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Infrastructure and Transport

Let’s fix our EV problem and break the Canada-China trade logjam

OpinionBY HUGH STEPHENS

• Production is stalling and our electric vehicle policy is now in shambles thanks to American protectionism. Making a deal with China can help.

Let’s fix our EV problem and break the Canada-China trade logjam

OpinionBY HUGH STEPHENS

• Production is stalling and our electric vehicle policy is now in shambles thanks to American protectionism. Making a deal with China can help.

Railways: Canada’s next great nation-building project

OpinionBY LAURENCE NGUYEN

Calls mount for the Arctic to make national-interest list with launch of Major Projects Office: there’s an ‘Achilles heel in the North’ 

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Transport Canada projects 1,000 fewer jobs by 2027-28, with green programs on the chopping block

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, PETER MAZEREEUW

Nation building needs nation builders

OpinionBY VINCENT CUSTODE

National-interest infrastructure needs to be climate proof

OpinionBY DAVE SAWYER, RYAN NESS

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

OpinionBY KAMYAB ZANDI

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

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Why industrial policy is critical to nation building

OpinionBY AARON COSBEY

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

OpinionBY SIMON ENOCH

• If the government is serious about streamlining the procurement process, it should declare a moratorium on the use of the P3 procurement model for new infrastructure.

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

OpinionBY SIMON ENOCH

• If the government is serious about streamlining the procurement process, it should declare a moratorium on the use of the P3 procurement model for new infrastructure.

The path forward on reconciliation and building infrastructure

OpinionBY MARK QUINN, BILL SCHAPER, JAMIE CARROLL

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

OpinionBY STEFAN FOURNIER

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

Competition Bureau recommends bureaucratic power grab over airline industry

OpinionBY MATTHEW LAU

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

AGRICULTURE

Treat agriculture as national defence with a strong water strategy

OpinionBY JOHN SIMPSON

Supply management works well for Canadians

OpinionBY BRUCE MUIRHEAD, JODEY NURSE

Pea and canola sector stress urgent action needed to resolve China trade dispute as harvest approaches

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada should eliminate its supply management system—with or without Trump

OpinionBY ALEX WHALEN, JAKE FUSS

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Biotechnology

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

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

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Foreign influence watchdog needs experience and compassion, not eminence: national security experts

NewsBY STUART BENSON

‘Sunshine is what is needed’: 2025 election, foreign interference issues on deck for PROC this fall

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Latvia extension forges near-permanent Canadian Army presence in Europe, leaving limited ability to deploy elsewhere 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Are we offering human bait in Ukraine?

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

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Environment

Safeguarding Canada’s freshwater heritage

OpinionBY CAMERON FIORET, MAUDE BARLOW

Canada must lead on an all-encompassing treaty to end the plastics crisis

OpinionBY SIEN VAN DEN BROEKE | UPDATED September 3, 2025

Canada’s water security strategy starts with the Canada Water Agency

OpinionBY THOMAS S. AXWORTHY

A Liberal by the same name is not necessarily the same Liberal

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

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FINANCE

MPs’ annual office budgets for 2025-26

ListBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

CRA has ‘eroded trust,’ Senator says, as minister tasks agency with creating 100-day improvement plan

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

From aid to advantage: re-imagining Canada–Africa relations

OpinionBY SELAH GETAHUN

Ministers also expected to take scissors to office budgets in spending review

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

Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ is insane but not impossible

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Democracy will not defend itself—that’s our job

OpinionBY ROBERTA METSOLA

Here come the refugees

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Forty years on: the Macdonald Commission and its enduring legacy

OpinionBY JACQUES J.M. SHORE, WENDY WAGNER

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health

Union raises alarm over pending Public Health Agency job cuts

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Feds risk missing deadline for reducing tuberculosis rates in Inuit communities

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

We need a ‘Carney moment’ in health care

OpinionBY IVY OANDASAN

The quiet revolution to improve access to youth mental health care

OpinionBY ALEXA BAGNELL, DAVID GOLDBLOOM

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Industry and Manufacturing

Canada, Europe, and NATO: a renewed commitment to shared security

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP STEPHEN FUHR

The return of the wildcat strike?

OpinionBY CARLO FANELLI

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

Innovation put Canada ahead in AI; adoption will decide who benefits

OpinionBY SARAH STOCKDALE, AVERY SWARTZ, KIRSTEN KOPPANG TELFORD

AI literacy as a Canadian policy imperative

OpinionBY DAVID MATSINHE

Carney was talking about Canada’s productivity problem in 2010. It’s now his job to fix it.

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Canada and its allies must get smart about smart devices and limit chips to what matters

OpinionBY KATE E. TODD

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intergovernmental

As the CAQ flounders, the Parti Québécois appears to be unstoppable

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Doug Ford’s political nihilism

OpinionBY GERRY NICHOLLS

Summer’s over, and a possibly raucous House awaits

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

A broken promise, yet again: Why Canada needs national pharmacare now

OpinionBY BERNARD HO

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justice

Canada’s deafening silence defending the International Criminal Court 

OpinionBY MARK KERSTEN

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

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Labour & employment

Critics agree on need for reform, but call Tory bid to scrap temporary foreign worker program ‘ridiculous’ and ‘political’

NewsBY IREM KOCA

The feds’ newest go-to attack on workers’ rights must be repealed  

OpinionBY SHARON DESOUSA

How the Indigenous workforce can STEM the tide for the coming energy tsunami

OpinionBY JOHN DESJARLAIS

A defeated NDP means labour, progressive movements have to ‘fill that void,’ says CUPE head Hancock

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

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Lobbying

Economic lobbying in July rises to meet demand for nation-building projects, interprovincial trade

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Steel, auto sectors seek relief after latest ‘crushing’ tariff hike 

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

‘The honeymoon period will be over’: politicos expect high bar for Carney’s first budget, and omnibus-bill headaches

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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natural resources and energy

Feds must consider oil and gas conflicts for Canada Pension Plan appointees 

OpinionBY CHERYL RANDALL, LAURA MCGRATH

A nation-building project that will protect the environment and our health

OpinionBY RICHARD VAN DER JAGT, GEOFF STRONG

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

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

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

OpinionBY ALY HYDER ALI

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Canada’s public service needs updated visible minority hiring targets

OpinionBY WAHEED KHAN

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

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Indigenous Relations

Air Canada mess is a lesson for government

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Cuts to Indigenous Services Canada sparking concerns of return to ‘Band-Aid solutions,’ and ‘mistakes of the past’

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

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

OpinionBY AMY CARDINAL CHRISTIANSON, CONROY SEWEPAGAHAM, FRANK BROWN

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

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

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