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Inb4 it's all the Liberals fault red herring. Dean Del Mastro sentenced to 1 month in jail, 4 months house arrest for election overspending Former Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro has been sentenced to one month in jail, followed by four months house arrest, for violating the Elections Act in...

Ontario sex-education debate turns heated in Halton - The Globe and Mail Home - The Globe and Mail When Joel Louzado first read through Ontario’s new sex education curriculum, he began to tear up. The openly gay Grade 12 student from Oakville, Ont., was moved that different sexual and gender...

Harper poised to sign Pacific Rim trade deal, putting safe rural ridings in play - The Globe and Mail Home - The Globe and Mail Apart from balancing the budget, the third Harper government has considered trade its highest priority. That’s why Stephen Harper is poised to toss accepted electoral...

TransCanada, Encana both announce job cuts - The Globe and Mail Home - The Globe and Mail Pipeline company TransCanada Corp. and oil and gas producer Encana Corp. both said on Tuesday they were cutting jobs, joining other Canadian energy firms that have laid off staff since global oil prices...

U.S. short sellers betting on Canadian housing crash: ‘An accident waiting to happen’ VANCOUVER — Large Wall Street investors who made billions when the U.S. housing market collapsed in 2008 are now betting real estate values in Vancouver and other Canadian cities will crash, financial insiders...

Tom Mulcair says Quebec independence risks hurting middle class Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair criticized Quebec sovereignty on Tuesday but also brandished the nationalist card by promising Quebecers a special status in Canada if his party forms the government in this fall's election. Quebec...

New pro-Conservative ‘PAC’ launches ad campaign blasting Justin Trudeau, aims to fight unions Canadian voters, prepare for the PAC attack. HarperPAC, a new, pro-Conservative political action committee, is launching an ad campaign leading up to the Oct. 19 federal election to promote Prime...

Climate Change Momentum Now Undeniable | Matthew J. Kiernan m.huffpost.com After many false starts, we believe that we have now reached a tipping point (or, if you prefer, an "inflection point"). We expect that the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 21) will in...

Conservatives lose another top minister ahead of election OTTAWA, June 19 (Reuters) - Canadian Industry Minister James Moore announced on Friday that he would leave politics, the third surprise departure from Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet as the ruling Conservatives head for an...

Krauss and Pinker on the Pope’s misguided climate-change bicycle Scientific American asked physicist Lawrence Krauss to comment on Pope Francis’s long encyclical on global warming. Krauss’s piece, “Ideology subsumes empiricism in Pope’s climate encyclical,” gives to the Pope with one hand but...

Conrad Black on why he’s lost his love for the Conservatives | Toronto Star Stephen Harper’s Conservative party has lost one of its biggest historical supporters: Lord Conrad Black. Speaking to the Star at the Ideacity conference, Black described his own disillusionment with the party he once...

Electoral reform spells trouble for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives: Hébert MONTREAL — The Liberal conversion to electoral reform is both a reflection of the party’s diminished circumstances in the House of Commons and — potentially — a watershed moment in Canadian electoral politics. For the...

How Neil Young, Greenpeace work to starve the world’s poor This month, rock legend Neil Young will release his 36th studio album. It’s a bit different from his usual fare. Called “The Monsanto Years,” the album features the collaboration of Young and Willie Nelson’s sons, Micah and Lukas, and...

U2's Bono to meet Mulcair and Trudeau on Parliament Hill Monday U2 frontman and philanthropist Bono will meet with NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau following a session with several non-profit organizations in Ottawa on Monday. Stuart Hickox, founder of the non-profit...

The seven year switch: Harper misses chance to back up his apology CTV News | Top Stories - Breaking News - Top News Headlines Seven years ago today, Stephen Harper had his finest moment in aboriginal relations. The Prime Minister stood in the House of Commons and apologized for the...

All of Loc's best buds. Ezra Levant apologizes to human rights lawyer Richard Warman | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly Georgia Straight, Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly Lawyer, broadcaster, energy-industry lover, and right-wing polemicist Ezra Levant is not...

Republicans' leading climate denier tells the pope to butt out of climate debate | Environment | The Guardian Latest US news, world news, sports and opinion from the Guardian | theguardian.com | The Guardian Washington’s notorious snowball-thrower was at it again – even on a June day with...

Saskatchewan, the virtuous. Saskatchewan goes to Alberta to steal some oil business In front of several hundred people from all facets of the oil and gas industry, Saskatchewan's economy minister pitched his province as the land of stability. Bill Boyd began and concluded his speech...

Obama Administration Readies Big Push on Climate Change - WSJ The Wall Street Journal & Breaking News, Business, Financial and Economic News, World News and Video By June 9, 2015 2:07 p.m. ET The Obama administration is planning a series of actions this summer to rein in greenhouse-gas...

Shocking. I am shocked. Hate crimes down in Canada, but Muslims more frequently targeted | CTV News CTV News | Top Stories - Breaking News - Top News Headlines There were 17 per cent fewer hate crime incidents reported to police in Canada in 2013 compared with 2012, Statistics Canada...