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An austerity-driven federal budget is a necessary evil

FinanceBY RAM MATHILAKATH

• Cuts should focus on non-essential administrative or back-office functions that don’t directly contribute to service delivery.

Health innovation groups say they hope governments’ ‘Buy Canadian’ mentality hits their sector

HealthBY TESSIE SANCI

If Indigenous health is an expected outcome of reconciliation, we’re in trouble

HealthBY ROSE LEMAY

Canada could have access to more than 10,000 doctors if licensing were less complicated, House Health Committee hears

HealthBY TESSIE SANCI

Security delayed is security denied

InnovationBY LISA LAMBERT, MICHELE MOSCA

Unions brace for budget’s impact as think tank predicts ‘stealth’ cuts to public-serving programs

FinanceBY MARLO GLASS

What lessons can be drawn from Doug Ford’s adventures in advertising?

Foreign PolicyBY JAMIE CARROLL

The easiest policy win in Ottawa might just be hiding in plain sight

AgricultureBY ORVILLE BOVENSCHEN

Government must balance AI development with risk management

InnovationBY HEATHER BAKKEN, SHAWN MCCARTHY

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Curing Type 1 diabetes could be Canada’s legacy

HealthBY JESSICA DINIZ, CATE MURRAY

• From insulin to regenerative therapy, Canada’s contribution to diabetes research is unmatched. The question is whether we’ll continue to lead or watch others cross

Will the budget kill Carney’s honeymoon?

FinanceBY GERRY NICHOLLS

Thirty years ago last week, Canada’s future hung in the balance

IntergovernmentalBY SHEILA COPPS

For Canada to be ‘climate competitive’ we need to stay the course on key industrial policies

EnvironmentBY JANETTA MCKENZIE

Canada’s AI strategy must prioritize young workers

InnovationBY ALONSO MUñOZ SANCHEZ

Drone warfare is here. Canada must prepare

Defence & SecurityBY JEAN-FRANçOIS BéLANGER, ALEX WILNER

Bill aimed at protecting telecom infrastructure against cyberattacks strikes at privacy rights, say civil society groups

Defence & SecurityBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

Major projects? Not without telecom

Infrastructure and TransportBY ROBERT GHIZ

Telecom and the national interest

InnovationBY ERIK BOHLIN

AGRICULTURE

Thinking clearly about the EV-canola tradeoff

OpinionBY BO CHEN, ISG SENATOR YUEN PAU WOO

Investing in the future of Canadian agriculture: a strategic imperative

OpinionBY TREVOR HECK

Canada can lead global efforts in tackling hunger

OpinionBY ANDY HARRINGTON

Canada must keep its promises to protect animals

OpinionBY EWA DEMIANOWICZ

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Biotechnology

Turning innovation into impact: Canada’s biotech advantage

OpinionBY WENDY ZATYLNY

‘Cutting red tape,’ mental health and primary care on the health docket this fall

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Canada at risk of collateral damage in U.S. drug pricing war

OpinionBY ANNETTE ROBINSON

U.S. tariffs on pharmaceuticals could complicate an already complex supply chain

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

The CAF’s emotional apology for racism

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Douglas Roche: why ‘much of my public career has been marked by dissent, and [why] I’m not stopping now’

OpinionBY DOUGLAS ROCHE

Current and former MPs call for united front to fight back against Trump’s continuing threat to the country, but say House is too polarized

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

Veterans raise inaugural poppy flag on Parliament Hill

FeatureBY ANDREW MEADE

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Environment

Here is a nation-building project that would really make a difference

OpinionBY TREVOR HANCOCK, MELISSA GORRIE

Questions loom over Liberals’ environment plans with Canada ‘off path’ to meet emissions targets

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

The Giant Mine project is yet another Liberal scandal: Conservative MP

OpinionBY CONSERVATIVE MP BOB ZIMMER

Canada’s financial system needs a green upgrade

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR ROSA GALVEZ

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FINANCE

As Trump tries to destroy our economy, Carney should be selling Canada as a nation of leading tech and innovation to the world, not as an energy superpower

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Canada’s food security is vital

OpinionBY MASSIMO BERGAMINI

Carney’s budget challenge: govern for the many, or manage for the few?

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

Auditor General to probe Canada Revenue Agency’s phone system contract

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

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Fisheries and oceans

Q&A | Cod quota ‘pressure is enormous’ on fisheries minister

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

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

NewsBY STUART BENSON

The markets are hungry for Canadian cod. Will we deliver?

OpinionBY SYLVIE LAPOINTE

Oceans must take centre stage in nation-building projects

OpinionBY DEREK ARMITAGE, TREVOR SWERDFAGER

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FOREIGN POLICY

Trump’s game of ‘Made You Look’

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Ecuador’s fight is for peace, human rights, and partnership with Canada

OpinionBY ESTEBAN CRESPO POLO

Canada shouldn’t obsess so much about caving to a despot, especially when he’s clearly wrong

OpinionBY MICHAEL HARRIS

Hoekstra is a pretty reliable barometer of what the Trump administration is thinking and feeling about Canada

OpinionBY MATT GURNEY

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health

Who will protect our brains in the AI race?

