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Canada ‘isolated’ as most nations rebuff retaliatory tariffs on America, says former CUSMA negotiator Verheul

Foreign PolicyBY NEIL MOSS

• Only Canada and China have chosen to impose counter levies in response to American tariffs.

Public transit can’t wait for politics to catch up

Infrastructure and TransportBY MARCO D’ANGELO

Canada’s talent dilemma: how to win the global innovation and technology race

InnovationBY JATIN NATHWANI, MUNUR SACIT HERDEM

Cost of living, housing the top priority for young voters, not Trump

Election 2025BY ELEANOR WAND

Unlocking the economic potential in Canada’s lands, forests, and waters

EnvironmentBY JASON RASEVYCH, MICHAEL TWIGG, SHAUGHN MCARTHUR

Poilievre can win votes by exploiting Liberal foreign policy failures 

Foreign PolicyBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

Experts urge parties to rethink immigration priorities

Election 2025BY KATRYA BOLGER

Modernizing EI: an imperative in this era of uncertainty

Election 2025BY DIANE BELLEMARE

Canada needs a national strategy for security, trade, and economy to contend with Trump, say political science experts

Defence & SecurityBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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UN disability rights report on assisted-dying regime deserves a fair hearing

HealthBY CATHERINE FRAZEE

• Canadians deserve to know that our political party leaders will take seriously the report calling for reforms to the medical assistance in dying regime

Conservatives target labour vote as NDP support wanes, but union leader says there’s ‘no substance’ behind catchy slogans

Election 2025BY IREM KOCA

Ottawa Treaty crucially important to reinforcing Canada’s resolve and protecting civilian lives

Foreign PolicyBY LLOYD AXWORTHY, LOUISE ARBOUR

AFN election priority report urges parties to make ‘clear, firm’ pledges to First Nations

Election 2025BY RIDDHI KACHHELA

Tariffs ‘still devastating’ despite ‘reciprocal’ reprieve, says Senator on Canada-U.S. council

Election 2025BY NEIL MOSS

Arctic security takes spotlight as Canadian sovereignty remains key campaign issue

Defence & SecurityBY SERGIY SLIPCHENKO

Health security must be recognized as a pillar of national security

Defence & SecurityBY SENATOR REBECCA PATTERSON, SENATOR KRISTA ANN ROSS, SENATOR MARY ROBINSON, SENATOR FLORDELIZ (GIGI) OSLER

More needed to protect communities from rail disasters

Infrastructure and TransportBY NDP MP TAYLOR BACHRACH

Why retaliatory tariffs could cost lives and what we should do instead

Foreign PolicyBY JASON FIELD

AGRICULTURE

Canada-U.S. farm ties in jeopardy

OpinionBY ASIM BISWAS

Digesting the need to eliminate internal trade barriers on food

OpinionBY JACQUES J.M. SHORE, SUZANNE SABOURIN

We need to build back Canada’s agricultural future

OpinionBY CONSERVATIVE MP JOHN BARLOW

Canada must step up support for farmers and their critical role in climate mitigation and adaptation

OpinionBY NDP MP RICHARD CANNINGS

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Biotechnology

Canada needs to catch up in the biotech sector

OpinionBY NDP MP RICHARD CANNINGS

Unlocking Canada’s greatest economic potential: life sciences

OpinionBY ALISON SYMINGTON, JASON FIELD

Canada’s biotech carpe diem

OpinionBY ANDREW CASEY

Harnessing the power of Canada’s growing biotechnology industry: a perspective from the West

OpinionBY STEPHANIE WILLERTH

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

This isn’t the ‘Whisky War’: in defence of Greenland and Denmark

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

We, the media, haven’t done enough to explain how devastating foreign interference can be for individual Canadians

OpinionBY MATT GURNEY

Trump-led U.S. an ‘unreliable partner’ for Canada, says expert group: ‘we’re dealing with an administration that doesn’t believe our country has a right to exist’

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

Carney is clearly the most qualified candidate to take on Trump  

OpinionBY MICHAEL HARRIS

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Environment

Trump: a suite of global dangers

OpinionBY BILL HENDERSON

Electrify everything!

OpinionBY GREEN PARTY LEADER ELIZABETH MAY

Trade war could ‘upend’ EV sector, Canada must argue for integrated market, says CEO of vehicle manufacturing group

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

A free, mobile, and caring Canada, you say?  

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

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FINANCE

Alberta Premier Smith calls retaliatory tariffs ‘most harmful’ to Canadian business, wants CUSMA negotiation after federal election

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada’s productivity is declining. So how do we fix it?

