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Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman, left, pictured with Pierre Poilievre at a press conference in the House of Commons foyer of May 27, 2025, where he outlined his party’s planned amendments to the Speech from the Throne. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY COLIN DRUHAN | March 10, 2025
Once dismissed as fringe ideology, the anti-gender movement has gained alarming traction in Canada in recent years, writes Colin Druhan. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY COLIN DRUHAN | March 10, 2025
Opinion | BY COLIN DRUHAN | March 10, 2025
Once dismissed as fringe ideology, the anti-gender movement has gained alarming traction in Canada in recent years, writes Colin Druhan. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY ERICA IFILL | January 29, 2025
This week marked both International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia. Unsplash photograph by Carly Hendrickson
Opinion | BY ERICA IFILL | January 29, 2025
Opinion | BY ERICA IFILL | January 29, 2025
This week marked both International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia. Unsplash photograph by Carly Hendrickson
Opinion | BY ERICA IFILL | January 15, 2025
Party delegates attend the 2023 Liberal convention. Like the Democrats in the United States, the Liberals will lose the election by offering the Canadian public Conservatives-lite, writes Erica Ifill. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
Opinion | BY ERICA IFILL | January 15, 2025
Opinion | BY ERICA IFILL | January 15, 2025
Party delegates attend the 2023 Liberal convention. Like the Democrats in the United States, the Liberals will lose the election by offering the Canadian public Conservatives-lite, writes Erica Ifill. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
News | BY STUART BENSON | January 3, 2025
In the wake of the unsealed U.S. indictment implicating Canadian Lauren Chen, left, in a Kremlin-backed influence campaign, social media users quickly—and without evidence—accused Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his party of collusion, posting thousands of comments with hashtags like #PierrePutin in the following days. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and Screenshot courtesy of ParlVu
News | BY STUART BENSON | January 3, 2025
News | BY STUART BENSON | January 3, 2025
In the wake of the unsealed U.S. indictment implicating Canadian Lauren Chen, left, in a Kremlin-backed influence campaign, social media users quickly—and without evidence—accused Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his party of collusion, posting thousands of comments with hashtags like #PierrePutin in the following days. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and Screenshot courtesy of ParlVu
News | BY SOPHALL DUCH | December 18, 2024
Outgoing housing minister Sean Fraser leads the pack in the 2024 All Politics Poll survey, while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has respondents divided. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia and photo illustration by Joey Sabourin
News | BY SOPHALL DUCH | December 18, 2024
News | BY SOPHALL DUCH | December 18, 2024
Outgoing housing minister Sean Fraser leads the pack in the 2024 All Politics Poll survey, while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has respondents divided. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia and photo illustration by Joey Sabourin
Two staff from Russia's state propaganda platform RT were indicted in the United States for paying $10-million to a Canadian-owned firm to create and amplify Kremlin-aligned content in Canada and the U.S. Image courtesy of RT
Two staff from Russia's state propaganda platform RT were indicted in the United States for paying $10-million to a Canadian-owned firm to create and amplify Kremlin-aligned content in Canada and the U.S. Image courtesy of RT
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | September 19, 2024
Parliamentary Protective Service officers stationed at the foot of the stairs leading to the West Block's southern entrance on Sept. 19. Hill pass holders currently have to show ID in order to use the stairs and access the building's immediate vicinity, with the public barred from the area. The Hill Times photograph by Laura Ryckewaert
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | September 19, 2024
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | September 19, 2024
Parliamentary Protective Service officers stationed at the foot of the stairs leading to the West Block's southern entrance on Sept. 19. Hill pass holders currently have to show ID in order to use the stairs and access the building's immediate vicinity, with the public barred from the area. The Hill Times photograph by Laura Ryckewaert
Opinion | BY JESS BURKE, DANIEL MIKELBERG, JESSE SAMUELS | September 12, 2024
Participants in the Capital Pride parade in Ottawa on Aug. 25. Our rallying cry is: 'No human is illegal, Black lives matter, science is real, queer and trans youth homelessness is a policy failure, and there is no Pride in antisemitism,' write Jess Burke, Rabbi Daniel Mikelberg, and Jesse Samuels. The Hill Times photograph by Stuart Benson
Opinion | BY JESS BURKE, DANIEL MIKELBERG, JESSE SAMUELS | September 12, 2024
Opinion | BY JESS BURKE, DANIEL MIKELBERG, JESSE SAMUELS | September 12, 2024
Participants in the Capital Pride parade in Ottawa on Aug. 25. Our rallying cry is: 'No human is illegal, Black lives matter, science is real, queer and trans youth homelessness is a policy failure, and there is no Pride in antisemitism,' write Jess Burke, Rabbi Daniel Mikelberg, and Jesse Samuels. The Hill Times photograph by Stuart Benson
