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Natural Resources and Energy

Will governments or markets drive Canada’s energy transition?

OpinionBY CHRISTOPHER RAGAN, RACHEL SAMSON

• Governments should resist the siren song of being too hands-on in the direction of specific sectors or technologies, and focus instead on addressing the market failures that are obstacles for low-emissions investment.

Will governments or markets drive Canada’s energy transition?

OpinionBY CHRISTOPHER RAGAN, RACHEL SAMSON

• Governments should resist the siren song of being too hands-on in the direction of specific sectors or technologies, and focus instead on addressing the market failures that are obstacles for low-emissions investment.

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

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

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

Energy transitions: away from diesel, or towards sovereignty?

OpinionBY SERASU DURAN, FEYZA G. SAHINYAZAN, JORDYN HRENYK, EMILY SALMON

Canada’s oil and gas industry faces an existential crisis and a weak emissions cap won’t save it

OpinionBY AMY JANZWOOD, SAM ROWAN, JOSH MEDICOFF

Indigenous ‘priorities’ and the threat of investor-state arbitration

OpinionBY ANNA ZALIK, ELIANA ACOSTA MARQUEZ

Canada needs to own its role as an energy supplier on the global stage

OpinionBY CONSERVATIVE MP EARL DREESHEN

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To advance electrification and climate change action, Canada must advance reconciliation

OpinionBY HEATHER FERGUSON

• In pursuing these opportunities, we must acknowledge and learn from our past, including the negative impacts the build-out of our legacy hydro projects had on Indigenous Peoples.

To advance electrification and climate change action, Canada must advance reconciliation

OpinionBY HEATHER FERGUSON

• In pursuing these opportunities, we must acknowledge and learn from our past, including the negative impacts the build-out of our legacy hydro projects had on Indigenous Peoples.

The worst plan is no plan when faced with an inevitable energy transition

OpinionBY MERRAN SMITH, RACHEL DORAN

Canada should be the world’s energy producer and supplier of choice

OpinionBY CONSERVATIVE MP SHANNON STUBBS

Feds’ sustainable jobs plan a good start, but too soft on emissions reductions, say environmental experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Achieving a just transition for northern and remote communities

OpinionBY CSG SENATOR DENNIS PATTERSON

Big growth in wind and solar in 2022, but much more needed to hit feds’ climate goals, say renewable energy advocates

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Where will all the land come from?

OpinionBY ROBERT SOPUCK

Renewable energy and economic reconciliation: Indigenous people as key stakeholders

OpinionBY RICKY FONTAINE, MICHèLE AUDETTE

Electric mobility: a more inclusive approach is needed for lower income households

OpinionBY CLARA KAYSER-BRIL AND JOHANNE WHITMORE

AGRICULTURE

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

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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

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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

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Environment

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

Opinion

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

OpinionBY JOSEPH INGRAM

Freddy and the ice: messages from the future

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Energy transition relief as ineffectual as feds’ ‘puny’ carbon tax, writes Henderson

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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innovation

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

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

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

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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

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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

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Labour & employment

Budget should bolster commitment to workers in changing economy

OpinionBY SEAN STRICKLAND

‘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

Opinion

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

OpinionBY MICHAEL HATFIELD

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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

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Women, Gender and Diversity

‘It’s a human issue’: pushing back on misogynist online hate a collective effort, says GG Simon

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Parliamentary Black Caucus pushes feds for permanent funding, initiatives beyond 2024 UN horizon

NewsBY STUART BENSON

There’s no nice way to call out Islamophobia

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

MPs ‘are listening to Kirsty right now,’ says Status of Women Committee chair, following ex-minister Duncan’s comments on abuse in sport

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

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Indigenous Relations

Fraudulent claims of Indigenous identity are risking community for the rest of us

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY