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

Defence & SecurityBY IREM KOCA

• Industry Minister Mélanie Joly unveiled a new three-pillar industrial strategy on Oct. 9 aimed at protecting Canadian industries, creating jobs, and attracting global investment.

MP Genuis pitches youth jobs plan

FinanceBY ANDREW MEADE

Canada’s Student Work Placement Program a youth employment lifeline 

Labour & EmploymentBY ROB HENDERSON

Slovakia marks artful national day

Foreign PolicyBY SAM GARCIA

Skill development must be Canada’s national project

Industry and ManufacturingBY MARK BECKLES, CHARLES FINLAY

Anita Anand’s India challenge: engage without enabling

Foreign PolicyBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

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

FinanceBY MARLO GLASS

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

Labour & EmploymentBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Eggs fuel us every day, as nutritious food and as an economic engine for Canada

AgricultureBY ROGER PELISSERO

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Canada’s submarine purchase has new ‘sense of urgency’ with possible selection by end of year, says German envoy 

Defence & SecurityBY NEIL MOSS, IREM KOCA

• The clock is ticking to replace the aging Victoria-class submarines before they are taken out of the water in the 2030s, leaving the Canadian

Canada’s underutilized Arctic radar advantage

Defence & SecurityBY PIERRE LEBLANC

Climate action is crucial for Canadians’ health

HealthBY LHAMO DOLKAR, DORIS GRINSPUN

Here’s the best Canadian strategy on the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of Trump’s potentially illegal global tariffs

Foreign PolicyBY ERROL MENDES

The battery that can supercharge Canada’s economic future

FinanceBY MERRAN SMITH, JUSTIN RANGOONI

Federal funding out of touch with Indigenous realities

FinanceBY JOCELYN FORMSMA, TRISTAN NUGENT

Overcoming infrastructure challenges requires better data sharing, say experts

Infrastructure and TransportBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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

HealthBY IRVING GOLD

Canada has influence—it’s time to use it to stop genocide

Foreign PolicyBY LAUREN RAVON, BUSHRA KHALIDI

AGRICULTURE

Canada must keep its promises to protect animals

OpinionBY EWA DEMIANOWICZ

Tory ag critic questions efforts to engage with China as canola tariffs drag into harvest season

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

School food advocates hopeful program will survive fall budget cuts, but say Ontario falling short of ‘all in’

NewsBY STUART BENSON

AI can’t save farming if our soils keep dying

OpinionBY ASIM BISWAS

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Biotechnology

‘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

A different ‘philosophy’ steers new drug pricing guidelines, says top PMPRB bureaucrat after contentious path to rule changes  

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Indulging in absurd anti-U.S. rhetoric? You’re doing a solid for Moscow and Beijing

OpinionBY RAQUEL GARBERS

New border bill cuts controversial measures, keeps powers to tighten immigration

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Accountability needed after forged documents used to smear journalist and compromise House committee

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Military justice reform bill ‘a major step forward,’ but needs work at committee, say Bloc MPs as Tories favour more debate

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

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Environment

Plastics and PFAS: a public health crisis Canada can no longer ignore

OpinionBY HELEN HSU

Canada needs an agenda to end pollution from toxics and plastics

OpinionBY CASSIE BARKER, ELAINE MACDONALD

Chimps, war, and us 

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

The climate is changing faster than Canada’s infrastructure—ignoring it is not fiscally responsible

OpinionBY INDEPENDENT SENATOR ROSA GALVEZ

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FINANCE

It’s always do or die on budget day

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Liberal government’s decision to deliver all future budgets in the fall is significant

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

The price tag on housing-enabling infrastructure is prolonging our housing crisis

OpinionBY OLHA SOTSKA

Will the fall budget cycle be the spark MPs need to actually study spending?

