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Law banning communication of election results changing to reflect the fact the Internet exists The ban on early communication of election results was adopted in 1938, to prevent western voters knowing the results of the election in the east when they cast their ballots. Minister of State for...

Occupy Movement: We’re Here To Stay In 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBS Washington) – The Occupy movement has taken a backseat in the national spotlight after a controversial rise to prominence last year as protesters clashed with police and stayed in public parks across the nation for months...

Polar bears turn cannibalistic as climate change depletes arctic food supply Dwindling Arctic Sea ice is cutting off polar bears’ food supply, forcing the starving animals to devour their own kind. While cannibalism among polar bears isn’t unheard of, experts say the behavior is...

Ottawa’s financial reports vague Lack of disclosure creates risk, says budget officer The federal government is spending less so far this fiscal year, but few departments and agencies are revealing where the savings are coming from, two reports say. The Harper government has...

Tony Clement apologizes for insulting 15-year-old Treasury Board President Tony Clement apologized for calling a 15-year-old Parry Sound, Ont. boy a "jack ass" on Twitter after getting into an online spat over a spelling mistake on the social media site. Keith Pettinger, a student at Parry...

Canadians back ban on junk food ads targeting kids OTTAWA — The majority of Canadians strongly support an outright ban on junk food marketing aimed at children, a new government-commissioned survey has found. More than half of those surveyed (53 per cent) said they are strong supporters of...

Senate's usefulness potential undercut when lined with cronies "The upper House remains a dumping ground for the favoured cronies of the prime minister," said Stephen Harper, accurately enough, back in 2004, when Paul Martin was appointing senators and Harper was scowling on the other side...

Titanic clash looms over proposed Northern Gateway pipeline OTTAWA—A biologist, an energy lawyer and an aboriginal geologist will sit down Tuesday in a recreation centre in the wilderness of northern British Columbia to initiate what could be the fiercest environmental standoff ever seen in...

Ottawa's Canada Day bash to add War of 1812 theme The Harper government has hired a Toronto theatre expert to inject a little war into this year's Canada Day bash on Parliament Hill. Artistic producer Paul Shaw has been asked to find ways to insert a War of 1812 commemoration into the July...

Liberal ‘lemmings’ headed off cliff with Rae, Tories charge Not wanting Liberals to grab all the headlines in advance of their convention this week, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are cranking up the rhetoric and their attacks on Interim Leader Bob Rae. In an email missive to MPs...

Boreal ducks threatened by climate change Ducks doomed by earlier snow melts brought on by global warming, study finds Scientists long puzzled by the rapid decline in millions of Canadian boreal ducks since the 1970s think they may finally have the cause: global warming. "Because of climate...

CBC cleared over coverage of Rob Ford 911 calls The ombudsman for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., says the public broadcaster did not breach journalistic standards in its coverage of the 911 distress calls made by Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. In his review released Thursday, Kirk LaPointe...

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Tuition rebate kicking in for Ontario students Starting this semester, about 300,000 Ontario college and university students can apply for a 30 per cent rebate on their tuition, MPPs told students across the province yesterday. In Ottawa, MPP Yasir Naqvi held a press event at Carleton...

Canada Jobless Rate Rose for Third Month in December to 7.5% Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s unemployment rate rose for a third month in December, the longest advance in two years, as a gain in jobs trailed growth of the labor force. The jobless rate increased to 7.5 percent from...

Canadian seal cull 'unnecessary due to climate change' Study says rapidly thinning sea ice in north Atlantic has ravaged seal numbers, making annual commercial seal hunt superfluous Canada faced fresh calls to shut down its commercial seal hunt on Thursday...

Young Liberals want to cut royal ties OTTAWA—Liberal party members will debate whether Canada should sever its ties to the monarchy when they meet in Ottawa this month. A policy resolution, calling for an elected Canadian head of...

Religious freedom office defended by Baird Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says his department's new Office of Religious Freedom won't become a vehicle for playing domestic politics in Canada's immigrant communities. Baird dismissed criticism that the new office could lead to an...

Canada's top CEOs leave the 99% 'in their gold dust' Top 100 earners - including just one woman - made 189 times more than the average Canadian in 2010 Soaring executive compensation is playing a key role in Canada's growing income gap, a new report has found. By noon on Tuesday, Jan. 3, the...

Thomas Mulcair stakes his leadership bid on a pledge of sustainable development OTTAWA — Thomas Mulcair is offering a vision for Canada based on a single concept — sustainable development. It’s the lens through which the so-called front-runner in the race for the New Democratic Party’s...