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Biotechnology

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

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

• Drug companies could begin questioning whether to manufacture drugs or conduct clinical trials in Canada, says Life Sciences Ontario CEO.

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

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

• Drug companies could begin questioning whether to manufacture drugs or conduct clinical trials in Canada, says Life Sciences Ontario CEO.

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

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

Biotechnology: an opportunity balanced on a knife’s edge

OpinionBY ADAM DAMRY

Biotechnology must factor into a broader Canadian industrial policy

OpinionBY FRANK BAYLIS

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From crisis to catalyst: Canada’s opportunity to drive global health and research innovation

OpinionBY PAMELA SHAVER-WALKER, EDWARD SHORT

• By creating an environment that fuels scientific advancement, Canada can face future crises with confidence, ensuring both its prosperity and global influence.

From crisis to catalyst: Canada’s opportunity to drive global health and research innovation

OpinionBY PAMELA SHAVER-WALKER, EDWARD SHORT

• By creating an environment that fuels scientific advancement, Canada can face future crises with confidence, ensuring both its prosperity and global influence.

A flourishing biotech sector starts by innovating education

OpinionBY VALERIE WARD, MARC AUCOIN, HECTOR BUDMAN

The prescription for Canada’s health care future

OpinionBY BETTINA HAMELIN

Biotechnology momentum in Canada needs infusion of talent and anchor firms, say industry reps

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada needs to catch up in the biotech sector

OpinionBY NDP MP RICHARD CANNINGS

Does Canada need a more integrated strategy for pandemic responses? Yes

OpinionBY ISAAC BOGOCH AND DAVID NAYLOR

Canada’s biomedical brain drain is reversing. Let’s continue that trend

OpinionBY MICHAEL MAY, ALLISON BROWN

Talent shortage a priority for biotech sector emerging from pandemic

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada’s place in the world of biotechnology research and application is in jeopardy

OpinionBY NDP MP RICHARD CANNINGS

AGRICULTURE

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

Rural Canada: a national barometer and strategic economic imperative

OpinionBY JACQUES LEFEBVRE

Why we must defend supply management

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Thousands respond to false message promoting 1,400 jobs with Department of National Defence

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Reliance on IT contractors exposes feds to risk of foreign interference, experts say, as RCMP warns against North Korean infiltration

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Internal documents detail costs piling up for prison dairy program

FeatureBY CALVIN NEUFELD

Forest fire travel ban backlash demonstrates lack of investment in trust post-COVID, says public health expert

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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Environment

National-interest infrastructure needs to be climate proof

OpinionBY DAVE SAWYER, RYAN NESS

Q&A | How a plastics pollution treaty can send a ‘crucial market signal’

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

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

OpinionBY SARAH FARAHDEL

Canada must join forces with allies to stop the pollution threatening our health and environment

OpinionBY SEHJAL BHARGAVA, ANTHONY MERANTE, KAREN WIRSIG

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FINANCE

Spend, baby, spend: lessons learned from Trump can be used to build a new and prosperous Canada

OpinionBY MICHAEL CHOLOD, GEOFFREY GOODELL

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

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Is there a realistic blueprint for cutting government spending?

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Shoring up supports for people and communities in a turbulent trade climate

OpinionBY SHAIMAA YASSIN

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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

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FOREIGN POLICY

Trump’s delusional pitch for the Nobel Peace Prize 

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Why Canada can no longer trust U.S. regulatory agencies

OpinionBY NATASHA TUSIKOV

Peru flies its flag

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Belgium marks national day

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

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health

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

Surviving cancer should not be determined by your bank account

OpinionBY KATHLEEN FINLAY

Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories all open to pharmacare talks, but say they’re not taking place

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

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Industry and Manufacturing

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

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Bill C-5 is a turning point in Canadian history

OpinionBY GARY MERASTY

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

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infrastructure and transport

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

OpinionBY KAMYAB ZANDI

Steel industry players say retaliatory tariffs for Canadian steel need ‘real teeth’ as lobbying efforts heat up

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Why industrial policy is critical to nation building

OpinionBY AARON COSBEY

One simple trick to solve the government’s procurement woes?

OpinionBY SIMON ENOCH

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innovation

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

OpinionBY KATE E. TODD

The AI crash

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Canada must lead on circular solutions to end plastic pollution

OpinionBY CHRISTA SEAMAN

Canada never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, but we better not miss it this time

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

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intergovernmental

Arctic deserves more than promises for improved security

OpinionBY DANIEL DAGENAIS

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

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Political commentary on convoy protest organizers Lich and Barber’s sentencing ‘corrosive’ and ‘dangerous,’ say observers

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

New Leaf Liberals want to root out Ontario Liberal shortcomings, not back a particular leader, says co-founder

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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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

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Labour & employment

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

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Liberals set themselves up for turbulence on workers’ rights

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

The value of lifelong learning

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Carney government has two duties to younger Canadians, and one is to offer real hope

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

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Lobbying

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

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

U.S. trade approach ‘changes the rules of the game,’ with canola sector leading economic lobbying in first six months of 2025

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Lobbyists address Canada-U.S. dynamic in face of shifting tariffs from unpredictable Trump: ‘it’s changed’

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

High engagement with oil and gas industry a ‘bad look’ for feds, say environmental advocates: ‘pick a lane’

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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natural resources and energy

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

OpinionBY ALY HYDER ALI

Why bold infrastructure investments are key to our economic resilience

OpinionBY KIP EIDEBERG

Finding open ice: Canada’s future depends on batteries and critical minerals

OpinionBY DAN BLONDAL, TRENT MELL, TREVOR WALKER

Questioning the safe disposal of spent enriched uranium fuel: letter writer

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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

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Indigenous Relations

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

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

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

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