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Trudeau, Huppé reinforce secrecy barriers

Defence & SecurityBY KEN RUBIN

Meanwhile, the public remains deserted after 40 years of excessive secrecy under Canada's Access to Information Act and no one is really listening or

Despite global pledge to combat Islamophobia, systemic anti-Muslim hate is on the rise

Women, Gender and DiversityBY TAHA GHAYYUR, FAREED KHAN

MPs’ work on gun control misses target

Defence & SecurityBY SUZANNE ZACCOUR, ERIN WHITMORE, PAULETTE SENIOR

Show you can lead in public health policy, Ottawa

HealthBY IAN CULBERT

Grocery Code of Conduct to address transparency in agri-food industry set for April release

AgricultureBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

‘Russian Crimea’ is as much a myth as the world’s invincible second army

Foreign PolicyBY ANASTASIYA RINGIS

Will governments or markets drive Canada’s energy transition?

EnvironmentBY CHRISTOPHER RAGAN, RACHEL SAMSON

Top 30 consultant lobbyists with highest number of communications in 2022

LobbyingBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Challenges facing Nova Scotia agriculture industry

AgricultureBY PROGRESSIVE SENATOR JANE CORDY

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Alberta Premier Smith should spend wisely, sustainably, create green jobs, writes Tom McElroy

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Top 21 most-lobbied public office-holders in 2022

LobbyingBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Top 20 most-discussed issues in 2022

LobbyingBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Top 20 most-lobbied departments in 2022

LobbyingBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Top 20 most-lobbied cabinet ministers in 2022

LobbyingBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

What’s missing in our innovation agenda?

InnovationBY KEVIN LYNCH AND PAUL DEEGAN

Is the Liberals’ House Affairs Committee filibuster a crack in this minority Parliament?

Defence & SecurityBY EDITORIAL

Poilievre’s pivot from migrant issue part of cross-party failure to offer policy solutions

ImmigrationBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

Biting back against ‘greedflation’

AgricultureBY NDP MP ALISTAIR MACGREGOR

AGRICULTURE

Growing Canada’s agri-food sector requires a sustainable approach to meet consumer demand

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP FRANCIS DROUIN

Digging into the Senate’s new soil study

OpinionBY SENATOR ROBERT BLACK

We know how to support healthy soil, so let’s help farmers adopt sustainable methods

OpinionBY SENATOR SHARON BUREY

Turning up the heat on climate protections for workers

OpinionBY ANELYSE WEILER AND SUSANNA KLASSEN

Biotechnology

Genomics can both grow and green Canada’s economy

OpinionBY BETTINA HAMELIN

Big money to scale up our most promising, young companies often from the United States

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Canada’s life sciences sector has come a long way

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP ANDY FILLMORE

Biotechnology, statistics, collaboration, and the pursuit of the future

OpinionBY DONALD ESTEP

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Cybersecurity should be a key point of discussion during Biden’s Canadian visit

OpinionBY SASHA KRSTIC

A ‘more challenging and volatile’ world: Russia, China, U.S. top of mind for top 50 foreign policy influencers

NewsBY NEIL MOSS, CHELSEA NASH

Canada should call foul on dodgy drone narrative

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Foreign influence transparency registry needs to be more than ‘political theatre,’ says Wark

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

Environment

How to secure Canada’s low-carbon advantage in the global clean energy race

OpinionBY MICHAEL BERNSTEIN, BENTLEY ALLAN

UN secretary general calls on developed countries to accelerate net-zero timelines to 2040

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Does the planet need a new Bretton Woods Agreement and can Canada help?

OpinionBY JOSEPH INGRAM

Freddy and the ice: messages from the future

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

FINANCE

Economic reconciliation and Inuit self-determination must see funding in Budget 2023

OpinionBY KONO TATTUINEE, DAVID KAKUKTINNIQ, ANNE-RAPHAëLLE AUDOUIN

The U.S. is besting Canada on investing in research and it will have consequences

OpinionBY PAUL DAVIDSON

Civil liberties groups call for immediate moratorium on ‘prejudiced audits’ of Muslim charities pending NSIRA review

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Feds should use upcoming budget to defend, not defund, the CBC

OpinionBY MARLA BOLTMAN

Fisheries and oceans

Is Canada ready to hear from a new wave of water leaders?

OpinionBY ANDREA MAY ROWE, CORINNE SCHUSTER-WALLACE

Fisheries Minister Murray promotes new parliamentary affairs director

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Should we let the H2O flow?

