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Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to use the upcoming budget to advance major economic projects, but a growing economy cannot succeed as the housing crisis worsens, writes Marie-Josée Houle. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada’s next housing strategy starts with Budget 2026

opinionBY MARIE-JOSéE HOULE

Building a stronger Canada means ensuring everyone has a safe, affordable, and adequate place to call home.

‘Work needed’ to develop policy around ‘regions of national interest,’ says impact assessment head

newsBY RIDDHI KACHHELA

Alexander Jeglic,

‘There’s a danger in removing transparency’ amid questions about Defence Investment Agency oversight: ombud

newsBY IREM KOCA

Women need better health care. A national framework can help deliver it

opinionBY BOLU OGUNYEMI, MARCIA CLARK, SARAH COOK, NICHOLAS LEYLAND

Claiming the second-generation cutoff disproportionally affects Indigenous women and girls dishonours MMIWG+

opinionBY LILLIAN E. DYCK, SANDRA LOVELACE NICHOLAS, CLAUDETTE DUMONT-SMITH

Canada needs to look beyond kids and social media to address online harms

opinionBY NATALIE BRENDER

Omnibus bills put the boot to the greening of Canada

opinionBY KEN RUBIN

Canada has ‘serious problems’ respecting UNDRIP obligations, UN racism envoy says

newsBY MARLO GLASS

‘We can cut red tape, but we can’t cut corners’: Senators weigh concerns, hopes for feds’ massive economic bill

newsBY ELEANOR WAND

Bill C-39 was tabled by Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon on Sept. 21. Changes proposed in the bill would place immense pressure on the scientific capacity behind pipeline and nuclear assessments at a time when we are already seeing significant workforce reductions amongst public service scientists, writes Sarah Laframboise. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

More power, faster decisions: Bill C-39 needs more transparency

opinionBY SARAH LAFRAMBOISE

As decision-making becomes more concentrated, simply publishing a final decision is not enough.

Industry ‘frustrated’ as Liberals’ Bill C-39 falls short of proactive strike-prevention powers

newsBY STUART BENSON

With Bill C-39, is ‘nostalgia’ a strategy after all?

opinionBY MARK WINFIELD

Carney is building a secrecy black hole for his ‘national interest’ projects

opinionBY KEN RUBIN

The most important project of ‘national interest’ is upholding First Nations’ human right to clean water

opinionBY NDP MP LEAH GAZAN

Parliamentary Calendar

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

Podcast

Alberta vs. the Constitution—Gerard Kennedy on the ‘other nine’ referendum questions

news

What makes a ‘good’ lobbyist? A lot

feature

Associate EU membership back on the table

Podcast

Minister Eleanor Olszewski weighs in on the Alberta referendum

Victoria Pruden.

Métis governments must be at the table while national priorities, legislation, policies, and projects are being developed, writes Métis National Council president Victoria Pruden, centre. Photograph courtesy of the Métis National Council

Building Canada’s economy in partnership with the Métis Nation

opinionBY VICTORIA PRUDEN

Early partnership creates both greater predictability and better outcomes for projects, Métis communities, and Canada.

Mark Carney

Consent, not conflict: what Carney’s infrastructure push needs to succeed

opinionBY MARK QUINN

Bill C-39 dismantles Canada’s environmental policy ‘beyond anything we’ve ever seen,’ say climate groups

newsBY ELEANOR WAND

‘Significant economic legislation’ coming this fall, says House Leader MacKinnon

newsBY MARLO GLASS

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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

‘Creating Canada as the enemy’: What a PQ government means for Canadian politics

news

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

opinion

Where is the PQ taking Quebec?

Podcast

Sheila Copps on Carney, Poilievre, her time in the Chrétien cabinet and more

In Prime Minister Mark Carney’s rush to build big and build fast, capital gets certainty, cheaper money, and a straight line to investment summits. Labour gets a pledge to ‘strengthen collective bargaining,’ but they’re not buying it, writes Bhagwant Sandhu. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

The politics behind Carney’s rush to build

opinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

The prime minister’s response to Canada-U.S. tensions is a legitimate act of economic self-defence. But the crisis footing is doing double duty: it lets the Liberals obscure the fact that they are making policy choices with winners and losers.

Unions, NDP decry new bill as attack on labour, but feds say Canada needs C-39 to build major projects

newsBY ELEANOR WAND

‘Gutted’ environment assessments part of Carney’s ‘deregulation agenda,’ warn climate groups

newsBY ELEANOR WAND

Claudia Sheinbaum

What Canada can learn from Mexico

opinionBY FERNANDA SALAZAR MEJIA

Politics This Morning

First Nation chiefs take their grievances to Carney and the premiers

Carney meets businesspeople in Istanbul

Referendum finale

All hands on deck for Alberta

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Always leave them wanting more: Fraser tops All Politics Poll as he looks to exit federal politics

Housing Minister Fraser a 2023 fan favourite on Parliament Hill: All Politics Poll

Poilievre doubles as most valuable, least valuable politician in 2022 in The Hill Times’ All Politics Poll

The Politically Savvy Survey

Poilievre voted best public speaker, most quotable, hardest-working, and biggest self-promoter in The Hill Times’ 29th Annual Politically Savvy Survey

Poilievre sweeps a suite of categories in the 27th annual Politically Savvy Survey

Freeland, LeBlanc, Morneau voted most influential ministers in 26th annual Politically Savvy Survey

Goodale voted Best Cabinet Minister in QP, Scrums in The Hill Times’ 25th annual Politically Savvy Survey

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Indigenous Relations

This prime minister is pulling the blanket over the eyes of Indigenous Peoples with his Building Canada Strong bill

The price of ‘certainty’ for projects of national interest

Omnibus bills and the realities of governments moving slowly

Minister Ali sidesteps question on whether red-tape reforms mean fewer public servants

political parties

The moral retreat of Quebec’s political class

B.C. Conservatives’ post-mortem offers lessons for Poilievre—if he chooses to learn them

Parliamentarians legislating ‘in uncharted territory’ after summer break, say politicos

With a ‘razor-thin’ majority, unusually high number of byelections come with great stakes: politicos

Women, Gender and diversity

Time for Canada to relieve women of the ‘third shift’

Rechie Valdez

Online spaces should be safe for all, but they’re not for women and girls

Reconciliation must be measured by the lives of Métis women

Outrage rings hollow when paired with lack of action on residential school denialism

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