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Infrastructure and Transport

Bill C-8’s moment of truth: draw the line on what’s ‘critical’

OpinionBY TYSON MACAULAY

• Bill C-8 establishes a protection regime for federally regulated sectors, and should be treated as a generational opportunity to replace chalk lines with mathematics.

Bill C-8’s moment of truth: draw the line on what’s ‘critical’

OpinionBY TYSON MACAULAY

• Bill C-8 establishes a protection regime for federally regulated sectors, and should be treated as a generational opportunity to replace chalk lines with mathematics.

As digital transformation reshapes our world, our expectations for physical infrastructure must evolve

OpinionBY SHAUNA BRAIL

The climate is changing faster than Canada’s infrastructure—ignoring it is not fiscally responsible

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR ROSA GALVEZ

Building Canada’s infrastructure for resilience and sustainable development

OpinionBY JEFF RANKIN

The price tag on housing-enabling infrastructure is prolonging our housing crisis

OpinionBY OLHA SOTSKA

A critical moment for the climate emergency, and a green infrastructure deficit

OpinionBY NDP MP JENNY KWAN

Below the surface: Canada’s hidden infrastructure crisis is a climate reckoning

OpinionBY ALI BAYAT

The promise and perils of nation-building projects

OpinionBY MATTI SIEMIATYCKI

Nation-building in an uncertain world: why Canada must invest in public infrastructure now

OpinionBY INTERIM NDP LEADER DON DAVIES

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Do Canadians need new houses, or new homes?

OpinionBY DAVID WATTERS, RYAN DESCHAMPS, RAHIM REZAIE

• We should embrace a broader public vision that supports families in accessing affordable homes integrated into local community infrastructure and services.

Do Canadians need new houses, or new homes?

OpinionBY DAVID WATTERS, RYAN DESCHAMPS, RAHIM REZAIE

• We should embrace a broader public vision that supports families in accessing affordable homes integrated into local community infrastructure and services.

Overcoming infrastructure challenges requires better data sharing, say experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Building more homes is a shared vision. Now we need the infrastructure to make it real

OpinionBY REBECCA BLIGH

Nation-building starts with builders

OpinionBY RODRIGUE GILBERT

Ottawa’s LNG detour risks Carney’s climate credibility

OpinionBY FELIX HORNE

Build Canada Homes is ‘duplicating the bureaucracy’: NDP critic Kwan slams feds’ new affordable housing entity

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Closing the First Nations infrastructure gap would benefit us all

OpinionBY JULIE PELLERIN

Second Hudson Bay port can link Western Canada’s resources to markets abroad

OpinionBY MORRIS BEARDY

First Nations chiefs criticize feds for failing to consult on Indigenous body tied to Major Projects Office

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

AGRICULTURE

Tory ag critic questions efforts to engage with China as canola tariffs drag into harvest season

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

School food advocates hopeful program will survive fall budget cuts, but say Ontario falling short of ‘all in’

NewsBY STUART BENSON

AI can’t save farming if our soils keep dying

OpinionBY ASIM BISWAS

Treat agriculture as national defence with a strong water strategy

OpinionBY JOHN SIMPSON

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Biotechnology

‘Cutting red tape,’ mental health and primary care on the health docket this fall

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Canada at risk of collateral damage in U.S. drug pricing war

OpinionBY ANNETTE ROBINSON

U.S. tariffs on pharmaceuticals could complicate an already complex supply chain

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

A different ‘philosophy’ steers new drug pricing guidelines, says top PMPRB bureaucrat after contentious path to rule changes  

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Canada’s underutilized Arctic radar advantage

OpinionBY PIERRE LEBLANC

Turning commitments into capability: the need for industrial strategies

OpinionBY MIKE MUELLER

Canada’s submarine purchase has new ‘sense of urgency’ with possible selection by end of year, says German envoy 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS, IREM KOCA

Hegseth’s attack on rules of engagement could limit Canadian operations with ‘lawless’ U.S. military, says former House Defence Committee chair McKay 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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Environment

Chimps, war, and us 

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Some ‘positives’ in the climate crisis

OpinionBY GEOFF STRONG, RICHARD VAN DER JAGT

Energy efficiency: unlocking Canada’s superpower potential

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP ERIC ST-PIERRE

Climate collaboration with China serves Canada’s national interests

OpinionBY WENRAN JIANG

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FINANCE

Federal funding out of touch with Indigenous realities

OpinionBY JOCELYN FORMSMA, TRISTAN NUGENT

Will the fall budget cycle be the spark MPs need to actually study spending?

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

Africa is rising, and a generational budget is on the table. Canada must deliver

OpinionBY ANTHONY SALLOUM

‘It’s a new lens’: Champagne unveils new budget framework that splits operating from capital spending

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

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Fisheries and oceans

Q&A | Cod quota ‘pressure is enormous’ on fisheries minister

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Federal fish science analyses continue to muddy the waters in salmon farm fight

NewsBY STUART BENSON

The markets are hungry for Canadian cod. Will we deliver?

