Ottawa Centre MP Naqvi says ‘no consensus’ on return-to-office issue from constituents following Treasury Board’s decree

A number of Ottawa-area mayors wrote to the Treasury Board president with their major concerns that the government's back-to-office decision will have on their local economies and the environment.

Following the Treasury Board's announcement that will see federal public servants back in office three days a week this fall, downtown Ottawa Liberal MP Yasir Naqvi says most people want to work in hybrid workplaces. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Ottawa Centre MP Naqvi says ‘no consensus’ on return-to-office issue from constituents following Treasury Board’s decree

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

A number of Ottawa-area mayors wrote to the Treasury Board president with their major concerns that the government's back-to-office decision will have on their local economies and the environment.

Ottawa Centre MP Naqvi says ‘no consensus’ on return-to-office issue from constituents following Treasury Board’s decree

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

A number of Ottawa-area mayors wrote to the Treasury Board president with their major concerns that the government's back-to-office decision will have on their local economies and the environment.

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Federal parties face tighter privacy rules after losing ‘unprecedented’ voter data case, but appeal could delay enforcement

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Rapid advancement of technology allows for ‘profiling and micro-targeting voters’ and creates ‘risks of misuse’ that ‘could result in the erosion of trust in our political system,’ ruled Justice Gordon Weatherill.

Federal parties face tighter privacy rules after losing ‘unprecedented’ voter data case, but appeal could delay enforcement

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Rapid advancement of technology allows for ‘profiling and micro-targeting voters’ and creates ‘risks of misuse’ that ‘could result in the erosion of trust in

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‘Unfortunate errors’ in Global Affairs contracts were ‘administrative oversight,’ MPs hear

NewsBY IREM KOCA

'There's nothing in here that signals any kind of wrongdoing, misuse of funds … nothing to actually indicate that we weren't able to provide value for money for Canadians,' says Shirley Carruthers, assistant deputy minister and chief financial officer at Global Affairs.

'There's nothing in here that signals any kind of wrongdoing, misuse of funds … nothing to actually indicate that we weren't able to provide

Parties should ‘govern themselves’ but must better regulate nominations and voter data, says former candidate Maddeaux

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Digital privacy expert Colin Bennett says complaints of improper use of Conservative voter lists in the York region riding contest offer a ‘real-life example’ of the problems with parties self-regulating their nomination races.

Digital privacy expert Colin Bennett says complaints of improper use of Conservative voter lists in the York region riding contest offer a ‘real-life example’

Military revisiting beartrap necessity as feds explore Arctic ship chopper capabilities

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

The initial decision to not include the securing device on the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships limits the ability for big helicopters to be operational at sea.

The initial decision to not include the securing device on the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships limits the ability for big helicopters to be

POLITICS THIS MORNING

Politics This Morning: A tale of two press conferences

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OPINION & COLUMNISTS

Military housing problem a reflection of wider culture

Why would a young person join the CAF today when they might not have a home tomorrow?

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Poilievre’s notwithstanding clause gambit

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Political disconnect leaving Liberals far behind

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Police brutality is a feature of democratic Canada, not a bug

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NEWS

House Foreign Affairs Committee offers no advice to reverse foreign service ‘atrophy’

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

A Senate committee previously presented 29 recommendations to the government to fix Canada's diplomatic capacity.

House Foreign Affairs Committee offers no advice to reverse foreign service ‘atrophy’

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

A Senate committee previously presented 29 recommendations to the government to fix Canada's diplomatic capacity.

Foreign influence registry ‘more than a positive step forward,’ but not far enough, say diaspora groups

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‘I made an error in judgment,’ CBSA official says of dining with ArriveCan contractors

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Senate rule change ‘tough pill to swallow’ for Conservatives, but backers say vote protects Red Chamber’s independence

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Tulips brighten dreary downtown day

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Comms staff on the move: new press secretaries for Champagne, Sudds

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‘A straight-shooter and a gentleman’: former trade minister Jim Peterson has died

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Virani to talk about Online Harms Bill on Tuesday at the Empire Club of Canada

POLITICS

Pro-Palestinian student protests on university campuses further complicate electoral calculus for left-of-centre parties, say Liberal MPs

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Gazan gives pro-choice speech

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Gazan gives pro-choice speech

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Campus protesters misinformed: Toronto reader

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Consequences for civil disobedience rooted in context, says CJPME rep

Indigenous-led housing solutions need federal funding to fill the gap

OpinionBY DAVID FLOOD, CANDACE LARSEN

Indigenous groups are poised for massive scale-up in economic participation, education, jobs, and better housing outcomes for Indigenous Peoples.

