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Free, prior, and informed consent from Inuit is fundamental to reconciliation

Indigenous RelationsBY NDP MP LORI IDLOUT

• Protection for our land should not depend on the tireless work of individuals standing up to corporate interests when their government will not defend

What’s critical to critical minerals?

Natural Resources and EnergyBY AMMAR AL-JOUNDI

Logging in Canada is not sustainable and needs to change

EnvironmentBY MICHAEL POLANYI, JANET SUMNER

Canada can still be a natural resource powerhouse in a net-zero economy

EnvironmentBY OLIVER SHELDRICK, RACHEL DORAN

Investing in Canada’s growth includes hydrogen and precious metals

Natural Resources and EnergyBY KAREN ZIEGLER

The clean energy transition is underway with hydrogen and critical minerals

Natural Resources and EnergyBY BRUNO POLLET

Feds seek approval for additional $20.5-billion in spending

FinanceBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Seizing Canada’s opportunity in ongoing EV battery negotiations

Infrastructure and TransportBY ROBERT DIMITRIEFF, GORD DIMITRIEFF

Do emergency plans really protect women?

Women, Gender and DiversityBY KAREN CAMPBELL

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Spirit of co-operation must last beyond the wildfire emergency

Defence & SecurityBY EDITORIAL

• Climate change means we will continue to see disasters described as 'unprecedented', but our preparedness and responses to those challenges need not be. The

Canada must suspend arms exports to Peru, speak out against lethal racism

Foreign PolicyBY MARINA NAVARRO, KETTY NIVYABANDI, AND FRANCE-ISABELLE LANGLOIS

Canada’s agricultural sector must align with sustainable diets

AgricultureBY RENAUD GIGNAC, INA MARIA TONCESCU

Icelandic president says he wants to focus on fisheries, language protection in Iceland’s first state visit to Canada since 2000

Foreign PolicyBY PAUL PARK

Committee report sounds alarm bells about DFO science

Fisheries and OceansBY SEAN JONES

Defence spending as a political pivot for the Trudeau government

Defence & SecurityBY DAVID PRATT

Defence threats call for unorthodox ideas from younger Canadians, argues international politics prof

Defence & SecurityBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

‘Great damage to our democratic system’: Senator Woo takes aim at media in wake of foreign election interference report

Defence & SecurityBY MIKE LAPOINTE

Before insisting on public inquiry, leaders should review confidential information

Defence & SecurityBY EDITORIAL

AGRICULTURE

This World Milk Day, thank a Canadian dairy farmer

OpinionBY PIERRE LAMPRON

Legislation to exempt natural gas use on farms from carbon pricing focus of environment-heavy April lobbying

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Vegan diets and organic farming: two really bad ideas for the planet

OpinionBY ROBERT SOPUCK

Food insecurity, canola crops top lobbying concerns in first quarter of 2023

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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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

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Feds ignoring diaspora communities, stalling on foreign interference

OpinionBY HENRY CHAN

‘Flurry of activities’ won’t ensure military culture change, say analysts

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Do ministers and senior public servants need bodyguards?

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

It may be time to eschew tradition to beef up Canada’s military

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

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Environment

A new link to hope and reconciliation in Ontario’s north

OpinionBY MICHAEL FOX, QASIM SADDIQUE

Wildfire crisis indicates need to refrain from new fossil fuel, LNG projects, say environmentalists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Environmental and health advocates endorse update to Environmental Protection Act, but also call for promised second bill

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Feds turn to offshore oil regulators as ‘experienced hands’ to oversee offshore wind industry

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

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FINANCE

Trickle-down economics: the hoax that will not die

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Where is the sense of national ambition to seize and build on new opportunities today?

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

A lesson in the dangers of extremist, scorched-earth politics from U.S. Republicans

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Put security at the forefront as tech changes how Canadians connect with their money

OpinionBY SASHA KRSTIC

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Fisheries and oceans

When will Ottawa stop allowing cruise ships to treat B.C.’s coastline like their personal toilet bowl?

OpinionBY ANNA BARFORD

Are the feds halting and reversing the progress made at COP15?

OpinionBY EMILY MCMILLAN, PATRICK NADEAU

Canada, U.S. must work together to protect the Central Arctic Ocean

Opinion

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

OpinionBY ANDREA MAY ROWE, CORINNE SCHUSTER-WALLACE

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FOREIGN POLICY

Could the insurance companies turn out to be the good guys?