OpinionBY KEVIN LYNCH AND PAUL DEEGAN

Now is the time to act for Canada to help protect the world’s oceans

OpinionBY JENNIFER JOSENHANS

FOREIGN POLICY

It’s populism or bust as Poilievre vies to bring Canada its own Trumpian moment

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Canada should focus on fixes, not fights, during Biden visit: Tory MP

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant on Putin, what about Bush’s invasion of Iraq?

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

What the world needs now is multilateral reform

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

health

Conservative rhetoric on safe consumption sites plays dangerous game with toxic drug crisis: NDP critic

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Intelligent solutions are the shining stars for Canada’s health-care system

OpinionBY ANDY CANHAM

How much money does Canada’s health system really need?

OpinionBY MICHAEL WOLFSON

No-cost contraception is the leadership Canada needs to follow

OpinionBY KELLY BOWDEN

Industry and Manufacturing

Project Arrow and the switch to electric vehicles: a Q&A with Flavio Volpe

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Government has a role to play in the changing needs of Canadian supply chains

OpinionBY GARY UBA

Canadian response to U.S. Inflation Reduction Act should seek to boost ‘certainty’ for investors, says advocacy group

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Eyes turn to trade-pact clock after latest U.K. government toss-up

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

infrastructure and transport

Why ignoring calls for expanded rail interswitching is good for our supply chains

OpinionBY MARY-JANE BENNETT

From paternalism to partnership: how to close the Indigenous infrastructure gap

OpinionBY ERNIE DANIELS

Overhaul of passenger protections to include rail travel is ‘worthy area of focus,’ says NDP transport critic

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

With Canada’s weak protections failing air passengers, all eyes are on the transport minister

OpinionBY NDP MP TAYLOR BACHRACH

innovation

Canada built world-leading research institutes—now it’s letting them collapse

OpinionBY ALANNAH HALLAS

‘Too much, too quickly’: economists warn of Liberal ‘pro-business’ immigration policy

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

The future of AI governance a balancing act of privacy, ethics, and progress

OpinionBY AFTAB AHMED

Link blocking ‘always on the radar,’ but Google’s committee response a ‘threat to legislators’: Bittle

NewsBY STUART BENSON

intergovernmental

The anglicization of the world is here

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Don’t sleep on the Churchill Falls talks

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

Protecting publicly funded health care is shaping up as a last-ditch stand

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Sport ministers team up to tackle ‘huge gap’ in safe sport against tight timeline, ‘frustrations’ of federalism

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

justice

End-of-life rights advocates prioritize advanced requests for medically-assisted death, following passing of Bill C-39

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Senator Miville-Dechêne takes on the porn industry

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Bailing out the bail system

OpinionBY DON HEAD

The RCMP is never held to account for its own tragic, devastating wrongdoing

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Labour & employment

Budget should bolster commitment to workers in changing economy

OpinionBY SEAN STRICKLAND

‘No one-size-fits-all approach’: House committee tackles improving Indigenous graduation rates

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Canada facing wave of new homelessness: Gatineau, Que., reader

This just in: high poverty rates and inequality are not inevitable

OpinionBY MICHAEL HATFIELD

Lobbying

Top 100 Lobbyists in 2023: green tech and economy boosting set for top advocacy priorities in 2023, say lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT, STEPHEN JEFFERY

Cleaning up our emissions means government support for all low-emission energy

OpinionBY SHANNON WATT

Critics push back against proposed changes to cooling-off period for lobbyists, say they will restrict freedom of assembly

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Ford’s free pass from integrity commissioner shows plenty of leeway in Ontario ethics conventions

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

natural resources and energy

Trans Mountain’s next private sector loan likely to be significantly more expensive than last year’s ‘sweetheart deal,’ say observers

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Nuclear Waste Management Organization taking extra year to pick storage site as it seeks local support

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Energy transitions: away from diesel, or towards sovereignty?

OpinionBY SERASU DURAN, FEYZA G. SAHINYAZAN, JORDYN HRENYK, EMILY SALMON

Canada’s oil and gas industry faces an existential crisis and a weak emissions cap won’t save it

OpinionBY AMY JANZWOOD, SAM ROWAN, JOSH MEDICOFF

Women, Gender and Diversity

‘It’s a human issue’: pushing back on misogynist online hate a collective effort, says GG Simon

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Parliamentary Black Caucus pushes feds for permanent funding, initiatives beyond 2024 UN horizon

NewsBY STUART BENSON

There’s no nice way to call out Islamophobia

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

MPs ‘are listening to Kirsty right now,’ says Status of Women Committee chair, following ex-minister Duncan’s comments on abuse in sport

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Indigenous Relations