Hill Climbers: Minister Lightbound has some fresh faces amongst his 16-member team, including a first-time director of policy in Wilder Walker-Stewart. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Opinion: It’s time for Canada to take control of stablecoins www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Opinion: Canada’s fiscal pivot: Budget 2025 marks a capital reset www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Carney's government sold the budget as 'economically transformational,' but CFIB president Dan Kelly says it was 'a pretty high bar, and I would not say we even came close to that in this budget.' www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

'There’s been so much buzz that’s been generated around Build Canada Homes ... about generational investments,' says Homeward Public Affairs' Jacob Gorenkoff, 'and we definitely did not see those things in the budget.' www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Gerry Nicholls: How Bill Gates has shifted the politics of climate change www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Opinion: Scaling climate-resilient farming solutions for global impact www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Controversial new procurement rules for federal freelance interpreters covering Parliament Hill have officially taken effect, and while tweaks have been made, concerns remain among freelancers and MPs alike. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Opinion: Canada’s research strength is world-class—now we need to all pull in the same direction www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Bhagwant Sandhu: Mark Carney’s first budget displays the prime minister’s administrative instincts: control the narrative, project calm, and preserve credibility in bond markets. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

If the Liberals were to gain majority status amid the ongoing floor-crossing speculation, it would spell bad news for Pierre Poilievre’s leadership review, says a former deputy chief of staff to Stephen Harper. By @abbas_rana1 #cdnpoli www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

The Liberals have recently been 'walking back' past commitments on 'fighting climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions,' says former parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Unlocked | Budget’s ‘Buy-Canadian’ push signals ‘clear commitment’ in procurement policy direction, but could also complicate the system, say observers www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Erica Ifill: It is quite evident that we are barrelling towards economic gloom, and creating a society of haves and have nots. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

UNLOCKED | ‘Things are crumbling’: changing caucus landscape, external pressures spell bad news for Poilievre’s leadership review, say Conservatives www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

“What is more concerning," than the big jump in deficit is "the track downward for deficits is only decreasing very slightly," says ex-PBO Girioux, "that is, if you believe the budget document and the forecasts to hold over time—which is a big, big if.” www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Unlocked | ‘Things are crumbling’: changing caucus landscape, external pressures spell bad news for Poilievre’s leadership review, say Conservatives www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Editorial: Canada works best when everyone can stand firm together against the tantrum playing out across the border. But it’s on the feds to make sure everyone knows the game plan. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Budget a step in the right direction, but fails to deliver on the ‘hype,’ say lobbyists www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

The budget is full of relatively small changes intended to refocus the government away from some of the vote-driven excesses of the Trudeau era. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

“We’re making sure that it’s going to be done through, I think, a very civilized way," says Liberal MP Greg Fergus of the public service cuts. "We’re going to get back to the size of the government we had before the pandemic.” www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Gwynne Dyer: On Nov. 6, Hemedti announced he would accept a ceasefire on the existing lines, which in practice would mean a Darfur ruled by the RSF and a second partition of the old Sudan. Its ‘friends’ did something like that to neighbouring Libya, so why not? www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Budget’s lack of clarity over sunsetting climate programs a concern: Green Budget Coalition www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

The Bloc released six non-negotiable conditions for their support of the budget in October, but finance critic Jean-Denis says meetings with the Liberals were ‘mostly media stunts.’ www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Q&A | Canada is at an “economic turning point,” and the time is right to build a highway extending road access deeper into the Northwest Territories, says the territory’s deputy premier, Caroline Wawzonek. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Unlocked | The Liberals have pledged $1.7-billion to hire 1,000 RCMP personnel over the next four years as the force faces a vacancy rate of 7.7 per cent, representing more than 1,400 jobs outside of that hiring push. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Politics This Morning: Confidence vote: Take two www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

No ‘serious negotiation’ with Liberals on budget, says Bloc MP Garon: ‘If the result is an election, what can we do?’ www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Scott Taylor: The CAF’s emotional apology for racism "In my more than four decades of close affiliation with the CAF, I have not experienced a more unconventional ceremony." www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Andrew Caddell: The Ontario premier’s pitch to poach Quebec doctors will be exploited by the separatists to undermine Quebecers’ sense of belonging to Canada. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

The federal government has recovered $4.1-million from subcontractors who fraudulently over-billed the government, MPs heard from government officials in a parliamentary committee last week. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Unlocked | Meeting feds’ ‘ambitious’ RCMP hiring pledge will require ‘imaginative’ ideas, says advisory board chair www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Bhagwant Sandhu: Budget 2025 and the perfection of managerial politics www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Bhagwant Sandhu: Budget 2025 and the perfection of managerial politics #cdnpoli www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Sheila Copps: With referendums now being threatened in Alberta and Quebec, the current prime minister and his cabinet should remember what we almost forgot: 'Les absents ont toujours tort.' www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

There “may be” as many as 13,000 internationally-trained health professionals who live in this country, but are unable to practise as millions of Canadians find themselves without access to care, members of the House Health Committee heard recently. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

The newly published contract terms for freelance interpreters on the Hill maintain a shift to prioritizing offers by ‘lowest evaluated price.’ www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Rose LeMay: Indigenous individuals have a right to culturally safe care and high-quality care, which is enshrined in national and international law. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Opinion: The vague attacks on DEI distract from the very real ways that Canadians interact with equity-oriented federal programs that bolster opportunity and reduce barriers. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Jake Enwright: For Carney to build ‘one strong national economy,’ he must first work with provinces and territories to fix unfair and inconsistent regulations and policies across the country. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Michael Harris: Much better to support leaders like Doug Ford when they are right—and stand up to the bully. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Liberal strategist Dan Arnold says ‘money follows enthusiasm’ as waning donations contradict all parties' election-ready posturing. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

As Prime Minister Mark Carney and multiple premiers promise to boost economic growth in part through “Buy Canadian” efforts, health innovation organizations say they are hoping this attitude will trickle down to the procurement of homegrown tech. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

One political expert says Carney has to start acting more prime ministerial and less like a chief executive officer, and needs more “political piss and vinegar” right now. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Hill Climbers: Wilder Walker-Stewart has been elevated to the role of director of policy to Minister Lightbound, overseeing advisers Whitney McDiarmid and Kabisan Thanendran. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Heard On The Hill: Three ex-cabinet ministers are starting new careers in Quebec municipal politics, Marco Mendicino returns to practising law, and The Hill Times' All Politics Poll is open for your input. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Politics This Morning: Green day on the Hill www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Nelson Wiseman: Alberta and Quebec are rewatching old movies www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Public service job cuts will be ‘compassionate’ and ‘civilized,’ with the impact on people ‘fairly minimal,’ say local Liberal MPs. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

‘A big, big if’: ex-PBO questions Carney’s deficit projections as Liberal spending track keeps being ‘revised upwards’ www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...