Aamjiwnaang First Nation shows importance of environmental racism bill

OpinionBY MELANIE SNOW, VICTORIA WATSON

Why digital assets will be Canada’s economic equalizer

OpinionBY LUCAS MATHESON

Despite its critics, cryptocurrency will prove to be the greatest financial equalizer because it treats everyone the same regardless of where you’re from or how much money you have.

Why digital assets will be Canada’s economic equalizer

OpinionBY LUCAS MATHESON

Despite its critics, cryptocurrency will prove to be the greatest financial equalizer because it treats everyone the same regardless of where you’re from or how much money you have.

For Canada to be a global human rights leader, it needs to get its AI law right from the start

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Poilievre a ‘name-calling political brat’: letter writer

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Environment & Climate Change

Feds ‘slow’ to act on green procurement, says environment watchdog

Departments 'did not use their public infrastructure procurement and financing capacity effectively to prioritize the use of construction materials with a lower carbon footprint,' reads the audit report.

BY IREM KOCA

Aamjiwnaang First Nation shows importance of environmental racism bill

The ongoing Crown failure to uphold and advance Indigenous sovereignty and rights has created unique environmental injustices.

BY MELANIE SNOW, VICTORIA WATSON

Oil and gas emissions on the rise again: a federal emissions cap is our best chance to rein them in

Canadians are doing their part to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions; it’s time for the oil and gas sector to do the same.

BY STEVEN HAIG

Ocean temperature: the mother of all climate feedbacks?

There are about a dozen potential environmental tipping points that we do know about, but there may be a few still to be discovered.

BY GWYNNE DYER

We must temper hype around AI with sober reflection on its climate impacts

While AI offers the promise of transformational leaps in efficiency, productivity, and innovation, it comes with significant costs, including to the environment.

BY MARY WELLS, ASHLEY ROSE MEHLENBACHER

FOREIGN POLICY

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

PostBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

High cost for women advocating for Palestinian rights in Canada

OpinionBY YASER HADDARA, TAHA GHAYYUR

Sanctions do nothing to promote democracy

OpinionBY BHAGWANT SANDHU

Fifty years after Canada’s plutonium mishap in India, is history repeating itself?

OpinionBY SUSAN O’DONNELL AND GORDON EDWARDS

EV investments paving the way for Canada and Japan’s ‘new chapter’: ambassador

OpinionBY KANJI YAMANOUCHI

Thought experiment: buying the Palestinians out?

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Gwynne Dyer responds to a reader asking whether the easiest way out of ‘the Middle East problem’ would be paying everybody to leave. It’s not completely unthinkable.

Thought experiment: buying the Palestinians out?

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

Gwynne Dyer responds to a reader asking whether the easiest way out of ‘the Middle East problem’ would be paying everybody to leave. It’s not completely unthinkable.

BOOKS, BIG IDEAS, Q&As

Exploring the legacy of COVID pandemic panic

FeatureBY JOANNA BARON, CHRISTINE VAN GEYN

The following is an excerpt from Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to COVID-19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever, one of the five books shortlisted for this year's $60,000 Donner Prize.

Exploring the legacy of COVID pandemic panic

FeatureBY JOANNA BARON, CHRISTINE VAN GEYN

The following is an excerpt from Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to COVID-19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever, one of the five books shortlisted for this year's $60,000 Donner Prize.

Getting everyone a ‘front door into the health system’: Jane Philpott weighs in on fixing health care, and her future in politics

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

U.S. election preoccupies Canada’s top 50 foreign influencers as feds’ focus gets pulled from Asia strategy

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MacGregor’s success is more than ‘luck’

FeatureBY KATE MALLOY

Ibbitson gives Diefenbaker his proper place in history without downgrading Pearson’s legacy

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A closer look at the proposed foreign influence transparency registry

FeatureBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

The concept of a foreign influence registry has cross-party support, but whether that translates into the quick passage of the government's proposal remains to be seen.

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc introduced Bill C-70, Countering Foreign Interference Act, in the House on May 6. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

A closer look at the proposed foreign influence transparency registry

FeatureBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

The concept of a foreign influence registry has cross-party support, but whether that translates into the quick passage of the government's proposal remains to be seen.

