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Natural Resources and Energy

Mark Carney and the disappearing pipeline

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

• The Alberta premier and Conservative leader’s regular excoriations of Ottawa policy never seem to contain a reference to Trans Mountain.

Mark Carney and the disappearing pipeline

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

• The Alberta premier and Conservative leader’s regular excoriations of Ottawa policy never seem to contain a reference to Trans Mountain.

Canada’s clear leverage to lead on critical minerals

OpinionBY MARK SELBY

Fighting U.S. threats by fighting climate change

OpinionBY MILI ROY

Reindustrializing Canada: where the real critical mineral opportunity lies

OpinionBY MARILYN SPINK

Environment implications for proposed Liberal energy corridor unclear; ‘the devil is in the details,’ says uWaterloo academic

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Digging up a hidden election issue: development and control of critical minerals

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

The roadmap to protecting Canada’s economy with energy

OpinionBY DENNIS DARBY

There is no Team Canada strategy without Indigenous people

OpinionBY STEPHEN BUFFALO

Trade war could ‘upend’ EV sector, Canada must argue for integrated market, says CEO of vehicle manufacturing group

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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Electrify everything!

OpinionBY GREEN PARTY LEADER ELIZABETH MAY

• We must combine our newly energized national pride in reforming our economy to be more self-reliant and self-sufficient with massively increasing our climate ambition.

Electrify everything!

OpinionBY GREEN PARTY LEADER ELIZABETH MAY

• We must combine our newly energized national pride in reforming our economy to be more self-reliant and self-sufficient with massively increasing our climate ambition.

Canada’s next move starts a few thousand feet below the ground

OpinionBY ALEX GRECO

Trump’s tariff barrage roils Canadian energy world

OpinionBY SHAWN MCCARTHY

What is suddenly, painfully clear: we need to get our own economic house in order

OpinionBY JAY KHOSLA, ARASH GOLSHAN

Hydrogen sector development: are we really on the right track?

OpinionBY IBRAHIM DINCER

Bolstering domestic manufacturing can make us resilient to tariffs, and help meet our sustainability goals

OpinionBY ALEX TAVASOLI, HOLLY CAGGIANO

Diversifying carbon capture tech will help keep Canada competitive

OpinionBY BONNIE DROZDOWSKI

Renewable energy is declining in Canada

OpinionBY WARREN MABEE, BALIE WALKER

Forget the tariff war, it’s time to build self-reliance for Canada’s energy future

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR ROSA GALVEZ

AGRICULTURE

Canada can be an agriculture powerhouse if we meet the moment

OpinionBY SENATOR MARY ROBINSON

Supply management consensus emerges but Grits, Tories accuse each other of past capitulation

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

No more scraps: making the election about ending hunger in Canada

OpinionBY NICK SAUL, JASMINE RAMZE REZAEE

Is Canada keeping pace with agricultural innovation?

OpinionBY ASIM BISWAS

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Biotechnology

From momentum to leadership: securing Canada’s biotech future

OpinionBY WENDY ZATYLNY

Canada needs to catch up in the biotech sector

OpinionBY NDP MP RICHARD CANNINGS

Unlocking Canada’s greatest economic potential: life sciences

OpinionBY ALISON SYMINGTON, JASON FIELD

Canada’s biotech carpe diem

OpinionBY ANDREW CASEY

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Readying the country to ‘defend against help’

OpinionBY JAMIE CARROLL, PHILIPPE LAGASSé, TIM PAGE

New faces, old problems: does Carney’s new cabinet have the political will to fix defence procurement?

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Trump 2.0 and the end of NATO

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Volunteering should be at the forefront of veteran policy in Canada

OpinionBY ALYSON MAHAR

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Environment

Green, red, and blue

OpinionBY BILL HENDERSON

Fighting for air: keeping health and justice at the forefront of Canadian environmental policy

OpinionBY JULIA SAWATZKY

Canada needs net-zero industrial policy to address tariffs—not a short-term resource export boom

OpinionBY DANIEL ROSENBLOOM, STEVEN BERNSTEIN

Canada should act decisively to modernize industrial carbon pricing

OpinionBY DALE BEUGIN

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FINANCE

Looking into why the Liberals are opting against a spring budget

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Carney’s new cabinet balances change with experience, analysts say

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Growing the Métis economy must be a national priority for the renewed government

OpinionBY VICTORIA PRUDEN

MPs, Senators get a salary boost, Carney will now earn $419,600, Scheer $308,800, and Blanchet $280,600

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

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Fisheries and oceans

B.C. suit says feds used consultations to justify ‘bad-faith’ Discovery Island salmon farming ban

NewsBY STUART BENSON

To protect nature, Canada must ratify the High Seas Treaty

OpinionBY SUSANNA FULLER

Feds’ plan for fish-farm transition no catch, say wild salmon, industry advocates

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Reconciliation that works for all in Canada’s fisheries

OpinionBY GENNA CAREY

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FOREIGN POLICY

Message to Foreign Minister Anand: build doctrine, not optics

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

Trump’s Afrikaner ‘refugees’ pitch a piece of theatre

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Will Team Carney find the right prescription for Trump?

