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Infrastructure and Transport

Take advantage of real opportunities to improve the Airline Passenger Protection Regulations

OpinionBY JEFF MORRISON

Since the regulations only hold airlines to account, they do not always address the root causes of disruptions, so we are calling for a system that holds other organizations in the air travel ecosystem to account.

Take advantage of real opportunities to improve the Airline Passenger Protection Regulations

OpinionBY JEFF MORRISON

Since the regulations only hold airlines to account, they do not always address the root causes of disruptions, so we are calling for a system that holds other organizations in the air travel ecosystem to account.

Government has a role to play in the changing needs of Canadian supply chains

OpinionBY GARY UBA

How climate change reveals the fragility of B.C. transportation infrastructure

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR PAULA SIMONS

Enabling a more resilient Canadian supply chain workforce

OpinionBY DAVID A. JOHNSTON

Atlantic Canada’s cities see recent population surge as Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal lose thousands to other regions: StatsCan

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Balancing on the tipping point

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

‘Knee-jerk’ travel restrictions ineffective at protecting Canadians, Liberals should demand greater transparency from China: MP Ellis

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Via Rail holiday travel disruption prompts calls to explore rail passenger rights protections

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Over-regulating rail is over-simplification: ways to improve Canada’s supply chain

OpinionBY MARC BRAZEAU

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Ottawa’s transit woes take a licking in LRT inquiry report

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

Two derailments to date, one large sinkhole delay, poorly designed tracks, and consistently unreliable service: all are hung up in the scathing LRT report.

Ottawa’s transit woes take a licking in LRT inquiry report

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

Two derailments to date, one large sinkhole delay, poorly designed tracks, and consistently unreliable service: all are hung up in the scathing LRT report.

To ease the housing crisis, keep building outside the box

OpinionBY CHAD THIESSEN

Unlocking affordable infrastructure through tax-free municipal bonds

OpinionBY MICHAEL FENN

Plant seeds beyond agriculture to shore up the fertilizer sector

OpinionBY KAREN PROUD

Leading the way: Canadian aerospace industry poised for success

OpinionBY ANTHONY NOREJKO

A holiday wish list for Canada’s aerospace sector

OpinionBY GRANT STEVENS

Course-correcting Canada’s troubled aerospace sector

OpinionBY LANA PAYNE

Securing our aerospace competitiveness will require vision and investments

OpinionBY MARYSE HARVEY

Canada needs to claim its place in the commercial space race

OpinionBY MIKE GREENLEY

AGRICULTURE

Canola industry tops most-active voices in 2022 lobbying

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Genomics can both grow and green Canada’s economy

OpinionBY BETTINA HAMELIN

NDP and Conservatives could find common ground to battle food inflation

NewsBY CHELSEA NASH

Time to enact promised ban on the export of horses for slaughter

OpinionBY KAITLYN MITCHELL, BRITTANY SEMENIUK, AND SINIKKA CROSLAND

Biotechnology

Big money to scale up our most promising, young companies often from the United States

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Canada’s life sciences sector has come a long way

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP ANDY FILLMORE

Biotechnology, statistics, collaboration, and the pursuit of the future

OpinionBY DONALD ESTEP

Turning crisis into opportunity: a Canadian-made bio-revolution

OpinionBY BETTINA HAMELIN

DEFENCE & SECURITY

How to avoid a war with China

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Tanking support for the Armed Forces

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Moving past the convoy occupation requires transformational human rights change

OpinionBY LEILANI FARHA, MONIA MAZIGH, ALEX NEVE, DEBBIE OWUSU-AKYEEAH

Canadian government appears to be yielding to pressure on Aurora CP-140s, writes Chartrand

Environment

Success of the Stephenville project is an important test case for Canada

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Good corporate citizenship isn’t a matter of choice

OpinionBY RICHARD JANDA AND ISEOLUWA AKINTUNDE

Biodiversity conservation: the devil is in the details

OpinionBY ROBERT SOPUCK

Keep climate change and the environment at the top of the 2023 to do list

OpinionBY TIM GRAY

FINANCE

International development: more important than ever for the public and private sectors

OpinionBY LORI KERR

Morneau says PMO consumed with short-term politicking, longer-term growth prospects not a priority

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Central bank’s ‘definitive’ language on pausing future rate hikes an ‘appropriate’ choice, say economists

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

‘Voluntary action alone isn’t going to cut it’: watchdog group calls for climate reporting requirements for Canada’s $4-trillion pension fund industry

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Fisheries and oceans

The effect of climate crisis on Canadian coastal communities is an all-hands-on deck situation, but the Liberals aren’t acting

