News

Employment and Social Development Canada forecasts thousands of job losses ahead of Carney’s spending review

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

• ESDC is projecting 6,700 job cuts over the next three years. Those numbers were published before Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tasked departments with finding 15 per cent in program savings.

Employment and Social Development Canada forecasts thousands of job losses ahead of Carney’s spending review

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

• ESDC is projecting 6,700 job cuts over the next three years. Those numbers were published before Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tasked departments with finding 15 per cent in program savings.

NDP shapes leadership race as cracks form between HQ and grassroots members

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

As Ontario Liberal Leader Crombie faces review, Liberal MP Erskine-Smith opens door for ‘renewal’ in provincial leadership: email

NewsBY ABBAS RANA, STUART BENSON

Feds should appoint ‘eminent person’ to head Leaders’ Debates Commission, says Green Leader May

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, MARLO GLASS

New U.K. trade strategy IDs Canada as ‘key partner’ to boost economy, procurement opportunities

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Time for feds to clarify plan for military wage boost, say observers 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

‘A critical mistake’: former Grit ministers call out what they say is Carney’s capitulation to Trump

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

News

• BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Winning the legislation lottery: MPs eye causes that hit close to home for fall bills

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• BY IREM KOCA

‘We can no longer sustain Band-Aid solutions’: watchdog calls for urgent changes to federal procurement

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• BY MARLO GLASS

House committee summons ministers, CEOs to testify on $1-billion loan for Chinese-made ships

Q&A | Trade talks with a ‘revisionist power’ where leverage is everything

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

• ‘Everything is negotiable at all times’ with U.S. President Donald Trump, says trade consultant Eric Miller.

Q&A | Trade talks with a ‘revisionist power’ where leverage is everything

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

• ‘Everything is negotiable at all times’ with U.S. President Donald Trump, says trade consultant Eric Miller.

Carney Liberals missed winning majority by only 60 votes despite 19.5-million votes cast in last election, say pollsters

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Chants of ‘shame’ erupt at Conservative AGM in GTA after organizer ‘unfairly’ disqualifies a slate of 30 candidates

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Environment groups want ‘national interest’ defined in Liberals’ One Economy law

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Federal major projects office ‘should not take the place of proper consultation with First Nations,’ says AFN national chief

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Assembly of First Nations hosts virtual forum to discuss the One Canadian Economy Act on July 10

Podcast

‘Everything is negotiable at all times’: a Trump trade update, with Eric Miller

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT AND SERGIY SLIPCHENKO

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

ListBY PETER MAZEREEUW

House and Senate steering committee members named

Podcast

A military spending spree, with David Perry

‘Early days’ to grade Carney’s climate policies, say advocates who point to ‘welcome’ campaign pledges

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

• While some environmental groups ‘welcome’ Liberal platform pledges on climate, Green Leader Elizabeth May says the government’s proposed pipeline plans are ‘outrageous.’

‘Early days’ to grade Carney’s climate policies, say advocates who point to ‘welcome’ campaign pledges

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

• While some environmental groups ‘welcome’ Liberal platform pledges on climate, Green Leader Elizabeth May says the government’s proposed pipeline plans are ‘outrageous.’

Digital services tax retreat risks showing ‘Canada will fold’ in Trump trade talks, warn experts

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Finance Canada to boost spending 10 per cent by 2027 as debt costs, transfers rise

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Feds tighten grip on consultant contracts with new procurement rules, $20M cap on time-based work

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Spy agency threat assessment singles out China for ‘aggressive cyber program’

NewsBY MARLO GLASS, RIDDHI KACHHELA

Queer Senators now outnumber MPs on Pride Caucus, as group looks to include allies

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

PSPC’s three-year $17.5-billion spending plan lacks clear roadmap to future goals, say insiders

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Parliamentary Calendar

Macdonald-Laurier Institute to host talk on AI policy in Canada on July 7: ‘A unique path between the EU and U.S.’

Podcast

The crisis of Canadian democracy, with Andrew Coyne

feature

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2024

News

All eyes on Trump: meet the top 50 foreign policy influencers navigating Canada’s role in a rocky world

Podcast

Making sense of the ‘Building Canada Act’, with Elizabeth May

PCO forecasts $64-million cut, dropping 64 staff over next three years

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

• The Privy Council Office's departmental plan outlines $278-million in spending this fiscal year—easily a four-year high—while forecasting cuts down to $214-million by 2027-28.

