Western premiers hope Thomas Mulcair’s visit to Alberta's oilsands will change his mind on whether Canada is suffering from Dutch disease. But the N...

OTTAWA - Green party Leader Elizabeth May didn't see the Conservatives' 2012 omnibus budget bill coming.One year ago, she used her first question in t...

He seems to be the people's choice to lead the federal Liberals, but Justin Trudeau isn't ready to take his cues from the polls just yet. ...

Stephen Harper’s warnings that Europe needs to get its house in order, and not look to Canada for help, was mostly intended for folks back home....

Doug Ford apologizes for using 'Polack' to describe Rob Ford's wife...

ROTHESAY, N.B. - Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is accusing a national energy lobby group of "pulling a con job" when promoting shale gas fracking.Mul...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary show of protest over the Conservative government's controversial budget bill will go on, the Speaker of the House of Common...

MONTREAL - Attending his first event in Montreal in nearly three months, Prime Minister Stephen Harper didn't get a first-hand glimpse Monday of the r...

Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, the party's lead spokesman on the robocalls election controversy, faces allegations of his own over his spending in t...

OTTAWA - No diaper jokes, please, we're parliamentarians.MPs from all parties are steeling themselves for potential back-to-back all-nighters this wee...

The government's controversial bill that further reforms Canada's refugee system passed a third reading Monday night in the House of Comm...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives' controversial omnibus budget bill is so big, not even the Library of Parliament could digest it all.At more than 400 pages...

The race for the Liberal leadership might kick off as early as next month, with the final vote held a little less than a year from now. But with more ...

I don't normally follow Canadian politics closely enough to play the parlour game of predicting the winners and losers of the next cabinet shuffle, bu...

OTTAWA - As CBC continues to cut jobs and cancel programs in the wake of budget cuts announced in March, the head honcho of the organization is defend...

How serious is a Justin Trudeau candidacy for Liberal Party leader? Serious enough that the smearmongers are now frantically trying to stop his mom...

MONTREAL - An artistic parody is drawing sharply different responses in Quebec, depending on whom you ask.Police found a likeness of Premier Jean Char...

EDMONTON - Almost two months after anti-gay remarks by one candidate helped sink the Wildrose party's bid for power in Alberta, party leader Danielle ...

UPDATE: Bob Rae will not be running for the Liberal leadership. OTTAWA - Bob Rae has waited a long time for his shot at redemption.For the last yea...

A looming federal by-election in Alberta will be fought on the right as political hopefuls begin to emerge to contest the Conservative nomination in d...

OTTAWA - The environmental advisory body that Ottawa is killing off has issued a final tally of how well federal and provincial governments are meetin...

Bob Rae won't be running for the Liberal leadership after all. "It hasn't been an easy decision, it's a decision I feel very comfortable with," Rae...

Twitter is reacting with surprise to the news that Bob Rae will not be running for the permanent leadership of the Liberal party. Rae told the Libe...

Members of Parliament will be pulling an all-nighter on Parliament Hill tonight to vote on amendments to the budget implementation bill. Votes will ge...

TORONTO - Gun control advocates took aim at handguns Wednesday, calling for a national ban of the weapons they said are used only for violence.Relativ...