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Carney facing calls for action, change as Liberals dive into rare fourth term

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• Prime Minister Mark Carney secured a rare fourth-straight mandate for the Liberals, but the tight results suggest challenges ahead as the new government stickhandles an uncertain relationship with the United States and some provincial partners.

Carney facing calls for action, change as Liberals dive into rare fourth term

NewsBY IREM KOCA

• Prime Minister Mark Carney secured a rare fourth-straight mandate for the Liberals, but the tight results suggest challenges ahead as the new government stickhandles an uncertain relationship with the United States and some provincial partners.

Conservatives spent campaign ‘fending off attacks on all sides’ as Liberals, third parties dominated Meta election ads, says expert

NewsBY STUART BENSON

‘Americans don’t know enough about Canada’: prominent Washington voice for Canada-U.S. relationship shutters

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Trump, tariffs, and the economy ‘crushed’ other election issues that can’t be ignored by the government, say politicos

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Carney clicked with caretaker convention’s call for restraint, experts say

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Conservatives plunge into blame game after election defeat

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Housing could bridge the political divide – if we let it

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‘Change takes time’: Poilievre praises ‘major’ Conservative breakthroughs in future-focused concession speech

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Carney revives Liberal fortunes as party secures historic fourth consecutive election victory 

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

Public servants running in record numbers flip partisan assumptions as most offer under Tory banner

NewsBY KATHRYN MAY

• With 24 candidates across nine parties and Conservatives leading the way with nine, the surge of bureaucrat participation in this election shows how public service is changing.

Public servants running in record numbers flip partisan assumptions as most offer under Tory banner

NewsBY KATHRYN MAY

• With 24 candidates across nine parties and Conservatives leading the way with nine, the surge of bureaucrat participation in this election shows how public service is changing.

Liberals led federal leader stops in snap campaign as parties eye gains in Ontario, Quebec, and B.C. 

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

If party platforms come after advance voting and leaders’ debates, are they still relevant? 

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Election ads: from Conservatives’ ‘dark,’ ‘dramatic’ approach to Liberal and NDP’s ‘classic’ and ‘tried and true’

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

Economic Club talks Canada vs. Trump on May 1

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What you need to know about the party platforms, with Kevin Page

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

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Election promise tracker: key pledges parties are making this campaign

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Why you should believe the polls, with Frank Graves

Leaders’ Debates Commission’s future queried after Montreal scrum cancelled

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• The commission told The Hill Times that it 'is doing an assessment of its federal election experience for its final report and will not be commenting publicly at this time.'

Leaders’ Debates Commission’s future queried after Montreal scrum cancelled

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

• The commission told The Hill Times that it 'is doing an assessment of its federal election experience for its final report and will not be commenting publicly at this time.'

‘Historic’ election campaign a referendum on Trump tariffs and cost-of-living crisis, say political players

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Parties’ housing platforms unlikely to significantly improve affordability: experts

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Political players predict Carney to win, but questions linger about minority or majority outcome

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Trump top of mind in Ottawa Centre as Liberals fight to keep riding red

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Tackling Trump or offering change: competing priorities to determine this election

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Read it on Reddit? Project looks to help Canadians navigate online political conversations

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Parliamentary Calendar

McKay to host panel on ‘Rethinking the One China Policy’ on April 30 in Ottawa

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Hot Room explainer: The ‘third party’ advertisers filling up your screens

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The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2024

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The federal public servants running in election 2025

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‘No magic math’—Why cutting waste won’t fund election promises

Election ad men: Carney, Trudeau, and Trump play starring roles in the party’s biggest hits, say digital advertising experts

NewsBY STUART BENSON

• The Hill Times asked three partisan digital communications experts to look at the 'best' campaign ads so far from the Liberals, Conservatives, and NDP.

