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Women, Gender and Diversity

Perinatal mental health strategy is a critical step

OpinionBY PATRICIA TOMASI

• Let’s commit to women’s mental health, and invest in the future of Canadians.

Perinatal mental health strategy is a critical step

OpinionBY PATRICIA TOMASI

• Let’s commit to women’s mental health, and invest in the future of Canadians.

Reviving a dream for Canadian identity—no hyphens needed

OpinionBY SHINDER PUREWAL

Contraception and family planning are vital for people and the planet

OpinionBY CéLINE DELACROIX

Canada must seize the moment to address violence against women and girls globally

OpinionBY JEANNE SARSON, LINDA MACDONALD

New law silencing women goes beyond Afghanistan’s borders

OpinionBY RHONDA GOSSEN

Legislation protecting children from violent fathers needed in Canada

OpinionBY SUZANNE ZACCOUR

By attacking the Jewish National Fund, the government sends a clear message

OpinionBY VICTORIA MANCINELLI

Number of students in public service hits 10-year high as union warns against use as cheap labour

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

Liberals’ Ottawa Pride boycott sparks further division, concerns over conditional solidarity

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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Optimism and honesty are back on the menu

OpinionBY MICHAEL HARRIS

• After 248 years of shutting women out of the White House, it’s past time to put a lady of distinction in charge of the United States.

Optimism and honesty are back on the menu

OpinionBY MICHAEL HARRIS

• After 248 years of shutting women out of the White House, it’s past time to put a lady of distinction in charge of the United States.

Misogyny rears its ugly head in U.S. presidential race

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

An opportunity to fulfill a promise: the Canada Disability Benefit

OpinionBY KRISTA CARR

Witness says she’ll return if invited after fracas at House Status of Women Committee, it’s more important than ‘petty politics’

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

House Status of Women Committee should learn from fracas

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

Egg farming’s future rooted in supply management

OpinionBY ROGER PELISSERO

The cornerstone for peace is food, but armed conflicts wipe out livelihoods and agri-food systems

OpinionBY RATTAN LAL, MANUEL OTERO

Voluntary grocery code of conduct short on fair dealing enforcement provisions, says NDP agriculture critic

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

MPs unite against greedflation and monopoly power in Canada’s food systems—but there’s more to do

OpinionBY MARISSA ALEXANDER, WADE THORHAUG

AGRICULTURE

Tax fairness for the next generation will protect the future of our farms

OpinionBY KEITH CURRIE

Rural Canada is the path to lasting prosperity for our nation

OpinionBY CANDICE BERGEN

A national sustainable agriculture plan needs to include universities

OpinionBY  CHARLOTTE YATES

How technology can mitigate Canada’s food inflation crisis

OpinionBY DANA MCCAULEY

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Biotechnology

Unlocking Canada’s greatest economic potential: life sciences

OpinionBY ALISON SYMINGTON, JASON FIELD

Canada’s biotech carpe diem

OpinionBY ANDREW CASEY

Harnessing the power of Canada’s growing biotechnology industry: a perspective from the West

OpinionBY STEPHANIE WILLERTH

Biotechnology: an opportunity balanced on a knife’s edge

OpinionBY ADAM DAMRY

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Disinformation is not new, but better strategies needed to shield public from threats, committee hears

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Shattered Justice: Canada’s silent consent in protecting Iranian regime officials

OpinionBY M. MEHDI MORADI

Canada-Qatar relations a strategic partnership amid global uncertainty

OpinionBY YASSER M. DHOUIB

Diaspora communities need ‘proactive’ measures to guard against foreign and homegrown hostility, inquiry hears

NewsBY STUART BENSON

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Environment

Canada must take action on imported monkeys

OpinionBY LISA JONES-ENGEL

We all live in Tampa now, and we all need to find higher intellectual ground than indifference

OpinionBY MICHAEL HARRIS

Adaptation to climate change should be a non-partisan priority

OpinionBY SHAWN MCCARTHY

‘Hotter and drier’ conditions in forests will create greater fire risk in coming decades, Senate committee hears, as House continues Jasper study

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

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FINANCE

Could the House’s procedural impasse set the stage for a federal election?

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

Politics drives Poilievre’s support for OAS hike, sets the stage for future budget ‘trade-offs,’ say observers

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL | UPDATED October 10, 2024

Trudeau is dead wrong about Canada’s debt

OpinionBY JAKE FUSS

It’s a Brit problem, it’s a Canadian problem

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

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Fisheries and oceans

Reconciliation that works for all in Canada’s fisheries

OpinionBY GENNA CAREY

Federal resource management decisions undermine collective power of community-based fisheries 

OpinionBY COURTNEY GLODE

N.L. minister slams feds for ‘total chaos and poor decision-making’ on fisheries file

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Fish fight

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

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FOREIGN POLICY

Former Israeli PM and ex-Palestinian foreign minister’s blueprint for peace worth looking at

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

‘Your vote can make the difference’: parties mobilize thousands of Canada-based Americans to vote in Harris-Trump race

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Canada needs its own Marshall Plan for refugee resettlement

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

Trudeau and Poilievre playing politics with Middle East conflict

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

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health

Q&A | What the heck is HERC, with Mark Holland

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Mental health funding must keep pace with the growing demand for accessible and inclusive mental health supports for youth

OpinionBY ELISABETH BRIERE

Linking the affordability crisis and mental health requires ‘transformative change’ in health care, say critics and experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Looking to the future of Canadians’ mental health

OpinionBY HYMIE ANISMAN

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Industry and Manufacturing

CRTC says decision on Google’s Online News Act exemption expected this fall

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

Parliament at a standstill as Conservative MPs push for release of green-tech fund papers

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Support zero-profit grocery stores to fight market failure in the food supply chain

OpinionBY MARISSA ALEXANDER, WADE THORHAUG

Google signs deal to launch journalism fund in California, while cash from its Canadian media fund has yet to flow

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

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infrastructure and transport

Without the necessary resources, it becomes harder for universities to stay competitive on the global stage

OpinionBY GABRIEL MILLER

The world needs more Canada—but can we deliver the goods?

OpinionBY PASCAL CHAN

Now is the time for Canada to assume its infrastructure responsibilities to First Nations

OpinionBY TYLER BALL

Shifting the focus from structural issues to immigration will not fix Canada’s housing crisis

OpinionBY HAORUI WU, PARTH BANSAL, SIYU RU, SZYMON PARZNIEWSKI

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innovation

Meeting innovation challenges critical for a better future

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Are federal government measures supporting infrastructure sufficient?

OpinionBY RANJAN DATTA, MARGOT HURLBERT

Driving out deepfakes: Canada can lead on responsible AI innovation

OpinionBY PATRICK ROGERS

Standing up for cultural sovereignty requires a steel backbone

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

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intergovernmental

Whither the centrist option?

OpinionBY ANDREW TZEMBELICOS

Far more still to be done for infrastructure in the Yukon

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR PAT DUNCAN

Federal messaging, concerns bleed into campaigns as three provinces head to polls

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

The case for a high-speed train between Quebec and Ontario

OpinionBY ÉRIC BLAIS

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justice

Federal overtime payments on decline, but total paid out still tops $1-billion mark

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

Fight over MAID shifts from Parliament back to the courts amid political stalemate

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

The cannabis excise duty rate: at least someone is making money

Opinion

Give peace a chance

OpinionBY KATHLEENA HENRICUS, CATHY HU, BAVAN PUSHPALINGAM, AND TERENCE D’SOUZA

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Labour & employment