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Labour and employment

Budget should bolster commitment to workers in changing economy

OpinionBY SEAN STRICKLAND

If the government is going to provide billions of dollars in tax incentives to the private sector to meet a net-zero carbon-based energy economy, then that revenue from the treasury must help to create good, middle-class jobs.

Budget should bolster commitment to workers in changing economy

OpinionBY SEAN STRICKLAND

If the government is going to provide billions of dollars in tax incentives to the private sector to meet a net-zero carbon-based energy economy, then that revenue from the treasury must help to create good, middle-class jobs.

‘Too much, too quickly’: economists warn of Liberal ‘pro-business’ immigration policy

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

‘No one-size-fits-all approach’: House committee tackles improving Indigenous graduation rates

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Canada facing wave of new homelessness: Gatineau, Que., reader

This just in: high poverty rates and inequality are not inevitable

OpinionBY MICHAEL HATFIELD

Return-to-office mandate a step backwards for all Canadians

OpinionBY ALEX SILAS

EI administrative malfunction: an urgent need for simplicity

OpinionBY PIERRE LALIBERTE

Growing ‘generational divide’ as younger Canadians report lower trust in government, greater economic anxiety: poll

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

Forget the happy headlines about the low unemployment rate

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

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As prices rise, consumers need Ottawa’s help to keep child labour out of supply chains

OpinionBY MICHAEL MESSENGER

Bill S-211 would require companies and federal departments and agencies to be transparent about the human rights risks in their supply chains and what efforts they are undertaking to avoid them.

As prices rise, consumers need Ottawa’s help to keep child labour out of supply chains

OpinionBY MICHAEL MESSENGER

Bill S-211 would require companies and federal departments and agencies to be transparent about the human rights risks in their supply chains and what efforts they are undertaking to avoid them.

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

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Workers are sounding the alarm and Parliamentarians must listen

OpinionBY BEA BRUSKE

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

Grocery Code of Conduct to address transparency in agri-food industry set for April release

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Growing Canada’s agri-food sector requires a sustainable approach to meet consumer demand

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP FRANCIS DROUIN

Biting back against ‘greedflation’

OpinionBY NDP MP ALISTAIR MACGREGOR

Digging into the Senate’s new soil study

OpinionBY SENATOR ROBERT BLACK

AGRICULTURE

We know how to support healthy soil, so let’s help farmers adopt sustainable methods

OpinionBY SENATOR SHARON BUREY

Challenges facing Nova Scotia agriculture industry

OpinionBY PROGRESSIVE SENATOR JANE CORDY

Turning up the heat on climate protections for workers

OpinionBY ANELYSE WEILER AND SUSANNA KLASSEN

Agriculture sector experiencing labour shortages

OpinionBY CONSERVATIVE MP LIANNE ROOD

Biotechnology

Genomics can both grow and green Canada’s economy

OpinionBY BETTINA HAMELIN

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

DEFENCE & SECURITY

MPs’ work on gun control misses target

OpinionBY SUZANNE ZACCOUR, ERIN WHITMORE, PAULETTE SENIOR

Trudeau, Huppé reinforce secrecy barriers

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

Cybersecurity should be a key point of discussion during Biden’s Canadian visit

OpinionBY SASHA KRSTIC

A ‘more challenging and volatile’ world: Russia, China, U.S. top of mind for top 50 foreign policy influencers

NewsBY NEIL MOSS, CHELSEA NASH

Environment

Will governments or markets drive Canada’s energy transition?

OpinionBY CHRISTOPHER RAGAN, RACHEL SAMSON

UN secretary general calls on developed countries to accelerate net-zero timelines to 2040

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Alberta Premier Smith should spend wisely, sustainably, create green jobs, writes Tom McElroy

Does the planet need a new Bretton Woods Agreement and can Canada help?

OpinionBY JOSEPH INGRAM

FINANCE

The U.S. is besting Canada on investing in research and it will have consequences

OpinionBY PAUL DAVIDSON

Civil liberties groups call for immediate moratorium on ‘prejudiced audits’ of Muslim charities pending NSIRA review

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Feds should use upcoming budget to defend, not defund, the CBC

OpinionBY MARLA BOLTMAN

Canada built world-leading research institutes—now it’s letting them collapse

OpinionBY ALANNAH HALLAS

Fisheries and oceans

Is Canada ready to hear from a new wave of water leaders?

