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As the minority Liberals brace for yet another politically charged, opposition-controlled House debate, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can at least take comfort in the fact there’s virtually no way the ensuing vote can be viewed as a confidence test....

Former NDP national director Karl Bélanger says opposition parties must coordinate their actions at House of Commons committees or they are “doomed to fail.” His comments follow yesterday’s support of the Liberals by the New Democrats to avoid a...

A new report calls on Canada to follow Australia’s lead by compelling web giants Google and Facebook to provide struggling news organizations with a larger cut of digital-advertising revenue, but tech companies and experts don’t agree. The report...

The Conservatives may have lost their bid to set up a stand-alone special committee to take the lead in investigating the WE Charity controversy and other “scandals and potential scandals” that have arisen over the last few months, but that’s not...

The head of the advocacy group representing Canada’s largest airlines says federal ownership in the sector isn’t the right way to fix the industry’s COVID-induced woes. Travel restrictions and consumer fears of catching the virus have reduced air...

A quarter of the way through our 10-year mandate, the five superclusters comprising the Innovation Superclusters Initiative (ISI) have already achieved many remarkable things.  Together, we are supporting 219 projects across the country, many of...

You have to wonder if Jason Kenney’s paranoia about the federal government is sometimes rooted in fact, not fallacy. Take this week, for example. On Tuesday, the Alberta premier announced a new and ambitious job-creation proposal to recycle...

Ontario’s New Democrats have an eight-year plan to overhaul the province’s long-term care system, including a commitment to: create 50,000 additional spaces, permanently boost wages for personal support workers, and make the entire system public and...

The president of Quebec’s human rights commission insisted Wednesday, in presenting the commission’s 2019-2020 report, that “systemic” racism does exist in the province. Repeated public declarations by the commission and recommendations to the...

In last week’s speech from the throne, delivered from Queen Elizabeth’s symbolic Senate seat, the Liberals outlined their plans for a post-pandemic Canada. The agenda included major investments to spur economic growth and create jobs, combat...

Gary Kobinger, who led the Winnipeg team that developed a successful Ebola vaccine, has resigned from a federal task force of high-level vaccine experts, pleading for more transparency in the battle against COVID-19. With conspiracy theorists...

A prominent nurses’ group has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging him to reinstate the national chief nursing officer when Parliament reboots next month. The position of Canada’s top nurse was quietly ended under the government of...

Nobody loves the taxman, so it’s understandable that the Canada Revenue Agency isn’t normally the most popular of government agencies. Small business dumps on the CRA for what it sees as aggressive collection practices. Individual taxpayers complain...

People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier says he wants to win back a seat in the House of Commons by running in one of two upcoming Toronto-area byelections.  Speaking to iPolitics on Tuesday, Bernier wasn’t sure if he would run in Toronto...

A non-partisan parliamentary official is pushing back against the decision by several federal departments to submit thousands of pages of documents to a House of Commons committee with redactions already made, saying it’s not up to the government to...