OpinionBY JOSEPH INGRAM

The world waits to see how long Trump’s attack on the global economy can last

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Grits lead in polls for new Canadians’ support, but Tories can still gain traction as loyalties remain up for grabs, say researchers

NewsBY IREM KOCA

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Fisheries and oceans

B.C. suit says feds used consultations to justify ‘bad-faith’ Discovery Island salmon farming ban

NewsBY STUART BENSON

To protect nature, Canada must ratify the High Seas Treaty

OpinionBY SUSANNA FULLER

Feds’ plan for fish-farm transition no catch, say wild salmon, industry advocates

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Reconciliation that works for all in Canada’s fisheries

OpinionBY GENNA CAREY

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FOREIGN POLICY

Liberals’ lead could change if domestic concerns surpass U.S. tensions, says pundits, pollster

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Rediscovering the Commonwealth foreign policy

OpinionBY MICHAEL W. MANULAK

Here’s the best strategy Carney can follow negotiating with Trump

OpinionBY ERROL MENDES

Trump threatens Canada’s bilingual and cultural foundations

OpinionBY ALIONKA SKUP

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health

Renewed resolve: commit to DEI principles to advance health equity

OpinionBY NNAMDI NDUBUKA, JULIE SOBOWALE

Pharma, tech giants complained of Canada’s drug pricing system, digital service tax to U.S. trade rep

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

If you think that assisted dying in Canada is a mess, think again

OpinionBY JAMES DOWNAR AND JOCELYN DOWNIE

Seizing the moment to grow Canada’s biomedical research enterprise as the U.S. falters

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR STANLEY KUTCHER, JOHN BERGERON, KATHLEEN DICKSON

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Industry and Manufacturing

Future-proofing our manufacturing sector

OpinionBY GREG MOFFATT

Sister cities under strain: U.S. steel tariffs threaten to divide Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., from its American twin city

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

Manufacturing sector and others lobbying hard for federal government support during 30-day tariff pause

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Strong ‘political will’ provides ‘catalyst’ to breakdown stubborn internal trade barriers, says Anand

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

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infrastructure and transport

Navigating uncertainty: telecom’s essential role in securing Canada’s future

OpinionBY ROBERT GHIZ

So, we all agree on what needs to happen next: let’s talk about how to get it done

OpinionBY RODRIGUE GILBERT

Building infrastructure to withstand the effects of climate change

OpinionBY JOSEPH DARAIO

Canada can solidify its position as a global trade leader by modernizing infrastructure

OpinionBY HOSSEIN BONAKDARI

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innovation

Beyond Trump’s tariffs: return of geoeconomics and Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy

OpinionBY DAVID ABONYI, GEORGE ABONYI

Science under pressure: a call to action

OpinionBY MONA NEMER, RéMI QUIRION

Critical mineral processing will protect Canada’s EV industry

OpinionBY TRAVIS SOUTHIN, DEREK EATON, SOSTHèNE UNG

Moving forward with Canada’s EV transition requires a holistic approach

OpinionBY SHELDON WILLIAMSON

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intergovernmental

A wrong is a wrong is a wrong: new CAQ bills attack minorities

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

The West wants out? That’s not how this works

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

Liberals could pick up five to six seats in Alberta, but NDP’s bleed in votes could also help Conservatives, say strategists

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

In rural Quebec, the wave looks red

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

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justice

Historic ‘Indian hospitals’ settlement a step forward for Canada

OpinionBY SOLOMON REECE

Black Justice Strategy’s 10-year plan ‘too little, too late,’ says NDP MP Green

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Time for Canada to step up as a human rights world leader

OpinionBY ODETTE MCCARTHY, JEAN-SéBASTIEN VALLéE

Top court could offer clarity on ‘open question’ of constitutional status of parliamentary privilege, say experts

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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Labour & employment

Anti-Black racism complaint bound for Canadian Human Rights Commission after court denies public service class action

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Let’s celebrate the Canada Disability Benefit—but it must be strengthened

OpinionBY RABIA KHEDR, ISG SENATOR CHANTAL PETITCLERC

Are unions braced for the storm ahead?

OpinionBY STéPHANE LACROIX

‘Don’t make us compare you to Elon Musk’: public sector unions want job security assurances from feds as election looms

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

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Lobbying

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

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT AND SERGIY SLIPCHENKO

Mexico and the U.S. play rough with public records and information regulators. What about Canada?

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

Trade tensions with U.S. motivate economic lobbying in January

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Taiwan the top destination in quieter year for MPs’ sponsored travel

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

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natural resources and energy

Canada’s next move starts a few thousand feet below the ground

OpinionBY ALEX GRECO

Trump’s tariff barrage roils Canadian energy world

OpinionBY SHAWN MCCARTHY

What is suddenly, painfully clear: we need to get our own economic house in order

OpinionBY JAY KHOSLA, ARASH GOLSHAN

Hydrogen sector development: are we really on the right track?

OpinionBY IBRAHIM DINCER

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Invisible work: the unseen labour that powers Canada

OpinionBY LISE COURTEAU

Why gender parity matters in cabinet

OpinionBY ELIZABETH MCCALLION, REBECCA WALLACE

Carney’s cabinet a step backwards in the dark

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Incoming senator Tony Ince talks liberation from party apparatus, ‘whirlwind’ first days

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

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Indigenous Relations

Questions that should be asked at the political leaders’ debates

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Pen to paper: recent letter of intent formalizes plan to create Indigenous Peoples Space

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

The ‘artificial border’ and how it can be corrected

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Understanding the policy implications of Canada’s ‘hidden energy communities’

OpinionBY JULIE MACARTHUR, EMMANUEL ACKOM

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