PCO forecasts $64-million cut, dropping 64 staff over next three years

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

• The Privy Council Office's departmental plan outlines $278-million in spending this fiscal year—easily a four-year high—while forecasting cuts down to $214-million by 2027-28.

‘What is being promised?’: NDP, labour call for more transparency in trade talks with Trump 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

New DND plan gives extra seven years to meet army and navy readiness targets, lowers air force aims

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Federal fish science analyses continue to muddy the waters in salmon farm fight

NewsBY STUART BENSON

‘They’re never going to silence me’: Red Chamber marks Pride month with historic number of openly queer Senators 

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Frustrated with party’s nominations process, former Alberta Conservative national councillor mulls comeback: ‘the worst I saw was in Calgary Skyview’

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

• The national council has reduced itself to a mere ‘housekeeping’ role and has allowed itself to be ‘bullied’ by senior party and campaign officials. If the national council is unwilling to lead, it might as well ‘disband,’ says Marilyn Elliott.

Frustrated with party’s nominations process, former Alberta Conservative national councillor mulls comeback: ‘the worst I saw was in Calgary Skyview’

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

• The national council has reduced itself to a mere ‘housekeeping’ role and has allowed itself to be ‘bullied’ by senior party and campaign officials. If the national council is unwilling to lead, it might as well ‘disband,’ says Marilyn Elliott.

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

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

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

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Breaking down C-5: Carney’s ‘build, baby, build’ bill draws support from business sector, but heavy pushback from environmental, Indigenous groups

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Breaking down C-5: Carney’s ‘build, baby, build’ bill draws support from business sector, but heavy pushback from environmental, Indigenous groups

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Report forecasts ‘worst cuts to public service in modern history’ to meet Carney’s campaign pledge

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Report forecasts ‘worst cuts to public service in modern history’ to meet Carney’s campaign pledge

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Politics This Morning

Joly talks business with the EU 

AFN tackles C-5

Hodgson to P.E.I. to talk resource strategy

Freeland pushes for a win at internal trade summit

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

Carney’s record on foreign interference is uninspiring, so far

MPs ‘utterly subservient’ to leaders, says Globe columnist Andrew Coyne who offers a path away from Canada’s anti-democratic system in his new book, The Crisis of Canadian Democracy

Piggybacking changes to privacy laws ‘has nothing to do with affordability,’ say critics of Bill C-4

Senator Dasko pitches elections law reforms to address enduring issue of candidate diversity

Politics

Carney’s fiscal plans put the public service at risk

Summer recess is a pivotal time for national parties

Minister Champagne brings some fresh faces to finance file

Action must follow Canada’s tone shift on Gaza

Foreign Policy

Musk, Trump, and Mao

Canada today: an exporting country in a trade-compromised world

Parliamentarians celebrate Fourth of July at Lornado amid trade war, annexation threats

U.S. envoy Hoekstra opens his Ottawa home for July 4 festivities

Finance and Budget

Feds’ spending review to-do list: rethink regs, Crown corps, and costly consultants

Certainly in chaos: Canada’s path to unshakable leadership

Turning goals into results

Q&A | New five-per-cent NATO target ‘achievable’ if Canada is ‘smart about it,’ says David Perry

Lobbying

Natural resources, economy top lobbying issues in May

‘Unusual time’ for lobbying in first quarter of 2025, with economic concerns topping communications

International trade, the economy top-lobbied issues in April, and Ford, GM led the way

Lobbying rule changes coming with stricter reporting requirements, says lobbying commissioner

Legislation

It’s time to end Canada’s control over First Nations identity

What good is a social safety net that doesn’t catch you?

Canadians’ right to a healthy environment is already being tested

Carney ‘buries Caesar’ by admitting his own mistakes

Public Service

The failed $5-billion program the feds can’t shake

Here are some ways to revolutionize the federal government for tomorrow’s challenges

Carney could ‘weed out bad apples’ with his high expectations for federal public service

Large shuffle to public service expected once Sabia takes PCO reins

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