Foreign Policy

After Davos, Trump confronts an inflection point

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

• Prime Minister Mark Carney’s remarkable speech at Davos said what many political and economic elites were thinking: don’t let the bullies win; fear is the mind-killer; stick together and you might win. Overnight the international mood changed.

After Davos, Trump confronts an inflection point

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

• Prime Minister Mark Carney’s remarkable speech at Davos said what many political and economic elites were thinking: don’t let the bullies win; fear is the mind-killer; stick together and you might win. Overnight the international mood changed.

In defence of Canada

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Why zero‑sum thinking is not strength

OpinionBY CATHY ORLANDO

Carney has thrown his hat over the wall, now what?

OpinionBY MATT GURNEY

With threats to Canada’s sovereignty and mounting economic challenges, MPs should work together or face an early election, says Coteau

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

IMF report says Canada’s elevated trade uncertainty reinforces long-standing weaknesses in productivity and competitiveness

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

After decades of progress on smoking, Canada faces new nicotine challenges

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Editorial

• BY EDITORIAL

MPs from all parties must work together to deal with external and internal challenges facing Canada

Opinion

• BY SHEILA COPPS

Going along to get along is over

Opinion

• BY GWYNNE DYER

One Danish soldier

In a world filled with conflict, Yamanouchi reflects on diplomacy

OpinionBY ROSEANN O’REILLY RUNTE

• Japanese Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi reminds us that in this chaotic world of change, we must recognize the importance of diplomacy. By working together, nations have the potential to solve the global issues that imperil human existence.

In a world filled with conflict, Yamanouchi reflects on diplomacy

OpinionBY ROSEANN O’REILLY RUNTE

• Japanese Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi reminds us that in this chaotic world of change, we must recognize the importance of diplomacy. By working together, nations have the potential to solve the global issues that imperil human existence.

‘I will always be an advocate,’ says retiring Indigenous senior civil servant Gina Wilson after decades working to ‘bridge worlds’

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Senators push Canada to host future Olympics as committee eyes potential bid for 2038

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

‘Unprecedented’ 2025 for canola industry, with record-breaking economic lobbying

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

200,000 Job-Years of Sustained Employment: Why Hanwha’s Submarine Bid is an Economic Engine for Canada

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Parliamentary Calendar

Cory Doctorow to talk his bestselling book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It, on Jan. 28 in Ottawa

Podcast

Sheila Copps on Greenland, a 2026 election, and the return of Parliament

feature

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2025

News

Who’s backing the NDP leadership contenders?

Podcast

Re-engaging with China, with Senator Yuen Pau Woo

‘These times are not like any other’: Carney’s Davos speech that ‘electrified the world’ draws bipartisan praise

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

• In his address to world leaders on June 20, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that 'the old world order is not coming back' and 'nostalgia is not a strategy.'

‘These times are not like any other’: Carney’s Davos speech that ‘electrified the world’ draws bipartisan praise

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

• In his address to world leaders on June 20, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that 'the old world order is not coming back' and 'nostalgia is not a strategy.'

Debating creating a Canadian CIA? Never say never, but now is not the time

OpinionBY MARTIN GREEN

Debating creating a Canadian CIA? Never say never, but now is not the time

OpinionBY MARTIN GREEN

Albanian embassy marks national day

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Albanian embassy marks national day

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Latvian envoy plays host at War Museum 

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Latvian envoy plays host at War Museum 

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

Parliamentary Calendar

Balsillie School for International Affairs hosts lecture on President Trump’s trade policies and upcoming CUSMA review on Jan. 22

Podcast

Mark Critch on Donald Trump, Canadian politics, and being TikTok famous

News

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Lobbyists in 2025: lobbyists prepare for ‘significant reset’ as federal election begins

News

Tracking job cuts in the federal public service

Podcast

Cut, not cap? The latest on public service downsizing, with Marlo Glass

Carney must walk a tightrope in 2026, dealing with an unpredictable neighbour

OpinionBY MARC SNYDER

• Canada has been over-relying on a partner—the United States—that has become unreliable.

