Governor Tiff Macklem says the hike in the rate is necessary to prevent high energy prices from impacting overall costs for Canadians, as inflation is projected to rise to about 3.5 per cent by the end of 2026.
Fifty-three per cent of voters said yes to restricting access to provincially funded programs for ‘non-permanent’ immigrants. If a question was posed as ‘‘should refugee children be denied the chance to go to public school?’ I think most people would have voted against that,’ says Senator Paula Simons.
The B.C. Conservatives should create the ‘David Eby Award, for single-handedly rescuing the Conservative Party and putting them in power with a majority government. Who would have imagined it?’ says Green Leader Elizabeth May.
Since Digital Transformation Canada’s launch, more than 40 tech firms began new registrations on the federal lobbyists’ registry, including CCX Technologies and Amazon Web Services Canada.
Plus, Women and Gender Equality Minister Rechie Valdez has a new communications director, and there are updates for Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu’s office.
Plus, the House will debate a Conservative motion on debt and taxes.
The military’s investigation into the Wainwright tragedy will ‘really look at the policies and procedures and rules that we had in place’ and whether they are sufficient, says one retired official, as the top military commander says the findings will be made public.
Plus: Adam Scotti will chat about his time as Justin Trudeau’s longtime photog at Acadia University, Bill Morneau rejoins the C.D. Howe Institute, and award-winning director Sarah Polley lends her support to Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow’s re-election bid.
In the second part of a series on political fundraising, The Hill Times looks at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s surge to top-performing fundraiser since late 2022, and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s team of top-performing ministers and ridings helping him reinvigorate the party’s war chest.
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MPs must ensure that the country’s natural heritage is not an afterthought characterized as ‘red tape’ that is getting in the way of a build-fast agenda because Canadians themselves don’t see it that way.
A principled foreign policy means voting ‘yes’ at a crucial United Nations vote calling for an end to America’s rights-violating blockade against Cuba.
Canada’s pay equity commissioner is looking into complaint against the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which the union says should lead to $15.9-million in pay adjustments. Meanwhile, a new analysis finds Ottawa-area women in the public sector earned three per cent less than comparable men.
Bill C-40 won’t extend the ombud’s mandate to cover the DIA, but Alexander Jeglic says ‘there’s the possibility’ regulations under C-31 would give his office some authority to look at elements of Crown corporations.
The former Natural Resources Canada employee is one of three federal workers who told The Hill Times they experienced delayed, missing or unresolved payments as Ottawa processes a growing wave of workforce-adjustment departures.
Bill S-7, the Cutting Red Tape Act, promises $264-million in savings over 10 years, mostly for industry, but questions remain about staffing, regulatory capacity, and Indigenous consultation.
Some departments reporting granular data on specific instances of misbehaviour, and others broadly summarize founded and unfounded cases, an approach that one ethics researcher says suggests ‘the ship has sailed’ on the exercise.
Trump’s America was clearly a concern for a class of seniors I recently spoke to: they are familiar with the scourge of American isolationism in the last century, and its effect on world events.
Other countries empower their ombud offices, but Canada typically appoints ‘tame, reluctant, risk-averse watchdogs with strong limitations on their funding,’ says author Matt Malone.
A list of 186 eligible occupations ‘fails to recognize many occupations where there are significant labour shortages in Canada,’ says immigration lawyer Adrienne Smith.
The revised Tri-Agency policy requires immediate access to publicly funded research. It also leaves commercial publishers free to profit from public money.
Building a stronger Canada means ensuring everyone has a safe, affordable, and adequate place to call home.
Centres cannot expand if they cannot hire and keep qualified staff. New spaces on paper mean little to parents if there aren’t enough educators to care for the children who would fill them.
Productivity is ultimately an aggregate record of millions of smaller decisions, so we must ask what behaviour our institutions encourage.
A bill calling for a framework aims to close gaps in research and innovation, strengthen primary care, improve clinician training in women’s health, and expand access for women and gender-diverse patients in rural and remote communities.
Without sustained investment in foundational work, Canada will eventually have fewer mineral projects ready to advance.
Plus: Senator Cardozo joins a U.K. MP in a new podcast, Conservative MP Chris Lewis has a new caucus role, and longtime Liberal MP Hedy Fry’s son is elected mayor of Vancouver.
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The committee, where Liberal MPs hold a majority, is recommending that the government keep the policy it plans to walk back, and protect the payment structure in any future trade discussions with the United States.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer projects the government’s cost for federal public service insurance plans will reach $4.4-billion in 2030-31. The report came after the Senate’s National Finance Committee asked the budget watchdog to analyze these costs.
The Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector, established in 2019 to encourage meaningful dialogue with government, remains a periodic consultative body that has not met since fall 2024. And while consultation matters, it is not enough.
National Defence’s $48.4-billion represents the biggest ask of the $230.4-billion set to be voted on by MPs, with five more departments seeking approval for more than $10-billion.
This year’s estimates include $1.38-billion in funding for the CBC, representing a marked decrease from the $1.58-billion allotted to the public broadcaster during the 2025-26 fiscal year.