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

Botswana’s new Canadian envoy is hoping for a state visit by the end of the year

FeatureBY NEIL MOSS

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health

Canada leads the future of diabetes care by listening to those with lived experience

OpinionBY RACHEL REEVE

Don’t let Canada become the 51st state: why keeping health care public is critical for our sovereignty

OpinionBY FARAH SHROFF

It’s time to bring Canada’s medical system into the 21st century

OpinionBY LIAM MACDONALD

No more silence: it’s time for federal leadership on health workforce planning

OpinionBY IVY BOURGEAULT

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Industry and Manufacturing

Researcher, advocacy group hoping for ‘cabinet co-ordination’ on digital files with new AI and digital innovation ministry

NewsBY PHALEN TYNES-MACDONALD, PAUL PARK

Future-proofing our manufacturing sector

OpinionBY GREG MOFFATT

Sister cities under strain: U.S. steel tariffs threaten to divide Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., from its American twin city

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

Manufacturing sector and others lobbying hard for federal government support during 30-day tariff pause

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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infrastructure and transport

Public transit can’t wait for politics to catch up

OpinionBY MARCO D’ANGELO

More needed to protect communities from rail disasters

OpinionBY NDP MP TAYLOR BACHRACH

Navigating uncertainty: telecom’s essential role in securing Canada’s future

OpinionBY ROBERT GHIZ

So, we all agree on what needs to happen next: let’s talk about how to get it done

OpinionBY RODRIGUE GILBERT

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innovation

Is Canada’s electric vehicle industry on a collision course?

OpinionBY JOSEPH FOURNIER

Carney must lead efforts to transform Canada’s economy

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Why AI self-regulation has left Canada’s elections vulnerable

OpinionBY RYAN SYDOR

AI and the innovation-regulation pendulum

OpinionBY ULRIKE BAHR-GEDALIA

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intergovernmental

Carney sets the stage for consequential meeting with premiers after passing the Trump test

OpinionBY JOSIE SABATINO

Bipartisan ‘cooler heads’ have vested interest in lowering the temperature on Alberta separatism: Calgary Liberal Hogan

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Canada must act now to welcome displaced Arctic researchers

OpinionBY PHILIPPE ARCHAMBAULT, CHRISTINE BARNARD, JOANNA HOSA

Here’s a list of demands for Alberta’s future, not the past

OpinionBY STEPHEN LEGAULT

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justice

Kelly looks at how governments react to judicial invalidation in Constraining the Court

FeatureBY JAMES B. KELLY

‘This is a book about gender-based violence, with a focus on intimate partner abuse,’ says Donner-nominated author of And Sometimes They Kill You

FeatureBY PAMELA CROSS

DEI: love it or hate it, it’s more profitable

OpinionBY JORY COHEN

UN disability rights report on assisted-dying regime deserves a fair hearing

OpinionBY CATHERINE FRAZEE

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Labour & employment

Time for NDP ‘soul searching’ and ‘reconnecting’ with workers, say labour leaders after electoral collapse

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

Parties’ housing platforms unlikely to significantly improve affordability: experts

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Collaboration is Canada’s innovation superpower

OpinionBY ANDREA NEMTIN

Cost of living, housing the top priority for young voters, not Trump

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

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Lobbying

Cooling-off period for lobbyists who volunteered during election can vary, says lobbying commissioner who urges reading code of conduct

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Lobbyists prepare for ‘very serious’ Carney government prioritizing economy, trade and housing

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Poilievre’s ethics pitch more about framing Carney as a ‘corrupt politician’ than attempt at reform, but some ideas are good, say observers

NewsBY IREM KOCA

No ‘perfect’ solution in Carney asset disclosure calls, say law and political science experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Women’s safety is economic policy—what our next government must do now

OpinionBY ANURADHA DUGAL, ALINE NIZIGAMA

Vote to end gender-based violence

OpinionBY ERIN LEE, JULIE LALONDE, HEATHER MCGREGOR

Canada’s economic future depends on women—the next government has an opportunity to deliver

OpinionBY MITZIE HUNTER

Black and racialized Canadians could be a powerful force in this election if they harness the power of block voting

OpinionBY AKOLISA UFODIKE, OLADAPO AKINSIPE

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Indigenous Relations

A letter to Prime Minister Carney, from Rose LeMay

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Vote for ‘we’ instead of ‘me’ in this election

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Unlocking the economic potential in Canada’s lands, forests, and waters

OpinionBY JASON RASEVYCH, MICHAEL TWIGG, SHAUGHN MCARTHUR

Questions that should be asked at the political leaders’ debates

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

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Exclusive lists

Meet Mark Carney’s 38-member senior team

Meet Mark Carney’s 38-member senior team

The salaries of Carney’s cabinet and secretaries of state

The salaries of Carney’s cabinet and secretaries of state

Who’s in and who’s out of Carney’s post-election cabinet?

Who’s in and who’s out of Carney’s post-election cabinet?

Grits and Tories dominated the 109 safest seats this election

Grits and Tories dominated the 109 safest seats this election

Tories strip five Ontario ridings of bellwether status, while 29 seats remain

Tories strip five Ontario ridings of bellwether status, while 29 seats remain

The election outcomes for Mark Carney’s first cabinet

The election outcomes for Mark Carney’s first cabinet

How many questions did federal leaders take at their daily campaign press events?

How many questions did federal leaders take at their daily campaign press events?

Election promise tracker: key pledges parties are making this campaign

Election promise tracker: key pledges parties are making this campaign