OpinionBY NDP MP LISA MARIE BARRON

Ocean-based carbon removal offers path to deliver COP15 promises

OpinionBY MARTY ODLIN

‘There’s no more time’: green light needed for swift movement on blue economy, says Sen. Galvez

NewsBY ALICE CHEN

New Fisheries Minister Murray has list of ‘urgent’ priorities to grapple with

NewsBY ALICE CHEN

FOREIGN POLICY

Opposition parties need to up their foreign policy game

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

Canada called to help clear Lachin corridor as accusations of ‘de-facto ethnic cleansing’ of Armenians fly at Foreign Affairs committee

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Repatriation order for men in Syria raises questions about Canada’s consular obligations

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Canadian-facilitated Cameroon peace process right approach, but fraught with challenges, say analysts

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

health

Workers are sounding the alarm and Parliamentarians must listen

OpinionBY BEA BRUSKE

Singh should stop raising spectre of health-care boogeyman

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

First ministers’ meeting trumpeted as solution to Canada’s broken health-care system, but benefits may not be felt for years

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

Trudeau’s Liberals have to get health care ‘right’ or ‘explosive’ issue could trigger an election, say politicos

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Industry and Manufacturing

Canadian response to U.S. Inflation Reduction Act should seek to boost ‘certainty’ for investors, says advocacy group

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Eyes turn to trade-pact clock after latest U.K. government toss-up

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Innovative post-secondary solutions will help solve Canada’s tech-sector skills shortage

OpinionBY JANE GOODYER

Politics This Morning: Anand visits Poland as Russian cruise missiles hammer Ukrainian cities

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

innovation

Canadian start-ups need launch pads to find new routes for national economic growth

OpinionBY YUNG WU

Our regulatory stagnation is killing innovation

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR COLIN DEACON

Canada can become the international low-carbon innovator of choice

OpinionBY MARTHA CRAGO, BENOIT BOULET

Achieving Canada’s EV mandates requires more money for research and future talent

OpinionBY NARAYAN KAR, MADELINE MCQUEEN

intergovernmental

MPs push back against ‘stunning’ riding boundary, name changes in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick: ‘these symbols are important’

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

Likening medicare to communism, Ford moves ahead with plans for privatized, two-tier health care in Ontario

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Call it what you will, the government owes Canadians a plan to ensure the energy transition is fair

OpinionBY ALIENOR ROUGEOT

Ignoring Danielle Smith is Justin Trudeau’s best strategy as she tries to bait him into a fight leading up to Alberta election

NewsBY CHELSEA NASH

justice

Where was the outrage when Const. Andrew Hong was gunned down, writes Toronto reader

We urgently need robust action to end gender-based violence in British Columbia

OpinionBY LISA RUPERT, AMY FITZGERALD, AND RAJI MANGAT

Hockey players should stay out of politics

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

‘Rock and a hard place’: party insiders say managing internal divisions on gun control Singh’s ‘biggest test’ as left-leaning hunters set sights on rural, northern MPs

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Labour & employment

‘We need the entire bouquet’: child care bill debate zeroes in on role of for-profit providers

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Canada’s next great economic boom can be unleashed by the power of housing, immigration, and labour

OpinionBY MARK KENNEY

Canada needs a better approach to net-zero home renovations

OpinionBY MARTIN LUYMES, JAY NORDENSTROM, AND TOM-PIERRE FRAPPé-SéNéCLAUZE

Canada must close the digital gap with Indigenous Peoples

OpinionBY PSG SENATOR MARTY KLYNE

Lobbying

Top 100: the most influential people in government and politics in 2023

ListBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT, MIKE LAPOINTE, ABBAS RANA, NEIL MOSS, SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

Record-setting December finishes unprecedented year for lobbying activity

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Heavy lobbying activity in 2022 in response to economic woes, say lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

‘Targeted’ budget requires aggressive lobbying campaigns to be heard, say lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

natural resources and energy

Poilievre’s First Nations consultations demonstrate ‘maturity,’ reconciliation no longer partisan issue, say strategists

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Renewable energy sector ‘going like gangbusters,’ say experts, but feds must handle just transition legislation with sensitivity

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Trudeau looks to gather momentum in clean tech race after potentially game-changing signs from U.S.

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Alberta is, indeed, a ‘distinct society’

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Women, Gender and Diversity

There’s no nice way to call out Islamophobia

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

MPs ‘are listening to Kirsty right now,’ says Status of Women Committee chair, following ex-minister Duncan’s comments on abuse in sport

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

A space for her: what we can learn from Jacinda Ardern’s resignation

OpinionBY CHI NGUYEN

Québec City mosque attack anniversary a time for action against Islamophobia

OpinionBY WAHEED KHAN

Indigenous Relations

Progress on Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations ‘glacial,’ says recent report

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT