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More aggressive short-term climate goals needed in aviation sector, say NDP, climate activists

EnvironmentBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

• A goal for the aviation industry to source 10 per cent of fuel from sustainable sources by 2030 was set in the Liberal government's

Our messages were loud and clear at COP27: KAIROS

Environment

Can we stop with the Indigenous identity fraud?

Indigenous RelationsBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM

Trudeau’s inscrutable China policy

Foreign PolicyBY SUSAN RILEY

Experts say government has a key role to play protecting crypto investors from bad actors

FinanceBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Rouleau Commission testimony provided a closer look at what we already knew

Defence & SecurityBY SHEILA COPPS

Committee treating MAID as ‘beneficial solution to all forms of suffering’ despite ‘deeply problematic reports’ of its use, warn disability advocates

HealthBY IAN CAMPBELL

A holiday wish list for Canada’s aerospace sector

Infrastructure and TransportBY GRANT STEVENS

COVID restart: towards a sustainable future for aviation

Infrastructure and TransportBY SUZANNE KEARNS AND PAUL PARKER

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For Canadian aerospace to remain a global leader, an industrial strategy is required

Infrastructure and TransportBY MIKE MUELLER

• Canada faces a growing array of ambitious andwell-funded competitor countries all vying to be aerospace leaders in the global arena.

Securing our aerospace competitiveness will require vision and investments

Infrastructure and TransportBY MARYSE HARVEY

Canada needs to claim its place in the commercial space race

Infrastructure and TransportBY MIKE GREENLEY

Course-correcting Canada’s troubled aerospace sector

Infrastructure and TransportBY LANA PAYNE

Leading the way: Canadian aerospace industry poised for success

Infrastructure and TransportBY ANTHONY NOREJKO

What will it take to move Canada forward?

EnvironmentBY DAVID CRANE

The Artificial Intelligence and Data Act needs a reset

Defence & SecurityBY ANDREW CLEMENT

Russia has tested ‘weak West’ and found it will not yield: McElroy

Defence & Security

Military recruitment and retention crisis requires addressing low morale, housing availability, say Tory, NDP critics

Defence & SecurityBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

AGRICULTURE

Affordable shelter, fertilizer emissions, and tourism topped lobbying issues in busiest October since 2018

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Thoughts for food: Ag Committee, Competition Bureau prepare dual studies into ‘greedflation,’ grocery sector

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Four decades later, global hunger still trending

OpinionBY CAROL THIESSEN, NYAMBURA GITHAIGA

We must seize the solution to food inflation and health-care shortages at our fingertips

OpinionBY MICHAEL GRAYDON

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Biotechnology

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

Turning crisis into opportunity: a Canadian-made bio-revolution

OpinionBY BETTINA HAMELIN

Rebuilding biotech sector requires diversified training, say researchers

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Alleged Chinese interference an ‘awkward’ situation for Trudeau’s Liberals

NewsBY CHELSEA NASH

Mounties’ union calls on feds to reconsider removal of ‘less-lethal intervention options’ from RCMP toolkit, citing safety concerns

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

NORAD modernization urgently needed for Canada to maintain competitive edge in the Arctic

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR TONY DEAN

In Canada-U.S. defence trade, the status quo is a losing proposition

OpinionBY NICOLAS TODD

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Environment

Vinland: a question of timing

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

What should be on Canada’s policy radar?

OpinionBY JENNIFER DITCHBURN

Canada’s national parks must be kept accessible for all

OpinionBY DEBBIE HARKSEN

COP 27 and a glass half full

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

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FINANCE

Canada’s financial sector is more than six big banks

OpinionBY MICHAEL HATCH

Cases up, costs down: feds report $227.1-million in lost revenue, public money and property in 2021-22

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Money for nothing?

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Canada can do better than a $306-billion Surface Combatants price tag

OpinionBY ALAN WILLIAMS

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Fisheries and oceans

‘There’s no more time’: green light needed for swift movement on blue economy, says Sen. Galvez

NewsBY ALICE CHEN

New Fisheries Minister Murray has list of ‘urgent’ priorities to grapple with

NewsBY ALICE CHEN

Canadian fisheries: access and benefits at risk of slipping away?

