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Indigenous Relations

How the Indigenous workforce can STEM the tide for the coming energy tsunami

OpinionBY JOHN DESJARLAIS

To meet labour needs, Indigenous workers—especially youth—must fill the jobs created in the coming decades. Better collaboration among government, industry, and educational institutions can help Indigenous students prepare for energy sector careers.

How the Indigenous workforce can STEM the tide for the coming energy tsunami

OpinionBY JOHN DESJARLAIS

To meet labour needs, Indigenous workers—especially youth—must fill the jobs created in the coming decades. Better collaboration among government, industry, and educational institutions can help Indigenous students prepare for energy sector careers.

Calls mount for the Arctic to make national-interest list with launch of Major Projects Office: there’s an ‘Achilles heel in the North’

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Air Canada mess is a lesson for government

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Cuts to Indigenous Services Canada sparking concerns of return to ‘Band-Aid solutions,’ and ‘mistakes of the past’

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

When will Canada embrace Indigenous-led wildfire solutions that we know work?

OpinionBY AMY CARDINAL CHRISTIANSON, CONROY SEWEPAGAHAM, FRANK BROWN

Natan Obed weighs in on the Major Projects law, Carney’s election, and what the North needs

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Bill C-5 is a turning point in Canadian history

OpinionBY GARY MERASTY

Crown-Indigenous Relations departmental plan raises questions about role in Liberals’ major projects push

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Creating a two-tiered Canada with budget cuts that divide by race

OpinionBY ANNE LEVESQUE

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Time for a public national first ministers’ meeting with First Nations

OpinionBY KYRA WILSON

This meeting cannot be symbolic. It must focus on First Nations priorities—not just federal and provincial talking points.

Time for a public national first ministers’ meeting with First Nations

OpinionBY KYRA WILSON

This meeting cannot be symbolic. It must focus on First Nations priorities—not just federal and provincial talking points.

Bill C-5 revealing itself as a Trojan horse designed to appease Alberta’s fossil fuel interests

OpinionBY JOHANNE WHITMORE, FRANçOIS DELORME

The path forward on reconciliation and building infrastructure

OpinionBY MARK QUINN, BILL SCHAPER, JAMIE CARROLL

Breaking through the invisible screen: removing hidden procurement barriers

OpinionBY SARAH JACKNIFE

Disorganization mars Bill C-5 summit, but progress possible if Liberals commit to consultation, chiefs say

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Canada Post being used to traffic drugs to First Nations in crisis

OpinionBY MICHAEL YELLOWBACK, ANGELA LEVASSEUR

Q&A | Ontario First Nations launch court challenge against law fast-tracking major projects

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

This time, ‘nation building’ must include Indigenous Peoples

OpinionBY DON KELLY

Bill C-5: RIP reconciliation?

OpinionBY DOREEN BARRIE

AGRICULTURE

Supply management works well for Canadians

OpinionBY BRUCE MUIRHEAD, JODEY NURSE

Pea and canola sector stress urgent action needed to resolve China trade dispute as harvest approaches

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada should eliminate its supply management system—with or without Trump

OpinionBY ALEX WHALEN, JAKE FUSS

Carney: don’t gamble with Canada’s food security

OpinionBY MILTON DYCK

Biotechnology

U.S. tariffs on pharmaceuticals could complicate an already complex supply chain

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

A different ‘philosophy’ steers new drug pricing guidelines, says top PMPRB bureaucrat after contentious path to rule changes

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

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

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

From momentum to leadership: securing Canada’s biotech future

OpinionBY WENDY ZATYLNY

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Canada, Europe, and NATO: a renewed commitment to shared security

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP STEPHEN FUHR

Look to C.D. Howe for lessons on defence procurement

OpinionBY JAMIE CARROLL

Canada’s defence pact with Indonesia a modest but necessary first step in the Indo-Pacific

OpinionBY JONATHAN BERKSHIRE MILLER

‘Putting people first’: new Veterans Minister McKnight readies for fall as advocates push for change

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Environment

Canada’s water security strategy starts with the Canada Water Agency

OpinionBY THOMAS S. AXWORTHY

A Liberal by the same name is not necessarily the same Liberal

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

Canada should not need more red flags to prepare for extreme weather

OpinionBY BLAIR FELTMATE

Canada overlooking a key aspect in adapting to climate change at our peril

OpinionBY JO-ELLEN PARRY

FINANCE

The return of the wildcat strike?

OpinionBY CARLO FANELLI

Any new industrial strategy must be an innovation strategy

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Canadian decision to remove counter-tariffs cautiously applauded by advocates, some economists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Ottawa must include small businesses in open banking from day one

OpinionBY ERIC SAUMURE

Fisheries and oceans

Q&A | Cod quota ‘pressure is enormous’ on fisheries minister

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Federal fish science analyses continue to muddy the waters in salmon farm fight

NewsBY STUART BENSON

The markets are hungry for Canadian cod. Will we deliver?

OpinionBY SYLVIE LAPOINTE

Oceans must take centre stage in nation-building projects

OpinionBY DEREK ARMITAGE, TREVOR SWERDFAGER

FOREIGN POLICY

The never-ending new lows of Donald Trump

OpinionBY MICHAEL HARRIS

America, Greenland, and upending the territorial status quo

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Canada’s deafening silence defending the International Criminal Court

OpinionBY MARK KERSTEN

Was Trump’s Alaska Summit his Chamberlain moment?

