Canada's Senators are Canada's Lords and Ladies and, as such, are held to a lower standard than anyone else. Like nobles everywhere, they are immune from sanctions even when it comes to bad behaviour. This is, needless to say, extremely debilitating in a so-called democracy.

OTTAWA - The RCMP says it is examining senators' expense claims following an independent audit and pointed reports from the upper chamber's internal e...

The RCMP is set to examine the spending of three senators after external audits of their expenses revealed they billed thousands of dollars in ineligi...

MONTREAL - A Quebec senator is making no apologies for collecting a housing allowance despite living little more than a drive across a bridge from Par...

MONTREAL - An opposition MP says a media report on a Conservative senator's expense claims is part of a disturbing pattern that points to bigger probl...

OTTAWA - Liberal leadership hopeful Marc Garneau says he's not afraid to open up constitutional negotiations in a bid to reform Canada's unelected Sen...

The recent scandals involving senators offer more reasons to question the Senate's continued existence. Senators currently control investigations into other senators' ethics, spending, attendance and actions overall. This is a completely ineffective system undermined by rampant conflicts of interest -- and senators are not even talking about changing it. While there are many proposals to reform the Senate, they all leave or create more problems than they solve, and all require changes to the Constitution (as Prime Minister Harper will soon learn when the Supreme Court of Canada rules on his reference case) -- so abolishing the Senate is no more difficult than any other option.

OTTAWA - Patrick Brazeau wasn't about to take the back door.The senator and former member of the Conservative caucus took observers by surprise Tuesda...

Canada's sleepy and dysfunctional "board of directors/content providers", aka its Senate, thrives without justification and without an audience. Its shareholders, and CEO Stephen Harper, disdain the place and yet it continues. The best course of action is for our Prime Minister to become the political equivalent of a hedge fund manager. His job is to enhance shareholder value and there's no better course of action than to ignore threats of litigation by Quebec, stop the losses to reputation and treasure and shut this national embarrassment down immediately.

OTTAWA - Personal connections and political obligations played a role Friday as Stephen Harper named five new senators, including the controversial wi...

On Wednesday June 27 Bill C-31: Protecting Canada's Immigration Act was cleared through the Senate leaving a stain on our country's immigration and refugee protection system, a system that we as Canadians could once be proud of. With the passage of this bill, several principles which have defined us as Canadians for decades have now been compromised and our world's most vulnerable populations will now have to pay the price.

Senator Patrick Brazeau took to Twitter to insult a Canadian Press journalist after she published a story highlighting his lack of attendant in the senate. In the 1990s, the Conservative Party promised to reform the Senate while the NDP promised to abolish it all together if they ever formed future Canadian governments. Since those days, very little reform has taken place.

OTTAWA - For a generation, Senate reform has been a political touchstone for Conservatives, old-time Reform party types and disgruntled westerners.The...

OTTAWA — Senators are refusing to accept an outside auditor’s call for an independent check of spending after a scathing audit two years ago found...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will appoint seven new senators to the upper chamber in early January, The Huffington Post has learned. Alberta's Bet...

Despite approving a record high of $1.8 million for Senate committees to travel, a group of senators decided Thursday to send a strong message to thei...

UPDATE: The recruiting agency hired by the federal government to find a new auditor-general pursued a non-French-speaking candidate despite the job de...

Attention defeated Tory candidates in Manitoba: Are you interested in a Senate seat? Prime Minister Stephen Harper now has five Senate seats to fil...

OTTAWA — Some senators are openly suggesting they would like to scrap the 75-year age limit that forces them to retire from the upper chamber. Se...

The longest serving member of the Senate is retiring next week with little fanfare. Senator Lowell Murray, who was appointed in 1979 by former prim...