In the current Alberta political landscape, all 11 Edmonton ridings and five Calgary area ridings are in play, says political strategist Stephen Carter.
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.
The ministers have been pushing Ottawa for months to continue 10-year deals that were to expire next March. Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel announced another year of funding, but it’s unclear whether the agreements will continue past 2028.
During a recent House committee meeting about affordability challenges, Yukon Energy Corporation’s Rod Savoie noted Ottawa is looking north for critical minerals, defence, and economic development: ‘Reliable electricity is fundamental to all of this.’
The Senate Transport and Communications Committee has raised concerns that choosing a private firm could create further delays, while Transport Canada has not provided a contract cost or released the analysis behind its proposal.
Plus, Prime Minister Mark Carney hosts a dinner for Abu Dhabi’s Crown prince.
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.
Despite representing nearly 90 per cent of Alberta’s ridings, Conservatives have been ‘largely silent’ during the referendum, said Duanne Bratt, a Calgary-based political science professor, while the province’s lone NDP MP made a failed bid for an emergency debate in the House.
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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.
Canadian founders have been complaining for years that domestic investors are slower to write the large cheques a company needs to scale, and quicker to demand worse terms when they do.
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.
‘Putting a Crown corporation in charge of something as fundamental as defence procurement, and involving tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, is unprecedented and a leap of faith,’ says Eugene Lang, a former chief of staff to two ministers of national defence.
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.
The new legislation, if it passes, would create the Canadian Corporation for Defence Investment, which would continue to operate under the existing name of Defence Investment Agency. However, it would have more independence, its own board of directors, and greater authority to negotiate and manage contracts, according to the government.
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.
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.Â
Without sustained investment in foundational work, Canada will eventually have fewer mineral projects ready to advance.
Ottawa is pursuing closer integration with Europe in critical minerals and other strategic industries. A rapidly deepening partnership with our European allies offers the chance to pair Canada’s resources and ambition with European expertise in advanced manufacturing, engineering and industrial technology.
The bank’s new quantum-safe program is moving in the right direction. Now governments and other major institutions need to move at the same speed and invest in the technology Canada has already built.
We can no longer assume clean, reliable water is limitless, responding only after systems fail or communities face shortages. The National Water Security Strategy should be the moment we begin treating water with the importance Canadians already believe it deserves.
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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.
