The Conservative chair of a Senate committee that has met just twice in two years wants to know whether she and her-vice chair should really be pocketing thousands in extra money each year.

The Huffington Post Canada revealed Tuesday that the two party whips in the upper chamber...

OTTAWA — Several Conservative senators are calling on colleagues to do the right thing and leave the upper house if they tried to skirt the rules to line their pockets.

“Out of respect for citizens, for taxpayers and especially for the institutions, if these people here erred, they should quit...

Many questions remain unanswered about a $90,000 personal cheque given to Senator Mike Duffy from Prime Minister Stephen Harper's right-hand man, Nigel Wright, who resigned Sunday amid an expense scandal that has rocked the party.

Harper refused to speak to the press...

OTTAWA — It could be the most expensive meeting on Parliament Hill.

Two senators are each pocketing several thousand dollars annually to head a committee that meets once a year – and sometimes not at all.

Conservative Senator Elizabeth Marshall, the Tory whip, receives $11,200 annually to serve as the...

OTTAWA — The appointment of Ray Novak as the prime minister’s new chief of staff could signal larger changes in Stephen Harper’s office.

Novak, 36, has been at Harper’s side for over a decade. Up until Sunday, he served as Harper’s principal secretary.

Fiercely loyal to...

OTTAWA — Senator Mike Duffy has left the Conservative caucus.

In a statement late Thursday, Duffy said his presence had become a "significant distraction" to his caucus colleagues and he would step aside, to sit as an independent senator, pending the resolution of certain questions.

"Throughout this entire situation I...

OTTAWA — Opposition parties accused Stephen Harper’s government of spying on its own MPs and being poor money managers Thursday after The Huffington Post Canada revealed Conservatives had spent $23 million on media monitoring in two years — including millions to track their own backbench MPs.

“Instead of...

OTTAWA — The Harper government has spent more than $23 million over the last two years on media monitoring — including more than $2.4 million tracking some of its own backbench MPs in television interviews, radio and print, according to documents tabled in the House of Commons earlier this week.

OTTAWA — The prime minister’s staunch pro-Israel stance may be winning favour with the Jewish community, but it does not sit well with most Canadians who wrote to Stephen Harper last fall after Canada voted against granting Palestine status as a non-member observer state at the United Nations.

OTTAWA — These scientists aren’t asking for much.

They just want access to a road, the ability to get in a boat and keep their research going by filling a barrel with phosphoric acid that will slowly drip into Ontario’s Lake 227.

They don’t want any money — they...

OTTAWA — The problems caused by the federal Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program could be fixed easily if low-skilled workers were given easier access to citizenship, several stakeholders told The Huffington Post Canada.

While some argued the foreign workers program is necessary to respond to employers’ needs, others said the...

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper won’t be attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka next November, The Huffington Post Canada has learned.

The decision may ostracize Harper as the only G8-level leader not attending the meeting with Britain, Australia and New Zealand all expected to...

OTTAWA — The Tories’ promised reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program don’t go far enough, say critics who fear the recent explosion in the program’s use will have deep and far-reaching consequences for Canada’s economy and social cohesion.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced new rules for...

OTTAWA — More than a million Canadians may have had their private information compromised by data breaches within the federal government over the last ten years, an analysis by The Huffington Post Canada suggests.

Prompted by a question from NDP MP Charlie Angus, the government was forced to...

OTTAWA — NDP MP Pat Martin isn’t the only Canadian who believes our ties to the monarchy are outdated and idiotic.

Based on documents obtained by the Huffington Post under the Access to Information Act, a number of Canadians feel exactly same way...

OTTAWA — Opposition parties are accusing the Conservative government of hypocrisy after it hid a massive price increase on thousands of everyday consumer goods in its federal budget last month.

The Liberals and the NDP are calling a tariff increase on everything from pens, deodorants and shampoo to bicycles and...

MONTREAL — NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair may find himself challenged at the next federal election not only by Justin Trudeau, the newly minted Liberal leader, but also, for the first time, by the records of several NDP provincial governments.

With British Columbia poised to...

The NDP policy convention in Montreal got off to a rocky start Friday. Predictably, the chair of the NDP socialist caucus Barry Weisleder took to the microphone and urged delegates to ditch a guest speaker from the U.S. and instead spend more time debating policies the grassroots had suggested. The...

Get ready to meet Thomas Mulcair all over again.

With a media vortex and public love-in swirling around Justin Trudeau, the NDP is about to unveil its leader in a new — and contrasting — light, at the party’s policy convention in Montreal this weekend.

Key...

The six remaining Liberal leadership contenders made their final pitches to Grits today and said goodbye to outgoing, interim leader, Bob Rae.

The event featured 25-minute speeches from front-runner Justin Trudeau, Joyce Murray, Martha Hall Findlay, Karen McCrimmon, Deborah Coyne...