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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

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

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

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Make federal funding permanent for Canada’s suicide crisis helpline, say Conservative and NDP critics

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Health workforce, toxic drug crisis on health critics’ agendas this winter

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

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

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

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

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Who’s backing the NDP leadership contenders?

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

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

• Leading researchers believe 6G technology could be the key to unlocking high-speed cell service in every corner of the country.

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

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

• Leading researchers believe 6G technology could be the key to unlocking high-speed cell service in every corner of the country.

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

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

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

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

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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

Senators renew push to see their pensions become funded

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

• In a recent letter, the Senate Internal Economy Committee asked the Treasury Board president to revisit the idea of switching the pension plan so that it's funded by both employee and employer contributions, as well as investment earnings.

Senators renew push to see their pensions become funded

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

• In a recent letter, the Senate Internal Economy Committee asked the Treasury Board president to revisit the idea of switching the pension plan so that it's funded by both employee and employer contributions, as well as investment earnings.

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

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CUSMA review approaching, but mechanism remains murky

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

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

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND, MARLO GLASS

Parliamentary Calendar

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

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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

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

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

• Canada is at serious risk in 2026 from the 'political revolution' currently underway in the U.S., and there is likely no scenario where Canada and the U.S. will return to a trade relationship like before the current trade war.

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

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

• Canada is at serious risk in 2026 from the 'political revolution' currently underway in the U.S., and there is likely no scenario where Canada and the U.S. will return to a trade relationship like before the current trade war.

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

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

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

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

• The Crave television sensation about two closeted male hockey players has reached viewers across the globe—but MPs say they think the show’s most important effects will be felt close to home.

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

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

• The Crave television sensation about two closeted male hockey players has reached viewers across the globe—but MPs say they think the show’s most important effects will be felt close to home.

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

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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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‘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

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

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

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Politics This Morning

The West Block-ers reassemble 

Day two in Quebec City

Carney leads cabinet retreat in Quebec City

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

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

Conservative convention promises drama

Quebec: inhaling the ‘hopeium’ of the next ‘Mark Carney’

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

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

Foreign Policy

Going along to get along is over

Carney did in Davos what other world leaders should be doing: rebuking the U.S. bully

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

Learning a new dance for 2026

Finance and Budget

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

House winter session expected to be ‘very consequential’ with affordability issues, global trade, and possible referendums, say politicos

Canada’s green jobs strategy needs more than good intentions

Canada now needs a backup plan for our auto industry

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

The independent Senate in 2026: an anchor of stability

Return of Parliament: MPs should buckle up

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

Artificial action: feds offering tepid response to AI abuse

Public Service

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

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

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