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Harper points to Mulcair's legal fees paid by party After days of being on the defensive over an alleged coverup to repay Mike Duffy's ineligible expenses, Prime Minister Stephen Harper found something to pin on the leader of the Opposition during question period on Wednesday. Mulcair asked...

Conservative campaign database fiasco costs party millions The Conservative Party of Canada has scrapped a multi-million dollar database paid for by money raised through supporter contributions. At least $7-million and perhaps as much as $9-million was used to pay for a database the...

OTTAWA –* Prime Minister Stephen Harper Wednesday denied intimidating Sen. Mike Duffy, contrary to Duffy’s assertions to the Senate Tuesday that he had been forced to go along with a secret scheme to repay some of his Senate expenses. Harper rose several times in the House of Commons to...

The Prime Minister’s Office intervened directly in the Senate expense affair, pressing Mike Duffy into a plan to repay past expense claims and instructing the PEI senator on what he should say to the media, Mr. Duffy’s lawyer says. On Monday, Mr. Bayne told reporters that the $90,000 Mr. Duffy...

Ireland to lose Emerald charm as climate change brings drier summers Green fields could give way to dusty tracks if the heat keeps on rising Ireland's lush green fields could soon become a thing of the past if the latest projections on the country’s climate changes are to be believed...

Mike Duffy friend paid $65K for 'no apparent work,' RCMP allege A friend of Mike Duffy was paid $65,000 by his Senate office for "little or no apparent work," an RCMP investigator alleges in court documents filed today in Ottawa. The RCMP are seeking banking information for Duffy and Patrick...

Anti-Keystone billionaire takes aim at Stephen Harper's hard line on pipeline OTTAWA - An anti-Keystone XL pipeline crusader has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, suggesting Canada's aggressive lobbying for the project played a part in the ongoing government shutdown south of the...

Harper government overrules Health Canada on heroin prescriptions for study participants The Harper government announced regulations Thursday aimed at denying heroin to Vancouver addicts involved in clinical research. The move was made less than a year after the former federal health minister...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's friend faces drug charges Alessandro (Sandro) Lisi, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s friend and occasional driver, has been charged with possession and trafficking of marijuana, police confirmed this morning. Police have also charged Lisi, 35, with conspiracy to commit an...

How climate change is impacting Alaska’s quest for oil When Jerry Otto started hunting for Alaskan oil in 1980, his tractor-trailers barrelled along ice roads as much as 10 feet thick for 180 days every year. Last winter, when he set out to drill 80 miles south of the Arctic Ocean for...

Tory MP Dean Del Mastro resigns from caucus, stripped of Parliamentary Secretary job A long-time Conservative MP has quit the Tory caucus after being charged under the Canada Elections Act – a fresh ethics embarrassment for Stephen Harper as he struggles to move beyond the Senate expenses...

Global warming 95% likely to be manmade, UN panel says Leading climate scientists said on Friday they were more certain than ever before that mankind is the main culprit for global warming and warned the impact of greenhouse gas emissions would linger for centuries. A report, by the...

Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri The Pacific Ocean fills in another piece of the global warming puzzle A new study published in the journal Nature incorporates temperature changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean into an advanced climate...

Prehistoric climate change linked to comet crash in Quebec TORONTO – Researchers believe they have found the cause of a dramatic and abrupt shift in the prehistoric global climate. They say the cause was due to the impact of an asteroid or comet crashing into Quebec some 13,000 years ago. The...

Rob Ford says he’s reducing the city’s debt, when in fact, the opposite is true With 14 months to go until the next election for mayor, Rob Ford is practising his pitch to voters. In a speech at the downtown Cambridge Club this week, he boasted of reducing the size and cost of government...

Justin Trudeau urges pot legalization at B.C. rally Federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has done an about-face on his stance on marijuana, saying legalizing the drug could protect Canadian children. Trudeau, who has already called for the drug to be decriminalized, told a Kelowna, B.C...

Canada's crime rate lowest since 1972 Crime rate and crime severity index both down by 3% in 2012, StatsCan says Canada's police services are once again reporting fewer crimes, a continuing trend that has cut the national crime rate to its lowest level since 1972. Statistics Canada says the...

Premiers join forces against Harper government’s jobs plan The nation’s premiers are presenting a united front on the federal government’s proposed Canada Jobs Grant, demanding that existing skills training programs be protected and the right to opt out of Ottawa’s plans. The unanimity...

150 Major Democratic Donors Urge Obama to Reject Keystone Pipeline In the latest show of force by opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline, a group of 150 major Democratic donors sent a letter Friday to President Obama, urging him to reject the controversial application from TransCanada for...

Forestry sector may lose native trees to climate change UNB study predicts balsam fir, white spruce will decline by 2100 A new study that examines the impact of climate change on New Brunswick's forestry sector says it appears the province will see a decline in some of its native species by...