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Federal parties in court April 22 after judge denies adjournment request in voter data case

JusticeBY IAN CAMPBELL

• The political parties are demonstrating a ‘lack of respect for Canada’s voters and our democracy,’ says Jim Balsillie of the Centre for Digital Rights.

House Health Committee calls for a national breast implant registry

HealthBY MAGDELENE CRESKEY

Freeland’s budget should focus on housing, ending homelessness, writes Ottawa reader

Labour & Employment

Why doesn’t Michael Harris cry out for Hamas to surrender and release the Israeli hostages, asks letter-writer Alan Williams

Foreign Policy

Space systems are too important to leave unprotected against cyber attack

Defence & SecurityBY PAUL MEYER

To curb pollution, government should put a price on it, says letter writer

Environment

Time to act on Canada Disability Benefit promise

Labour & EmploymentBY RENZE NAUTA, ANDREAE SENNYAH

Inuit at the UN plastic talks

EnvironmentBY LISA KOPERQUALUK

‘Simply fictional’ that Netanyahu didn’t try to protect aid workers in Gaza, says letter writer

Foreign Policy

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Better climate-risk mapping data a must as Canada addresses housing crisis, says experts

Infrastructure and TransportBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

• The state of flood and hazard mapping across Canada is varied, with some of the available data around 30 or 40 years old, according

Democracy Watch wants lobbying commissioner’s office to probe firm with links to top Conservative adviser Jenni Byrne

LobbyingBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

From coast to coast: crafting Canada’s custom climate strategies

Infrastructure and TransportBY HOSSEIN BONAKDARI

Focus on infrastructure maintenance needed amidst building boom

Infrastructure and TransportBY MATTI SIEMIATYCKI

Canada needs a national housing standard to protect migrant agricultural workers: KAIROS

Labour & Employment

Canada needs a comprehensive, national plan for refugee claimant housing

ImmigrationBY EMILIO RODRIGUEZ, ALLAN REESOR-MCDOWELL

School food advocates celebrate as Liberals serve up long-awaited $1B for national program 

Labour & EmploymentBY STUART BENSON

We need more natural infrastructure, and fast

EnvironmentBY RICHARD GROSSHANS

From crisis to solution: a national acquisition fund can help ease housing crisis

Labour & EmploymentBY RAY SULLIVAN, JILL ATKEY, TIM ROSS, AND JOHN GORDON

AGRICULTURE

Canada’s system of supply management: an innovative, modern solution

OpinionBY ROGER PELISSERO

Economic value of agriculture industry often overlooked by feds, argue sector advocates

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Climate change will affect your grocery prices

OpinionBY NAVIN RAMANKUTTY AND KUSHANK BAJAJ

Agriculture can do more than just put food on our plate

OpinionBY RENE VAN ACKER, AMY PROULX, AND MARTIN SCANLON

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Biotechnology

Does Canada need a more integrated strategy for pandemic responses? Yes

OpinionBY ISAAC BOGOCH AND DAVID NAYLOR

Canada’s biomedical brain drain is reversing. Let’s continue that trend

OpinionBY MICHAEL MAY, ALLISON BROWN

Talent shortage a priority for biotech sector emerging from pandemic

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada’s place in the world of biotechnology research and application is in jeopardy

OpinionBY NDP MP RICHARD CANNINGS

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Integrity commissioner report spotlights gross mismanagement at Corrections Canada

OpinionBY IAN BRON

Seeing will be believing with Canada’s defence policy update

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Feds, provinces and territories prepare as projections warn wildfire season could ‘be more explosive’ than 2023’s record fires

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Canada’s salute to militarism is sad

OpinionBY DOUGLAS ROCHE

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Environment

The federal carbon-pricing plan’s broken promise to small business

OpinionBY JAIRO YUNIS

Environmental groups urge an end to fossil fuel subsidies in two reports outlining Canada’s oil and gas financing

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

Why wait for disasters to strike to draw on research evidence?

OpinionBY JOHN N. LAVIS AND KERRY WADDELL

A closer look at the federal carbon tax

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

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FINANCE

Equity loan guarantees will pave path to economic reconciliation

OpinionBY WAYNE MCQUABBIE, GREGORY NEWTON, JOHN BEAUCAGE

Trudeau and Poilievre aren’t focused on what needs to be done

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Hard to see the ‘big picture’: Canada must improve how budget and estimates are presented, say public finance experts

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Public money has no party

OpinionBY SHEILA FRASER, MICHèLE GALIPEAU, MICHAEL PICKUP, DENISE HANRAHAM, CAROL BELLRINGER

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Fisheries and oceans

Unlocking the power of the ocean: threading the economic needle on the path to net zero