OpinionBY VIVIANE POUPON

CMA leads health lobbying in lead up to budget

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Stakeholders lament lack of timelines, ‘concrete’ action plans for fixing health care after ministers’ annual meeting

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Canada can’t afford delays in medical imaging

OpinionBY ALISON HARRIS

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Industry and Manufacturing

Carney’s big promises all hinge on Canadians’ trust

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

The case for renewing the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy

OpinionBY ADAM SPENCE

As Canada feels the strain of U.S. trade war, pressure heats up on innovation sector

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Feds’ new industrial strategy falls short on ambition, needs clearer objectives for defence procurement, say experts

NewsBY IREM KOCA

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infrastructure and transport

‘Canada needs this road’: N.W.T. pitches highway to the Arctic

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Fall budget cycle ‘great news’ for ‘more timely’ northern project planning, says N.W.T. finance minister

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Nation-building in an uncertain world: why Canada must invest in public infrastructure now

OpinionBY INTERIM NDP LEADER DON DAVIES

Do Canadians need new houses, or new homes?

OpinionBY DAVID WATTERS, RYAN DESCHAMPS, RAHIM REZAIE

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innovation

Can a made-in-Canada project help overcome the digital divide?

OpinionBY RAFIK GOUBRAN

Support for communications infrastructure is key to Arctic development

OpinionBY PETER GARLAND, ROB MCMAHON

Canada’s competitiveness depends on a modern digital backbone

OpinionBY ALEX GRECO

Canada’s forgotten telecommunication lesson from 1914

OpinionBY TYSON MACAULAY

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intergovernmental

Is Canada an ‘illegitimate country’?

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Poilievre’s Trumpian language to appease some supporters risks his losing the rest of the country

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

Setting the stage for Quebec’s fall election season

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Quebec’s new ‘constitution’ bill is an affront to democracy

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

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justice

Justice Minister Fraser unveils bill to tighten Canada’s bail and sentencing regimes

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Budget cuts won’t impact RCMP hiring push, says public safety minister 

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Civil liberties groups urge Liberals to withdraw ‘vague’ anti-hate bill that opposition MPs say is ‘trying to lower the bar’ for prosecution

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Bill C-3 corrects inequalities, brings Citizenship Act into compliance with the Charter

OpinionBY DON CHAPMAN

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Labour & employment

Unspinning the Trumpian disinformation on DEI: why it matters for all Canadians

OpinionBY KAIT LAFORCE, WILL SHELLING

‘Prices have to go down’: housing experts say new agency’s success must be measured in cost, not construction outcomes

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Federal childcare program falls far short as costs balloon 

OpinionBY PETER JON MITCHELL

Fast, employer-aligned training is key to Canada’s economic recovery

OpinionBY MICHAEL SANGSTER

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Lobbying

‘Cut through the table talk’: tech firms launch new group to help feds fix procurement woes 

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Easter Seals, CFIB lobbying feds to end Canada Post’s strike

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

This Parliament’s ethics roundup: blind trusts, recusals, gifts, and more

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

Hodgson, Dabrusin top-lobbied cabinet ministers last month as energy, environment lead the lobby charts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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natural resources and energy

Studies show no evidence of negative health effect of uranium processing in Port Hope: Whitlock

Opinion

Keystone XL is back from the dead, and so are the politics of pipelines

OpinionBY JOSIE SABATINO

Carney has an obligation to better define his priorities for the Canada-U.S. relationship

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

The North: different by design, essential by nature

OpinionBY NORTHWEST TERRITORIES PREMIER R.J. SIMPSON

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Women’s groups hail ongoing funding for gender-equality programs, but warn the ‘devil is in the details’

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

Conservative attacks on DEI are nothing new, but fighting past battles risks future growth, say politicos

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Women entrepreneurs are a vital resource for growing Canada’s economy – it is time to break down the barriers standing in their way

OpinionBY ROSALIND LOCKYER

When social justice becomes abnormal: the rise of ‘anti-woke’ politics in Canada

OpinionBY MALINDA SMITH

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Indigenous Relations

Senators must amend Bill S-2 to stop the legislative extinction of First Nations

OpinionBY PAMELA PALMATER, SHARON MCIVOR

A note about protecting Indigenous Peoples in the 2025 budget

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Federal funding out of touch with Indigenous realities

OpinionBY JOCELYN FORMSMA, TRISTAN NUGENT

Jordan’s Principle isn’t a ‘program’—it’s a legal duty

OpinionBY IRVING GOLD

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