British Columbia’s stunning election upset has turned on its head one of the strongest arguments pollsters have always used against banning or restricting public opinion surveys during campaigns.
Adrian Dix was inside the Hitching Post Restaurant drinking from a mug stamped with twin six-shooters while outside on the old mining town’s main street, with dusk starting to cover the mountaintops, his campaign workers were counting potential seats…
With Scotland set to cast an historic vote for independence next year, campaigners battling to keep the country part of the United Kingdom sought advice from former Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien, a man who knows a thing or two about fighting referendum campaigns.
A third man has reportedly come forward with claims that he was sexually assaulted by the House of Commons Deputy Speaker.
Senator Patrick Brazeau says he will not pay back $48,000 in Senate expenses because he has evidence he was given the green light to claim the costs for his secondary residence in Ottawa.
The Quebec government claims to be listening to the concerns of anglophones regarding a new language bill, but its actions don’t reflect its words, two prominent Montreal anglo-rights activists say.
Councillor Doug Ford broke his uncharacteristic silence Saturday to comment on reports of a video that seems to show Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine.
They’re not raising money for impoverished children or a cure for cancer — it’s to own the rights to the infamous video of Toronto’s mayor said to be smoking crack.
Two questions were likely chewed over at a lot of cottage-openings, urban farmers’ markets and fun-runs or cycle-a-thons this Victoria Day weekend.
Read MorePrime Minister Stephen Harper forced Sen. Pamela Wallin out of the Conservative caucus after learning the preliminary findings of an audit looking into her travel expenses, a source has told CTV News.
Read MoreThe Senate’s internal economy committee sanitized the original audit of Sen. Mike Duffy’s expenses to remove damning findings, documents obtained by CTV News show.
Read MoreWhen man touches space, he becomes an instant celebrity. When space touches the man, anything can happen.
Read MoreAn Arctic research station that had been crippled by funding cuts, sparking loud protests among scientists, is getting an injection of money to keep it alive for the next five years.
Read MoreThe controversy over Senator Mike Duffy’s expense claims is adding cannon fodder for reforming the Senate, says Conservative MP Scott Armstrong.
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Kirsty Duncan, M.P. — Climate change is accelerating much more quickly than previously thought. Nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern weather record occurred since the year 2000. While global average temperature increased by 0.7°C over the past 100 years, Arctic temperatures….
Chronicle Journal — HOW many twists and turns are left in the race around and toward the truth about Senator Mike Duffy’s convoluted expenses? Accused of abusing his housing allowance, the senator occasionally from Prince Edward Island said he had personally paid…
John Robson — The B.C. NDP face plant was so bad they’ll be getting sympathy cards from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Almost the only consolation is they fell on the pollsters and pundits confident they’d win. So what went wrong?
Ezra Levant — B.C.’s NDP started the recent provincial election campaign with a 22-point lead in the polls, and ended 4% behind the Liberals. It was a surprise ending, and not every NDP activist is willing to accept defeat.
Warren Kinsella — I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I predicted the British Columbia New Democrats would win that province’s election. They didn’t. In fact, the scandal and mishap-prone B.C. Liberals won it — and they won a majority, too. It was perhaps…
Lorrie Goldstein — Fixing McGuinty’s green energy disaster will Will Premier Kathleen Wynne have the political courage to admit the painfully obvious fact that Dalton McGuinty’s experiment with green energy has been an unmitigated disaster for Ontario?
Toronto Star — Enough is enough. It’s time for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to do the right thing for the city, and himself, and step down. All day Friday, while the city absorbed the news that drug dealers have been shopping a cellphone video that appears…
In a series of exclusive jailhouse conversations, including a 30-minute video chat last week, an upbeat Juice told a Post source he was cautiously optimistic and ready to start a new life on the outside.
