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Secretary of State for International Development Randeep Sarai's government should continue to invest in Partnering for Climate, a federal program to support climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa, as a way to support climate adaptation and food security efforts, writes Carol Thiessen. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY SELAH GETAHUN | September 3, 2025
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, left, Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab, and Industry Minister Mélanie Joly. A strategic implementation plan for Canada’s Africa Strategy requires co-ordination across multiple departments including Global Affairs, Immigration, Innovation, and Finance, writes Selah Getahun. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY SELAH GETAHUN | September 3, 2025
Opinion | BY SELAH GETAHUN | September 3, 2025
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, left, Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab, and Industry Minister Mélanie Joly. A strategic implementation plan for Canada’s Africa Strategy requires co-ordination across multiple departments including Global Affairs, Immigration, Innovation, and Finance, writes Selah Getahun. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ALEXANDER DOW | August 27, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, Foreign Minister Anita Anand, and Ambassador to the UN Bob Rae should attend the Sept. 30 UN conference on the Rohingya and show that Canada stands for justice, writes Alexander Dow. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ALEXANDER DOW | August 27, 2025
Opinion | BY ALEXANDER DOW | August 27, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, Foreign Minister Anita Anand, and Ambassador to the UN Bob Rae should attend the Sept. 30 UN conference on the Rohingya and show that Canada stands for justice, writes Alexander Dow. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY EDITORIAL | July 28, 2025
Mark Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney, pictured July 17, 2025, at the Prime Minister’s First Nations summit on Bill C-5 in Gatineau, Que. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY EDITORIAL | July 28, 2025
Opinion | BY EDITORIAL | July 28, 2025
Mark Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney, pictured July 17, 2025, at the Prime Minister’s First Nations summit on Bill C-5 in Gatineau, Que. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ALEX NEVE, DOROTEA GUCCIARDO | July 25, 2025
Mark Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney must follow through with his promise on May 19 to take "concrete actions in response" to Israel not lifting its restrictions on humanitarian aid, write Alex Neve and Dorotea Gucciardo. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ALEX NEVE, DOROTEA GUCCIARDO | July 25, 2025
Opinion | BY ALEX NEVE, DOROTEA GUCCIARDO | July 25, 2025
Mark Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney must follow through with his promise on May 19 to take "concrete actions in response" to Israel not lifting its restrictions on humanitarian aid, write Alex Neve and Dorotea Gucciardo. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY PAUL FARRAN | July 24, 2025
Bob Rae
Canada’s UN Ambassador Bob Rae joined global leaders as the conference concluded and opened the plenary with a quote from Leonard Cohen: 'Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY PAUL FARRAN | July 24, 2025
Opinion | BY PAUL FARRAN | July 24, 2025
Bob Rae
Canada’s UN Ambassador Bob Rae joined global leaders as the conference concluded and opened the plenary with a quote from Leonard Cohen: 'Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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
Opinion | June 28, 2017
Opinion | June 28, 2017
Opinion | June 28, 2017