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Infrastructure and Transport

Why Canada’s ‘wait-and-see’ approach is the biggest threat to our infrastructure

OpinionBY KAMYAB ZANDI

• Ensuring the resilience of Canada’s infrastructure demands a paradigm shift toward predictive, technology-driven solutions.

Why Canada’s ‘wait-and-see’ approach is the biggest threat to our infrastructure

OpinionBY KAMYAB ZANDI

• Ensuring the resilience of Canada’s infrastructure demands a paradigm shift toward predictive, technology-driven solutions.

Steel industry players say retaliatory tariffs for Canadian steel need ‘real teeth’ as lobbying efforts heat up

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Transforming Canada’s trade infrastructure is necessary to build our prosperity

OpinionBY STEFAN FOURNIER

Why industrial policy is critical to nation building

OpinionBY AARON COSBEY

One simple trick to solve the government’s procurement woes?

OpinionBY SIMON ENOCH

The path forward on reconciliation and building infrastructure

OpinionBY MARK QUINN, BILL SCHAPER, JAMIE CARROLL

The nation-building initiative of retrofitting Canada’s buildings

OpinionBY CHRIS SEVERSON-BAKER, MONICA CURTIS

By rail, road and sea: Western export infrastructure needs a refresh   

OpinionBY GARY MAR

If we can’t move it, we can’t sell it: reducing Canada’s reliance on the U.S. demands a national trade infrastructure strategy

OpinionBY CANDACE LAING, RODRIGUE GILBERT, KEITH CURRIE, DENNIS DARBY, BRAD SCOTT, CHRIS LORENC, GARY MAR

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Competition Bureau recommends bureaucratic power grab over airline industry

OpinionBY MATTHEW LAU

• A proposed system of parallel reviews aims to disallow anti-competitive mergers or collaborations, but could block transactions that benefit airline passengers and likely reduce investment in the airline sector.

Competition Bureau recommends bureaucratic power grab over airline industry

OpinionBY MATTHEW LAU

• A proposed system of parallel reviews aims to disallow anti-competitive mergers or collaborations, but could block transactions that benefit airline passengers and likely reduce investment in the airline sector.

It’s time we treat campus infrastructure as a nation-building project

OpinionBY GABRIEL MILLER

BC Ferries story reveals Canada’s confused policy on China

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

An Indigenous-led second port on Hudson Bay will help unite Canada

OpinionBY DOROTHY DOBBIE

Remembering the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

OpinionBY BRUCE CAMPBELL

All three levels of government must play their part in building up Canada’s supply chains

OpinionBY LINDSAY KISLOCK

High-speed rail in Canada is not up for debate, or is it?

OpinionBY WILLIAM MORRISON

Reconciliation is action, not just words

OpinionBY MICHELLE ROBINSON

Loophole Liberals making an ignominious power grab

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

AGRICULTURE

Carney: don’t gamble with Canada’s food security

OpinionBY MILTON DYCK

Rural Canada: a national barometer and strategic economic imperative

OpinionBY JACQUES LEFEBVRE

Why we must defend supply management

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Turning the tables on ‘Positive Nutrition’

OpinionBY JACQUES J.M. SHORE, SUZANNE SABOURIN

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Biotechnology

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

Canada’s next top doctor must be a ‘focal point’ for public health amid changes in the U.S., concerns about next pandemic

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

From momentum to leadership: securing Canada’s biotech future

OpinionBY WENDY ZATYLNY

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

A defence industrial policy is a good offence

OpinionBY KEVIN LYNCH, PAUL DEEGAN

‘We don’t have a choice here’: SecState for defence procurement Fuhr pledges to move ‘quicker,’ take more risks

NewsBY IREM KOCA

When will Canada embrace Indigenous-led wildfire solutions that we know work?

OpinionBY AMY CARDINAL CHRISTIANSON, CONROY SEWEPAGAHAM, FRANK BROWN

Defence spending targets are only half the challenge facing Canada

OpinionBY WILLIAM RICHARDSON

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Environment

Reality check: Canada’s nation-building must ditch fossil fantasies

OpinionBY ALY HYDER ALI

The $25,000 fine for violating Nova Scotia woods ban ‘not high enough,’ says Grit MP Fancy-Landry: ‘people really need to wake the hell up’

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Carbon removal technology is more than just a climate solution

OpinionBY CATIE O’NEAL

Let’s get serious about tackling global scourge of plastic pollution

OpinionBY PAULINE GERRARD

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FINANCE

Billions spent, little delivered: we need results-based budgeting

OpinionBY RAM MATHILAKATH

Time is ripe to revamp federal budgeting processes

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

Carney’s budget expected to be ‘consequential,’ as Canada faces unprecedented challenges from a volatile Trump, say politicos

