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ISG Senator Peter Boehm, left, and PSG Senator Peter Harder, are chair and vice-chair, respectfully, of the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade. The committee this month released a report entitled, "Canada-Africa: seizing a strategic opportunity." The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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

OpinionBY SELAH GETAHUN
  • The question is no longer whether deeper engagement with Africa makes sense. Parliament has answered that. The question now is whether Canada is prepared to act with the consistency, seriousness, and confidence that true partnership requires.
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Senate’s Africa report exposes Canada’s strategic blind spot

OpinionBY SELAH GETAHUN
  • The question is no longer whether deeper engagement with Africa makes sense. Parliament has answered that. The question now is whether Canada is prepared to act with the consistency, seriousness, and confidence that true partnership requires.
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CUSMA must do more than protect trade—it must secure Canada’s life sciences future

OpinionBY CAMERON GROOME

‘Most dangerous period that we’ve been in’: Carney urged to bolster ‘Team Canada’ approach ahead of CUSMA review

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

The coming CUSMA squeeze and how security policy will rewrite the trade terms

OpinionBY KEITH JANSA
Opinion

Canada’s grand strategy in a multipolar world

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a second-generation Cuban-American whose parents immigrated several years before Fidel Castro’s Communist regime took power. That history has shaped his politics, writes Gwynne Dyer. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Rubio’s fantasy and the risk of forever war in Venezuela

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER
  • ‘In my opinion, the three regimes that exist in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba are enemies of humanity,’ said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier this year.

Rubio’s fantasy and the risk of forever war in Venezuela

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER
  • ‘In my opinion, the three regimes that exist in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba are enemies of humanity,’ said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier this year.

Anxiety over Canada-U.S. relations drives eyes to The Hill Times’ 20 most-read stories of 2025

NewsBY THE HILL TIMES STAFF
Parliamentary Calendar

Decked halls of Parliament on pause until House returns on Jan. 26

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

Since 2019, Global Affairs Canada has fully redacted the titles of 1,933 of 9,772 memos for its ministers and deputy heads. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Redactions up: foreign ministry hiding more memo titles with 38 per cent kept secret this year

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • Titles and reference numbers for memos prepared for a cabinet minister or deputy head must be proactively released by law, but are becoming 'less obtainable' as government entities exploit a 'loophole,' say transparency advocates.

Redactions up: foreign ministry hiding more memo titles with 38 per cent kept secret this year

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • Titles and reference numbers for memos prepared for a cabinet minister or deputy head must be proactively released by law, but are becoming 'less obtainable' as government entities exploit a 'loophole,' say transparency advocates.

Ukraine-Russia: next steps

OpinionBY DAVID CARMENT, DANI BELO

Ukraine-Russia: next steps

OpinionBY DAVID CARMENT, DANI BELO
Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada, led by Minister Lena Diab, has made commitments and developed plans to address racism, but there is no clear roadmap to addressing inequity in processing refugee applications in Africa, writes Asma Faizi. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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

OpinionBY ASMA FAIZI
  • In 2023, Canada’s auditor general found that backlogs were larger and processing times longer for refugee applicants in Africa due to under-resourcing of visa offices. Two years after that report, too little has changed.

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

OpinionBY ASMA FAIZI
  • In 2023, Canada’s auditor general found that backlogs were larger and processing times longer for refugee applicants in Africa due to under-resourcing of visa offices. Two years after that report, too little has changed.
To help protect Canada’s steel industry, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced new measures in November, including for imposition of a global 25 per cent tariff on targeted imported steel-derivative products such as wind towers. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Renewable energy sector adds concerns about wind-tower costs to steel industry crisis talks: ‘there’s a ton of urgency’

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT
  • The tightened tariff rate quotas for steel imports from non-free trade agreement partners will come into force on Dec. 26.

Renewable energy sector adds concerns about wind-tower costs to steel industry crisis talks: ‘there’s a ton of urgency’

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT
  • The tightened tariff rate quotas for steel imports from non-free trade agreement partners will come into force on Dec. 26.

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