OpinionBY ANDREA MAY ROWE, CORINNE SCHUSTER-WALLACE

Fisheries Minister Murray promotes new parliamentary affairs director

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Should we let the H2O flow?

OpinionBY KEVIN LYNCH AND PAUL DEEGAN

Now is the time to act for Canada to help protect the world’s oceans

OpinionBY JENNIFER JOSENHANS

FOREIGN POLICY

‘Russian Crimea’ is as much a myth as the world’s invincible second army

OpinionBY ANASTASIYA RINGIS

It’s populism or bust as Poilievre vies to bring Canada its own Trumpian moment

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Canada should focus on fixes, not fights, during Biden visit: Tory MP

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant on Putin, what about Bush’s invasion of Iraq?

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

health

Show you can lead in public health policy, Ottawa

OpinionBY IAN CULBERT

Conservative rhetoric on safe consumption sites plays dangerous game with toxic drug crisis: NDP critic

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Intelligent solutions are the shining stars for Canada’s health-care system

OpinionBY ANDY CANHAM

How much money does Canada’s health system really need?

OpinionBY MICHAEL WOLFSON

Industry and Manufacturing

Project Arrow and the switch to electric vehicles: a Q&A with Flavio Volpe

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

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

OpinionBY GARY UBA

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

infrastructure and transport

Why ignoring calls for expanded rail interswitching is good for our supply chains

OpinionBY MARY-JANE BENNETT

From paternalism to partnership: how to close the Indigenous infrastructure gap

OpinionBY ERNIE DANIELS

Overhaul of passenger protections to include rail travel is ‘worthy area of focus,’ says NDP transport critic

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

With Canada’s weak protections failing air passengers, all eyes are on the transport minister

OpinionBY NDP MP TAYLOR BACHRACH

innovation

What’s missing in our innovation agenda?

OpinionBY KEVIN LYNCH AND PAUL DEEGAN

The future of AI governance a balancing act of privacy, ethics, and progress

OpinionBY AFTAB AHMED

Link blocking ‘always on the radar,’ but Google’s committee response a ‘threat to legislators’: Bittle

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Amid TikTok ban, Canadians left ‘to their own devices’ as feds dither on updating privacy rules: Geist

NewsBY STUART BENSON

intergovernmental

The anglicization of the world is here

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Don’t sleep on the Churchill Falls talks

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

Protecting publicly funded health care is shaping up as a last-ditch stand

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Sport ministers team up to tackle ‘huge gap’ in safe sport against tight timeline, ‘frustrations’ of federalism

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

justice

End-of-life rights advocates prioritize advanced requests for medically-assisted death, following passing of Bill C-39

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Senator Miville-Dechêne takes on the porn industry

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Bailing out the bail system

OpinionBY DON HEAD

The RCMP is never held to account for its own tragic, devastating wrongdoing

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Labour & employment

Enabling a more resilient Canadian supply chain workforce

OpinionBY DAVID A. JOHNSTON

Labour market shortfall shouldn’t fall on the backs of international students

OpinionBY BYRON LEW

Canada must close the digital gap with Indigenous Peoples

OpinionBY PSG SENATOR MARTY KLYNE

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

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Lobbying

Top 30 consultant lobbyists with highest number of communications in 2022

ListBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Top 100 Lobbyists in 2023: green tech and economy boosting set for top advocacy priorities in 2023, say lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT, STEPHEN JEFFERY

Top 20 most-lobbied cabinet ministers in 2022

ListBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Top 21 most-lobbied public office-holders in 2022

ListBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

natural resources and energy

Cleaning up our emissions means government support for all low-emission energy

OpinionBY SHANNON WATT

Trans Mountain’s next private sector loan likely to be significantly more expensive than last year’s ‘sweetheart deal,’ say observers

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Nuclear Waste Management Organization taking extra year to pick storage site as it seeks local support

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI