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Under pressure

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Plus, digging into Finance Canada’s plan for 2025-26.

Under pressure

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Plus, digging into Finance Canada’s plan for 2025-26.

PCO forecasts $64-million cut, dropping 64 staff over next three years

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

The failed $5-billion program the feds can’t shake

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

‘What is being promised?’: NDP, labour call for more transparency in trade talks with Trump 

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

McPherson fans launch website to support her NDP leadership bid

FeatureBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, PETER MAZEREEUW

‘No apologies for that one’: recently retired Senator Marc Gold talks nine years in the Chamber

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Wellington Building renovations force temporary press theatre relocation

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

Opinion

• BY ERROL MENDES

Is Trump protecting tech billionaires in U.S. fight with Canada over digital services tax?

Parliamentary Calendar

Well, look who’s turning 158: Happy Canada Day, eh!

feature

• BY RIDDHI KACHHELA

Carney to trigger the Alberta byelection

Carney could ‘weed out bad apples’ with his high expectations for federal public service

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

• Top public servants might straighten up and self-correct if they know the prime minister isn’t afraid of swift discipline, say former bureaucrats, who welcome Carney's 'sound management practices.'

Carney could ‘weed out bad apples’ with his high expectations for federal public service

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

• Top public servants might straighten up and self-correct if they know the prime minister isn’t afraid of swift discipline, say former bureaucrats, who welcome Carney's 'sound management practices.'

PSPC’s three-year $17.5-billion spending plan lacks clear roadmap to future goals, say insiders

NewsBY IREM KOCA

New DND plan gives extra seven years to meet army and navy readiness targets, lowers air force aims

NewsBY NEIL MOSS | UPDATED July 2, 2025

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

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Canadians like what they hear so far on affordability and U.S. trade war, but Carney will have to deliver results soon, say pollsters

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Parliamentary Calendar

Calgary Stampede kicks off on July 4

Podcast

A military spending spree, with David Perry

News

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

News

All eyes on Trump: meet the top 50 foreign policy influencers navigating Canada’s role in a rocky world

Podcast

The crisis of Canadian democracy, with Andrew Coyne

What comes next on Canada-EU defence pact?

FeatureBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, PETER MAZEREEUW

• Plus, the Red Chamber greenlights the feds’ contentious Bill C-5.

What comes next on Canada-EU defence pact?

FeatureBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, PETER MAZEREEUW

• Plus, the Red Chamber greenlights the feds’ contentious Bill C-5.

‘If you live here, this concerns you’: Elbows Up! book of essays out this fall

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

‘If you live here, this concerns you’: Elbows Up! book of essays out this fall

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

The real Mark Carney is about to emerge

OpinionBY DOUGLAS ROCHE

The real Mark Carney is about to emerge

OpinionBY DOUGLAS ROCHE

When conservatives battle conservatives

OpinionBY GERRY NICHOLLS

When conservatives battle conservatives

OpinionBY GERRY NICHOLLS

Parliamentary Calendar

National Indigenous History month event featuring author Phyllis Webstad happening at Library and Archives Canada on June 26

Podcast

Making sense of the ‘Building Canada Act’, with Elizabeth May

feature

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2024

List

Meet Carney’s parliamentary secretaries, half of whom are rookie MPs

Podcast

The return of Parliament, with Sheila Copps

Senate begins final stage of C-5 debate

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Plus, court hearings on the Terrebonne election results expected this fall.

Senate begins final stage of C-5 debate

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Plus, court hearings on the Terrebonne election results expected this fall.

Beating the heat at Birkett Castle with the Royal Conservatory and Tamás Török

FeatureBY STUART BENSON

A new leader for the public service

OpinionBY LORI TURNBULL

The Senate reconvenes

FeatureBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, PETER MAZEREEUW

Carney talks turkey at NATO

FeatureBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, PETER MAZEREEUW

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Dong settlement gives closure, but little clarity on foreign interference, say national security and intelligence experts

NewsBY STUART BENSON

• The lawsuit’s settlement affirms that‘ intelligence isn’t evidence,’ but former CSIS analyst Stephanie Carvin says politicians and the media must be better equipped to process and contextualize ‘fragmented’ intelligence leaks.

Dong settlement gives closure, but little clarity on foreign interference, say national security and intelligence experts

NewsBY STUART BENSON

• The lawsuit’s settlement affirms that‘ intelligence isn’t evidence,’ but former CSIS analyst Stephanie Carvin says politicians and the media must be better equipped to process and contextualize ‘fragmented’ intelligence leaks.

Conservatives, NDP should make the most of the summer recess

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

Conservatives, NDP should make the most of the summer recess

OpinionBY TIM POWERS

Speaking for a forgotten people

OpinionBY JIM CRESKEY

Speaking for a forgotten people

OpinionBY JIM CRESKEY

Strikes on Iran a Middle East déjà vu

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Strikes on Iran a Middle East déjà vu

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Politics This Morning

Canada signs a ‘far-reaching’ defence pact with the EU

Deadline day in the House

The cyber bill is back

Project greenlight bill in focus

100 most influential in government and politics

The 100 most influential people in federal politics and government to watch in 2024

Top 100: the most influential people in government and politics in 2023

Post-election heavy hitters: the top 100 most influential people to watch in federal politics in 2022

Pandemic edition: Top 100 most influential people to watch in 2021

all politics poll: best & worst of the year in politics

Housing Minister Fraser a 2023 fan favourite on Parliament Hill: All Politics Poll

Poilievre doubles as most valuable, least valuable politician in 2022 in The Hill Times’ All Politics Poll

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

Freeland named most valuable politician, NAFTA voted biggest story in The Hill Times’ 22nd Annual All Politics Poll

The Politically Savvy Survey

Poilievre voted best public speaker, most quotable, hardest-working, and biggest self-promoter in The Hill Times’ 29th Annual Politically Savvy Survey

Poilievre sweeps a suite of categories in the 27th annual Politically Savvy Survey

Freeland, LeBlanc, Morneau voted most influential ministers in 26th annual Politically Savvy Survey

Goodale voted Best Cabinet Minister in QP, Scrums in The Hill Times’ 25th annual Politically Savvy Survey

best political books

The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books of 2023

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2022

The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books in 2021

The Hill Times’ List of 100 Best Books in 2020

Indigenous Relations

There’s no better time for Canada to embrace its diversity

Carney ‘buries Caesar’ by admitting his own mistakes

Breaking down C-5: Carney’s ‘build, baby, build’ bill draws support from business sector, but heavy pushback from environmental, Indigenous groups

Here are some ways to revolutionize the federal government for tomorrow’s challenges

political parties

Frustrated with party’s nominations process, former Alberta Conservative national councillor mulls comeback: ‘the worst I saw was in Calgary Skyview’

Poilievre is reaching out to unsuccessful candidates for feedback, say Conservatives: ‘he’s doing a post-mortem himself’

Senator Dasko pitches elections law reforms to address enduring issue of candidate diversity

Some shut-out Conservative candidates plan to press national councillors over 2025 nominations at upcoming convention

Women, Gender and diversity

‘They’re never going to silence me’: Red Chamber marks Pride month with historic number of openly queer Senators 

‘Survivors are waiting for it’: Sen. Boyer reintroduces bill to criminalize forced, coerced sterilizations

Treasury Board reports gains on diversity and equity in public service, but will cuts hamper progress?

Seven ways Carney’s agenda can advance gender equality

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