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Darrell Dexter’s advice to Jack Layton: Stop yelling When Nova Scotia’s New Democrats vaulted from obscurity to Official Opposition 13 years ago, Darrell Dexter learned something that could prove useful as his federal cousin Jack Layton grapples with growing pains that accompany newfound...

It's official: this summer will be warmer than usual The official three-month summer forecast, released Wednesday, confirms the agency's unofficial prognosis made last month. Only a handful of parts of the country will miss out on higher temps -- notably P.E.I., Nova Scotia and parts of...

F-35 Jets, Corporate Tax Cuts: Key Tory Policies Lack Majority Support, Poll Finds A majority of Canadians don't support corporate tax cuts and are opposed to buying the F-35 fighter jets, two major pieces of the Conservative government's plan for the country, a new poll suggests. In a new...

Germany wants nuclear exit by 2022 Mr Rottgen says the seven oldest reactors - which were taken offline for a safety review immediately after the Japanese crisis - will never be used again. An eighth plant in northern Germany, which is already offline and has been plagued by technical...

Was Harper asked to help Israel at G8 summit? A leading Israeli newspaper reported that Harper was asked by Netanyahu to ensure that the summit of the world’s leading economies did not refer to Israel’s pre-1967 borders as any starting point to new Middle East peace negotiations. U.S...

Oilsands emissions data left out of UN report Federal government admits deliberately leaving numbers out that indicate pollution from oilsands production outstrips auto emissions The federal government has acknowledged that it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20 per cent increase in...

CBC/Radio-Canada has obtained copies of RCMP contracts totalling $7 million for the hiring of 657 officers from 17 different local forces from coast to coast. The invoices detail how over the course of a week or two in June 2010, more than half of all the work performed by those officers was...

G8 pledges $20-billion for Arab Spring countries They closed their summit with a “declaration on the Arab spring” that pledged to back concrete economic political reforms across North Africa and the Middle East, starting with Egypt and Tunisia, two countries which ousted dictators but face...

Harper pledges $30M Chornobyl aid at G8 Harper pledges $30M Chernobyl aid at G8Nuclear issues are top of mind at the summit, given the devastating earthquake and tsunami that knocked the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan offline, spilling dangerous radiation into the environment. Harper...

Canada among 10 most peaceful countries: report Canada is among the 10 most peaceful countries in the world, according to the Global Peace Index. The country jumped six spots from its rank last year in the Institute for Economics and Peace's annual report. The 2011 Global Peace Index, which...

First he routed Liberals – and now Harper hopes to bankrupt them Stephen Harper is expected to move quickly to kill the per-vote taxpayer subsidies to political parties in an effort to kill the Liberal Party of Canada, according to a former colleague of the Prime Minister. “Ever since...

Canada ranks last among G7 for anti-bribery efforts A Berlin-based watchdog ranks Canada last among G7 nations and among the worst of nearly 40 countries worldwide in a report on the state of international efforts to fight bribery and corruption. In the report released Tuesday...

Harper Conservatives ‘hypocrites’ on oilsands: Alberta CALGARY — As Ottawa prepares to regulate Alberta’s oilsands, the Stelmach government says it’s “very concerned” about federal intervention and is accusing the Harper Conservatives of being hypocrites when it comes to the lucrative...

Should smoking be banned on public beaches? It's usually the drinking - mixed with driving and boating - that gets all the attention on this, the first Canadian holiday weekend of the summer. But in Vancouver, it's the smoking that will get you into trouble, if you try to light up on a...

British human rights activist denied entry to Canada A well-travelled British human rights activist and former Guantanamo Bay detainee said he was barred from boarding a direct flight from London to Toronto Friday because of concerns the aircraft could be diverted to the U.S. Moazzam Begg...

The 10-year-old Riverside boy accused in the shooting death of his neo-Nazi activist father gave police a chilling account of how he carried out the early morning attack May 1, officials said in a court document. The boy -- who told authorities he was tired of his father, Jeffrey R. Hall...

Barack Obama throws full US support behind Middle East uprisings • President unveils shift in US policy towards Arab countries • 'Status quo not sustainable,' he warns region's autocracies • Sets out two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict • Tells Syria's Assad to lead transition or...

Canada orders 1,300 smart bombs $100,000-apiece weapons to be used in Libyan mission As the Libyan war enters its third month the Defence Department has quietly ordered more than 1,300 laser-guided smart bombs. The department could not provide comment about the purchase of the 500-pound...

Canadian border a bigger threat: U.S. official The U.S. border with Canada, even though it sees far fewer detentions and arrests every year, is a "more significant threat" to American security than the Mexican border, a senior Homeland Security official said Tuesday. "In terms of the...

Now we get to be the douchebag goons of the world.. John Baird to be new foreign affairs minister The man known as the Conservatives' bulldog in the House of Commons will now be the face of Canada abroad, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper has tapped John Baird to be his new Foreign...