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February 09, 2012
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Peter Kent is giving a green light to a controversial glacier-walk project in Alberta's Jasper National Park.
McGuinty says Ottawa's lax laws allowed Caterpillar to leave
February 06, 2012
OAKVILLE, Ont. - Ottawa could have prevented the loss of hundreds of jobs at an Ontario locomotive plant if it had acted to modernize Canada's "outdated" foreign investment laws, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Monday.
February 06, 2012
HALIFAX - The four Atlantic premiers and more than 20 business leaders head to Atlanta today to start a three-day trade mission
February 05, 2012
OTTAWA - Media reports that some pot growers will face harsher mandatory-minimum sentences than child rapists under the Conservative government's new crime bill were enough to catch the attention of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Senator: People like my hanging idea
February 02, 2012
OTTAWA - A Conservative senator says he's been inundated with expressions of support for his unusual idea of providing rope to help murder convicts commit suicide in prison.
'We can fake the Oath': Federal bureaucrats pose as "new Canadians" in Sun News ceremony
February 02, 2012
OTTAWA - Six federal bureaucrats were drafted to pose as new Canadians for a citizenship reaffirmation ceremony broadcast on the Sun News network, an event requested by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's office.
Tory senator suggests giving every murderer a rope
February 01, 2012
OTTAWA - A Conservative senator in Ottawa has an unconventional proposal for cutting down prison costs: Give murder convicts a rope in their prison cell, and let them decide whether to hang themselves.
Tory senator idea: Give every convicted murderer a rope
February 01, 2012
OTTAWA - A Conservative senator in Ottawa has an unconventional proposal for cutting down prison costs: Give murder convicts a rope in their prison cell, and let them decide whether to hang themselves.
Deaf boy's treatment not enough for visa officer
January 16, 2012
Should a family be denied permanent residence to Canada because they have a young boy who is deaf, even after the child has been fitted with a cochlear implant?
Some Savage words for the Canadian government
January 12, 2012
Outspoken American author and journalist Dan Savage told his husband Thursday morning their marriage was no longer valid.
Harper says he has no plans to reopen same-sex marriage debate
January 12, 2012
HALIFAX - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the federal government has no intention of reopening the debate on same-sex marriage.
Government argues same-sex marriage for non-Canadians may not be legal: Report
January 12, 2012
The federal government is reportedly making the case that thousands of international same-sex couples who travelled to Canada to get married are not legally wed after all.
B.C. will pay $1.6 billion in HST funding over five years
January 11, 2012
British Columbia will pay back, interest free, $1.6 billion in federal HST transition money over the next five years, the province announced Wednesday.
Lego Stephen Harper is a charitable guy
January 11, 2012
From the subtle smirk to the stiff posture and signature Harper coiffure, an Ottawa man’s Lego creation for sale on Kijiji bears a striking resemblance to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Clement apologizes for calling teen a ‘Jack ass’
January 10, 2012
Treasury Board President Tony Clement has apologized for insulting a 15-year-old boy during a Twitter spat over spelling mistakes.
PMO denies report Harper and Putin to face off in hockey game
January 09, 2012
TORONTO - The Prime Minister's Office is denying a published report that Stephen Harper is making plans to play hockey this fall against his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Ignoring Kyoto, one less country at a time
December 15, 2011
I, for one, was inspired by the Kyoto Protocol
Video: Canada 'gives the finger' to the Kyoto protocol
December 13, 2011
Always with their finger on the pulse of current events, Taiwain's New Media Animation has turned its sights on Canada "giving the finger" to the Kyoto Protocol.
NDP leadership hopefuls outline platforms in B.C.
December 12, 2011
A national child-care plan, health care and First Nations poverty emerged as the dominant issues at a town-hall forum headlined by nine NDP leadership candidates hoping to clinch the top job.
Trying to keep the green dream alive
December 06, 2011
Green-conscious cities like Vancouver risk having their hard work ruined with the federal government deciding not to re-commit to the Kyoto Protocol yesterday.
Despite Tory claims, nine of 10 Canadians feel safe from crime
December 01, 2011
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the vast majority of Canadians feel they are safe from crime.
Tory MP's affair was likely ‘sexpionage’
December 01, 2011
The Conservative government should have been more concerned when one of its MPs was exposed having a relationship with a reporter for China’s state news agency, says a defector from the country’s spy service.
Federal government issues guidelines for staff use of social media
November 22, 2011
OTTAWA - The federal government has hit the like button on social media.
NDP MP Pat Martin's Twitter tirade takes off
November 17, 2011
Winnipeg Centre NDP MP Pat Martin unleashed a string of cuss-laden tweets Wednesday night, dropping a few f-bombs, one of them a not-so-subtle suggestion to a fellow Twitter user.
Peggy Nash joins crowded field to succeed Jack Layton
October 28, 2011
TORONTO - MP Peggy Nash has launched her bid for the leadership of the federal New Democrats, saying Canadians need a real alternative to the Conservative government.
Raffi turns Jack Layton's final letter into a song
October 27, 2011
TORONTO - Children's singer Raffi has turned passages from Jack Layton's final letter to Canadians into a song.
Doctors welcome Insite court ruling
September 30, 2011
VANCOUVER - Doctors are hailing a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to keep a safe injection site open in Vancouver so addicts can shoot up drugs under supervision without the chance of dying on the street.
Federal government says it will comply with court ruling on Insite
September 30, 2011
OTTAWA - The federal government will comply with a Supreme Court ruling supporting a safe-injection site for drug addicts, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said today.
Governor General calls for more youth volunteers
September 29, 2011
Canada’s Governor General encouraged youth to become more active in volunteering during a speech yesterday at the tail end of a three-day official visit to B.C.
Ontario NDP candidates told to stop using Layton to boost campaigns
September 13, 2011
WINDSOR, Ont. - Ontario NDP candidates have been told not to use the death of federal party leader Jack Layton to bolster their election campaigns.
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