as Quebec gears up for an election amid two leadership races, say politicos

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‘Anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops’: ‘Enshittification’ author issues stark warning to Ottawa over AI policy

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‘Anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops’: ‘Enshittification’ author issues stark warning to Ottawa over AI policy

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‘Who do you remain loyal to?’: courting Bay Street talent to Major Projects Office invites conflict-of-interest ‘tension,’ says expert

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‘Who do you remain loyal to?’: courting Bay Street talent to Major Projects Office invites conflict-of-interest ‘tension,’ says expert

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Politics This Morning

Day two in Quebec City

Carney leads cabinet retreat in Quebec City

Carney to miss Trump’s meeting with foreign leaders in Davos

Simon meets Sheinbaum

COVID-19

CUSMA must do more than protect trade—it must secure Canada’s life sciences future

Union raises alarm over pending Public Health Agency job cuts

Forest fire travel ban backlash demonstrates lack of investment in trust post-COVID, says public health expert

Canada’s next top doctor must be a ‘focal point’ for public health amid changes in the U.S., concerns about next pandemic

Election

Conservatives outspent Liberals by $1.2-million during the 2025 election

Next year ‘an important one for Quebec’ as possibility of referendum looms, say Bloc MP, politicos

‘A platform to raise my voice’: youth activism at the centre of Sen. McPhedran’s Vote16 bill

Conservatives float electoral reform to combat ‘political prank’ protest group from flooding ballots with names

Politics

McPherson’s NDP leadership bid secures most ex-MP support, but Lewis nabs only caucus nod

Political numbers that matter in 2026

Canada’s economic, security, and environmental interests have never been more challenged

After a year of inaction, the Carney Liberals must show up for work in 2026

Foreign Policy

One Danish soldier

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

‘We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition’: Carney tells World Economic Forum

Albanian embassy marks national day

Finance and Budget

Canada’s green jobs strategy needs more than good intentions

Canada now needs a backup plan for our auto industry

Health organizations have questions, but few answers about feds’ new $5-billion Health Infrastructure Fund

Women entrepreneurs are a crucial asset for Canada’s economy, they deserve a voice in shaping it

Lobbying

Libya was a warning, Venezuela is the test

‘It’s like molasses in January’: pharmacare implementation stalled, say health-care groups, but others argue time needed to get deals right

Canada’s auto sector ‘hangs in the balance’ as CUSMA review looms in 2026: ‘there’s no sugar-coating it, this is going to be a critical year for the industry’

Joly top-lobbied minister in November, universities push to attract research talent driven away from U.S.

Legislation

Artificial action: feds offering tepid response to AI abuse

Canada’s reliance on U.S. health data under spotlight after federal health minister says she ‘cannot trust’ American vaccine policy

Off to a bad start: Treasury Board already wants to make access to information worse

We need to go beyond criminal law reform to end gender-based violence

Public Service

Nearly 2,000 jobs and $1.5-billion to be cut across five departments by 2030, PBO analysis shows

Public servants under pressure to enact ‘delivery-and-execution agenda’ in 2026 with job cuts on the horizon

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

Deputy minister shuffle sees shakeup to Privy Council Office, nine new leaders in key roles

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