Legislation

AI study and Senate bills on alcohol warnings and sickle cell disease framework on Senate Social Affairs Committee’s agenda

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

• Policy priorities for some Senate committee members also include digital health technologies, the impacts of climate disasters, and medical assistance in dying.

AI study and Senate bills on alcohol warnings and sickle cell disease framework on Senate Social Affairs Committee’s agenda

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

• Policy priorities for some Senate committee members also include digital health technologies, the impacts of climate disasters, and medical assistance in dying.

Quebec’s new ‘constitution’ bill is an affront to democracy

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Canada Strong and Free fundraising emails using ‘crisis rhetoric,’ to stoke distrust in government and media, say comms experts, pollsters

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

New border bill cuts controversial measures, keeps powers to tighten immigration

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Canada must keep its promises to protect animals

OpinionBY EWA DEMIANOWICZ

Military justice reform bill ‘a major step forward,’ but needs work at committee, say Bloc MPs as Tories favour more debate

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

Farmers urge informed, responsible dialogue around seasonal workers

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• BY TYSON MACAULAY

Bill C-8’s moment of truth: draw the line on what’s ‘critical’

Opinion

• BY ARASH GHIASSI, RIAZ SAYANI

Carney’s so-called Combatting Hate Act is an attack on pro-Palestine expression

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• BY RIDDHI KACHHELA

‘It’s not right’: interim PBO calls for legislative changes to avoid repeating the circumstances of his hiring

The politics of fear: what ‘tough on crime’ gets wrong about public safety

OpinionBY DERICO SYMONDS

• This approach may generate compelling soundbites, but decades of evidence show it does little to improve public safety while deepening systemic inequities.

The politics of fear: what ‘tough on crime’ gets wrong about public safety

OpinionBY DERICO SYMONDS

• This approach may generate compelling soundbites, but decades of evidence show it does little to improve public safety while deepening systemic inequities.

‘We’re not talking about a hamburger missing some ketchup’: CRA officials grilled on damning AG report

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

NDP leadership candidates pitch ‘straight-talk’ solutions, ‘valuing the base,’ and inclusion to labour leaders at first forum

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

‘Urgent need for change’: procurement watchdog clocks record number of cases, more complaints in annual report

NewsBY IREM KOCA

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Parliamentary Calendar

Former senator Douglas Roche to receive the Canadian Leadership for Nuclear Disarmament award, deliver lecture on Oct. 23 in Ottawa

Podcast

Heather McPherson on her campaign to lead the NDP

News

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Lobbyists in 2025: lobbyists prepare for ‘significant reset’ as federal election begins

News

This Parliament’s ethics roundup: blind trusts, recusals, gifts, and more

Podcast

Reviving the NDP, with Peter Julian

Canada has the legislative tool to break through seizing Russian assets—it’s time to use it

OpinionBY MICHAEL CHOLOD, GEOFFREY GOODELL

• If amended in this fall’s budget, the Special Economic Measures Act would give the feds the power to issue an executive order to seize all Russian state assets within Canada.

Canada has the legislative tool to break through seizing Russian assets—it’s time to use it

OpinionBY MICHAEL CHOLOD, GEOFFREY GOODELL

• If amended in this fall’s budget, the Special Economic Measures Act would give the feds the power to issue an executive order to seize all Russian state assets within Canada.

The feds’ newest go-to attack on workers’ rights must be repealed  

OpinionBY SHARON DESOUSA

AI can’t save farming if our soils keep dying

OpinionBY ASIM BISWAS

AI literacy as a Canadian policy imperative

OpinionBY DAVID MATSINHE

Why Canada can no longer trust U.S. regulatory agencies

OpinionBY NATASHA TUSIKOV

‘The honeymoon period will be over’: politicos expect high bar for Carney’s first budget, and omnibus-bill headaches

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Observers eye fall sitting for bills to implement still-secret trade pacts with Indonesia and Ecuador 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Parliamentary Calendar

AG Hogan to release six audit reports on Tuesday, Oct. 21

Podcast

The notwithstanding clause, and the Supreme Court’s big decision

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Podcast

A wild week in politics

A new session of Parliament is a time to recommit to some basic principles

OpinionBY CSG SENATOR SCOTT TANNAS

• Every bill should get separate, substantive, and sequential review because our lawmaking process is profoundly important to our democracy.

A new session of Parliament is a time to recommit to some basic principles

OpinionBY CSG SENATOR SCOTT TANNAS

• Every bill should get separate, substantive, and sequential review because our lawmaking process is profoundly important to our democracy.

Shoring up supports for people and communities in a turbulent trade climate

OpinionBY SHAIMAA YASSIN

Public opinion is the real opposition

OpinionBY DARRELL BRICKER

Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories all open to pharmacare talks, but say they’re not taking place

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Time for a public national first ministers’ meeting with First Nations

OpinionBY KYRA WILSON

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Bill C-5 revealing itself as a Trojan horse designed to appease Alberta’s fossil fuel interests

OpinionBY JOHANNE WHITMORE, FRANçOIS DELORME

Bill C-5 revealing itself as a Trojan horse designed to appease Alberta’s fossil fuel interests

OpinionBY JOHANNE WHITMORE, FRANçOIS DELORME

Senator Harder wants to legislate how the feds handle the notwithstanding clause—his colleagues have some concerns

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Senator Harder wants to legislate how the feds handle the notwithstanding clause—his colleagues have some concerns

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

We’re still here. We still say ‘no’

OpinionBY NIKKI SKUCE

We’re still here. We still say ‘no’

OpinionBY NIKKI SKUCE

Disorganization mars Bill C-5 summit, but progress possible if Liberals commit to consultation, chiefs say

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Disorganization mars Bill C-5 summit, but progress possible if Liberals commit to consultation, chiefs say

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Politics This Morning

Fraser unveils his crime bill

Carney to deliver ‘live address’ on fall budget tonight

Hogan reports on child care, CRA call centres

Stellantis saga continues at House committee meeting

all politics poll: best & worst of the year in politics

Housing Minister Fraser a 2023 fan favourite on Parliament Hill: All Politics Poll

Poilievre doubles as most valuable, least valuable politician in 2022 in The Hill Times’ All Politics Poll

Anand named most valuable politician, climate change voted most important issue in The Hill Times’ 23rd Annual All Politics Poll

Freeland named most valuable politician, NAFTA voted biggest story in The Hill Times’ 22nd Annual All Politics Poll

Election

Conservatives float electoral reform to combat ‘political prank’ protest group from flooding ballots with names

Advance voting in Canada continues to rise—and it’s changing campaigning

At least three safe Liberal seats poised to open as high-profile contenders line up

The NDP race is on

Politics

Canada can’t afford delays in medical imaging

A fancy title does not a minister make

Remaking Canada at warp speed: Nov. 4 will be a budget like no other

Carney fourth most travelled G7 leader since becoming prime minister, prioritizing trips to Europe and the U.S. 

Foreign Policy

An appropriate moment to reflect on Japan

India is not the strategic partner Canada thinks it is

Denmark versus the Russia’s shadow fleet

Chile raises flag for national day

Finance and Budget

Federal childcare program falls far short as costs balloon 

The case for renewing the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy

Pipelines and algorithms aren’t going to save us

What about Canada’s commitment to poverty reduction? MPs left us on read

Lobbying

Easter Seals, CFIB lobbying feds to end Canada Post’s strike

Hodgson, Dabrusin top-lobbied cabinet ministers last month as energy, environment lead the lobby charts

Struggling auto sector promises deep engagement as wheels set to turn on CUSMA consultations

Carney ‘did the right thing’: feds’ new support for national pharmacare ‘positive,’ but evolving stance surprises advocates

Legislation

Civil liberties groups urge Liberals to withdraw ‘vague’ anti-hate bill that opposition MPs say is ‘trying to lower the bar’ for prosecution

Carney government bills: tracking their progress into law

Where to begin: restarting a failed access-to-information system 

Q&A | Ontario First Nations launch court challenge against law fast-tracking major projects

Public Service

Departments grapple with tracking employee attendance after a year of return-to-office rules

Budget cuts won’t impact RCMP hiring push, says public safety minister 

‘Not-an-option’ changes to freelance contracts may worsen shortage of Hill interpreters, says association

MPs press officials on underused office space as feds struggle to standardize tracking 

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