OpinionBY JENNIFER SILVER

Provinces to blame for Canada’s broken international conservation promise

OpinionBY SANDRA SCHWARTZ

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FOREIGN POLICY

Israel is an imperfect country, but a vibrant liberal democracy: Fegelman

OpinionBY MIKE FEGELMAN

Canada should bring back children trapped in Syria

OpinionBY JO BECKER

To build our better tomorrow, we need the builders

OpinionBY MARY VAN BUREN

Reaction to Trudeau-Xi exchange shows partisanship trumps all, even our national interest

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

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health

Significant policy shifts have been made, but government still leaving surrogacy families behind

OpinionBY JACQUIE LAROCQUE

Rouleau Inquiry lifts lid on ‘federal, provincial, municipal dysfunction in crisis management and policing,’ say politicos

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

Thank you for your service, Deena Hinshaw, writes Alan Levy

Opinion

Fighting the next health crisis

OpinionBY E. RICHARD GOLD, ALED EDWARDS

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Industry and Manufacturing

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

Innovative post-secondary solutions will help solve Canada’s tech-sector skills shortage

OpinionBY JANE GOODYER

Politics This Morning: Anand visits Poland as Russian cruise missiles hammer Ukrainian cities

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

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infrastructure and transport

Empty hydrogen strategies in transportation sector: a plan without projects

OpinionBY JOSIPA PETRUNIć

The bumpy road to greener mobility

OpinionBY WERNER ANTWEILER

The federal public transit fund sits at the intersection of economic and climate progress for Canadians

OpinionBY CAROLE SAAB

Ports in need of infrastructure improvements call for more flexible borrowing limits from government

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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innovation

Twitter may be ailing, but Mastodon is no remedy

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

The tech party is over

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Will expanding Canada’s plutonium interests support the peaceful use of nuclear energy?

OpinionBY M.V. RAMANA AND SUSAN O’DONNELL

Uncertain economic times call for modernized federal SR&ED program, say lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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intergovernmental

Ford-CUPE feud portrays Tories as ‘black-hearted accountants,’ an image which could harm federal Conservatives

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Closing a Charter loophole

OpinionBY GERRY NICHOLLS

Anglade’s resignation a sad end for a leader with wasted potential

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Conservatives look to raze Liberal stronghold in Newfoundland and Labrador

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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justice

On Truth and Reconciliation Day, Liberals should reflect on past mistakes, resist urge to defend themselves: Blackstock

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Will true reconciliation ever happen?

OpinionBY CAROL MCBRIDE

Reconciling our history for the health of our future

OpinionBY TINA CAMPBELL

Looking to the next milestone in Métis reconciliation

OpinionBY MARGARET FROH

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Labour & employment

How does Canada solve its sustainable infrastructure crisis?

OpinionBY RHONDA LENTON

Building a more sustainable financial foundation for Canada’s universities and colleges

OpinionBY PETER MCINNIS

Here’s what’s still needed to drive innovation

OpinionBY MERIC GERTLER

Universities with expanded or refined online courses want more broadband access for students

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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Lobbying

Quality of journalism should be considered in eligibility for Bill C-18, says NDP MP

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Bill C-11 amendments must define role of ‘international service,’ says RCI action committee spokesperson

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

‘It’s not easy work’: Yasir Naqvi on how to get things done with government

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Ottawa mayoral candidates Mark Sutcliffe, Catherine McKenney garner high-profile endorsements as election day approaches

FeatureBY MIKE LAPOINTE

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natural resources and energy

Nuclear power must be part of net-zero solution

OpinionBY GUY HOTTE, NEIL ALEXANDER

Why is Ontario turning its back on low-cost, low-carbon power?

OpinionBY ANGELA BISCHOFF

‘We tried to stop it’: chair of Indigenous coalition bidding for Trans Mountain went to court to block the project

NewsBY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

Canada must push harder to curb greenhouse gas emissions

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Diversity and inclusion promises ring hollow if racialized voices are shut out

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Global North’s whitelash brings fascism back in fashion

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Political parties have left women behind

OpinionBY JENNIFER M. PISCOPO

Politics This Morning: Liberals move forward on long-awaited plan for 2SLGBTQ+ people

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Indigenous Relations

What to do with pretendians

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

‘Remarkable showing of co-operation’ from MPs on amendments to create ‘historic’ National Council for Reconciliation

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

‘Violent’ residential school denialism no longer ‘legitimate talking point’ after genocide motion, say Gazan, experts

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Inuit community supports Mary River Iron Mine expansion, says Baffinland

OpinionBY UDLU HANSON

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