OpinionBY SYLVIE LAPOINTE

Oceans must take centre stage in nation-building projects

OpinionBY DEREK ARMITAGE, TREVOR SWERDFAGER

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FOREIGN POLICY

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

FeatureBY NEIL MOSS

Middle East experts ‘cautiously optimistic’ over Trump’s Gaza peace plan, but see little role for Canada to play

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Canada has influence—it’s time to use it to stop genocide

OpinionBY LAUREN RAVON, BUSHRA KHALIDI

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

FeatureBY NEIL MOSS

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health

Climate action is crucial for Canadians’ health

OpinionBY LHAMO DOLKAR, DORIS GRINSPUN

Jordan’s Principle isn’t a ‘program’—it’s a legal duty

OpinionBY IRVING GOLD

Three strategies for improving employee mental health in today’s workplaces

OpinionBY MELANIE BADALI

The hidden cost of inaction: structural barriers limit mental health-care access

OpinionBY MONNICA WILLIAMS

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Industry and Manufacturing

For drones, do like the Nordics and the Brits

OpinionBY WESLEY WARK

Industry Canada’s annual plan projects $3.9-billion boost to budget by 2027-28

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Any new industrial strategy must be an innovation strategy

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Look to C.D. Howe for lessons on defence procurement

OpinionBY JAMIE CARROLL

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innovation

Canada’s defence depends on its universities

OpinionBY BILL FLANAGAN

Public servants urge data sovereignty in recent survey, while AI minister says ‘data isn’t gold in Fort Knox’

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Top bureaucrats say AI is ‘art of the possible’ in the public service

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Trust universities to lead Canada’s next wave of innovation

OpinionBY JULIE ST-PIERRE

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intergovernmental

A crisis in search of a cause: Smith brandishes unity issue in dangerous new pipeline gambit

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

A peek into the Rock’s political race

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

Q&A | The legal battle over the ‘notwithstanding’ clause, explained 

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Bloc eyes provincial PQ win, but says it won’t affect strategy in the House: ‘our goal has always been the same’

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

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justice

Convoy protest organizers Lich, Barber sentenced to house arrest

NewsBY MARLO GLASS | UPDATED October 7, 2025

Carney’s so-called Combatting Hate Act is an attack on pro-Palestine expression

OpinionBY ARASH GHIASSI, RIAZ SAYANI

Without clarity, Kneecap ban appears as a ‘politically motivated PR stunt,’ say critics, civil liberties, and immigration experts

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Conservatives seize on Liberals’ ‘law-and-order vacuum’ as Trump anxiety wanes, but ‘MAGA North’ comparisons still a concern, say strategists

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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Labour & employment

Labour stability is the missing link in Canada’s economic reboot

OpinionBY JULIAN KARAGUESIAN, DANIEL SAFAYENI

Lightbound says Canada Post privatization ‘not on the table’ as feds work to salvage ‘insolvent’ Crown corp

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Conservatives’ push to scrap foreign worker program meets public anxieties, but risks scapegoating migrants, say observers

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Gender equality week should be a wake-up call for Canadian leaders

OpinionBY JULIE SAVARD-SHAW, ALEXANDRA STANTE

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Lobbying

This Parliament’s ethics roundup: blind trusts, recusals, gifts, and more

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

Hodgson, Dabrusin top-lobbied cabinet ministers last month as energy, environment lead the lobby charts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Struggling auto sector promises deep engagement as wheels set to turn on CUSMA consultations

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Carney ‘did the right thing’: feds’ new support for national pharmacare ‘positive,’ but evolving stance surprises advocates

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

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natural resources and energy

LNG project marks the moment to fulfill Canadian potential

OpinionBY KANJI YAMANOUCHI

Trans Mountain pipeline tolls could leave feds on the hook for billions in further costs

OpinionBY SHAWN MCCARTHY

Local progress on energy, Arctic security must survive federal cuts

OpinionBY LYNNE COUVES

Uncertainty surrounds assessments plans for national interest projects 

OpinionBY ROBERT B. GIBSON

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Women, Gender and Diversity

When social justice becomes abnormal: the rise of ‘anti-woke’ politics in Canada

OpinionBY MALINDA SMITH

Why are Canadian political leaders so complacent about our poor performance on women’s representation in politics?

OpinionBY SHARI GRAYDON

Is PM Carney abandoning women, girls, and queer people in his austerity agenda?

OpinionBY FAE JOHNSTONE

Freeland joins long list of sidelined leading Liberal women 

OpinionBY KELLY PATRICK

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Indigenous Relations

Healing intergenerational trauma and mental health for Indigenous Peoples in Canada

OpinionBY SHIMI KANG

Ottawa marks Truth and Reconciliation Day

FeatureBY ANDREW MEADE

Mark Carney and a call for meaningful reconciliation

OpinionBY CODY GROAT

Message to Carney: the safety of Indigenous women and girls is in the national interest

OpinionBY NDP MP LEAH GAZAN

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