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Labour and employment

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

OpinionBY MARK KENNEY

• Expanded immigration can work hand-in-hand with the construction industry’s goals to open the way to build the 3.5 million additional homes we need above the current pace of construction.

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

OpinionBY MARK KENNEY

• Expanded immigration can work hand-in-hand with the construction industry’s goals to open the way to build the 3.5 million additional homes we need above the current pace of construction.

Canada needs a better approach to net-zero home renovations

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

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

OpinionBY GARY UBA

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

Poilievre’s ‘carrot and stick’ housing plan more appealing to voters than Ontario’s new homebuilding law, says pollster

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Employment Insurance reform can’t move forward without changing the way it’s financed

OpinionBY RICARDO CHEJFEC, RACHEL SAMSON

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Canadians want more workforce training at post-secondary institutes

OpinionBY SARAH WATTS-RYNARD

• Governments need to step up to make training accessible, affordable, and timely.

Canadians want more workforce training at post-secondary institutes

OpinionBY SARAH WATTS-RYNARD

• Governments need to step up to make training accessible, affordable, and timely.

‘I’m concerned with the lack of rigour’: AG flags poor effort recovering billions in suspected COVID-19 overpayments, with sole focus on speed of delivery

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

To ease the housing crisis, keep building outside the box

OpinionBY CHAD THIESSEN

Unlocking affordable infrastructure through tax-free municipal bonds 

OpinionBY MICHAEL FENN

To build our better tomorrow, we need the builders

OpinionBY MARY VAN BUREN

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

Plant seeds beyond agriculture to shore up the fertilizer sector

OpinionBY KAREN PROUD

AGRICULTURE

Affordable shelter, fertilizer emissions, and tourism topped lobbying issues in busiest October since 2018

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Thoughts for food: Ag Committee, Competition Bureau prepare dual studies into ‘greedflation,’ grocery sector

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Four decades later, global hunger still trending

OpinionBY CAROL THIESSEN, NYAMBURA GITHAIGA

We must seize the solution to food inflation and health-care shortages at our fingertips

OpinionBY MICHAEL GRAYDON

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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

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

‘Structural failures’ and lingering trauma top of mind as convoy anniversary nears, say MPs, advocates

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Time to push the eject button on Operation Impact

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Artificial intelligence says it could manipulate humans into giving it weapons

OpinionBY ALISTAIR VIGIER

‘Made-in-Canada’ strategy needed for defence procurements following $406-million U.S. purchase for Ukraine: NDP critic

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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Environment

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

OpinionBY TIM GRAY

Will Bill S-5 amendments undermine Canada’s international biodiversity commitments?

OpinionBY JOSEPH F. CASTRILLI AND FE DE LEON

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

OpinionBY ALIENOR ROUGEOT

Despite popular support from the public, progress on Just Transition remains elusive: letter writer

Opinion

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FINANCE

‘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

Not our grandparents’ recession: changing labour market means feds and central bank should reconsider priorities as employment remains strong

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

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

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada’s banks fundamental to financing the net-zero transition

OpinionBY ANTHONY OSTLER

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Fisheries and oceans

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

Canadian fisheries: access and benefits at risk of slipping away?

OpinionBY JENNIFER SILVER

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FOREIGN POLICY

Will Western tanks bring victory in Ukraine?

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

‘There’s power in numbers’: Almost 50 Canadian MPs (so far) have sponsored detained Iranians

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Potential Canada-Ecuador trade pact to navigate tricky investment protections field

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Armenians are facing another genocide

OpinionBY RAFFI SARKISSIAN

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health

Alcohol guidelines offer a simple message: drinking less is better

OpinionBY CATHERINE PARADIS, PETER BUTT

‘Disappointing comment’ to see Trudeau describe Ford’s health-care changes as ‘innovation,’ says Toronto Liberal MP Sgro

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Disability policy tests Canadian values

OpinionBY RABIA KHEDR

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

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

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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

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infrastructure and transport

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

OpinionBY JEFF MORRISON

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

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR PAULA SIMONS

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

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innovation

On Rogers-Shaw, Champagne faces policy choice

NewsBY JENNA COCULLO

CRTC must ‘look around the corner’ in changing digital landscape, says new chair who wants to ‘meet the needs of Canadians’

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

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

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Canada driving forward with its zero-emission vehicle ambitions

OpinionBY SUZANNE GOLDBERG

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intergovernmental

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

Signs of Ontario inching towards a health-care deal may ‘break the logjam’ so other provinces follow suit, as premiers’ united front shows cracks

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Alberta is, indeed, a ‘distinct society’

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Canada needs a national health-care data system as a first step towards modernizing care

OpinionBY MATEO LARRAZABAL

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justice

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

Opinion

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

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Labour & employment

Significant policy shifts have been made, but government still leaving surrogacy families behind

OpinionBY JACQUIE LAROCQUE

How does Canada solve its sustainable infrastructure crisis?

OpinionBY RHONDA LENTON

Building a more sustainable financial foundation for Canada’s universities and colleges

OpinionBY PETER MCINNIS

Here’s what’s still needed to drive innovation

OpinionBY MERIC GERTLER

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Lobbying

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

Innovation Minister Champagne top lobbied cabinet minister in 2022 with auto manufacturers among biggest lobbyists, so far

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Record-breaking lobbying activity in November with discussions about economy and federal budget

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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natural resources and energy

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

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Shouldn’t a new and experimental reactor deserve a federal impact assessment?

OpinionBY M.V. RAMANA AND SUSAN O’DONNELL

Collaboration needed to reach net-zero goals in the electricity sector

OpinionBY TERRY YOUNG

‘A mixed bag’: committee report on proposed oil and gas emissions cap reflects deep divisions on path forward

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Québec City mosque attack anniversary a time for action against Islamophobia

OpinionBY WAHEED KHAN

Feds should not be allowed to hide behind NDAs

OpinionBY KATHLEEN FINLAY

Ottawa must officially recognize Black Excellence Day

OpinionBY KAMIKA WILLIAMS, SHEBA BIRHANU

Canada’s feminist international assistance policy should be a catalyst for very important questions

OpinionBY SARAH MORITZ