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Researcher, advocacy group hoping for ‘cabinet co-ordination’ on digital files with new AI and digital innovation ministry

CabinetBY PHALEN TYNES-MACDONALD, PAUL PARK

• 'It’s a very welcome move, and I think it’s a strong signal AI policy and innovation policy [are at] the centre of the government’s

Health sector looks to pharmacare and more to help address financial hit of U.S. trade war

HealthBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canada leads the future of diabetes care by listening to those with lived experience

HealthBY RACHEL REEVE

It’s time to bring Canada’s medical system into the 21st century

HealthBY LIAM MACDONALD

The Liberals’ new health-care agenda should include specialist workforce planning

HealthBY ABRAR AHMED

Canada’s survival depends not just on international trade, but also on social infrastructure

HealthBY KATE MULLIGAN

Let’s reinvent our health system—and put rehabilitation at the centre

HealthBY ALIKI THOMAS

What can the federal government do to prepare Canada for the next health crisis?

HealthBY MICHELLE COHEN

No more silence: it’s time for federal leadership on health workforce planning

HealthBY IVY BOURGEAULT

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Bipartisan ‘cooler heads’ have vested interest in lowering the temperature on Alberta separatism: Calgary Liberal Hogan

IntergovernmentalBY STUART BENSON

• Ottawa needs a 'calm, thoughtful' approach that recognizes Alberta's contributions to Canada without giving the premier a reason to keep picking fights, says NDP

From momentum to leadership: securing Canada’s biotech future

HealthBY WENDY ZATYLNY

Carney sets the stage for consequential meeting with premiers after passing the Trump test

IntergovernmentalBY JOSIE SABATINO

As other countries cut public health funding, Canada can lead in lung health

HealthBY JESSICA BUCKLEY, JEFFREY BEACH

AI in health care is running—but where’s it headed?

HealthBY SAMIRA ABBASGHOLIZADEH-RAHIMI

Move from patchwork to progress to unlock the full potential of Canada’s national framework for diabetes

HealthBY GLENN THIBEAULT

Martial pride on parade

Defence & SecurityBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Carney pulls off mission impossible

Foreign PolicyBY MICHAEL HARRIS

A time for action: supporting Indigenous access to naturopathic medicine

HealthBY GEMMA BEIERBACK, JENNY GARDIPY

AGRICULTURE

Canada can be an agriculture powerhouse if we meet the moment

OpinionBY SENATOR MARY ROBINSON

Supply management consensus emerges but Grits, Tories accuse each other of past capitulation

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

No more scraps: making the election about ending hunger in Canada

OpinionBY NICK SAUL, JASMINE RAMZE REZAEE

Is Canada keeping pace with agricultural innovation?

OpinionBY ASIM BISWAS

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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

Volunteering should be at the forefront of veteran policy in Canada

OpinionBY ALYSON MAHAR

Canada can’t survive without alliances—and friendship isn’t free, says former CSIS head Fadden

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

CADSI paying Pompeo to headline CANSEC in Ottawa, hopes he can shed light on defence and security ‘from the American side’

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

Canada’s opportunity to redefine its defence, and its value to allies

OpinionBY ANN FITZ-GERALD, HALYNA PADALKO

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Environment

Fighting U.S. threats by fighting climate change

OpinionBY MILI ROY

Green, red, and blue

OpinionBY BILL HENDERSON

Fighting for air: keeping health and justice at the forefront of Canadian environmental policy

OpinionBY JULIA SAWATZKY

Canada needs net-zero industrial policy to address tariffs—not a short-term resource export boom

OpinionBY DANIEL ROSENBLOOM, STEVEN BERNSTEIN

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FINANCE

Carney’s new cabinet balances change with experience, analysts say

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

Growing the Métis economy must be a national priority for the renewed government

OpinionBY VICTORIA PRUDEN

MPs, Senators get a salary boost, Carney will now earn $419,600, Scheer $308,800, and Blanchet $280,600

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Carney must lead efforts to transform Canada’s economy

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

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Fisheries and oceans

B.C. suit says feds used consultations to justify ‘bad-faith’ Discovery Island salmon farming ban

NewsBY STUART BENSON

To protect nature, Canada must ratify the High Seas Treaty

OpinionBY SUSANNA FULLER

Feds’ plan for fish-farm transition no catch, say wild salmon, industry advocates

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Reconciliation that works for all in Canada’s fisheries

OpinionBY GENNA CAREY

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FOREIGN POLICY

Trump’s Afrikaner ‘refugees’ pitch a piece of theatre

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Will Team Carney find the right prescription for Trump?

OpinionBY EDITORIAL

Botswana’s new Canadian envoy is hoping for a state visit by the end of the year

FeatureBY NEIL MOSS

New Liberal MP-elect led group that denied Armenian genocide, but backs feds’ recognition

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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health

Don’t let Canada become the 51st state: why keeping health care public is critical for our sovereignty

OpinionBY FARAH SHROFF

We can’t afford to wait on AI’s benefits in health care

OpinionBY HOSSEIN ABOUEE MEHRIZI

Time to make more pharmacare deals after election stalled momentum 

OpinionBY MONIKA DUTT, DANYAAL RAZA

Feds must step up to protect Canada’s natural health product industry

OpinionBY AARON SKELTON

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Industry and Manufacturing

Future-proofing our manufacturing sector

OpinionBY GREG MOFFATT

Sister cities under strain: U.S. steel tariffs threaten to divide Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., from its American twin city

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

Manufacturing sector and others lobbying hard for federal government support during 30-day tariff pause

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Strong ‘political will’ provides ‘catalyst’ to breakdown stubborn internal trade barriers, says Anand

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

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infrastructure and transport

Environment implications for proposed Liberal energy corridor unclear; ‘the devil is in the details,’ says uWaterloo academic

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Public transit can’t wait for politics to catch up

OpinionBY MARCO D’ANGELO

More needed to protect communities from rail disasters

OpinionBY NDP MP TAYLOR BACHRACH

Navigating uncertainty: telecom’s essential role in securing Canada’s future

OpinionBY ROBERT GHIZ

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innovation

Why AI self-regulation has left Canada’s elections vulnerable

OpinionBY RYAN SYDOR

AI and the innovation-regulation pendulum

OpinionBY ULRIKE BAHR-GEDALIA

Collaboration is Canada’s innovation superpower

OpinionBY ANDREA NEMTIN

Canada’s talent dilemma: how to win the global innovation and technology race

OpinionBY JATIN NATHWANI, MUNUR SACIT HERDEM

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intergovernmental

Canada must act now to welcome displaced Arctic researchers

OpinionBY PHILIPPE ARCHAMBAULT, CHRISTINE BARNARD, JOANNA HOSA

Here’s a list of demands for Alberta’s future, not the past

OpinionBY STEPHEN LEGAULT

Current, former NDP MPs reflect on ‘heartbreaking’ and ‘numbing’ loss, but say party is ‘laser focused’ on rebuilding

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

As the climate changes, so does my world

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR NANCY KARETAK-LINDELL

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justice

Kelly looks at how governments react to judicial invalidation in Constraining the Court

FeatureBY JAMES B. KELLY

‘This is a book about gender-based violence, with a focus on intimate partner abuse,’ says Donner-nominated author of And Sometimes They Kill You

FeatureBY PAMELA CROSS

DEI: love it or hate it, it’s more profitable

OpinionBY JORY COHEN

UN disability rights report on assisted-dying regime deserves a fair hearing

OpinionBY CATHERINE FRAZEE

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Labour & employment

Time for NDP ‘soul searching’ and ‘reconnecting’ with workers, say labour leaders after electoral collapse

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

Parties’ housing platforms unlikely to significantly improve affordability: experts

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Cost of living, housing the top priority for young voters, not Trump

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Modernizing EI: an imperative in this era of uncertainty

OpinionBY DIANE BELLEMARE

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Lobbying

Cooling-off period for lobbyists who volunteered during election can vary, says lobbying commissioner who urges reading code of conduct

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Lobbyists prepare for ‘very serious’ Carney government prioritizing economy, trade and housing

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Poilievre’s ethics pitch more about framing Carney as a ‘corrupt politician’ than attempt at reform, but some ideas are good, say observers

NewsBY IREM KOCA

No ‘perfect’ solution in Carney asset disclosure calls, say law and political science experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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natural resources and energy

Mark Carney and the disappearing pipeline

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Canada’s clear leverage to lead on critical minerals

OpinionBY MARK SELBY

Reindustrializing Canada: where the real critical mineral opportunity lies

OpinionBY MARILYN SPINK

Digging up a hidden election issue: development and control of critical minerals

OpinionBY KEN RUBIN

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Women’s safety is economic policy—what our next government must do now

OpinionBY ANURADHA DUGAL, ALINE NIZIGAMA

Vote to end gender-based violence

OpinionBY ERIN LEE, JULIE LALONDE, HEATHER MCGREGOR

Canada’s economic future depends on women—the next government has an opportunity to deliver

OpinionBY MITZIE HUNTER

Black and racialized Canadians could be a powerful force in this election if they harness the power of block voting

OpinionBY AKOLISA UFODIKE, OLADAPO AKINSIPE

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Indigenous Relations

A letter to Prime Minister Carney, from Rose LeMay

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Vote for ‘we’ instead of ‘me’ in this election

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

There is no Team Canada strategy without Indigenous people

OpinionBY STEPHEN BUFFALO

Unlocking the economic potential in Canada’s lands, forests, and waters

OpinionBY JASON RASEVYCH, MICHAEL TWIGG, SHAUGHN MCARTHUR

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