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Canada should focus on fixes, not fights, during Biden visit: Tory MP

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • President Joe Biden will be the first American president to visit Ottawa since 2016.
U.S. President Joe Biden, centre, was last in Ottawa when he was vice-president at the tail end of the Obama administration on Dec. 8, 2016. The Hill Times file photograph

Canada should focus on fixes, not fights, during Biden visit: Tory MP

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • President Joe Biden will be the first American president to visit Ottawa since 2016.

Canada should focus on fixes, not fights, during Biden visit: Tory MP

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • President Joe Biden will be the first American president to visit Ottawa since 2016.
U.S. President Joe Biden, centre, was last in Ottawa when he was vice-president at the tail end of the Obama administration on Dec. 8, 2016. The Hill Times file photograph

THE LATEST

A ‘more challenging and volatile’ world: Russia, China, U.S. top of mind for top 50 foreign policy influencers

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosted European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on March 7 in West Block. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
NewsBY NEIL MOSS, CHELSEA NASH
  • The Hill Times spoke with more than a dozen current and former government officials, analysts, and insiders. They weigh in on who has influence on Canada's foreign policy.

A ‘more challenging and volatile’ world: Russia, China, U.S. top of mind for top 50 foreign policy influencers

NewsBY NEIL MOSS, CHELSEA NASH
  • The Hill Times spoke with more than a dozen current and former government officials, analysts, and insiders. They weigh in on who has influence

Conservative rhetoric on safe consumption sites plays dangerous game with toxic drug crisis: NDP critic

NewsBY STUART BENSON
  • Poilievre's plan to sue pharmaceutical companies is 'no silver bullet' to a 'complex issue that requires a multifaceted response' to keep Canadians alive until they can seek treatment, says NDP MP Gord Johns.
  • Poilievre's plan to sue pharmaceutical companies is 'no silver bullet' to a 'complex issue that requires a multifaceted response' to keep Canadians alive until

Wellington Street reopening date still up in the air

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT
  • Planning to reopen the street and install temporary bike lanes ‘is nearing completion and staff are now in the process of developing an implementation plan,’ says the city’s traffic services director.
  • Planning to reopen the street and install temporary bike lanes ‘is nearing completion and staff are now in the process of developing an implementation
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Politics This Morning: Ex-PM Clark digs into Global Affairs

  • Plus, Conservatives gather for the conference formerly known as Manning.

OPINION & COLUMNISTS

In a bid to serve his country, Johnston has entered a political cage match

  • Given the moment we are in, David Johnston should have avoided putting his hand up to serve. But he also doesn’t deserve some of the harsh criticism he is receiving.
Opinion

It’s populism or bust as Poilievre vies to bring Canada its own Trumpian moment

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NEWS

He won't be making the case himself, but lawyers under Attorney General David Lametti will argue before the Supreme Court today as it weighs the constitutionality of the federal impact assessment law. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Politics This Morning: Alberta vs. Canada at the SCC

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW
  • Plus, a briefing on the protection of residential school graves.

Politics This Morning: Alberta vs. Canada at the SCC

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW
  • Plus, a briefing on the protection of residential school graves.
The Politics and the Pen gala held inside the Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel ballroom in May 2022. Cynthia Münster

Top 30 consultant lobbyists with highest number of communications in 2022

ListBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Top 21 most-lobbied public office-holders in 2022

ListBY STEPHEN JEFFERY
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HILL LIFE & PEOPLE

Parliamentary Calendar

Canada Strong and Free opens three-day annual conference on March 22

Podcast

The MP whose riding disappeared

Inside Directories 2023

HILL LIFE & PEOPLE

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May will deliver Carleton University's 2023 Bell Lecture on March 30. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Green Party leader to explore alternate reality if government heeded climate warnings in March 30 lecture

FeatureBY MIKE LAPOINTE
  • Plus, award-winning journalist Anna Maria Tremonti to be the keynote speaker at World Press Freedom Canada's annual World Press Freedom Day, and former Liberal MPs Maryam Monsef and Matt DeCourcey welcome new baby son.