List | BY CHELSEA NASH | August 5, 2024
Members of the Parliamentary Protective Service prevent protesters bearing large wooden flagpoles from entering Parliament Hill grounds on Jan. 28, 2023, the anniversary of the Freedom Convoy protest. The Hill Times photograph by Stuart Benson
List | BY CHELSEA NASH | August 5, 2024
List | BY CHELSEA NASH | August 5, 2024
Members of the Parliamentary Protective Service prevent protesters bearing large wooden flagpoles from entering Parliament Hill grounds on Jan. 28, 2023, the anniversary of the Freedom Convoy protest. The Hill Times photograph by Stuart Benson
News | BY CHELSEA NASH | July 22, 2024
Liberal MP Marco Mendicino, who was the public safety minister from 2021-2023, was spat on by a protester in Ottawa in June. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY CHELSEA NASH | July 22, 2024
News | BY CHELSEA NASH | July 22, 2024
Liberal MP Marco Mendicino, who was the public safety minister from 2021-2023, was spat on by a protester in Ottawa in June. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Former President of the United States Donald Trump
Former U.S. president Donald Trump, pictured in June, was shot on July 13 at a rally near Butler, Penn., in an attack that killed one in the crowd, and critically injured two more people. Photograph courtesy Gage Skidmore/ Flickr
Former President of the United States Donald Trump
Former U.S. president Donald Trump, pictured in June, was shot on July 13 at a rally near Butler, Penn., in an attack that killed one in the crowd, and critically injured two more people. Photograph courtesy Gage Skidmore/ Flickr
News | BY CHRISTOPHER GULY | July 17, 2024
Liberal MP Anthony Housefathe
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather was formally named the government's special adviser on Jewish community relations and antisemitism on July 5 after weeks of delay following questions raised about whether the three-term MP would remain in caucus. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY CHRISTOPHER GULY | July 17, 2024
News | BY CHRISTOPHER GULY | July 17, 2024
Liberal MP Anthony Housefathe
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather was formally named the government's special adviser on Jewish community relations and antisemitism on July 5 after weeks of delay following questions raised about whether the three-term MP would remain in caucus. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY EDITORIAL | July 17, 2024
Donald Trump
Former U.S. president Donald Trump survived a shooting at a July 13 rally. So what does that mean in Canada? Screenshot courtesy of CBC News
Opinion | BY EDITORIAL | July 17, 2024
Opinion | BY EDITORIAL | July 17, 2024
Donald Trump
Former U.S. president Donald Trump survived a shooting at a July 13 rally. So what does that mean in Canada? Screenshot courtesy of CBC News
Opinion | BY TIM POWERS | July 17, 2024
Pierre Poilievre and Justin Trudeau
The calls from parties led by Conservative Pierre Poilievre, left, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for ending violence and it having no place in our democracies will take likely take a back seat to whatever appears to be the best electoral strategy of the moment, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY TIM POWERS | July 17, 2024
Opinion | BY TIM POWERS | July 17, 2024
Pierre Poilievre and Justin Trudeau
The calls from parties led by Conservative Pierre Poilievre, left, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for ending violence and it having no place in our democracies will take likely take a back seat to whatever appears to be the best electoral strategy of the moment, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY CHELSEA NASH | July 8, 2024
Pierre Poilievre, left, who has dismissed suggestions that he is embracing populism, often frames his party as ‘common sense Conservatives,’ in contrast to the ‘ivory tower elites’ who support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY CHELSEA NASH | July 8, 2024
News | BY CHELSEA NASH | July 8, 2024
Pierre Poilievre, left, who has dismissed suggestions that he is embracing populism, often frames his party as ‘common sense Conservatives,’ in contrast to the ‘ivory tower elites’ who support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | July 3, 2024
Liberal MP Sherry Romanado, left, and NDP MPs Lindsay Mathyssen, Heather McPherson, and Matthew Green say they want to see the House codify a policy addressing MP-to-MP harassment. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | July 3, 2024
News | BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT | July 3, 2024
Liberal MP Sherry Romanado, left, and NDP MPs Lindsay Mathyssen, Heather McPherson, and Matthew Green say they want to see the House codify a policy addressing MP-to-MP harassment. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 3, 2024
The only question for U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives is whether this election will be merely a catastrophe, or a full-scale extinction event from which there is no return, writes Gwynne Dyer. No. 10 Downing Street photograph by Simon Walker
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 3, 2024
Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | July 3, 2024
The only question for U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives is whether this election will be merely a catastrophe, or a full-scale extinction event from which there is no return, writes Gwynne Dyer. No. 10 Downing Street photograph by Simon Walker