A closer look at the proposed foreign influence transparency registry

FeatureBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

The concept of a foreign influence registry has cross-party support, but whether that translates into the quick passage of the government's proposal remains to be seen.

Poilievre calling lobbyists ‘useless’ provides roadmap for approaching Conservatives, says GR professionals

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Conservatives are looking for public policy changes that will appeal to voters, according to Josie Sabatino, a senior consultant at Summa Strategies.

India-Canada row and the diaspora

OpinionBY RAJESH C. SHUKLA

To move forward, both governments need to be sensitive to each other’s concerns and diaspora, holding violators of our sovereignty to account as per law.

Red Sea crisis a wake-up call for Western naval forces

OpinionBY ALEXANDER SALT, ALEX WILNER

Mass air attacks, where defence systems must shoot down hundreds of hostile threats in a short amount of time, is now a reality.

Canada’s recent defence policy update, unveiled on April 8 by Defence Minister Bill Blair, has openly acknowledged the growing threat and danger facing air defences as well as the need for new investments in that area, write Alexander Salt and Alex Wilner. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Red Sea crisis a wake-up call for Western naval forces

OpinionBY ALEXANDER SALT, ALEX WILNER

Mass air attacks, where defence systems must shoot down hundreds of hostile threats in a short amount of time, is now a reality.

Red Sea crisis a wake-up call for Western naval forces

OpinionBY ALEXANDER SALT, ALEX WILNER

Mass air attacks, where defence systems must shoot down hundreds of hostile threats in a short amount of time, is now a reality.

Children are most vulnerable group affected by conflict, national disaster: letter writer

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Environment minister Guilbeault must show ‘courage’ to finalize plastics treaty, says NDP MP Johns

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

The final round of negotiations to develop a global agreement to end plastic pollution by 2040 is scheduled to take place in South Korea from Nov. 25-Dec. 1.

Harnessing windfall profits to tackle corporate greed and fund a greener future

OpinionBY NDP MP LAUREL COLLINS

If the Liberals made big oil and gas companies pay their fair share, it would generate more than $4-billion a year.

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Politics and the Pen gets heated, but don’t blame Fire Weather

FeatureBY STUART BENSON

This year's Politics and the Pen gala raised $530,000 for the Writers' Trust of Canada, and awarded the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing to John Vaillant for his book Fire Weather: The Making of the Beast.

Politics and the Pen gets heated, but don’t blame Fire Weather

FeatureBY STUART BENSON

This year's Politics and the Pen gala raised $530,000 for the Writers' Trust of Canada, and awarded the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing to John Vaillant for his book Fire Weather: The Making of the Beast.

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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Liberal MP Carr says it’s hard to reach voters in current media landscape, while Tory MP Rempel Garner welcomes the changes

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Peace Tower in bloom

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Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

Finance & Budget

Pandemic ‘supply shocks’ could indicate need for more agile monetary policy, says former BoC deputy

The current monetary policy framework agreement between the federal government and the Bank of Canada, which lays out the mandate of the central bank, is set to expire at the end of 2026.

BY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Public service unions sound alarm over feds’ plan to trim bureaucracy by 5,000 jobs through ‘natural attrition’

As the population grows, 'you have to invest and grow the public service,' said Public Service Alliance of Canada national president Chris Aylward.

BY MIKE LAPOINTE

The art of monetary policymaking

Whether an explicit broadening of the BoC's mandate is needed is far from clear, but current circumstances support the need for flexibility in monetary policy frameworks.

BY CHARLES ST-ARNAUD

Canada is struggling and government is part of the problem

Federal government spending, public service employment, and the national debt are soaring, but delivery of essential government services is sputtering, and the Bank of Canada has been left to fight inflation single-handedly.

BY KEVIN LYNCH, JIM MITCHELL

Freeland’s budget seen as last hope to turn Trudeau’s electoral fortunes around, say politicos

A key metric to gauge the budget's effectiveness will be whether it reverses Canadians’ appetite for change in government, says David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data.

BY ABBAS RANA

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

PostBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

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A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

PostBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.

A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

PostBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.

Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez said the national supply chain office “will enhance the resilience, efficiency, and reliability of our transportation systems,” in a Transport Canada press release on Dec. 1, 2023.

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

PostBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.

Supply chain strategy must go beyond transportation, says Supply Chain Canada president

PostBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

A national supply chain strategy will require a holistic understanding of what the supply chain is, which is often misunderstood, according to Martin Montanti, president and CEO of Supply Chain Canada.