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Fisheries and Oceans

On World Ocean Day, let’s celebrate the thing that connects us all

OpinionBY LOUIE PORTA

• The ocean continues to fight climate change, provides 17 per cent of the world’s animal protein, and helps employ hundreds of thousands of Canadians.

On World Ocean Day, let’s celebrate the thing that connects us all

OpinionBY LOUIE PORTA

• The ocean continues to fight climate change, provides 17 per cent of the world’s animal protein, and helps employ hundreds of thousands of Canadians.

Committee report sounds alarm bells about DFO science

OpinionBY SEAN JONES

When will Ottawa stop allowing cruise ships to treat B.C.’s coastline like their personal toilet bowl?

OpinionBY ANNA BARFORD

Are the feds halting and reversing the progress made at COP15?

OpinionBY EMILY MCMILLAN, PATRICK NADEAU

Canada, U.S. must work together to protect the Central Arctic Ocean

Opinion

Is Canada ready to hear from a new wave of water leaders?

OpinionBY ANDREA MAY ROWE, CORINNE SCHUSTER-WALLACE

Fisheries Minister Murray promotes new parliamentary affairs director

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Should we let the H2O flow?

OpinionBY KEVIN LYNCH AND PAUL DEEGAN

Now is the time to act for Canada to help protect the world’s oceans

OpinionBY JENNIFER JOSENHANS

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The effect of climate crisis on Canadian coastal communities is an all-hands-on deck situation, but the Liberals aren’t acting

OpinionBY NDP MP LISA MARIE BARRON

• If the Liberals keep delaying on disaster mitigation and prevention, our coastal environment will become more hostile.

The effect of climate crisis on Canadian coastal communities is an all-hands-on deck situation, but the Liberals aren’t acting

OpinionBY NDP MP LISA MARIE BARRON

• If the Liberals keep delaying on disaster mitigation and prevention, our coastal environment will become more hostile.

Ocean-based carbon removal offers path to deliver COP15 promises

OpinionBY MARTY ODLIN

‘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

‘They have a tipping point’: Alexandra Morton on her unrelenting fight to save B.C.’s wild salmon

NewsBY BEATRICE PAEZ

Taloyoak working to create Aviqtuuq Inuit protected and conserved area

OpinionBY JIMMY OLEEKATALIK

Mi’kmaq fishery decision an ‘opportunity’ and ‘interim measure,’ says Liberal MP Battiste

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

AGRICULTURE

Bill C-275 overestimates risk of human-to-animal disease transmission

OpinionBY DAT NGUYEN

The real threat to our food supply and public health is lack of regulation

OpinionBY RIANA TOPAN

Animal rights activists threaten our health and food supply

OpinionBY ROBERT SOPUCK

Unjust, unwise, and unconstitutional: Bill C-275 has no place in Canada

OpinionBY RIANA TOPAN

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Biotechnology

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

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Gun control is a women’s issue

OpinionBY SUZANNE ZACCOUR, AJA MASON

A lost opportunity for ‘pragmatic diplomacy’

OpinionBY PAUL MEYER

A ‘no-Nazi’ policy for our military partners should be a low bar to clear

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Just war and the Gaza Strip

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

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Environment

Environmental advocates push back against ‘loopholes’ and ‘false solutions’ at UN climate conference

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Transitioning to a low-carbon world is one of the great game-changing challenges of our generation, but Liberals have failed to sell it

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Catalyzing the opportunity of the North Pacific green corridor

OpinionBY IAN ANDERSON

Canada doesn’t have climate leaders: Bill Henderson

Opinion

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FINANCE

To address the affordability crisis, Parliamentarians should support Bill C-56 and back unions to counterbalance corporate power

OpinionBY DT COCHRANE

Missing the point of Freeland’s what-have-we-got-to-lose mini-budget

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Trudeau government keeps violating self-imposed fiscal rules

OpinionBY JAKE FUSS, GRADY MUNRO

It’s always the economy, and we’re not stupid

OpinionBY SUSAN RILEY

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FOREIGN POLICY

Poilievre continues to place Trudeau on Canada’s ‘most unwanted’ list and his strategy appears to be working

Opinion

Lessons from Canada’s IPEF absence

OpinionBY CARLO DADE

McPhedran, May, McPherson, Davies defy government, attend UN meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

OpinionBY DOUGLAS ROCHE

‘Penny wise, pound foolish’: interparliamentary group chairs decry decision to reject funding boost

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

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health

Who cares for the carers?