OpinionBY JOSEPH INGRAM

health

The quiet revolution to improve access to youth mental health care

OpinionBY ALEXA BAGNELL, DAVID GOLDBLOOM

A broken promise, yet again: Why Canada needs national pharmacare now

OpinionBY BERNARD HO

One year in, Canada’s nicotine pouch ban still defies public health logic

OpinionBY FRANK SILVA

While we build a nation, let’s not forget the children who will inherit it

OpinionBY ANDREW REDDIN

Industry and Manufacturing

Carney was talking about Canada’s productivity problem in 2010. It’s now his job to fix it.

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Feds need to ‘rethink’ industrial benefits policy and refocus on defence capabilities, say former senior officials: it ‘needs to evolve’

NewsBY IREM KOCA

We need a fix for bureaucratic delays—but is it a pipe dream?

OpinionBY MATT GURNEY

What will kill the electric car this time: Trump or Canada’s haplessness?

OpinionBY SUSAN RILEY

infrastructure and transport

Transport Canada projects 1,000 fewer jobs by 2027-28, with green programs on the chopping block

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, PETER MAZEREEUW

Nation building needs nation builders

OpinionBY VINCENT CUSTODE

National-interest infrastructure needs to be climate proof

OpinionBY DAVE SAWYER, RYAN NESS

Why Canada’s ‘wait-and-see’ approach is the biggest threat to our infrastructure

OpinionBY KAMYAB ZANDI

innovation

Innovation put Canada ahead in AI; adoption will decide who benefits

OpinionBY SARAH STOCKDALE, AVERY SWARTZ, KIRSTEN KOPPANG TELFORD

AI literacy as a Canadian policy imperative

OpinionBY DAVID MATSINHE

Canada and its allies must get smart about smart devices and limit chips to what matters

OpinionBY KATE E. TODD

AI as Canada’s green catalyst—but at what cost?

OpinionBY SARAH FARAHDEL

intergovernmental

Doug Ford’s political nihilism

OpinionBY GERRY NICHOLLS

Summer’s over, and a possibly raucous House awaits

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

De Gaulle’s ‘Vive le Quebec libre!’ haunts Canada

OpinionBY GERRY NICHOLLS

Arctic deserves more than promises for improved security

OpinionBY DANIEL DAGENAIS

justice

Military police chief is ignoring the law, shutting down probes into complaints: watchdog report

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW, SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

Senate throws a lifeline to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

OpinionBY ERROL MENDES

Kelly looks at how governments react to judicial invalidation in Constraining the Court

FeatureBY JAMES B. KELLY

‘This is a book about gender-based violence, with a focus on intimate partner abuse,’ says Donner-nominated author of And Sometimes They Kill You

FeatureBY PAMELA CROSS

Labour & employment

A defeated NDP means labour, progressive movements have to ‘fill that void,’ says CUPE head Hancock

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Canada’s public service needs updated visible minority hiring targets

OpinionBY WAHEED KHAN

Air Canada strike intervention shortens Carney’s domestic runway to land ‘Trump and trade’ deals, say strategists

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Liberals’ unconstitutional and ‘offensive’ use of Labour Code in Air Canada dispute marks ‘turning point’: union leader

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Lobbying

Economic lobbying in July rises to meet demand for nation-building projects, interprovincial trade

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Steel, auto sectors seek relief after latest ‘crushing’ tariff hike

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

‘The honeymoon period will be over’: politicos expect high bar for Carney’s first budget, and omnibus-bill headaches

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada ‘should not relent’ in trade talks, say industry reps who say auto sector needs zero tariffs

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

natural resources and energy

Feds must consider oil and gas conflicts for Canada Pension Plan appointees

OpinionBY CHERYL RANDALL, LAURA MCGRATH

A nation-building project that will protect the environment and our health

OpinionBY RICHARD VAN DER JAGT, GEOFF STRONG

Ottawa needs to do more to recognize Newfoundland and Labrador’s ‘positive impact’ on national agenda, says former premier Ball

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Reality check: Canada’s nation-building must ditch fossil fantasies

OpinionBY ALY HYDER ALI

Women, Gender and Diversity

Carney becomes second sitting prime minister in Canadian history to march at Pride

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

WAGE isn’t in a funding crisis—it has a design flaw

OpinionBY REBECCA BAILEY, SARAH HASHEM

Plan tackling gender-based violence needs funding renewed, say advocates amid concerns over budget cuts

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

‘It’s being levelled’: advocates worried about potential 81 per cent cut to Women and Gender Equality Canada’s budget by 2028

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

Indigenous Relations

Why government’s aversion to risk impacts Indigenous Peoples the most

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

An Indigenous-led second port on Hudson Bay will help unite Canada

OpinionBY DOROTHY DOBBIE

It’s time to end Canada’s control over First Nations identity

OpinionBY KYRA WILSON

Federal major projects office ‘should not take the place of proper consultation with First Nations,’ says AFN national chief

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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All eyes on Trump: meet the top 50 foreign policy influencers navigating Canada’s role in a rocky world

Meet Carney’s parliamentary secretaries, half of whom are rookie MPs

Meet Carney’s parliamentary secretaries, half of whom are rookie MPs

The 19 entities asking for the biggest spending boosts in the 2025-26 main estimates

The 19 entities asking for the biggest spending boosts in the 2025-26 main estimates

Meet Mark Carney’s 38-member senior team

Meet Mark Carney’s 38-member senior team