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Biotechnology

Canada’s biotech carpe diem

OpinionBY ANDREW CASEY

• It’s imperative Canada keep pace with other competing jurisdictions, and establish itself as a regulatory leader that rewards investment and talent.

Canada’s biotech carpe diem

OpinionBY ANDREW CASEY

• It’s imperative Canada keep pace with other competing jurisdictions, and establish itself as a regulatory leader that rewards investment and talent.

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

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

OpinionBY PAMELA SHAVER-WALKER, EDWARD SHORT

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

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Unlocking Canada’s greatest economic potential: life sciences

OpinionBY ALISON SYMINGTON, JASON FIELD

• The time has come for us to commit to life sciences as a driver for Canada’s economy with the knowledge that this sector can help solve some of our biggest societal challenges.

Unlocking Canada’s greatest economic potential: life sciences

OpinionBY ALISON SYMINGTON, JASON FIELD

• The time has come for us to commit to life sciences as a driver for Canada’s economy with the knowledge that this sector can help solve some of our biggest societal challenges.

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

Can biotechnology put patients’ needs ahead of profits?

OpinionBY SHARON BATT

Seizing the moment: building Canada’s academic leadership into a commercial powerhouse

OpinionBY GORDON C. MCCAULEY

New safety guidance sets up corporate self-regulation of GMOs

OpinionBY LUCY SHARRATT

Biotech sector is having a generational moment in Canada

OpinionBY ANDREW CASEY

AGRICULTURE

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

Problem-solving farmers need supportive government policies

OpinionBY CSG SENATOR ROB BLACK

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Election process ‘robust,’ but security partners will be ‘on the lookout’ as Canada heads to the polls, says chief electoral officer

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Does the military have room to get its elbows up?

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Foreign interference: ideas and nations

OpinionBY JOHN CHENIER

Cancelling the F-35 deal would be ‘cutting our nose off to spite our face,’ says former senior military official

NewsBY IREM KOCA

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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

Carney’s right to make investment top economic priority

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Basic income a proactive policy in difficult times

OpinionBY MANDY KAY-RAINING BIRD, WIL ROBERTSON

Restrictions on living abroad: the inequality of Canada’s pension portability 

OpinionBY CATI COE

Toronto top donor city for Carney, Freeland, and Gould’s Liberal leadership campaigns

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

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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

‘Canada is cold but Turks on fire’: Turkish Canadians call on Ottawa to condemn the arrest of country’s opposition leader

NewsBY IREM KOCA

A front-row seat to the end of an empire

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP JOHN MCKAY

The ‘artificial border’ and how it can be corrected

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

The Team Canada approach: how multilevel governance shapes Canada’s response to Trump’s tariff war

OpinionBY LORI TURNBULL

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health

The growing threat of forever chemicals

OpinionBY BLAISE SALMON

Canada’s health-care system ‘in a tough spot,’ says Singh

FeatureBY THE HILL TIMES STAFF

No, becoming the 51st state wouldn’t give us better health care—but Trump knows he’s hitting a nerve

OpinionBY BERT BLUNDON

Expanding the Canada Health Act must include mental health and substance use health

OpinionBY MARY BARTRAM, KATHLEEN LESLIE

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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

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

OpinionBY ALEX GRECO

Any Arctic strategy must ensure Canadian control

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Breaking down Trudeau’s high-speed rail pledge

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Don’t overlook productivity in bid to return resilience to Western Canada’s supply chains

OpinionBY MARZIA RIZVI

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innovation

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

As the U.S. drives backwards, Canada must pull ahead

OpinionBY HONGYU XIAO

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intergovernmental

Is Quebec becoming an authoritarian ‘nation’?

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Using icebreakers and subs to protect against U.S. pressure  

OpinionBY PETER RAUTENBACH

Ontario results indicate federal election will be dominated by Trump threats, economic issues, say observers

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

‘It was very directive’: Trudeau leaves legacy of deploying federal cash to push provincial policies

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

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justice

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

Expanding AI in government operations, modernizing Service Canada sites among feds’ fiscal update’s public service-related measures

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

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Labour & employment

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

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Unions seek government to fix Phoenix problems ‘once and for all’

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

‘Don’t go in with a sledgehammer’: public service caps or cuts should be rational, targeted, says Savoie

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Military applications up amid Trump threats, global uncertainty, new recruiting strategies

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

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

Bolstering domestic manufacturing can make us resilient to tariffs, and help meet our sustainability goals

OpinionBY ALEX TAVASOLI, HOLLY CAGGIANO

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Why gender parity matters in cabinet

OpinionBY ELIZABETH MCCALLION, REBECCA WALLACE

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

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Carney’s cabinet a step backwards in the dark

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

The missing ministers: Carney squanders an opportunity 

OpinionBY REBECCA BAILEY

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Indigenous Relations

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

OpinionBY JULIE MACARTHUR, EMMANUEL ACKOM

Why Indigenous rights must be integrated into Canada’s regulatory process

OpinionBY BYRON LOUIS

‘Buy Indigenous’ is ‘Buy Canada’

OpinionBY CSG SENATOR PJ PROSPER

Rising costs, and the looming threat of tariffs disproportionately affecting Métis

OpinionBY VICTORIA PRUDEN

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New riding map gives Tories slight boost compared to 2021 election

This federal election could cost $570-million: Elections Canada

This federal election could cost $570-million: Elections Canada

Poilievre’s riding among seats with highest turnout in Liberal leadership race

Poilievre’s riding among seats with highest turnout in Liberal leadership race

Conservatives dominate federal party fundraising

Conservatives dominate federal party fundraising

Who’s in the race? Tracking the field of Liberal leadership candidates

Who’s in the race? Tracking the field of Liberal leadership candidates

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Who’s backing the Liberal leadership contenders?

Who went where in Trudeau’s cabinet shake-up?

Who went where in Trudeau’s cabinet shake-up?

Always leave them wanting more: Fraser tops All Politics Poll as he looks to exit federal politics

Always leave them wanting more: Fraser tops All Politics Poll as he looks to exit federal politics