OpinionBY OWEN CHARTERS AND ALINE NIZIGAMA

Our government is failing Canadians regarding their end-of-life rights

OpinionBY NORMA GREENAWAY, SHERRY MORAN

‘Goodwill’ remains on both sides in pharmacare talks, despite political pressures facing Liberals and NDP, say observers

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Tackling the health system’s carbon footprint: when part of the problem becomes part of the solution

OpinionBY KATHLEEN ROSS

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Industry and Manufacturing

‘Soon’ can’t come quickly enough for floundering Liberals

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

Zero-emission vehicle industry can drive return on battery investments

OpinionBY MATTHEW FORTIER

Liberal proposals on competition and food price inflation draw mixed reviews from experts

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

ESG is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions

OpinionBY ROBERT SOPUCK

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infrastructure and transport

How do we create cities where everyone can thrive?

OpinionBY AMY JUSCHKA, TESICCA TRUONG, AND SHAUNA SHORTT

Budget and community involvement among concerns facing high-frequency rail project between Ontario and Quebec

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Will high-frequency rail be the death knell for VIA?

OpinionBY NDP MP TAYLOR BACHRACH

Canada must accelerate train car procurement to save rail services

OpinionBY TERRY JOHNSON

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innovation

An aerospace strategy for Canada is key to unlocking our full potential

OpinionBY MIKE MUELLER

Reducing aviation’s CO2 emissions challenging but not impossible

OpinionBY DAVID ZINGG

Bill C-27 lacking transparency for private-sector, AI privacy intrusions

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

Rethinking the government’s cloud technology

OpinionBY JEFF EWIN

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intergovernmental

Liberal MP McDonald says he’s rebuffed Conservatives’ overtures three times, but won’t rule out crossing the floor or sitting as an Independent

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Saskatchewan bill shows why the notwithstanding clause exists

OpinionBY DAVE SNOW

The significant and existential threat to Arctic sovereignty from climate change

OpinionBY NDP MP LINDSAY MATHYSSEN

Arctic disputes won’t all be solved with more arms

OpinionBY ERIKA SIMPSON

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justice

Canadian government must legislate to promote online safety, says Facebook whistleblower

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Canada needs to take strong stand against war crimes in Israel-Hamas conflict: aid group

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Evidence points to the future success of Bill C-21

OpinionBY NAJMA AHMED

Conservatives want committee study on RCMP decision not to pursue a criminal probe of Trudeau in SNC-Lavalin affair

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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Labour & employment

Tenants describe ‘dramatic erosion’ of existing affordable housing, call on feds to take action

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

The cost of not caring

OpinionBY ALLISON WILLIAMS

Fixing Canada’s problems will remain an uphill struggle until voters start holding provinces accountable

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Conservatives in no rush to pick at Liberal-NDP anti-scab legislation

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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Lobbying

RCMP commissioner to testify as House Ethics Committee probe into SNC-Lavalin decision begins

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Environment lobbying leads in October in advance of feds’ anticipated oil and gas cap

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

‘Vague’ decision by ethics office in conflict of interest case needs more details to guide MPs going forward, say public law experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Vehicle armour firm leads economic development advocacy in September

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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natural resources and energy

Canadians should be afraid of radiation: Frank Greening

Opinion

Big costs sink flagship nuclear project and will sink future small modular reactor projects, too

OpinionBY M.V. RAMANA AND SUSAN O’DONNELL

‘Everything is not going right for them’: feds’ confusing messaging on pause on home heating oil carbon pricing puts them ‘on the defensive,’ says Nanos

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

Young leaders question Canada on nuclear disarmament

OpinionBY SENATOR MARILOU MCPHEDRAN AND AVINASHPALL SINGH

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Women, Gender and Diversity

NDP-backed petition on trans rights surges as Tory Leader Poilievre strikes out at ‘Trudeau’s radical gender ideology’

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Bureaucratic efforts are just ‘diversity’ icing on a white cake

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Canada’s opportunity to lead on sustainable menstrual equity

OpinionBY LINDA BIGGS, LEISA HIRTZ, MADELEINE SHAW

Claiming their places at the edge of history

OpinionBY VELMA MORGAN

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Indigenous Relations

It’s time for feds to make amends for historical inadequacies of First Nation education

OpinionBY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM AND RON PHILLIPS

What is so surprising about the demand for ‘change’ in reconciliation?

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY