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Indigenous Relations

Trust can’t be legislated, but it can be built

OpinionBY KAREN RESTOULE

• First Nations must be included as business partners from the outset, and it’s a question of laying out a framework for how to move projects forward with their involvement.

Trust can’t be legislated, but it can be built

OpinionBY KAREN RESTOULE

• First Nations must be included as business partners from the outset, and it’s a question of laying out a framework for how to move projects forward with their involvement.

S-2 sponsor Sen. Audette says First Nations status fixes don’t ‘go far enough,’ but it’s ‘one step’ to tackle ‘racist’ Indian Act

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

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

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

‘The government has idly sat by’: NDP MPs say Indigenous communities need federal support as wildfires devastate Western Canada

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

Canada can’t move forward without Indigenous-led solutions

OpinionBY MICHAEL FOX

Wildfires, climate change, and will we make it through?

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

The future of Canada depends on Indigenous leadership

OpinionBY CANDACE LARSEN

Locked out of our own treaty relationship: First Nations deserve more than ceremonial words

OpinionBY KYRA WILSON

First Nations, Inuit, and Métis leaders lay out major asks for re-elected Liberal government

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

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Keep the focus on the citizens who must benefit from federal governance

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

• If this session of Parliament cannot or will not include Indigenous Peoples across every single department and policy, then reconciliation will surely die on your watch. Stand your ground to ensure Indigenous inclusion is the legacy of the 45th session of Parliament. 

Keep the focus on the citizens who must benefit from federal governance

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

• If this session of Parliament cannot or will not include Indigenous Peoples across every single department and policy, then reconciliation will surely die on your watch. Stand your ground to ensure Indigenous inclusion is the legacy of the 45th session of Parliament. 

Beyond promises: Canada’s duty to fund Indigenous education

OpinionBY MARSHA JOSEPHS

The Crown must answer for the theft of Rupert’s Land

OpinionBY KYRA WILSON

Indigenous Services Minister Gull-Masty says she’s eager to ‘succeed’ under ‘huge pressure,’ as Indigenous leaders welcome ‘progress’ in cabinet picks

NewsBY ELEANOR WAND

If anybody should have left Canada, it was First Nations

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

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

OpinionBY VICTORIA PRUDEN

A letter to Prime Minister Carney, from Rose LeMay

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

Collaboration is Canada’s innovation superpower

OpinionBY ANDREA NEMTIN

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

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

AGRICULTURE

Rural Canada is finally getting its moment

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

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

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Biotechnology

From momentum to leadership: securing Canada’s biotech future

OpinionBY WENDY ZATYLNY

Biotechnology: an opportunity balanced on a knife’s edge

OpinionBY ADAM DAMRY

Biotechnology must factor into a broader Canadian industrial policy

OpinionBY FRANK BAYLIS

From crisis to catalyst: Canada’s opportunity to drive global health and research innovation

OpinionBY PAMELA SHAVER-WALKER, EDWARD SHORT

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DEFENCE & SECURITY

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

NewsBY NEIL MOSS, STUART BENSON, IREM KOCA

Public safety or public suppression?

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

Enlisting Coast Guard to buoy defence spending expected to hit choppy waters, say analysts

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Highlights from ‘fast-track’ Carney’s major defence pledge

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

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Environment

Time to ban destructive practice of bottom trawling

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Diversified trade and strong pollution laws work together

OpinionBY CASSIE BARKER

Liberals propose fast-tracking motion for major projects bill

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Nation building isn’t just about speed—it’s about vision

OpinionBY SANDRA SCHWARTZ

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FINANCE

Carney’s Privy Council Clerk Sabia a ‘relentlessly focused’ changemaker

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

The urgency of confronting a warming world remains

OpinionBY SHAWN MCCARTHY

Digging into the One Canadian Economy Act

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

A modern economy requires more than shared borders

OpinionBY MOSHE LANDER

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Fisheries and oceans

Oceans must take centre stage in nation-building projects

OpinionBY DEREK ARMITAGE, TREVOR SWERDFAGER

Rebuilding Canada’s fisheries for climate and economic security

OpinionBY JOSH LAUGHREN

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

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FOREIGN POLICY

Canada has moral duty to commit to international aid

OpinionBY BARBARA GRANTHAM, LAUREN RAVON, DANNY GLENWRIGHT

‘These events are big challenges’: Carney faces tough road to G7 joint communiqué in Kananaksis

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

The art of the deal: Ambassador Kirsten Hillman a deft hand in navigating Canada’s relationship with Trump

NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GULY

The cost of coming home: are tariffs and trade deficits really so bad?

OpinionBY LUIS NAPOLES MEDINA

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health

From Haiti to the PMO to cabinet: Canada’s new Health Minister Michel reflects on her front-row seat in politics

FeatureBY TESSIE SANCI

From reactive to proactive: Canada’s hidden health-care crisis and why physical activity should be central to policy

OpinionBY JOHN WESTON

Health minister says mental health and access to care are on her list of priorities

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI

Is Carney’s mandate for technocracy or transformation?

OpinionBY LEAH TEMPER

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Industry and Manufacturing

Why the right to repair needs to be a priority for the new government 

OpinionBY EMILY HOLTBY

Climate policy is economic policy

OpinionBY SARAH HOUDE, SIMON DONNER

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

NewsBY PHALEN TYNES-MACDONALD, PAUL PARK, HANNAH DALEY

Future-proofing our manufacturing sector

OpinionBY GREG MOFFATT

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infrastructure and transport

Trade barriers and trucking: unified political fortitude needed to push through the noise

OpinionBY STEPHEN LASKOWSKI

So are we getting high-speed trains or not?

OpinionBY MATT GURNEY

Time to build—together

OpinionBY REBECCA BLIGH

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

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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innovation

Let Canada’s telecom builders keep building

OpinionBY ROBERT GHIZ

Canada could lead on AI—if we’re willing to train for it

OpinionBY MATTHIAS OSCHINSKI, RUHANI WALIA

King Charles delivered the message, now Carney’s got to deliver the goods

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

International trade, the economy top-lobbied issues in April, and Ford, GM led the way

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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intergovernmental

Bitumen skepticism not a blanket ‘no’ to pipelines, says B.C. Liberal MP Greaves

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Can Rodriguez dodge the ‘Anyone But Pablo’ movement developing in Quebec’s Liberal race?

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

Visions of a gold rush in expanded oil exports fly in the face of a decades-old reality

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

Canada cannot waste its best chance for internal trade reform since Confederation

OpinionBY RYAN MANUCHA

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justice

Senate throws a lifeline to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

OpinionBY ERROL MENDES

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

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Labour & employment

More trade, not less protection for workers

OpinionBY LANA PAYNE

PM Carney’s failure to appoint disabilities minister is an error in judgement

OpinionBY LEN BAKER

A new Canadian economy must include everyone

OpinionBY BONNIE BRAYTON

In the face of insolvency and strike action, what does Canada Post’s future look like?

NewsBY MARLO GLASS

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Lobbying

‘Unusual time’ for lobbying in first quarter of 2025, with economic concerns topping communications

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Lobbying rule changes coming with stricter reporting requirements, says lobbying commissioner

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

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

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natural resources and energy

Giving Canadian critical minerals ‘a reasonable chance’

OpinionBY CHARLOTTE GIBSON

Before we get our resources to market, we need to make sure those markets actually want them

OpinionBY DAVID WALLIS

Canada can be a resource superpower if we build the road to get goods to market

OpinionBY GARY MAR

Powering a just transition: why Canada’s clean energy workforce needs a recharge

OpinionBY STACEY NORONHA, MISHA GOFORTH

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Women, Gender and Diversity

Seven ways Carney’s agenda can advance gender equality

OpinionBY SUZANNE ZACCOUR

PM Carney, Minister Valdez raise Pride flag

FeatureBY ANDREW MEADE

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

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Don’t let the pink-washing win

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

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Indigenous Relations

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

Questions that should be asked at the political leaders’ debates

OpinionBY ROSE LEMAY

AFN election priority report urges parties to make ‘clear, firm’ pledges to First Nations

NewsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

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Exclusive lists

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

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

The 19 entities asking for the biggest spending boosts in the 2025-26 main estimates

The 19 entities asking for the biggest spending boosts in the 2025-26 main estimates

Meet Mark Carney’s 38-member senior team

Meet Mark Carney’s 38-member senior team

The salaries of Carney’s cabinet and secretaries of state

The salaries of Carney’s cabinet and secretaries of state

Who’s in and who’s out of Carney’s post-election cabinet?

Who’s in and who’s out of Carney’s post-election cabinet?

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

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

Grits and Tories dominated the 109 safest seats this election

Grits and Tories dominated the 109 safest seats this election

Tories strip five Ontario ridings of bellwether status, while 29 seats remain

Tories strip five Ontario ridings of bellwether status, while 29 seats remain