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The Liberal infrastructure record is nothing to be proud of

Indigenous RelationsBY NDP MP LORI IDLOUT

Infrastructure gaps have major social, health, and economic impacts on Indigenous Peoples.

Housing crisis requires more long-term infrastructure planning, say housing and construction experts

Infrastructure and TransportBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Housing-enabling infrastructure: a key piece to solving the housing crisis puzzle

Infrastructure and TransportBY JANICE MYERS

Far more still to be done for infrastructure in the Yukon

Infrastructure and TransportBY ISG SENATOR PAT DUNCAN

Canada is rising to meet the challenge of housing

Infrastructure and TransportBY LIBERAL MP ANNIE KOUTRAKIS

Governments must remove barriers to improve access to mental health and substance use services

HealthBY FLORENCE BUDDEN, ANTHONY ESPOSTI AND GLENN BRIMACOMBE

Adaptation to climate change should be a non-partisan priority

EnvironmentBY SHAWN MCCARTHY

Parliament at a standstill as Conservative MPs push for release of green-tech fund papers

EnvironmentBY IREM KOCA

The case for a high-speed train between Quebec and Ontario

Infrastructure and TransportBY ÉRIC BLAIS

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Protecting Canada’s outdoor recreation sector

EnvironmentBY DAVID ERB

Each party’s election platform needs a detailed plan to reach our global climate targets. Each party may take a different approach—choosing their own mix

Mental health funding must keep pace with the growing demand for accessible and inclusive mental health supports for youth

HealthBY ELISABETH BRIERE

Fact check: 2023 bilateral investments in mental health care less than half of what feds claim

HealthBY SM LEDUC

Linking the affordability crisis and mental health requires ‘transformative change’ in health care, say critics and experts

HealthBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Looking to the future of Canadians’ mental health

HealthBY HYMIE ANISMAN

Perinatal mental health strategy is a critical step

HealthBY PATRICIA TOMASI

Celebrating ‘visionary’ Jimmy Carter on his centennial

Foreign PolicyBY ARTHUR MILNES

Forging a new reconciliation path focused on economic empowerment

FinanceBY CHIEF RAYMOND POWDER

Reconciliation that works for all in Canada’s fisheries

Fisheries and OceansBY GENNA CAREY

AGRICULTURE

The cornerstone for peace is food, but armed conflicts wipe out livelihoods and agri-food systems

OpinionBY RATTAN LAL, MANUEL OTERO

Voluntary grocery code of conduct short on fair dealing enforcement provisions, says NDP agriculture critic

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

MPs unite against greedflation and monopoly power in Canada’s food systems—but there’s more to do

OpinionBY MARISSA ALEXANDER, WADE THORHAUG

Tax fairness for the next generation will protect the future of our farms

OpinionBY KEITH CURRIE

Biotechnology

Unlocking Canada’s greatest economic potential: life sciences

OpinionBY ALISON SYMINGTON, JASON FIELD

Canada’s biotech carpe diem

OpinionBY ANDREW CASEY

Harnessing the power of Canada’s growing biotechnology industry: a perspective from the West

OpinionBY STEPHANIE WILLERTH

Biotechnology: an opportunity balanced on a knife’s edge

OpinionBY ADAM DAMRY

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Diaspora communities need ‘proactive’ measures to guard against foreign and homegrown hostility, inquiry hears

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Submarine saga could turn into ‘sellers beware’

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Driving out deepfakes: Canada can lead on responsible AI innovation

OpinionBY PATRICK ROGERS

World waits with bated breath as we teeter on the edge of a world war

OpinionBY SHEILA COPPS

Environment

‘Hotter and drier’ conditions in forests will create greater fire risk in coming decades, Senate committee hears, as House continues Jasper study

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Federal overtime payments on decline, but total paid out still tops $1-billion mark

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

Disasters the result of ‘our actions or inaction,’ Ottawa emergency management conference hears

