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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and Prime Minister Mark Carney in Calgary on Sept. 10. Canada should push hard to ensure that Ukraine has the means to close its skies to Russian drones and missile attacks, writes Stan Kutcher. Screenshot courtesy of CPAC

What’s Canada’s role as Ukraine redounds to victory?

opinionBY STAN KUTCHER

Canada can help by continuing to demonstrate solid and unwavering support for Ukraine, and by working much harder with our allies to build on Ukraine’s battlefield successes.

‘Don’t hold your breath’: former U.S. envoy not expecting midterms to alter Trump’s tariff approach

newsBY NEIL MOSS

No ‘breakthrough’ to end nearly three-year pause in trade talks with Canada, says U.K. envoy

newsBY NEIL MOSS

A tale of two political leaders

opinionBY TIM POWERS

The hegemon shrinks

opinionBY JOHN MCKAY

Canada should consider a ‘tit-for-tat’ response to U.S. procurement ban that ‘breaches’ international trade agreements, say experts

newsBY IREM KOCA

It’s time to start talking tough

opinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Netanyahu’s fortunes shift with Hamas attack in spotlight again

opinionBY GWYNNE DYER

‘Neither strong nor free’ until now: Canada’s sovereign reckoning

opinionBY WENRAN JIANG
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 'Forward Guidance' series, where he directly addresses Canadians in YouTube videos, 'conjures images of war and historic images of troubled times,' says Trudeau-era staffer Marci Surkes. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Carney the ‘adult in the room’ in Canada-U.S. trade war and ‘playing the longer game’ with comms strategy: politicos

newsBY MARLO GLASS, ELEANOR WAND

The prime minister is ‘contrasting himself very clearly’ between the American president’s ‘juvenile approach to politicking and a mature one’ says Trudeau-era staffer Marci Surkes.

Investment summit a show of unity, but now Carney must deliver on ambition, politicos say

newsBY MARLO GLASS

‘Don’t hold your breath’: former U.S. envoy not expecting midterms to alter Trump’s tariff approach

newsBY NEIL MOSS

No ‘breakthrough’ to end nearly three-year pause in trade talks with Canada, says U.K. envoy

newsBY NEIL MOSS

Millions of driver’s licences were allegedly listed for sale on the dark web. What does it mean for Canada’s coming social media age ban?

newsBY MARIA COLLINS
Parliamentary Calendar

Ambassador Hoekstra, former cabinet minister Raitt to speak at IIF Canada Forum

Podcast

‘Don’t waste patriotism’: former top public servant Alex Himelfarb

news

What makes a ‘good’ lobbyist? A lot

opinion

Space war and other distractions

Afghan Ambassador to Canada Hassan Soroosh started his post in 2019, and is currently the fourth-longest-serving resident envoy in Ottawa. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Five years in the cold: Afghan envoy says ‘moral obligation’ keeps embassy open half decade after Taliban takeover

newsBY NEIL MOSS

With the number of Afghan missions of the former government dwindling, its Canadian embassy—with no ties to Afghanistan’s current Taliban-led regime—hangs on.

Feds cite ‘immediate and present-day harm’ to U.S. ties as court orders release of some Nazi resettlement records  

newsBY NEIL MOSS
Donald Trump

Trump isn’t the only show in town

opinionBY MICHAEL HARRIS

‘We need to be aware and get more aggressive’: Trump’s desire for Canada’s water runs deep, says AquaAction president

newsBY STUART BENSON

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Parliamentary Calendar

SecState McLean, ex-MP Keith Martin to attend party fundraiser hosted by Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke Federal Liberal Association on July 21

Podcast

What’s going on in Quebec, with Daniel Béland

news

Lobbying under Carney: ‘it is a very different Liberal government’

feature

Carney addresses the EU Parliament

Podcast

Trade wars: A new soap

As Canada's retaliatory tariffs target states critical to the Republicans' attempts to retain Congress, U.S. President Donald Trump is losing the public relations battle in his 'own backyard,' says Abacus Data's David Coletto. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Flickr, and The Hill Times file photograph and illustration by Joey Sabourin

‘We’re in this for the long haul’: Canada must brace for ‘new reality’ beyond U.S. electoral calendar, says CLC’s Bruske

newsBY STUART BENSON

An Abacus poll suggests most U.S. voters in key midterm states oppose the trade war with Canada, but KPMG’s chief economist says the cost of that political leverage could permanently shrink our economy.

Pete Hoekstra

9/11 anniversary offers a chance to do better

opinionBY TIM POWERS
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu

‘Wait for September’

opinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Trade war lobbying ‘all-consuming and exhausting,’ but we are ‘made for moments like this,’ say lobbyists

newsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Canadians standing on guard against more U.S. threats and insults

opinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Diplomatic Circles

Modi likely to visit Ottawa later this year, says Indian envoy 

Outgoing Japanese envoy urges Canada to see ‘big picture’ when considering new approach to Asia

With a renewed relationship with Canada, India’s envoy says his role is to ease old concerns from home

Lithuanian minister looks to 2027 EU presidency to boost Canadian links  

Trade

Federal relief programs must ‘work at the ground level,’ say sector reps, as trade war escalates

Canada’s trade ambitions need a marine workforce to match

How are Canadians and Americans doing?

Forward-looking Canadian energy policy needed against President Trump’s authoritarian moves

International development

Let’s expand, not reduce, Canadian peacekeeping

Budget 2026 must stop foreign aid cuts, says reader

Global health’s next frontier is research, not just aid

Mark Carney

Challenges, hopes, and reality: can Carney reinvent Canada’s economy?

Immigration

Trumpism may survive so Canada needs a new dance partner

Where is Canada’s Strait of Hormuz?

The coming information war: how Trump will try to break Canadian unity

U.S. remains top foreign supplier to Canada with $253-million secured in federal contracts in 2026 so far

Refugees

Lessons for global refugee challenges can be found in a Nova Scotia pharmacy

Independent CBSA complaints body still dormant nearly two years after enacting law passes

Misinformation is driving the debate over refugee health care

Misconduct by IRCC staff can ‘erode trust’ in immigration system, says advocate

Inside defence

Canada’s military is past the point of a quick fix

Money for nothing?

Cleaning out the closet won’t keep military’s bare morale shelves stocked

Military masters should carefully pick our battles before buying weapons

Gwynne Dyer

New Caledonia: pragmatism 3, nationalism 0

In Ukraine, the generals are not the problem

Ukraine war and international law

Benjamin Netanyahu

Yet another election in Israel

Canada and the 21st century

Carney takes first critical steps with India and China

Feds’ defence industrial strategy promises much potential for Canada, but it will need public and private-sector champions

Feds’ new defence industrial strategy is powerful, but it faces serious challenges before it can succeed

Trump wants to squeeze us hard enough so we come begging

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