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MPs celebrate canola tariff relief, but national security, pork, remain opposition concerns with China

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• Just because the tariff has been reduced today, ‘doesn’t mean it’s not going to come back,’ said Conservative MP Dan Mazier, whose Manitoba riding of Riding Mountain grows the most canola in Canada.

MPs celebrate canola tariff relief, but national security, pork, remain opposition concerns with China

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• Just because the tariff has been reduced today, ‘doesn’t mean it’s not going to come back,’ said Conservative MP Dan Mazier, whose Manitoba riding of Riding Mountain grows the most canola in Canada.

Bloc MP Perron condemns ‘ridiculous’ spending cuts that will shutter research farms across Canada

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MPs eye support for expat voters as PROC study on special ballot challenges wraps

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Union warns foreign ministry cuts will hamper delivery of Carney doctrine 

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Emergencies Act architect says courts checked government overreach, advises against further appeal

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Housing Minister Robertson ‘well regarded’ for municipal background, but needs a vision for housing, say sector experts

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200,000 Job-Years of Sustained Employment: Why Hanwha’s Submarine Bid is an Economic Engine for Canada

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‘I will always be an advocate,’ says retiring Indigenous senior civil servant Gina Wilson after decades working to ‘bridge worlds’

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‘Not a chance’: Green Leader May says she can’t support budget omnibus bill without major changes, but NDP skeptical

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Senators push Canada to host future Olympics as committee eyes potential bid for 2038

‘Unprecedented’ 2025 for canola industry, with record-breaking economic lobbying

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• More than a third (33.9 per cent) of all federal advocacy in 2025 was about economic development, setting a new record in annual lobbying.

‘Unprecedented’ 2025 for canola industry, with record-breaking economic lobbying

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• More than a third (33.9 per cent) of all federal advocacy in 2025 was about economic development, setting a new record in annual lobbying.

House winter session expected to be ‘very consequential’ with affordability issues, global trade, and possible referendums, say politicos

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With threats to Canada’s sovereignty and mounting economic challenges, MPs should work together or face an early election, says Coteau

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Health workforce, toxic drug crisis on health critics’ agendas this winter

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After decades of progress on smoking, Canada faces new nicotine challenges

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Conservatives converge on Calgary, cast ballots on Poilievre’s leadership at convention happening Jan. 29-31

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Sheila Copps on Greenland, a 2026 election, and the return of Parliament

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The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2025

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Who’s backing the NDP leadership contenders?

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Re-engaging with China, with Senator Yuen Pau Woo

Make federal funding permanent for Canada’s suicide crisis helpline, say Conservative and NDP critics

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• Long-time mental health advocates Conservative MP Todd Doherty and NDP MP Gord Johns say their passion for the subject is personal.

Make federal funding permanent for Canada’s suicide crisis helpline, say Conservative and NDP critics

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• Long-time mental health advocates Conservative MP Todd Doherty and NDP MP Gord Johns say their passion for the subject is personal.

Ontario national councillor Mitas expected to challenge Barber for Conservative Party presidency

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Liberal MPs shrug off Trump’s latest tariff threat if Canada pursues trade agreement with China

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Public service watchdog sounds alarm over funding shortfall to investigate whistleblower complaints

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Lack of pre-sitting cabinet shuffle doesn’t take it off the table for the winter, say political strategists

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Liberals ‘taking a sledgehammer’ to the public service, says interim NDP leader Davies

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Experts say 6G networks still years away, but Canada’s already preparing for the technology of the future

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Parliamentary Calendar

Cory Doctorow to talk his bestselling book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It, on Jan. 28 in Ottawa

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Mark Critch on Donald Trump, Canadian politics, and being TikTok famous

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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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Tracking job cuts in the federal public service

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Cut, not cap? The latest on public service downsizing, with Marlo Glass

Public service job cuts will be ‘minimal’ in procurement and contracting roles, says PSPC

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• Public Services and Procurement cuts would add a layer of 'uncertainty' to the already murky field federal contracting, but could also open up opportunities that lead to better outcomes, say former public servants.

Public service job cuts will be ‘minimal’ in procurement and contracting roles, says PSPC

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• Public Services and Procurement cuts would add a layer of 'uncertainty' to the already murky field federal contracting, but could also open up opportunities that lead to better outcomes, say former public servants.

CBC says bureau expansion will address ‘news deserts,’ despite concerns from local media outlets

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McPherson’s NDP leadership bid secures most ex-MP support, but Lewis nabs only caucus nod

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‘We ask the government not to send us back to the ruins’: Turkish earthquake survivors call on feds to ease path to permanent residency

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‘These times are not like any other’: Carney’s Davos speech that ‘electrified the world’ draws bipartisan praise

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Senators renew push to see their pensions become funded

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• In a recent letter, the Senate Internal Economy Committee asked the Treasury Board president to revisit the idea of switching the pension plan so that it's funded by both employee and employer contributions, as well as investment earnings.

Senators renew push to see their pensions become funded

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• In a recent letter, the Senate Internal Economy Committee asked the Treasury Board president to revisit the idea of switching the pension plan so that it's funded by both employee and employer contributions, as well as investment earnings.

Leaked PMO travel advisory tests fragile trust with press gallery as ‘universal respect’ still found lacking, say journos

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Leaked PMO travel advisory tests fragile trust with press gallery as ‘universal respect’ still found lacking, say journos

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Questions loom over future of Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy after China détente 

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Questions loom over future of Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy after China détente 

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Big-name staffers steal candidate spotlight as B.C. Conservative leadership race takes shape

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Big-name staffers steal candidate spotlight as B.C. Conservative leadership race takes shape

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Politics This Morning

Carney meets the premiers

The premiers meet in Ottawa

Carney meets Main—and maybe Captain Canada

The West Block-ers reassemble 

COVID-19

CUSMA must do more than protect trade—it must secure Canada’s life sciences future

Union raises alarm over pending Public Health Agency job cuts

Forest fire travel ban backlash demonstrates lack of investment in trust post-COVID, says public health expert

Canada’s next top doctor must be a ‘focal point’ for public health amid changes in the U.S., concerns about next pandemic

Election

Conservative national council confirms Kurek as candidate in Battle River-Crowfoot, Poilievre to run in a different riding in next election

Conservatives outspent Liberals by $1.2-million during the 2025 election

Next year ‘an important one for Quebec’ as possibility of referendum looms, say Bloc MP, politicos

‘A platform to raise my voice’: youth activism at the centre of Sen. McPhedran’s Vote16 bill

Politics

Canada’s correctional service is beyond reform

Energy Minister Hodgson promotes new press secretary, director

Time to close the U.S. arms export loophole

Canada-U.S. relations heading into uncharted territory

Foreign Policy

Carney’s Davos remarks offered ‘glimmer of hope,’ says Irish minister

Advancing the new China-Canada strategic partnership will need full implementation of the leaders’ consensus

Learning to exhale when dealing with Trump

In defence of Canada

Finance and Budget

Three measures to tackle ‘wicked’ health policy problems

MPs face a choice this Parliament: play partisan games or meet the moment

IMF report says Canada’s elevated trade uncertainty reinforces long-standing weaknesses in productivity and competitiveness

Canada’s green jobs strategy needs more than good intentions

Lobbying

Ottawa’s lowered lobbying registration thresholds will reshape government relations

Libya was a warning, Venezuela is the test

‘It’s like molasses in January’: pharmacare implementation stalled, say health-care groups, but others argue time needed to get deals right

Canada’s auto sector ‘hangs in the balance’ as CUSMA review looms in 2026: ‘there’s no sugar-coating it, this is going to be a critical year for the industry’

Legislation

NDP MP McPherson tables bill to ban company unions 

The independent Senate in 2026: an anchor of stability

Return of Parliament: MPs should buckle up

After a year of inaction, the Carney Liberals must show up for work in 2026

Public Service

Federal public servants rally on Hill against job cuts

‘Who do you remain loyal to?’: courting Bay Street talent to Major Projects Office invites conflict-of-interest ‘tension,’ says expert

Nearly 2,000 jobs and $1.5-billion to be cut across five departments by 2030, PBO analysis shows

Public servants under pressure to enact ‘delivery-and-execution agenda’ in 2026 with job cuts on the horizon

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