Carney must walk a tightrope in 2026, dealing with an unpredictable neighbour

OpinionBY MARC SNYDER

• Canada has been over-relying on a partner—the United States—that has become unreliable.

CUSMA review approaching, but mechanism remains murky

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Questions loom over future of Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy after China détente 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Libya was a warning, Venezuela is the test

OpinionBY AKOLISA UFODIKE

Do Conservatives want the best for the West, or not?

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

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Warming Canada-China relations shouldn’t extend to Huawei ban, say security experts, parliamentarians

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

• After Prime Minister Mark Carney inked a new trading arrangement with China during his state visit last week, stakeholders are advising against revisiting the government’s 5G ban on Huawei.

Warming Canada-China relations shouldn’t extend to Huawei ban, say security experts, parliamentarians

NewsBY DAVIS LEGREE

• After Prime Minister Mark Carney inked a new trading arrangement with China during his state visit last week, stakeholders are advising against revisiting the government’s 5G ban on Huawei.

‘If not now, when?’ Canada should ‘stand up’ to U.S. threats against Greenland, say Senators, ex-MP McKay

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND, MARLO GLASS

‘If not now, when?’ Canada should ‘stand up’ to U.S. threats against Greenland, say Senators, ex-MP McKay

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND, MARLO GLASS

Canada will have to expand trade with undemocratic countries to fight losses in U.S. trade war, say foreign policy experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada will have to expand trade with undemocratic countries to fight losses in U.S. trade war, say foreign policy experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Far-right ideology is a prescription for bad health

OpinionBY DORIS GRINSPUN

Far-right ideology is a prescription for bad health

OpinionBY DORIS GRINSPUN

Diplomatic Circles

Joint co-operation needed to tackle spread of narcotics, says Colombian defence minister 

‘Canada is getting more and more important for us,’ says visiting German Bundestag member

How a former Hill staffer is lionizing a Canadian that helped end the Troubles 

‘I’ve had to run to keep up’: U.K. envoy trumpets ‘new energy’ in Canadian relationship, but questions loom over trade talks

trade

Time for Team Canada 2.0

Mexico takes firm stance on U.S. incursion in Venezuela as Canada walks cautious line ahead of CUSMA review

Senate committee casts doubt on feds’ ability to move on Africa strategy without new funds, calls for action plan

Trump exposed the risk of complacency. Will Canada learn from its mistakes?

international development

Senate’s Africa report exposes Canada’s strategic blind spot

Foreign aid is not charity, but an investment in stability and peace

Canada’s G7 leadership: the ambition is there, but is the budget?

Did Canada’s G7 presidency ever emerge from the Trump shadow? 

immigration

‘We ask the government not to send us back to the ruins’: Turkish earthquake survivors call on feds to ease path to permanent residency

Why all governments must follow Ontario in scrapping the ‘Canadian experience’ requirement

Facing reality: Canada and the challenge of refugee protection

Canada is falling behind in the global race for skilled workers

refugees

‘End our suffering’: refugees from Africa face inequity and delays resettling in Canada

Constituent seeking help for brother and others fleeing Sudan civil war says immigration minister ‘angry, rude, and dismissive’ in phone call

IRCC forecasts 30 per cent spending cut by 2028 amid lower immigration targets

Government’s border security bill draws heavy criticism from civil rights groups

inside defence

New helicopters on the horizon

How to foil Trump’s annexation of Greenland

All eyes on the Arctic

In Canada’s defence: re-establishing a true militia

gwynne dyer

Trump versus NATO, target Greenland

Why America intervening in Iran is a bad idea

How NATO members can take on Trump’s Greenland—and Canadian—obsession

Trump’s case for a Greenland invasion is utter hogwash

canada and the 21st century

Canada now needs a backup plan for our auto industry

Trump wants to squeeze us hard enough so we come begging

Transforming Canada’s economy for a better future is an enormous challenge

Trump’s new national security strategy raises alarms, fears over threats posed to Canada’s sovereignty and prosperity

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