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Auditor-General sounds alarm on House and Senate contracts Parliament has wrongfully awarded large contracts that went to unqualified bidders, were signed retroactively or did not include any justification for being untendered, the Auditor-General has found. After having faced resistance...

Thomas Mulcair’s Dutch Disease warning supported by OECD report A new OECD report supports controversial claims by NDP leader Thomas Mulcair that Canada is suffering from an economic condition known as Dutch Disease. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development warns in a...

Federal Budget 2012: Thomas Mulcair hopes omnibus budget votes will stoke public outrage OTTAWA—New Democrat Leader Thomas Mulcair hopes a long night of parliamentary voting will help Canadians remember what is being lost in the sweeping legislative changes included in the omnibus budget bill...

Bob Rae won't run for Liberal leadership Bob Rae will not seek the permanent leadership of the Liberal party and will continue as interim leader until the new leader is chosen, CBC News has learned. Rae was widely expected to enter the race and to be a top contender. He will make the...

Canada, Harper need a 'reality check' on global warming: report OTTAWA — Members of a federal advisory panel, who recently learned their organization was on the chopping block, are sending Prime Minister Stephen Harper a "reality check" on the economic dangers of his global warming...

Harper and Rae argue over which one has compromised his ideals the most One day before a marathon amendment vote on a highly controversial budget bill is expected to begin, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae and Prime Minister Stephen Harper traded barbs in the House of Commons over who has...

Scott Brison: If Canada doesn’t tackle income disparity, the economy will suffer A poll reported in the National Post recently found that more than three-quarters of Canadians believe income inequality is a problem in Canada. I recently introduced a private members motion (M-315) in...

Defence Department can’t explain increase in costs OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence cannot fully explain why defence spending jumped about 14% in the most recent fiscal year to $22.5-billion — including nearly $4-billion in March alone — as the government tries to rein in the...

Greek extremist right-wing party spokesman who slapped communist candidate on live TV sues The spokesman of Greece’s extreme-right Golden Dawn party, who caused uproar last week by hitting one politician and throwing a glass of water over another during a live TV news program, is suing the...

Ottawa launches Alberta counterterrorism unit After labelling certain environmental and first nations groups as extremists and radicals, Canada’s federal government, along with the country’s top law enforcement and spy agencies, have set up a counterterrorism unit in Alberta in order to...

Doug ford apologizes for on-air gaffe Toronto Councillor Doug Ford has apologized after using an anti-Polish slur on his Newstalk 1010 radio show with his brother Mayor Rob Ford. While discussing the Euro 2012 soccer championship, Councillor Ford told his brother: "You're married to the...

Mulcair: NDP to target youth Canada’s teens will be hearing from the federal New Democrats before the next national election, Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair said in Lunenburg County on Saturday. He said low voter turnout in last year’s election among people 18 to 25 has...

‘Embarrassment to the Canadian government’ considered security threat at Toronto G20 summit: documents Along with terrorism and organized crime, “embarrassment to the Canadian government” was considered one of the threats facing security forces at the G8 and G20 summit meetings in Ontario...

Canadians will pay for Harper's approach to environment: former Tory OTTAWA — Canadians will "pay a price" for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's unbalanced and mistaken approach on environmental issues, says a former Reform and Conservative party MP. "I always thought that 'conserve' was part...

Alberta's Red Deer River hit by oil leak A large amount of oil has spilled from an Alberta pipeline into a creek, with an early estimate of 1,000 to 3,000 barrels leaking into a tributary of the Red Deer River, one of the province's most important waterways. Plains Midstream Canada said it...

Oil-sands criticism ‘incrementally helped’ Mulcair NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair’s complaint that unrestrained development of the Alberta oil sands is hurting other parts of the Canadian economy does not seem to have diminished support for his party. A new poll by Nanos Research – one that was...

Premiers demand more EI info. from Harper Discontent with proposed changes to employment insurance in Atlantic Canada grew Wednesday as the region's premiers stood together in calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to provide more information on the measures. The premiers say they...

Tories repeal sections of Human Rights Act banning hate speech over telephone or Internet OTTAWA — The Conservative government voted late Wednesday to repeal controversial sections of the Canadian Human Rights Act banning hate speech over the telephone or Internet. In a vote of 153 to 136...

Toronto bans plastic bags Mayor Rob Ford asked council to get rid of the bylaw that requires stores to charge 5 cents for plastic shopping bags. Instead, council got rid of plastic shopping bags. In a major embarrassment for Ford, his effort to kill the fee boomeranged on him in stunning...

Conservative robocalls defender under investigation for election offences OTTAWA — The MP leading the Conservative government’s defence in the robocalls scandal is himself under investigation by Elections Canada for alleged election-law violations related to voter-contact calls made by his...