Green Party leader to explore alternate reality if government heeded climate warnings in March 30 lecture

FeatureBY MIKE LAPOINTE
  • Plus, award-winning journalist Anna Maria Tremonti to be the keynote speaker at World Press Freedom Canada's annual World Press Freedom Day, and former Liberal MPs Maryam Monsef and Matt DeCourcey welcome new baby son.
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POLITICS

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau triggered the last election nearly two years ago, citing Parliament becoming toxic and dysfunctional as one of the reasons to do so. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Is the Liberals’ House Affairs Committee filibuster a crack in this minority Parliament?

OpinionBY EDITORIAL
  • A dysfunctional Parliament that gets bogged down in games of parliamentary procedure doesn't likely have a long lifespan.

Is the Liberals’ House Affairs Committee filibuster a crack in this minority Parliament?

OpinionBY EDITORIAL
  • A dysfunctional Parliament that gets bogged down in games of parliamentary procedure doesn't likely have a long lifespan.

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OPINION & COLUMNISTS

Feds should use upcoming budget to defend, not defund, the CBC

OpinionBY MARLA BOLTMAN
  • Alongside sustainable funding, we need legislation to guard against a quiet, uncontested end to the CBC with the mere stroke of Prime Minister Poilievre’s pen or a reversal of budgetary priorities.
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EDITORIAL CARTOON BY DE ADDER

  • de Adder’s Take: 03-22-2023
  • de Adder’s Take: 03-20-2023
  • de Adder’s Take: 03-15-2023

Environment & Climate Change

COP 27 and a glass half full

  • After the inevitable all-night negotiations at the United Nations climate conference, countries managed to agree on a new fund that will recompense poor countries that suffer 'loss and damage' from extreme climate events.

FOREIGN POLICY

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Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured in a Hill scrum. In her much-publicized Washington speech on Oct. 11, 2022, she endorsed the misguided and dangerous American policy that would divide the world into competing blocs—democracies versus autocracies—as the organizing system for the future, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

What the world needs now is multilateral reform

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE
  • Chrystia Freeland should pay attention to the warnings of Kevin Rudd, the former Australian prime minister and now Australian ambassador to the United States. 'We have entered a new, uncharted era where there are, as yet, no new rules of the road. China has reached a similar conclusion. The time has therefore come to craft some new ones before it’s too late.'

What the world needs now is multilateral reform

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE
  • Chrystia Freeland should pay attention to the warnings of Kevin Rudd, the former Australian prime minister and now Australian ambassador to the United States. 'We have entered a new, uncharted era where there are, as yet, no new rules of the road. China has reached a similar conclusion. The time has therefore come to craft some new ones before it’s too late.'

BOOKS, BIG IDEAS, Q&As

Flavio Volpe lobbies and advocates on behalf of Canada's autoparts manufacturers. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Project Arrow and the switch to electric vehicles: a Q&A with Flavio Volpe

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW
  • The head of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association weighs in on the switch to zero-emission vehicles.

Project Arrow and the switch to electric vehicles: a Q&A with Flavio Volpe

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW
  • The head of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association weighs in on the switch to zero-emission vehicles.

Bill Fox digs into how social media, online journalism have completely transformed the way we do politics

FeatureBY CHRISTOPHER DORNAN
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Policy

Policy

Grocery Code of Conduct to address transparency in agri-food industry set for April release

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT
  • The federal government received a draft of the code in late 2022, following more than a year of negotiations between industry groups representing farmers, national retail chains, independent grocers and food processors.
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude-Bibeau, pictured on the Hill, said a grocery code of conduct will help make Canada’s food supply chain more resilient by enhancing transparency and predictability. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Grocery Code of Conduct to address transparency in agri-food industry set for April release

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT
  • The federal government received a draft of the code in late 2022, following more than a year of negotiations between industry groups representing farmers, national retail chains, independent grocers and food processors.