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The yellow CL-415 flies in contrast against a bright blue sky.

Canada needs to plan further ahead to diversify its trade

Quebecois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon holds up a chart while sitting at a table.

Why the Parti Québécois can’t limit asylum seekers in Quebec

A man in a mask works on his sailboat in Toronto.

Canada doesn’t need another climate plan. It needs the machinery to deliver

Pink coloured minerals.

Potash could anchor a new Canada-India trade partnership

A portrait of Mark Carney surrounded by the yellow stars of the European Union flag.

Effective trade diversification depends on small and medium businesses

An unidentifiable patient in a hospital bed.

Canada should define death in law

People with their backs to the camera have their hands raised in a stock-photo meeting.

New housing co-ops need stronger democratic safeguards

An adult’s hand holds a child’s wrist as the child points toward the name Daljit Singh Grewal on a stone memorial with hundreds of names.

Forty-one years after the Air India bombing, families still wait for justice

A protester holds up an umbrella in the colours of the rainbow against a blue sky with the Peace Tower of Parliament in the background.

Saskatchewan’s use of the notwithstanding clause reveals its fundamental flaw

The time for a law on artificial intelligence has come

How to legislate on artificial intelligence in Canada?

Who has jurisdiction over artificial intelligence: Ottawa or the provinces?

The ethics of artificial intelligence await the law

The risk of waiting to regulate AI is greater than the risk of acting too quickly

Trans people must be protected across Canada

Clerk of the Privy Council John Hannaford relaunches ethics and values discussion in the public service

Conservatives: this is not Canada

Public inquiry into foreign interference in elections should target Big Oil

La main d’un avocat, dont on ne voit pas la tête, sépare en deux une maison faite de quatre pièces de casse-tête. À gauche, deux figurines en bois, l’une rose et l’autre beige, plus petite. À droite, une figurine bleue.

Unmarried cohabitants should be protected too

Addressing the climate crisis requires a diplomatic and global finance overhaul

The two men sit opposite each other, separated by a small dark wood accent table with a pot of flowers and two water bottles. Behind them are two flags and a purple and pink backdrop that says ASEAN, Indonesia 2023.

In the Indo-Pacific, Canada has core interests but weak clout

Attendees sit at a very long and very wide blond-wood table. At least 10 people sit on each side, the Americans on one side; the Canadians on the other. They each have folders, notebooks and individual microphones in front of them. The group is relaxed, with most people smiling. At the far end of the table, a Canadian and American flag hangs on tall posts. On the walls are wooden crests of arms and provincial symbols.

Canada’s core national interests will have to lie in North America

Canada should look North to refocus foreign policy – and regain lost middle-power status

Three tents are shown in front of the concrete support of an overpass which is covered in graffiti.

Tent cities are not just a municipal problem

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