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Tories got illegal donations from AHS company, Wildrose says The provincial Progressive Conservative Party received nearly $5,000 in donations from Calgary Lab Services (CLS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alberta Health Services, the Wildrose Party says. Under...

Just how big an electoral challenge do Liberals face in 2015? Buoyed by the energy of this month’s policy convention, Liberals across the country might feel compelled to look forward to the next election with enthusiasm. By then Stephen Harper will have been in power for almost 10 years and...

Polar bear centre turns up heat on climate change A new polar bear conservation centre at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg puts the heat on Manitoba to do more about climate change, according to a polar bear biologist of 14 years. "Climate is very abstract, I think, for most people,"...

U.S. unlikely to fully recover, Carney warns Bank of Canada governor says Canada must look to Asian trading partners if our economy is to thrive Canada needs to look beyond its southern neighbour for markets because the United States economy is unlikely to ever fully recover, Bank of Canada...

Harper should revisit 2006 Kelowna Accord, says ex-PM Martin Prime Minister Stephen Harper, at a meeting here Tues-day with aboriginal leaders, should emerge from the talks admitting the Conservatives were wrong to cancel the $5.1-billion Kelowna Accord in 2006, says former prime minister...

Up to 68,000 jobs to vanish under federal public service spending cuts: report OTTAWA - Federal government spending cuts could chop between 60,000 and 68,000 jobs from the public service in the next few years, a report from a progressive think-tank estimates. The conclusion stems from a...

EI financing agency spends millions doing nothing A federal agency created by the Harper government with great political fanfare in 2008 is costing millions of dollars to achieve pretty much nothing. The Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board has just about everything a budding...

How Harper seized control of pipeline and health-care debates Building a storyline that sticks helped the Conservatives sink two successive Liberal leaders and they are using the same strategy early in 2012 on a pair of major policy debates facing Canadians. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's...

Taxpayers federation lambastes MP pension 'rip off' OTTAWA — The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says it's high time MPs stopped making Canadians pick up the tab for their "gold-plated" pension plan. "This is a ripoff on a massive scale," the advocacy group's federal director, Gregory Thomas...

Premiers craft own health agenda, hope Ottawa joins in VICTORIA — The provincial premiers have temporarily shelved their demands for more health-care money, but that hasn't stopped them from embarking on a politically-motivated exercise that may eventually shake loose more federal dollars...

Harper and Rae pile on as Mulcair’s dual citizenship raises eyebrows Stephen Harper has only one passport. It’s Canadian. And that’s the way he likes it. Thomas Mulcair, the Quebec MP and NDP leadership contender, carries two passports. One is Canadian, the other is French. “Obviously...

Canadian naval officer arrested, charged with espionage A member of the Royal Canadian Navy has become the first person charged under the country’s post-9/11 secrets law for allegedly passing protected government information to an unknown foreign body. Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle, 40, was...

Wikipedia joins web blackout in Sopa protest Wikipedia plans to take its English-language site offline on Wednesday as part of protests against proposed anti-piracy laws in the US. The user-generated news site Reddit and the blog Boing Boing have also said they will take part in the...

Iranian regime ‘frightens me,’ Harper says Prime Minister Stephen Harper says a consensus is growing among world leaders that Iran would have no hesitation using nuclear arms once they develop the weapons and the capability to deliver them. “I’ve watched and listened to what the leadership...

Bilingual spending costs $2.4 billion per year OTTAWA — The requirement for bilingualism at the federal and provincial level costs governments $2.4 billion per year, according to a new report from the Fraser Institute. Of that, the federal government is spending $1.5 billion, while the...

Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms Although scientific evidence increasingly shows that fossil fuel consumption has caused the climate to change rapidly, the issue has grown so politicized that skepticism of the broad scientific consensus has seeped into classrooms...

Stephen Harper wants public input before 2012 budget OTTAWA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper is warning that Canadians face “tough choices” and to brace for the challenging economic year ahead. “There are tough, important choices that must be made to create jobs, keep our economy growing and...

Liberals vote to retain ties to monarchy, legalize marijuana It’s as good a motto as any for the federal Liberal party after members voted Sunday morning to make the legalization of marijuana a party policy and rejected a motion to sever ties with the monarchy. The two proposals had been...

Massive ecological change predicted for Canada: NASA Many parts of Canada are predicted to see massive ecological changes over the next century, according to NASA. Researchers from the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology investigated how...

God bless the sensationalism of Stockwell Day... Coming soon: The Liberal Democrat Party Political predictions are a sure sign that a new year is upon us. Here's my 2012 postulation. The Liberal Party of Canada and the federal New Democratic Party will merge. Will this happen in 2012? That...