Election ad men: Carney, Trudeau, and Trump play starring roles in the party’s biggest hits, say digital advertising experts

NewsBY STUART BENSON

• The Hill Times asked three partisan digital communications experts to look at the 'best' campaign ads so far from the Liberals, Conservatives, and NDP.

‘I want to feel part of this moment’: Trump effect spurs expats to cast ballots from abroad

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‘I can’t go back and I can’t go forward’: Sudanese mothers struggle with delays to bring Canadian children home

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

In ‘classic 905-swing riding’ of Burlington North–Milton West, Ont., Conservative and Liberal candidates going ‘all-in’ on get-out-the-vote efforts

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Carney plays defence as leaders hit debate stage for English rerun

NewsBY STUART BENSON

• In the wide ranging two-hour contest, Prime Minister Mark Carney repeated he was ‘very different’ from his predecessor Justin Trudeau, rebuffing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s accusations he represents a fourth Liberal government representing more of the same.

Carney plays defence as leaders hit debate stage for English rerun

NewsBY STUART BENSON

• In the wide ranging two-hour contest, Prime Minister Mark Carney repeated he was ‘very different’ from his predecessor Justin Trudeau, rebuffing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s accusations he represents a fourth Liberal government representing more of the same.

Carleton remains a stronghold for Poilievre, but with some uncertainty from changed boundaries, says strategist

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Carleton remains a stronghold for Poilievre, but with some uncertainty from changed boundaries, says strategist

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Nepean a Liberal stronghold with urban areas and federal public servants, say strategists

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Nepean a Liberal stronghold with urban areas and federal public servants, say strategists

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Liberals’ recycled plan to fix ‘badly busted’ defence procurement can take root in Trump era, say experts

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Liberals’ recycled plan to fix ‘badly busted’ defence procurement can take root in Trump era, say experts

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Politics This Morning

What now?

Comeback complete

Day 37: The election ball is in Canada’s court 

Day 34: Poilievre returns to Vancouver Island, Carney speaks at First Nations conference on last campaign Friday

COVID-19

Canada needs a complete pandemic preparedness strategy

DND and CAF ‘exempt’ from further spending cuts, says Blair after department was asked to find $900-million a year in savings

A reluctance for post-pandemic learning

Federal overtime payments on decline, but total paid out still tops $1-billion mark

Election

Change is needed when it comes to costed party platforms

Will anyone learn anything from the election that was?

The true election loser? The mainstream press

Blanchet’s Bloc doesn’t add value to Parliament

Politics

And now comes the hard part: negotiating with Trump

Pragmatist Carney knows how to beat the bully Trump

Is Canada drifting towards a two-party trap? 

Carney, Poilievre address supporters in late-night election speeches

Foreign Policy

An Indo-Pakistan nuclear war would hit the whole world

Canada must not join the deregulation race to the bottom

In one week, I voted in two elections, three ballot papers, but had zero democracy sausages in Canada

Pope Francis was one of the most ‘electrifying papacies in centuries,’ says author of book on pontiff’s life and influences

Finance and Budget

Canada’s national security depends on a productive economy

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

Alberta Premier Smith calls retaliatory tariffs ‘most harmful’ to Canadian business, wants CUSMA negotiation after federal election

Canada’s productivity is declining. So how do we fix it?

Lobbying

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

Mexico and the U.S. play rough with public records and information regulators. What about Canada?

Trade tensions with U.S. motivate economic lobbying in January

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

Legislation

Time for Canada to strengthen its digital sovereignty

MP Serré reups call for extra funds, legislation to address northern Ontario seat loss

Why Indigenous rights must be integrated into Canada’s regulatory process

Canada holds a valuable bargaining chip in trade talks with Trump

Public Service

No matter what, it will be a ‘change’ election for the federal public service

Public sector unions raise spectre of Trump, Musk in election campaign against cuts

Does size really matter? Rethinking public service reform

Anti-Black racism complaint bound for Canadian Human Rights Commission after court denies public service class action

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