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

How the Canadian taxpayer ended up on the hook for $34-billion to build a pipeline for the oil industry

OpinionBY THOMAS GUNTON

FINANCE

It’s a Brit problem, it’s a Canadian problem

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Transforming reconciliation: funding what matters to Indigenous communities

OpinionBY JEFF CYR, WáHIAKATSTE DIOME-DEER

Disability Benefit regulations show feds don’t care about institutionalized Canadians

OpinionBY KENDAL DAVID, MEGAN LINTON

We need a serious growth plan for Canada, like the EU’s

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Fisheries and oceans

Federal resource management decisions undermine collective power of community-based fisheries

OpinionBY COURTNEY GLODE

N.L. minister slams feds for ‘total chaos and poor decision-making’ on fisheries file

NewsBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Fish fight

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

Liberal MPs toe party line after breaking historical agreement on northern cod

OpinionBY COURTNEY GLODE

FOREIGN POLICY

A new age for Canada-Saudi relations? Human rights concerns passed over for economic links

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

‘It’s going to destroy everything we depend on’: visiting Indigenous delegation seeks to stop Canada-Ecuador trade talks

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Who has the right to safety?

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

China’s truce between princelings and populists breaks

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

health

Q&A | What the heck is HERC, with Mark Holland

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

National Summit on Indigenous Mental Wellness: moving beyond gestures to real action

OpinionBY ANANGKWE CHARITY FLEMING

The kids are not alright: Canada needs a youth mental health strategy

OpinionBY NDP MP GORD JOHNS

Rapid access to effective mental health care for youth should be a national priority

OpinionBY STAN KUTCHER AND ALEXA BAGNELL

Industry and Manufacturing

Support zero-profit grocery stores to fight market failure in the food supply chain

OpinionBY MARISSA ALEXANDER, WADE THORHAUG

Google signs deal to launch journalism fund in California, while cash from its Canadian media fund has yet to flow

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

If labour dispute goes ‘sideways’ it could derail Liberal cabinet retreat, says Nanos

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Feds’ groceries bill is worth less than the paper on which it’s printed

OpinionBY ERICA IFILL

infrastructure and transport

Closing the infrastructure gap is about more than just money

OpinionBY KERRY BLACK

Improving practices and updating standards will take us a long way towards preparing for climate change

OpinionBY BARBARA ROBINSON

Are federal government measures supporting infrastructure sufficient?

OpinionBY RANJAN DATTA, MARGOT HURLBERT

Sutcliffe blames federal hybrid-work model for capital’s transit woes as city’s commuters face service cuts

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

innovation

Standing up for cultural sovereignty requires a steel backbone

OpinionBY DAVID CRANE

Setting Canada’s research priorities

OpinionBY DAVID WATTERS

Preserving Canada’s competitive edge: the need for balanced international student policy

OpinionBY GABRIEL MILLER

Digital research infrastructure is the key to the future success of Canada’s research ecosystem

OpinionBY CHAD GAFFIELD

intergovernmental

Federal messaging, concerns bleed into campaigns as three provinces head to polls

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Fixing the housing affordability crisis? It’s the density, stupid

OpinionBY LES WHITTINGTON

A remarkable Montreal ‘salon’ has endured five decades

OpinionBY ANDREW CADDELL

‘A lot of tension’ in both Ottawa and Quebec City sparks shifting alliances between parties

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

justice

Fight over MAID shifts from Parliament back to the courts amid political stalemate

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

The cannabis excise duty rate: at least someone is making money

Give peace a chance

OpinionBY KATHLEENA HENRICUS, CATHY HU, BAVAN PUSHPALINGAM, AND TERENCE D’SOUZA

New return-to-office mandate for federal public servants kicks off as unions prepare telework campaign

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

Labour & employment

The Trudeau government is crushing private-sector childcare in Ontario

OpinionBY MATTHEW LAUえーゆー