The creation of Common Causes gave me hope. I have long felt that we desperately need a hard-nosed civil society movement that will challenge the Conservatives with massive campaigns drawing on the resources of hundreds of groups. Common Causes may be able to build an effective forum and voice for Canada's liberal-minded, progressive community but, as we have been in Quebec, this can take years.

OTTAWA - The robocalls court challenge took a testy turn Wednesday over the tweets and treatment of one of its star witnesses.Conservative party lawye...

OTTAWA - The pattern of misleading or harassing phone calls in the 2011 election campaign is a more compelling reason to overturn the results than the...

OTTAWA - The credibility of a key witness in a legal bid to overturn Conservative victories in six closely contested ridings came under fire Monday as...

The Council of Canadians and two voters who say they received misleading calls directing them to the wrong polling station just before the last federa...

A group of Canadians challenging the election wins of seven Conservative MPs has scored a victory along the road to getting the main case heard in Fed...

Lawyers for the Conservative Party have dropped their objections to new expert evidence being entered in the ongoing legal battle over robocalls in la...

The legal challenge seeking to overturn last year's federal election result in seven ridings won by Conservatives will be heard in court in mid-Decemb...

A lawyer for seven Conservative MPs whose 2011 election wins are being challenged in Federal Court wants to see a $250,000 deposit on costs in case th...

The federal Conservative Party's lawyer, Arthur Hamilton, is objecting to a demand by a group of voters that Elections Canada provide details of compl...

The Federal Court is letting a challenge proceed regarding the 2011 election results in seven ridings across the country. A group of vote...

OTTAWA - A bid to overturn the federal election results in a handful of tightly contested ridings should be tossed out, because the cases were filed t...

As activists from around the globe are convening at the Rio +20 conference to protect our common resources from private interests, the Stockholm International Water Institute's decision to award PepsiCo for its water efficiency is a cruel irony. There are some resources that simply shouldn't be bottled, traded or sacrificed to the market, and that is especially true of water.

The Conservative Party has filed a second motion to dismiss the robocalls lawsuits filed by the left-leaning Council of Canadians, callin...

A group supporting a Federal Court challenge of the election results in seven ridings says a new poll it commissioned shows fraudulent ele...

The election results in seven federal ridings are being challenged in court because of robocalls that voters say tried to misdirect them ...