OpinionBY KENDRA MACDONALD, TRINE JøRANLI ESKEDAL

Reel returns: the economic mandate for rebuilding fisheries

OpinionBY REBECCA SCHIJNS

Department of Fisheries and Oceans undermining minister’s mandate

OpinionBY KAREN WRISTEN

Catching up with Fisheries Minister Lebouthillier’s team

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

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FOREIGN POLICY

A pantomime crisis, not a real war

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

A trading nation needs a globally engaged workforce

OpinionBY PERRIN BEATTY

India’s eroding democratic values questions its reliability as an ally to Canada

OpinionBY AIDEN ALEXIO

MPs met with Chinese officials in Beijing while Foreign Interference Inquiry was underway

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

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health

Time for Poilievre to join a constructive pharmacare conversation

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

School food program should focus on healthy plant-based eating

OpinionBY COLIN SARAVANAMUTTOO

Pharmacare bill offers too much ambiguity and too little ambition

OpinionBY CHRIS BONNETT

Dental hygienists have powerful potential to improve oral health care delivery in Canada

OpinionBY FRANCINE TRUDEAU

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Industry and Manufacturing

Foreign investment rules designed for an economy that no longer exists

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Firefighters and environmentalists are asking for PFAS action

OpinionBY CASSIE BARKER

Expanded electric capacity to handle EVs must be taken seriously, say experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Fighting inflation one gigabyte at a time

OpinionBY ROBERT GHIZ

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infrastructure and transport

Roads, horses, and carts, oh my! Time for Canada to take trade-enabling infrastructure seriously

OpinionBY PASCAL CHAN

Time to stop building infrastructure for yesterday’s climate

OpinionBY RYAN NESS

Infrastructure needs in Canada: facing extreme weather and filling in the gaps

OpinionBY MUNTASIR BILLAH AND RANJAN DATTA

In the air or at sea: how investments in transportation ports can support a transition to net-zero goals

OpinionBY KERRY BLACK

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innovation

EV battery fires are a global problem that we need to address in Canada

OpinionBY JOSIPA PETRUNIC

Driving down emissions with electric school buses

OpinionBY NDP MP LAUREL COLLINS

The electric-vehicle era is just getting rolling

OpinionBY LIBERAL MP ADAM VAN KOEVERDEN

Canada has all the resources and tools we need to benefit from a clean and green economy

OpinionBY ELIZABETH MAY

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intergovernmental

Horrendous death of three women brings some action on gender-based violence, but there’s a long way to go

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Are we sleepwalking to another national unity crisis?

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Mass departures from municipal politics are understandable

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

The Bill 21 judgment is a disgrace

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

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justice

Internet freedom can co-exist with child protection

OpinionBY ANU GEORGE CANJANATHOPPIL, JOHN TANAGHO

We must demand greater accountability from police

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Liberals, Conservatives, and NDP to argue new electoral reform bill should delay voter data court case

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Trudeau should abandon his quest to regulate free speech, argues Robert Sopuck

OpinionBY ROBERT SOPUCK

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Labour & employment

The importance of career-oriented education for Canada’s youth

OpinionBY HEATHER LAPPER

Where there is WIL, there’s a way

OpinionBY CHARLENE MARION

Why aren’t we talking about long-term care when we talk about the housing crisis?

OpinionBY JODI HALL

Getting hosed on housing

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

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Lobbying

Poilievre’s communication record shows corporate lobbyists shouldn’t panic, say lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

First phase of pharmacare must not ‘create new gaps’ in existing coverage, say lobbyists

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Ministers’ letters, advertising, and lobbying: advocates make final requests as 2024 budget process nears its end

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Environment lobby in February focused on plastics pollution, oil and gas emissions cap

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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natural resources and energy

A cap on emissions will actually hinder Canada’s environmental, social, and economic efforts

OpinionBY DEBORAH YEDLIN

Budget 2024 is critical to the future of made-in-Canada biofuel projects

OpinionBY BOB LAROCQUE

Why two per cent?

OpinionBY ROBIN COLLINS AND SYLVIE LEMIEUX

Biogas: harnessing Canada’s methane

OpinionBY JENNIFER GREEN

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Beyond International Women’s Day: sustaining support of Indigenous women entrepreneurs

OpinionBY MAGNOLIA PERRON

Difference does not mean worse: embracing neurodiversity in the workspace

OpinionBY AMIN KAMALEDDIN

Will Canada support changes to international law on gender persecution?

OpinionBY RHONDA GOSSEN

House report on preventing human trafficking met with mixed reviews

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

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Indigenous Relations

Canada’s budgetary process: a failing grade in First Nations partnership

OpinionBY GRAND CHIEF CATHY MERRICK

It’s not comedy to make money off a mass murderer

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Senate bill seeking to criminalize forced sterilizations raises concerns over unintended consequences

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Our day to talk about the elimination of racism

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

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