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The media centre for the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta., was located on Tunnel Mountain at the Banff Centre. The Hill Times photograph by Neil Moss
News | BY NEIL MOSS, STUART BENSON, IREM KOCA | June 11, 2025
Observers say Prime Minister Mark Carney's foreign policy legacy could be a major one as he navigates the country's response to moves made by U.S. President Donald Trump. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
News | BY NEIL MOSS, STUART BENSON, IREM KOCA | June 11, 2025
News | BY NEIL MOSS, STUART BENSON, IREM KOCA | June 11, 2025
Observers say Prime Minister Mark Carney's foreign policy legacy could be a major one as he navigates the country's response to moves made by U.S. President Donald Trump. White House photograph by Daniel Torok
News | BY NEIL MOSS | June 4, 2025
Canada only deployed 26 personnel on peacekeeping missions, according to the latest United Nations numbers as of Feb. 28. DND photograph by MCpl Jennifer Kusche
News | BY NEIL MOSS | June 4, 2025
News | BY NEIL MOSS | June 4, 2025
Canada only deployed 26 personnel on peacekeeping missions, according to the latest United Nations numbers as of Feb. 28. DND photograph by MCpl Jennifer Kusche
News | BY NEIL MOSS | May 7, 2025
Mark Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged a new foreign policy and a boost to Canada's diplomatic presence abroad in the Liberal campaign platform. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY NEIL MOSS | May 7, 2025
News | BY NEIL MOSS | May 7, 2025
Mark Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged a new foreign policy and a boost to Canada's diplomatic presence abroad in the Liberal campaign platform. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY SANA BéG | April 16, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. Little has been said by party leaders about Canada’s role in responding to the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges, writes Sana Bég. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and illustration by Joey Sabourin
Opinion | BY SANA BéG | April 16, 2025
Opinion | BY SANA BéG | April 16, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. Little has been said by party leaders about Canada’s role in responding to the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges, writes Sana Bég. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and illustration by Joey Sabourin
Opinion | BY TONIA OCCHIONERO | April 15, 2025
Women attend a village health briefing in South Sudan in May 2023. Maternal health investments can be the difference between life, and death, writes Tonia Occhionero. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commo
Opinion | BY TONIA OCCHIONERO | April 15, 2025
Opinion | BY TONIA OCCHIONERO | April 15, 2025
Women attend a village health briefing in South Sudan in May 2023. Maternal health investments can be the difference between life, and death, writes Tonia Occhionero. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commo
Opinion | BY JEN MOORE | October 18, 2017
Liberal MP Michael Levitt is chair of the House Subcommittee on International Human Rights. The Hill Times file photograph
Opinion | BY JEN MOORE | October 18, 2017
Opinion | BY JEN MOORE | October 18, 2017
Liberal MP Michael Levitt is chair of the House Subcommittee on International Human Rights. The Hill Times file photograph
Opinion | BY JOEL SPICER | October 11, 2017
A nurse measures the arm of a severely malnourished child at a clinic in an internally displaced persons camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region in 2013. UN photograph by Albert González Farran
Opinion | BY JOEL SPICER | October 11, 2017
Opinion | BY JOEL SPICER | October 11, 2017
A nurse measures the arm of a severely malnourished child at a clinic in an internally displaced persons camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region in 2013. UN photograph by Albert González Farran
Opinion | BY ANDREW CADDELL | October 4, 2017
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during the G7 Summit in Taormina, Italy in May. PMO photograph by Adam Scotti
Opinion | BY ANDREW CADDELL | October 4, 2017
Opinion | BY ANDREW CADDELL | October 4, 2017
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during the G7 Summit in Taormina, Italy in May. PMO photograph by Adam Scotti
Opinion | BY ALICE ALBRIGHT, CASSANDRA HALLETT | October 2, 2017
Students at Mkunazini primary school in Zanzibar. Alice Albright and Cassandra Hallett write that while education is one of the most important investments a country can make in its people and its future, without increased and sustained investments in education in less affluent countries, we 'won’t see much progress.' GPE/Chantal Rigaud photograph
Opinion | BY ALICE ALBRIGHT, CASSANDRA HALLETT | October 2, 2017
Opinion | BY ALICE ALBRIGHT, CASSANDRA HALLETT | October 2, 2017
