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Natural Resources and Energy

Poilievre’s First Nations consultations demonstrate ‘maturity,’ reconciliation no longer partisan issue, say strategists

NewsBY STUART BENSON

• If genuine, the Conservative leader's ‘change of tune’ on reconciliation could be a game-changer for the party's troubled relationship with Indigenous Peoples, say strategists.

Poilievre’s First Nations consultations demonstrate ‘maturity,’ reconciliation no longer partisan issue, say strategists

NewsBY STUART BENSON

• If genuine, the Conservative leader's ‘change of tune’ on reconciliation could be a game-changer for the party's troubled relationship with Indigenous Peoples, say strategists.

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

OpinionBY ALIENOR ROUGEOT

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

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

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

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Alberta is, indeed, a ‘distinct society’

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

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

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

OpinionBY ANTHONY OSTLER

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Canadian officials ignored their obligation to support activist detained in 2017 over mining dispute in Peru: report

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

• A report from the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project uses access-to-information records to piece together how embassy and trade commission officials responded when Jennifer Moore of MiningWatch Canada was detained by Peruvian police in April 2017.

Canadian officials ignored their obligation to support activist detained in 2017 over mining dispute in Peru: report

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

• A report from the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project uses access-to-information records to piece together how embassy and trade commission officials responded when Jennifer Moore of MiningWatch Canada was detained by Peruvian police in April 2017.

Advocates at biodiversity conference push back against plan to expedite approvals for critical minerals mines

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Plutonium is plutonium, period, and separating it increases nuclear proliferation risks 

OpinionBY M.V. RAMANA AND SUSAN O’DONNELL

Nuclear power must be part of net-zero solution

OpinionBY GUY HOTTE, NEIL ALEXANDER

Why is Ontario turning its back on low-cost, low-carbon power?

OpinionBY ANGELA BISCHOFF

‘We tried to stop it’: chair of Indigenous coalition bidding for Trans Mountain went to court to block the project

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Canada must push harder to curb greenhouse gas emissions

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Enbridge deal with Indigenous groups in Alberta a model for Trans Mountain sale, say industry insiders

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

New report alleges federal government hiding true extent of Trans Mountain’s debt load

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

AGRICULTURE

Canola industry tops most-active voices in 2022 lobbying

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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

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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

How to avoid a war with China

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Tanking support for the Armed Forces

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Moving past the convoy occupation requires transformational human rights change

OpinionBY LEILANI FARHA, MONIA MAZIGH, ALEX NEVE, DEBBIE OWUSU-AKYEEAH

Canadian government appears to be yielding to pressure on Aurora CP-140s, writes Chartrand

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Environment

Success of the Stephenville project is an important test case for Canada

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Good corporate citizenship isn’t a matter of choice

OpinionBY RICHARD JANDA AND ISEOLUWA AKINTUNDE

Biodiversity conservation: the devil is in the details

OpinionBY ROBERT SOPUCK

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

OpinionBY TIM GRAY

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FINANCE

International development: more important than ever for the public and private sectors

OpinionBY LORI KERR

Morneau says PMO consumed with short-term politicking, longer-term growth prospects not a priority

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Central bank’s ‘definitive’ language on pausing future rate hikes an ‘appropriate’ choice, say economists

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

‘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

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Fisheries and oceans

The effect of climate crisis on Canadian coastal communities is an all-hands-on deck situation, but the Liberals aren’t acting

OpinionBY NDP MP LISA MARIE BARRON

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

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FOREIGN POLICY

Opposition parties need to up their foreign policy game

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

Canada called to help clear Lachin corridor as accusations of ‘de-facto ethnic cleansing’ of Armenians fly at Foreign Affairs committee

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Repatriation order for men in Syria raises questions about Canada’s consular obligations

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Canadian-facilitated Cameroon peace process right approach, but fraught with challenges, say analysts

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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health

Workers are sounding the alarm and Parliamentarians must listen

OpinionBY BEA BRUSKE

Singh should stop raising spectre of health-care boogeyman

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

First ministers’ meeting trumpeted as solution to Canada’s broken health-care system, but benefits may not be felt for years

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

Trudeau’s Liberals have to get health care ‘right’ or ‘explosive’ issue could trigger an election, say politicos

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

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Industry and Manufacturing

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

Innovative post-secondary solutions will help solve Canada’s tech-sector skills shortage

OpinionBY JANE GOODYER

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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

Enabling a more resilient Canadian supply chain workforce

OpinionBY DAVID A. JOHNSTON

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

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

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innovation

Canadian start-ups need launch pads to find new routes for national economic growth

OpinionBY YUNG WU

Our regulatory stagnation is killing innovation

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR COLIN DEACON

Canada can become the international low-carbon innovator of choice

OpinionBY MARTHA CRAGO, BENOIT BOULET

Achieving Canada’s EV mandates requires more money for research and future talent

OpinionBY NARAYAN KAR, MADELINE MCQUEEN

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intergovernmental

MPs push back against ‘stunning’ riding boundary, name changes in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick: ‘these symbols are important’

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

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

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

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

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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

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

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

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

Canada must close the digital gap with Indigenous Peoples

OpinionBY PSG SENATOR MARTY KLYNE

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Lobbying

Top 100: the most influential people in government and politics in 2023

ListBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT, MIKE LAPOINTE, ABBAS RANA, NEIL MOSS, SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

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

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

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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Women, Gender and Diversity

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

A space for her: what we can learn from Jacinda Ardern’s resignation

OpinionBY CHI NGUYEN

Québec City mosque attack anniversary a time for action against Islamophobia

OpinionBY WAHEED KHAN

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Indigenous Relations

Progress on Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations ‘glacial,’ says recent report

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is leaving the building

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

My new year’s predictions for reconciliation

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY