Politics

Confidence vote: Take two

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Plus, more trouble brews for Poilievre after a long-time Alberta MP resigns.

Confidence vote: Take two

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Plus, more trouble brews for Poilievre after a long-time Alberta MP resigns.

No ‘serious negotiation’ with Liberals on budget, says Bloc MP Garon: ‘If the result is an election, what can we do?’

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND | UPDATED November 6, 2025

Green day on the Hill

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

Fresh faces among Public Works Minister Lightbound’s 16-member team

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Champagne’s budget and ‘Prosecco Prudence’ at The Met

FeatureBY STUART BENSON

Canada reacts to the budget

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA, TESSIE SANCI, ELEANOR WAND, MARLO GLASS

Steel means Food Security for all Canadians

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Parliamentary Calendar

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre gives post-budget breakdown in Toronto on Nov. 7

Opinion

• BY ANDREW CADDELL

Doug Ford needs to be reined in

News

• BY STUART BENSON

Petition urges House to introduce foreign ownership rules to protect ‘Canadian sovereignty and journalistic integrity’

Party supporters ‘tapped out’ as post-election donation dip deepens with Grits and Tories deadlocked at $4M range in third quarter

NewsBY STUART BENSON

• Liberal strategist Dan Arnold says ‘money follows enthusiasm’ as waning donations contradict all parties' election-ready posturing.

Party supporters ‘tapped out’ as post-election donation dip deepens with Grits and Tories deadlocked at $4M range in third quarter

NewsBY STUART BENSON

• Liberal strategist Dan Arnold says ‘money follows enthusiasm’ as waning donations contradict all parties' election-ready posturing.

Meeting feds’ ‘ambitious’ RCMP hiring pledge will require ‘imaginative’ ideas, says advisory board chair

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

‘A big, big if’: ex-PBO questions Carney’s deficit projections as Liberal spending track keeps being ‘revised upwards’

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | UPDATED November 6, 2025

Public service job cuts will be ‘compassionate’ and ‘civilized,’ with the impact on people ‘fairly minimal,’ say local Liberal MPs

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Will Canada get serious about climate competitiveness?

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Parliamentary Calendar

Champagne to table federal budget on Tuesday, Nov. 4

Podcast

Building a highway to the Arctic, with Caroline Wawzonek

News

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Lobbyists in 2025: lobbyists prepare for ‘significant reset’ as federal election begins

List

First-quarter expenses: MPs spent nearly $28-million

Podcast

No ‘I’ in team: why party discipline has gone too far, with Alex Marland

Senator Gwen Boniface bows out early from the Senate

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

• Also, three ex-cabinet ministers are starting new careers in Quebec municipal politics, Marco Mendicino returns to practising law, and The Hill Times' All Politics Poll is open for your input.

Senator Gwen Boniface bows out early from the Senate

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

• Also, three ex-cabinet ministers are starting new careers in Quebec municipal politics, Marco Mendicino returns to practising law, and The Hill Times' All Politics Poll is open for your input.

‘Very disappointing’: PSPC makes new freelance interpretation procurement rules official

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

‘Very disappointing’: PSPC makes new freelance interpretation procurement rules official

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

It’s budget day

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

It’s budget day

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

Alberta and Quebec are rewatching old movies

OpinionBY NELSON WISEMAN

Alberta and Quebec are rewatching old movies

OpinionBY NELSON WISEMAN

Parliamentary Calendar

Former top doc Theresa Tam delivers Monique Bégin Lecture at uOttawa on Oct. 30

Podcast

Heather McPherson on her campaign to lead the NDP

News

Always leave them wanting more: Fraser tops All Politics Poll as he looks to exit federal politics

News

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

Podcast

Reviving the NDP, with Peter Julian

It’s time to revive Parliament’s tool to stand up to China with courage

OpinionBY HENRY CHAN

• Without an integrated forum like the Special Committee on Canada–China Relations, we are left reacting to headlines rather than shaping strategy.

It’s time to revive Parliament’s tool to stand up to China with courage

OpinionBY HENRY CHAN

• Without an integrated forum like the Special Committee on Canada–China Relations, we are left reacting to headlines rather than shaping strategy.

Breaking down the staff behind Mark Carney’s PMO: part 2

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Champagne goes shoe shopping in Quebec

FeatureBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

‘Game of chicken:’ amid ongoing election speculation, Liberal and Conservative MPs are preparing, just in case

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Post-election donation dip deepens as Grits and Tories deadlocked at $4M range in third quarter

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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All eyes on the Carney-Xi meeting

FeatureBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, PETER MAZEREEUW

• Plus, GDP update for August incoming.

All eyes on the Carney-Xi meeting

FeatureBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, PETER MAZEREEUW

• Plus, GDP update for August incoming.

‘Trump can’t see Canada from his house when it comes to his net popularity,’ says CNN on new Pew Research poll

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

‘Trump can’t see Canada from his house when it comes to his net popularity,’ says CNN on new Pew Research poll

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

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

OpinionBY JAMIE CARROLL

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

OpinionBY JAMIE CARROLL

Will the budget kill Carney’s honeymoon?

OpinionBY GERRY NICHOLLS

Will the budget kill Carney’s honeymoon?

OpinionBY GERRY NICHOLLS

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Anand named most valuable politician, climate change voted most important issue in The Hill Times’ 23rd Annual All Politics Poll

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Indigenous Relations

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

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

A note about protecting Indigenous Peoples in the 2025 budget

Federal funding out of touch with Indigenous realities

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If Poilievre goes down as party leader, it will be due to external pressure, not caucus dissent, say senior Conservatives

Poilievre still isn’t selling hope, just nastiness

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

NDP leadership candidates pitch ‘straight-talk’ solutions, ‘valuing the base,’ and inclusion to labour leaders at first forum

Women, Gender and diversity

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

The CAF’s emotional apology for racism

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

The case for renewing the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy

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