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

A dozen envoys collect awards for public diplomacy performance

FeatureBY NEIL MOSS

Advocates call for feds to provide more detail on response to Uganda’s harsh new anti-LGBTQ law

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Intel briefings should prioritize digital hygiene, mitigation against foreign interference over specific threats, says former DND analyst

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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health

COVID-19 may affect patient response to medicines

OpinionBY CHUKWUNONSO NWABUFO

Poilievre wants ‘culture war between elites and common sense’ on safe supply: Tory pundit Powers

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Health Committee tries to cut through contradictions and confusion over reforms to drug prices regulator

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

When the law fails to protect public health: opposing the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

OpinionBY TIM TAKARO, JOHN ABBOTTS

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Industry and Manufacturing

Stellantis holding governments ‘to ransom’ with threat to pull out of Windsor battery plant, says environmental advocate

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Automakers aren’t serious about the all-electric future

OpinionBY NATE WALLACE

It’s a generational moment for the life science industry

OpinionBY GORDON C. MCCAULEY

Frank McKenna: New Brunswick leads the way

OpinionBY FRANK MCKENNA

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infrastructure and transport

Top finance official defends Infrastructure Bank from accusations of ‘cosiness’ with private consultants

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Everything, everywhere, all at once

OpinionBY DAVID ADAMS

A focus on water can lessen climate change’s burn

OpinionBY JOSéE MéTHOT

Economic reconciliation requires nation-building investment in the Arctic

OpinionBY NUNAVUT PREMIER P.J. AKEEAGOK

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innovation

Members of new tech caucus pledge to work across party lines so Parliamentarians aren’t ‘left in the dark’ by rapidly advancing AI

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

All we have to worry about is ‘generative AI’ killing millions of white-collar jobs

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

With artificial intelligence, the sky really is about to fall

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Public interest in AI offers ‘unique moment’ for regulatory action

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

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intergovernmental

Smith’s win ‘complicates’ climate change debate for Ottawa, but Trudeau may gain from provincial sparring partner, say observers

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

No matter who forms government, oil and gas has won the Alberta election

OpinionBY SUSAN RILEY

Feds should absorb retroactive RCMP staffing costs, say NDP MP Johns and Conservative MP Falk

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Firefighting an election campaign

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

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justice

Proposed bail reform could harm rather than protect Canadians

OpinionBY EMILIE COYLE

What if we rebuilt the curriculum for policing in Canada?

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Canada’s extradition law desperately needs reform

OpinionBY MICHELLE WEINROTH

Conservative attacks ignore bail’s role as effective ‘tool of public safety,’ says NDP justice critic

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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Labour & employment

Even high-wage temporary foreign workers are at risk of exploitation

OpinionBY CATHERINE CONNELLY

Bank of Canada quietly signals long-term shift with potential for economic, political upheaval

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Committee witnesses who testify about non-disclosure agreements would be covered by parliamentary privilege, say House and Senate representatives

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Time for concrete action to unlock homeownership for Canadians

OpinionBY KEVIN LEE

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Lobbying

‘More prescriptive’ lobbyists’ code of conduct to come into force in July

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Environmental racism bill among concerns before top-lobbied Energy Minister Wilkinson in first quarter of 2023

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Post-employment waivers for staffers stalled until new ethics commissioner is chosen

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Disability benefit and gun control bills could rank high for Liberal priorities prior to summer break, say lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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natural resources and energy

What’s the plan for importing more nuclear waste into Canada?

OpinionBY SUSAN O’DONNELL, OLE HENDRICKSON

Integrated energy systems key to low-carbon future at home and abroad

OpinionBY WALTER MéRIDA

No space in Canada’s energy policy for methane gas

OpinionBY MILI ROY, ROBB BARNES

Newfoundland and Labrador still rock

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

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Women, Gender and Diversity

‘Act before it gets worse’: advocates call for feds to keep the LGBTQ2S+ community safe as Pride approaches

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Anti-Islamophobia rep calls for proactive measures to protect Canada’s Muslim communities amid rising hate-motivated attacks

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Gender equality got left behind in the most recent budget

OpinionBY MAGGIE SAINTY

The CRA’s reliance on biased sources can perpetuate Islamophobia

OpinionBY MOHAMMED IQBAL ALNADVI

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Indigenous Relations

Macdonald-Laurier Institute event explores the significance for Canada of the Vatican’s repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

The House calls it a national emergency, but will there be action?

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

FMA amendments support better futures for First Nations communities

OpinionBY HAROLD CALLA

More Indigenous Guardians provide benefits for climate, nature, and reconciliation

OpinionBY VALéRIE COURTOIS

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