Lobbying

Budget 2024 provides key themes for advocacy strategies in advance of anticipated election budget, says lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Stakeholders unfulfilled by this year’s budget are ‘never going to get a more receptive time with an opposition [party], especially a potential government in waiting, than right now,' says Cam Holmstrom of Niipaawi Strategies.

Budget 2024 provides key themes for advocacy strategies in advance of anticipated election budget, says lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Stakeholders unfulfilled by this year’s budget are ‘never going to get a more receptive time with an opposition [party], especially a potential government in waiting, than right now,' says Cam Holmstrom of Niipaawi Strategies.

Beef farmers seek exemption from federal carbon price in March dominated by environment lobbying

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Poilievre’s communication record shows corporate lobbyists shouldn’t panic, say lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Democracy Watch wants lobbying commissioner’s office to probe firm with links to top Conservative adviser Jenni Byrne

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

First phase of pharmacare must not ‘create new gaps’ in existing coverage, say lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Transforming cancer care through the Pan-Canadian Cancer Data Strategy

Environment lobby in February focused on plastics pollution, oil and gas emissions cap

BY JESSE CNOCKAERT

News

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Lobbyists in 2024: looming federal election and lingering virtual comms contribute to dynamic advocacy

BY JESSE CNOCKAERT AND SERGIY SLIPCHENKO

Opinion

It’s time the government kicks Big Oil out of the climate conversation

BY EMILIA BELLIVEAU

Procurement ombud’s report reveals discrepancies in ArriveCan’s $54-million contract

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Mandatory criteria used in ArriveCan application procurement were 'overly restrictive' and 'favoured' GC Strategies Inc. as an existing CBSA supplier, which led to the awarding of a $25-million contract to the company in the centre of misconduct allegations.

Procurement ombud’s report reveals discrepancies in ArriveCan’s $54-million contract

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Mandatory criteria used in ArriveCan application procurement were 'overly restrictive' and 'favoured' GC Strategies Inc. as an existing CBSA supplier, which led to the awarding of a $25-million contract to the company in the centre of misconduct allegations.

Federal procurement already feeling blowback from ArriveCan scandal, say experts

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Liberal talk of provincial clawbacks a tactic to distract from ‘insultingly low’ disability benefit, say advocates

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Liberal budget comms ‘a miss’ at catching young voters, unlikely to achieve ‘narrative shift,’ say pollsters

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Canada Should Lead in the Circular Economy

Justice Hogue to deliver interim inquiry report May 3

Podcast

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

feature

The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books of 2023

List

Cabinet’s communications and chiefs of staff list, 2024

Podcast

Jane Philpott on how to fix health care

Environment advocacy dominates in record-breaking 2023 for lobbying

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Draft regulations of the Liberal government's oil and gas emissions cap are expected to be published in mid-2024.

Environment advocacy dominates in record-breaking 2023 for lobbying

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Draft regulations of the Liberal government's oil and gas emissions cap are expected to be published in mid-2024.

High prices, lack of charging infrastructure must be addressed to accommodate 100 per cent zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035, say auto industry reps

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

High prices, lack of charging infrastructure must be addressed to accommodate 100 per cent zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035, say auto industry reps

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Agriculture sector to push hard for unamended passing of carbon tax exemption bill for farmers in 2024

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Agriculture sector to push hard for unamended passing of carbon tax exemption bill for farmers in 2024

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Environment lobbying leads in October in advance of feds’ anticipated oil and gas cap

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Environment lobbying leads in October in advance of feds’ anticipated oil and gas cap

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Parliamentary Calendar

Environment commissioner to release five audits on April 30

Podcast

Should political parties be exempt from privacy laws?

feature

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

List

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

Podcast

The online hate speech bill, with Justice Minister Arif Virani

Gun control and affordability legislation provides much-needed ‘arrow in the quiver’ for Liberals going into 2024, say political strategists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Bills that received royal assent on Dec. 15 as the House wrapped up its work for 2023 include Bill C-21, the Liberals’ gun control legislation; and Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act.

Gun control and affordability legislation provides much-needed ‘arrow in the quiver’ for Liberals going into 2024, say political strategists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Bills that received royal assent on Dec. 15 as the House wrapped up its work for 2023 include Bill C-21, the Liberals’ gun control legislation; and Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act.

Contracting controversies not yet a political pain point for the Liberals, but could develop, say politicos

NewsBY IREM KOCA

‘Vague’ decision by ethics office in conflict of interest case needs more details to guide MPs going forward, say public law experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Vehicle armour firm leads economic development advocacy in September

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

‘Over-prudent’ Breakfast Club of Canada removes hundreds of superfluous lobbying reports

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Provisional changes to ethics rules allow greater job mobility for reporting public office holders

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Interim ethics commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein has reinterpreted the definition of an 'entity' in the post-employment rules, allowing for smoother transitions between government departments.

Provisional changes to ethics rules allow greater job mobility for reporting public office holders

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Interim ethics commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein has reinterpreted the definition of an 'entity' in the post-employment rules, allowing for smoother transitions between government departments.