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

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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

Anand’s trip to India and China part of ‘diplomatic reset’ as Canada pursues new international trading partners

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Switzerland hosts September soirée

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

‘Culture is not on the table’ in trade talks amid film tariff threats and domestic digital policy uncertainty, says Guilbeault

NewsBY STUART BENSON

House Trade Committee needs to be ‘respectful’ of Carney’s approach to Trump talks, says Liberal chair

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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health

Recent health spending comes from Trudeau era, but fits with current Liberal focus on health prevention, lowering costs, consultants say

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Trend of increasing mental health challenges requires much more funding, say health sector experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Governments are still failing Canadians on mental health and substance use health care

OpinionBY FLORENCE BUDDEN, ANTHONY ESPOSTI

Your humanoid robot will see you now

OpinionBY MONIQUE AUFFREY

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Industry and Manufacturing

For drones, do like the Nordics and the Brits

OpinionBY WESLEY WARK

Industry Canada’s annual plan projects $3.9-billion boost to budget by 2027-28

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Canada, Europe, and NATO: a renewed commitment to shared security

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP STEPHEN FUHR

The return of the wildcat strike?

OpinionBY CARLO FANELLI

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infrastructure and transport

Below the surface: Canada’s hidden infrastructure crisis is a climate reckoning

OpinionBY ALI BAYAT

The promise and perils of nation-building projects

OpinionBY MATTI SIEMIATYCKI

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

The coming AI crash

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Canada’s defence depends on its universities

OpinionBY BILL FLANAGAN

Climate collaboration with China serves Canada’s national interests

OpinionBY WENRAN JIANG

Public servants urge data sovereignty in recent survey, while AI minister says ‘data isn’t gold in Fort Knox’

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

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intergovernmental

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

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

The North: different by design, essential by nature

OpinionBY NORTHWEST TERRITORIES PREMIER R.J. SIMPSON

A crisis in search of a cause: Smith brandishes unity issue in dangerous new pipeline gambit

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

A peek into the Rock’s political race

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

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justice

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

Convoy protest organizers Lich, Barber sentenced to house arrest

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Without clarity, Kneecap ban appears as a ‘politically motivated PR stunt,’ say critics, civil liberties, and immigration experts

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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Labour & employment

‘Get back into shop floors’ and contrast Carney’s ‘lurch to the right,’ say NDP leadership hopefuls of party’s path forward 

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Building more homes is a shared vision. Now we need the infrastructure to make it real

OpinionBY REBECCA BLIGH

Labour stability is the missing link in Canada’s economic reboot

OpinionBY JULIAN KARAGUESIAN, DANIEL SAFAYENI

Lightbound says Canada Post privatization ‘not on the table’ as feds work to salvage ‘insolvent’ Crown corp

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

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Lobbying

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

Struggling auto sector promises deep engagement as wheels set to turn on CUSMA consultations

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Carney ‘did the right thing’: feds’ new support for national pharmacare ‘positive,’ but evolving stance surprises advocates

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

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natural resources and energy

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

Energy efficiency: unlocking Canada’s superpower potential

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP ERIC ST-PIERRE

LNG project marks the moment to fulfill Canadian potential

OpinionBY KANJI YAMANOUCHI

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Women, Gender and Diversity

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

OpinionBY MALINDA SMITH

Why are Canadian political leaders so complacent about our poor performance on women’s representation in politics?

OpinionBY SHARI GRAYDON

Q&A | The legal battle over the ‘notwithstanding’ clause, explained 

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Is PM Carney abandoning women, girls, and queer people in his austerity agenda?

OpinionBY FAE JOHNSTONE

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Indigenous Relations

Healing intergenerational trauma and mental health for Indigenous Peoples in Canada

OpinionBY SHIMI KANG

Ottawa marks Truth and Reconciliation Day

FeatureBY ANDREW MEADE

Mark Carney and a call for meaningful reconciliation

OpinionBY CODY GROAT

Message to Carney: the safety of Indigenous women and girls is in the national interest

OpinionBY NDP MP LEAH GAZAN

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