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Three lead staffers make up ‘lean and mean’ Caron team

By Laura Ryckewaert

Isaac Cockburn and Yasmin Gardaad are co-campaign directors for NDP MP Guy Caron’s leadership bid. Farouk Karim is communications director.

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High-profile Conservatives organizing to shift party to centre: activists

By Peter Mazereeuw

Leadership contenders were among a small group that met in Toronto in June, says one person who said he was there.

NDP candidates Niki Ashton, Charlie Angus, Guy Caron, and Jagmeet Singh emerged with some notable supporters in second-quarter 2017 Elections Canada filings. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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Who’s giving to whom: prominent Canadians, party insiders donate to NDP leadership candidates

By Samantha Wright Allen

Some insiders are hedging their bets with donations to multiple candidates, at least for now.

Opinion

Scariest part of U.S.-North Korea showdown isn’t Kim Jong-un

By Scott Taylor

It’s worth remembering the only nation to have ever actually used a nuclear bomb against humans is the United States.

Opinion

Charlottesville’s self-evident truths

By Lisa Van Dusen

The United States still hasn't fully come to terms with its history of racism.

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Liberals take civics-in-action approach with youth councils

By Christopher Guly

Most Liberal MPs have regular youth-group meetings, and some opposition MPs too. Proponents say they help engage young people in policymaking, but critics say they’re more fluff than substance.

Opinion

Brad Wall and the beginning of the next chapter of conservative politics

By Tim Powers

The veteran politician's resignation opens space for a new leader on the right among Canada's premiers.

IMF warns Canada to rebalance, diversify economy

By David Crane

The Trudeau government is putting much stock in Canada’s pursuit of free trade agreements and expanded efforts to diversify trade by building new markets. But without competitive industries these trade pacts don’t mean much.

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NDP MPs headed to Steel Town to attend caucus, get groove back, take in a Ti-Cats game

By Abbas Rana

The New Democrats are holding their summer retreat next month in Hamilton, where it held most of the area’s seats before the 2015 election.

Kim Jong-Trump, or how people can talk themselves into launching a ‘pre-emptive’ or ‘preventive’ nuclear attack

By Gwynne Dyer

We are entering a particularly dangerous phase of the process, not least because the other two major nuclear powers in the world, China and Russia, both have land borders with North Korea. And neither of them loves or trusts the United States.

 
  

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Senate harassment policy to be reviewed in wake of Sen. Meredith scandal

By Abbas Rana

Despite Meredith having resigned, a Senate investigation into a harassment complaint against him is continuing.

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Trudeau’s atypical media exposure pushed by ‘most image-conscious PMO in Canadian history’

By Laura Ryckewaert

'We're very focused on reaching Canadians through a variety of different mediums,' says PMO's Kate Purchase.

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Libertarian group attacks McKenna’s chief of staff, Liberal MPs in fundraising campaign

By Peter Mazereeuw

Conservative Futures, run by a former Conservative staffer, is using Liberal foils to build itself up from scratch.

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Brazeau has ‘no ill will’ over Trudeau’s Rolling Stone comments, but challenges him to live up to reconciliation ‘narrative’

By Rachel Aiello

The Quebec Senator challenges the prime minister to 'be a champion for equality rather than just talking about being one.'

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New B.C. NDP minority government looking to Ottawa, across Canada as it staffs up

 With the NDP staff ranks on Parliament Hill soon to go through a post-leadership-race transition, sources say the prospect of working for a new government is enticing.

By Laura Ryckewaert

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‘B.C. is burning and we’re only right at the very beginning,’ says MP Doherty as British Columbia’s wildfires season officially starts

By Rachel Aiello

MPs in the middle of the fire zone say the federal response has been adequate so far, but with the fire season just getting underway, more help will be needed.

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Liberals to meet in Kelowna to discuss fall session, plot strategy to target close ridings in B.C. for 2019 run

By Abbas Rana

The 183-member Liberal caucus will meet on Sept. 6-7 in Kelowna, B.C. In the last election, 22 or 52 per cent of the 42 B.C. ridings were decided by a margin of 10 per cent or less of the votes.

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Tories outpace Grit fundraising, but Liberals tighten the gap

By Samantha Wright Allen

NDP leadership candidate Jagmeet Singh reports an impressive first fundraising push. His $356,784 is more than his competitors combined for the second quarter.

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Canada’s effort to include climate change in NAFTA worth a shot

By Sheila Copps

But it is likely to get the same kind of reaction from American President Donald Trump that he levels to all climate comers.

Opinion

Caribou file on the move

By Éric Hébert-Daly

There is still much work to do, but the steps the federal government is taking to protect this iconic threatened species is encouraging.

Was Mulroney Trump before there was Trump? 

By Susan Riley

The comparison with Trump isn’t exact, of course. The American president is more dangerous, more bellicose, and far less adept at deal-making than Mulroney was. But neither are ideologues—they are conservatives of convenience, more intent on putting their personal mark on politics than advancing a coherent ideal.

New world requires new arguments

By Gerry Nicholls

And communicators need to adapt their strategies to a new global reality.

Liberal voice missing from Freeland’s NAFTA advisory council

By Sheila Copps

With two high-profile Tories and a New Democrat on the 13-member group, ordinary Liberals will be miffed to have missed their opportunity to influence the council.

Counting sperm, ‘I tried counting mine once, but I went blind with exhaustion’

By Gwynne Dyer

Among the many varieties of end-of-the-world stories we like to tell ourselves, the infertility apocalypse is the least violent, and therefore the most interesting in human terms. But the sperm crisis really isn’t here yet, or even looming on the horizon.

Opinion

Time to eliminate gender discrimination in Indian registration, First Nation women deserve equality

By Liberal Senator Lillian Dyck

It would be hypocritical not to apply the same principles of justice and fairness to First Nations women as was done for Omar Khadr.

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Are Saudis really on our side in counterterrorism?

By Phil Gurski

We stand on our high morals and support for human rights and selling materiel to a regime that abuses those rights does not sit well with most Canadians. Perhaps lucrative jobs trump morality but there has to be a better way.

The politics of alternate reality

By Gerry Nicholls

After all, pundits and politicians and political partisans sometimes create their own alternate realities and their own alternate Earths. And it’s a tendency, unfortunately, which usually leads to mistakes.

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