Students at Mkunazini primary school in Zanzibar. Alice Albright and Cassandra Hallett write that while education is one of the most important investments a country can make in its people and its future, without increased and sustained investments in education in less affluent countries, we 'won’t see much progress.' GPE/Chantal Rigaud photograph
Opinion | BY ANDREW CADDELL | September 27, 2017
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has refused to commit to spending 0.7 per cent of gross national income on foreign aid. Maybe that shouldn't be the goal anyway, argues Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ANDREW CADDELL | September 27, 2017
Opinion | BY ANDREW CADDELL | September 27, 2017
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has refused to commit to spending 0.7 per cent of gross national income on foreign aid. Maybe that shouldn't be the goal anyway, argues Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY BRYON WILFERT | September 20, 2017
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Aung San Suu Kyi, state counsellor of Myanmar, on June 7 on Parliament Hill. Since then, upwards of 400,000 minority Rohingya Muslim people have fled Myanmar amid violence. Mr. Trudeau has said Ms. Suu Kyi, an honorary Canadian citizen, must publicly condemn 'the brutal oppression of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim people.' The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
Opinion | BY BRYON WILFERT | September 20, 2017
Opinion | BY BRYON WILFERT | September 20, 2017
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Aung San Suu Kyi, state counsellor of Myanmar, on June 7 on Parliament Hill. Since then, upwards of 400,000 minority Rohingya Muslim people have fled Myanmar amid violence. Mr. Trudeau has said Ms. Suu Kyi, an honorary Canadian citizen, must publicly condemn 'the brutal oppression of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim people.' The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
Opinion | BY GISèLE YASMEEN, VILUPTI LOK BARRINEAU | September 12, 2017
APEC Ministerial Meeting Plenary Opening Session in 2013. A four-year project, the APEC-Canada Growing Business Partnership is a 'demonstration of Canada's renewed investment' in the MSME space, designed to 'build and grow' the MSME community in the region, write Vilupti Lok Barrineau and Gisèle Yasmeen. U.S. State Department photo by William Ng
Opinion | BY GISèLE YASMEEN, VILUPTI LOK BARRINEAU | September 12, 2017
Opinion | BY GISèLE YASMEEN, VILUPTI LOK BARRINEAU | September 12, 2017
APEC Ministerial Meeting Plenary Opening Session in 2013. A four-year project, the APEC-Canada Growing Business Partnership is a 'demonstration of Canada's renewed investment' in the MSME space, designed to 'build and grow' the MSME community in the region, write Vilupti Lok Barrineau and Gisèle Yasmeen. U.S. State Department photo by William Ng
Opinion | August 16, 2017
Opinion | August 16, 2017
Opinion | August 16, 2017
Opinion | BY ALI MIRZAD | July 28, 2017
Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland gives a major speech on foreign policy in the House of Commons in June. Adam Scotti photograph courtesy of the PMO
Opinion | BY ALI MIRZAD | July 28, 2017
Opinion | BY ALI MIRZAD | July 28, 2017
Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland gives a major speech on foreign policy in the House of Commons in June. Adam Scotti photograph courtesy of the PMO
Opinion | BY EDITORIAL | July 26, 2017
Opinion | BY EDITORIAL | July 26, 2017
Opinion | BY EDITORIAL | July 26, 2017
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre, walks with International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, second from left, his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, second from right, Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef, far left, and Women Deliver president and CEO Katja Iversen, far right, last month on Parliament Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre, walks with International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, second from left, his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, second from right, Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef, far left, and Women Deliver president and CEO Katja Iversen, far right, last month on Parliament Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau speaks on Parliament Hill on June 13. This spring, the Canadian government announced a dollar-for-dollar matching fund to help spur Canadians to give to famine relief in four countries where 20 million are at risk of starvation. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau speaks on Parliament Hill on June 13. This spring, the Canadian government announced a dollar-for-dollar matching fund to help spur Canadians to give to famine relief in four countries where 20 million are at risk of starvation. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright