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Finance

Conservatives look to ‘slice’ off worker vote from NDP as economy puts Liberals in ‘a very tight spot,’ say strategists

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

• The Conservative strategy is based on building a 'continual narrative' of getting officials 'on the record' agreeing to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s past statements on inflation, says Shakir Chambers.

Conservatives look to ‘slice’ off worker vote from NDP as economy puts Liberals in ‘a very tight spot,’ say strategists

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

• The Conservative strategy is based on building a 'continual narrative' of getting officials 'on the record' agreeing to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s past statements on inflation, says Shakir Chambers.

Three federal agencies ‘demystified’ at 3 Brewers Sparks in Ottawa

FeatureBY STUART BENSON

‘The status quo is not working’: AG calls for different approach to climate emergencies in First Nations

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Extra $25.8-billion request brings federal spending up 4.6 per cent this year to $433-billion

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

Liberal stall tactics threaten to derail pension protection bill

OpinionBY MICHAEL POWELL

What will it take to move Canada forward?

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Experts say government has a key role to play protecting crypto investors from bad actors

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

What should be on Canada’s policy radar?

OpinionBY JENNIFER DITCHBURN

Canada’s financial sector is more than six big banks

OpinionBY MICHAEL HATCH

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Cases up, costs down: feds report $227.1-million in lost revenue, public money and property in 2021-22

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

• The number of cases of lost public money due to an offence, illegal act, or accident in 2021-22 more than doubled, from 43,201 in 2020-21 to 120,538. But the value attached decreased by roughly 30.4 per cent.

Cases up, costs down: feds report $227.1-million in lost revenue, public money and property in 2021-22

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

• The number of cases of lost public money due to an offence, illegal act, or accident in 2021-22 more than doubled, from 43,201 in 2020-21 to 120,538. But the value attached decreased by roughly 30.4 per cent.

Money for nothing?

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Canada can do better than a $306-billion Surface Combatants price tag

OpinionBY ALAN WILLIAMS

Politics This Morning: Canada’s ambassador to Haiti to brief Foreign Affairs Committee

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Canada Infrastructure Bank CEO pushes back against calls for its abolishment

OpinionBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

Federal government working at cross-purposes in realizing UNDRIP

OpinionBY SHANNIN METATAWABIN

How a budget is made: a Q&A with former insider Sahir Khan

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Big banks, challengers jockey for position as government plans open banking rollout

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

‘Inconceivable’ the Liberals have not eliminated archaic, discriminatory ‘gold digger’ clauses from survivor pensions for veterans, say advocates

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

AGRICULTURE

Plant seeds beyond agriculture to shore up the fertilizer sector

OpinionBY KAREN PROUD

Affordable shelter, fertilizer emissions, and tourism topped lobbying issues in busiest October since 2018

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Thoughts for food: Ag Committee, Competition Bureau prepare dual studies into ‘greedflation,’ grocery sector

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Four decades later, global hunger still trending

OpinionBY CAROL THIESSEN, NYAMBURA GITHAIGA

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Biotechnology

Canada’s life sciences sector has come a long way

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP ANDY FILLMORE

Biotechnology, statistics, collaboration, and the pursuit of the future

OpinionBY DONALD ESTEP

Turning crisis into opportunity: a Canadian-made bio-revolution

OpinionBY BETTINA HAMELIN

Rebuilding biotech sector requires diversified training, say researchers

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

IRPP sets up the next 50 years

The real Rouleau inquiry question: who was responsible for allowing the illegal trucker blockades to drag on?

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

‘Marathon of work’: Public Order Emergency Commission proceedings ‘one of the most transparent inquiries ever,’ says lawyer Paul Champ

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

Is Canada prepared for the new-age battlefield?

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

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Environment

Strengthen Bill S-5 to make Canada’s environmental protection law more just

OpinionBY JANE MCARTHUR

Plutonium is plutonium, period, and separating it increases nuclear proliferation risks 

OpinionBY M.V. RAMANA AND SUSAN O’DONNELL

It’s time to re-establish Canada’s leadership in ecosystem restoration

OpinionBY LISA MCLAUGHLIN

Our messages were loud and clear at COP27: KAIROS

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Fisheries and oceans

‘There’s no more time’: green light needed for swift movement on blue economy, says Sen. Galvez

NewsBY ALICE CHEN

New Fisheries Minister Murray has list of ‘urgent’ priorities to grapple with

NewsBY ALICE CHEN

Canadian fisheries: access and benefits at risk of slipping away?

OpinionBY JENNIFER SILVER

Provinces to blame for Canada’s broken international conservation promise

OpinionBY SANDRA SCHWARTZ

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FOREIGN POLICY

Chasing ‘meh’ voters 

OpinionBY GERRY NICHOLLS

China’s COVID trap

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Trudeau’s Indo-Pacific plan offers Canadian stamp on an American strategy

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

Canada should put its money where its mouth is on strengthening the International Criminal Court

OpinionBY FARIDA DEIF

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health

For a world-class health system, Canada needs to think bigger

OpinionBY PAUL-ÉMILE CLOUTIER

A lot wrong with Poilievre’s recent video on his bonkers drug policy

OpinionBY MICHAEL HARRIS

Committee treating MAID as ‘beneficial solution to all forms of suffering’ despite ‘deeply problematic reports’ of its use, warn disability advocates

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Significant policy shifts have been made, but government still leaving surrogacy families behind

OpinionBY JACQUIE LAROCQUE

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Industry and Manufacturing

Canadian response to U.S. Inflation Reduction Act should seek to boost ‘certainty’ for investors, says advocacy group

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Eyes turn to trade-pact clock after latest U.K. government toss-up

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Innovative post-secondary solutions will help solve Canada’s tech-sector skills shortage

OpinionBY JANE GOODYER

Politics This Morning: Anand visits Poland as Russian cruise missiles hammer Ukrainian cities

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

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infrastructure and transport

Unlocking affordable infrastructure through tax-free municipal bonds 

OpinionBY MICHAEL FENN

Leading the way: Canadian aerospace industry poised for success

OpinionBY ANTHONY NOREJKO

A holiday wish list for Canada’s aerospace sector

OpinionBY GRANT STEVENS

Course-correcting Canada’s troubled aerospace sector

OpinionBY LANA PAYNE

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innovation

It’s time for Canada to be the global research leader of tomorrow

OpinionBY STEPHEN J. TOOPE, ALAN BERNSTEIN

Twitter may be ailing, but Mastodon is no remedy

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

The tech party is over

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Will expanding Canada’s plutonium interests support the peaceful use of nuclear energy?

OpinionBY M.V. RAMANA AND SUSAN O’DONNELL

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intergovernmental

The Notwithstanding Act: a proposal for reform

OpinionBY AMIR ATTARAN, GIB VAN ERT

NORAD modernization urgently needed for Canada to maintain competitive edge in the Arctic

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR TONY DEAN

Ford-CUPE feud portrays Tories as ‘black-hearted accountants,’ an image which could harm federal Conservatives

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Closing a Charter loophole

OpinionBY GERRY NICHOLLS

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justice

Mounties’ union calls on feds to reconsider removal of ‘less-lethal intervention options’ from RCMP toolkit, citing safety concerns

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

Rouleau Inquiry lifts lid on ‘federal, provincial, municipal dysfunction in crisis management and policing,’ say politicos

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

On Truth and Reconciliation Day, Liberals should reflect on past mistakes, resist urge to defend themselves: Blackstock

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Will true reconciliation ever happen?

OpinionBY CAROL MCBRIDE

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Labour & employment

To build our better tomorrow, we need the builders

OpinionBY MARY VAN BUREN

How does Canada solve its sustainable infrastructure crisis?

OpinionBY RHONDA LENTON

Building a more sustainable financial foundation for Canada’s universities and colleges

OpinionBY PETER MCINNIS

Here’s what’s still needed to drive innovation

OpinionBY MERIC GERTLER

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Lobbying

Improving diversity in GR space requires acknowledging change is possible, say Liberal MP, lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Quality of journalism should be considered in eligibility for Bill C-18, says NDP MP

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Bill C-11 amendments must define role of ‘international service,’ says RCI action committee spokesperson

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

‘It’s not easy work’: Yasir Naqvi on how to get things done with government

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

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natural resources and energy

Nuclear power must be part of net-zero solution

OpinionBY GUY HOTTE, NEIL ALEXANDER

Why is Ontario turning its back on low-cost, low-carbon power?

OpinionBY ANGELA BISCHOFF

‘We tried to stop it’: chair of Indigenous coalition bidding for Trans Mountain went to court to block the project

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Canada must push harder to curb greenhouse gas emissions

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Diversity and inclusion promises ring hollow if racialized voices are shut out

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Global North’s whitelash brings fascism back in fashion

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Political parties have left women behind

OpinionBY JENNIFER M. PISCOPO

Politics This Morning: Liberals move forward on long-awaited plan for 2SLGBTQ+ people

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Indigenous Relations

Can we stop with the Indigenous identity fraud?

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM

What to do with pretendians

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

‘Remarkable showing of co-operation’ from MPs on amendments to create ‘historic’ National Council for Reconciliation

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

‘Violent’ residential school denialism no longer ‘legitimate talking point’ after genocide motion, say Gazan, experts

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Exclusive lists

The 2022 Terrific 25 Staffers ranking

The 2022 Terrific 25 Staffers ranking

Conservative party leadership: who supports who

Conservative party leadership: who supports who

Ukraine has the spotlight, but U.S. still dominates for the top 50 influencing Canada’s foreign policy

Ukraine has the spotlight, but U.S. still dominates for the top 50 influencing Canada’s foreign policy

Cabinet’s communications and chiefs of staff list, 2022

Cabinet’s communications and chiefs of staff list, 2022

The 50 MPs in ridings where 142 former residential schools are located

The 50 MPs in ridings where 142 former residential schools are located

All the federal leaders’ stops during the 2021 campaign

All the federal leaders’ stops during the 2021 campaign

The 24 ridings AFN says First Nations voters can decide the election outcome

The 24 ridings AFN says First Nations voters can decide the election outcome

The former MPs who are running again in 2021

The former MPs who are running again in 2021