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

Carney will need to prove he can actually stand up to Trump, he campaigned on it

OpinionBY MATT GURNEY

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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-U.S. parliamentary group has been without a Commons co-chair since election: ‘very concerning’ 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

An impact blueprint for Canada’s global agenda

OpinionBY ADAM SPENCE

What happens to the people of the occupied territories of Ukraine? It could be up to Canada

OpinionBY JON UNRUH, MICHAEL CHOLOD

GAC’s dissent channel offers partial anonymity, forbids undermining leadership: memo 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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health

How rapid diagnostics can help curb antimicrobial resistance

OpinionBY FRéDéRIC DUBé

Innovation and collaboration are the future of Canada’s public health care

OpinionBY MICHAEL GREEN

Canada must step up to meet the challenge of dementia

OpinionBY SASKIA SIVANANTHAN

Less focus on COVID-19 expected to lead to $650-million spending cuts for PHAC by 2027-2028

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

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Industry and Manufacturing

Feds need to ‘rethink’ industrial benefits policy and refocus on defence capabilities, say former senior officials: it ‘needs to evolve’

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Bill C-5 is a turning point in Canadian history

OpinionBY GARY MERASTY

We need a fix for bureaucratic delays—but is it a pipe dream?

OpinionBY MATT GURNEY

What will kill the electric car this time: Trump or Canada’s haplessness?

OpinionBY SUSAN RILEY

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innovation

The AI crash

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Canada must lead on circular solutions to end plastic pollution

OpinionBY CHRISTA SEAMAN

Canada never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, but we better not miss it this time

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Space: the critical link to Canada’s defence, sovereignty, and economic growth

OpinionBY BRIAN GALLANT

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intergovernmental

Ottawa needs to do more to recognize Newfoundland and Labrador’s ‘positive impact’ on national agenda, says former premier Ball

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Political commentary on convoy protest organizers Lich and Barber’s sentencing ‘corrosive’ and ‘dangerous,’ say observers

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

New Leaf Liberals want to root out Ontario Liberal shortcomings, not back a particular leader, says co-founder

NewsBY STUART BENSON

The One Canadian Economy Act: a new governance framework

OpinionBY LORI TURNBULL

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justice

Military police chief is ignoring the law, shutting down probes into complaints: watchdog report

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW, SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

Senate throws a lifeline to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

OpinionBY ERROL MENDES

Kelly looks at how governments react to judicial invalidation in Constraining the Court

FeatureBY JAMES B. KELLY

‘This is a book about gender-based violence, with a focus on intimate partner abuse,’ says Donner-nominated author of And Sometimes They Kill You

FeatureBY PAMELA CROSS

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Labour & employment

The value of lifelong learning

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Carney government has two duties to younger Canadians, and one is to offer real hope

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

A strong economy depends on a strong social sector 

OpinionBY DAN CLEMENT

Trade, housing, prosperity: none of it happens without construction

OpinionBY RODRIGUE GILBERT

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Lobbying

Canada ‘should not relent’ in trade talks, say industry reps who say auto sector needs zero tariffs

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

U.S. trade approach ‘changes the rules of the game,’ with canola sector leading economic lobbying in first six months of 2025

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Lobbyists address Canada-U.S. dynamic in face of shifting tariffs from unpredictable Trump: ‘it’s changed’

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

High engagement with oil and gas industry a ‘bad look’ for feds, say environmental advocates: ‘pick a lane’

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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natural resources and energy

Why bold infrastructure investments are key to our economic resilience

OpinionBY KIP EIDEBERG

Finding open ice: Canada’s future depends on batteries and critical minerals

OpinionBY DAN BLONDAL, TRENT MELL, TREVOR WALKER

Questioning the safe disposal of spent enriched uranium fuel: letter writer

Opinion

Bill C-5 revealing itself as a Trojan horse designed to appease Alberta’s fossil fuel interests

OpinionBY JOHANNE WHITMORE, FRANçOIS DELORME

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Carney becomes second sitting prime minister in Canadian history to march at Pride

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

WAGE isn’t in a funding crisis—it has a design flaw

OpinionBY REBECCA BAILEY, SARAH HASHEM

Plan tackling gender-based violence needs funding renewed, say advocates amid concerns over budget cuts

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

‘It’s being levelled’: advocates worried about potential 81 per cent cut to Women and Gender Equality Canada’s budget by 2028

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

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Indigenous Relations

Natan Obed weighs in on the Major Projects law, Carney’s election, and what the North needs

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Crown-Indigenous Relations departmental plan raises questions about role in Liberals’ major projects push

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Creating a two-tiered Canada with budget cuts that divide by race

OpinionBY ANNE LEVESQUE

Time for a public national first ministers’ meeting with First Nations

OpinionBY KYRA WILSON

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