CSIS stopped monitoring right-wing extremism months before mosque shooting, watchdog says...
OTTAWA–Canada’s spy agency halted a running investigation into right-wing extremism just months before 2017’s mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque.The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) saw...
Canadians overwhelming disapprove of Donald Trump, poll says (Details)
Four out of five Canadians disapprove of U.S. President Donald Trump in the wake of an escalating trade war with Canada, a new poll has found.The Campaign...
Canadians will be able to legally puff pot starting Oct. 17...
OTTAWA—Canadians will be able to legally puff pot starting Oct. 17.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the date on Wednesday, after legislation to legalize recreational cannabis use was...
Trudeau calls Trump’s policy of splitting up migrant families ‘wrong’ (Details)
OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has issued his strongest criticism to date of the United States’ practice of separating migrant children from parents, calling the Trump policy “wrong”...
Why does it take MPs 45 minutes to prepare to ask...
OTTAWA—The Peace Tower clock is ringing 8 a.m. and Parliament Hill is just starting to stir as Conservative strategists gather in a Centre Block office. Question period...
Why these MPs aren’t speaking during question period (Details)
David Tilson, the eldest member of the Conservative caucus, has been in politics for almost 30 years. The 77-year-old has witnessed or participated in eight different governments...
Overrepresentation of Indigenous people in Canada’s prisons persists amid drop in...
The population of people behind bars in Canada, overall on the decline, includes a massive overrepresentation of Indigenous inmates. Although comprising about 5 per cent of Canada’s...
Anti-gay activist wanted for promotion of hatred will surrender in Calgary,...
William Whatcott, a well-known anti-LGBTQ activist wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for wilful promotion of hatred, plans to turn himself in this week, according to his lawyer.Whatcott,...
Senate passes bill to legalize recreational cannabis (Details)
By The Canadian PressTues., June 19, 2018OTTAWA—Canadians will be able to legally purchase and consume recreational marijuana by mid-September at the latest after the Senate voted Tuesday...
Singh vows more effort to recreate ‘orange wave’ after NDP collapse...
OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party’s collapse in Monday’s federal byelection in Quebec is very disappointing and shows he has a lot of work to do...