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Raucous YouTube videos leave Senate committee embarrassed |
 The shouting, swearing and even name-calling at a high-profile Senate committee have rendered it a dysfunctional, public spectacle on Parliament Hill, senators have told CBC News. MORE.... |
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Why Parliament Hill's gong show goes on |
 Travers: Frustration is the national capital hamster wheel. Here are 10 reasons for the futile spinning: LIQUID CASH Somewhere, somehow, Ottawa spends nearly $300 billion a year. No one knows where it all goes. Ministers and mandarins spent.. MORE... |
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Is social policy too boring for Ignatieff? |
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Hepburn: Back in March 2005, when Michael Ignatieff was being courted to return to Canada and lead the Liberals, he delivered the keynote address to the party's policy convention. The Liberal party is "more than a machine for winning.. MORE... |
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It's time for a fresh start in Parliament |
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Preston Manning: Let's reform Question Period, the media that cover it and our over-the-top partisan zeal. The current session of Parliament ended last week on very much the same note as it began last fall – with partisanship carried to excess.. MORE... |
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Misplaced confidentiality |
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G&M: Stephen Harper's Conservatives have been fairly criticized for making the culture of government more secretive, after pledging to make it more transparent. But the recent conduct of a joint committee of senators and members of the.. MORE... |
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Good news: Ignatieff sees Downtown Eastside as national problem |
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Mason: While it might seem difficult to imagine, there was a time when federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff enjoyed frequenting country-and-western bars. As he tells the story, this is how he was first introduced to one of the country's most.. MORE... |
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Curtail MPs' newsletter rights |
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Ed.Journal: Conjure up the following scenario: You are a thoughtful, lifelong Conservative voter who believes in small government, lower taxes, and less junk mail. You come home from a hard day's work, and discover in your mailbox a.. MORE... |
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Our greatest fisheries minister |
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Doucet: At Sunday dinner, my father said, "I suppose I must be someone." No one replied. My father has Alzheimer's disease. He approaches his decline with calm, courage and good humour as his old friend Roméo LeBlanc did. I'm not sure.. MORE... |
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Goldstein: EPA experts who deviate on climate change get muzzled. Where are all the "green" media pundits who used to scream bloody murder about the George W. Bush administration censoring expert opinion on climate change, now. MORE... |
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Sanctimonious U.S. governors go down for the count |
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L. IAN MACDONALD: There must be something about being a governor of an American state that confers a sense of entitlement, invulnerability and simply an idea that you won't get caught. First there was Eliot Spitzer, the scourge of white.. MORE... |
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Tim Hudak: Drop the Harris bit |
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Wente: The new leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party thinks a dose of Castor oil is still necessary. Only a political junkie could care about the fate of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party - a bunch of old white guys so lost.. MORE... |
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Afghanistan a battle for hearts |
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Cockburn: It only took eight years for some truly good news to come out of the mess that is Afghanistan. Last week, in Deh-e-Bagh, a small village of about 900 people south of Kandahar City, Canada threw a coming-out party to celebrate.. MORE... |
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A reason to celebrate the Fourth of July |
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L.Martin: A Canadian in the White House. For much of its history, Canada fashioned its prosperity on the basis of an open border with the United States. That era, as former Washington ambassador Allan Gotlieb has perceptively.. MORE... |
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- Liberals regain slim lead, poll finds
 The Liberal Party has regained its slender lead in public support, thanks largely to a sharp dip in backing for the Conservatives, according to a poll released on Thursday.
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- Air France plane plunged at high speed into Atlantic
 The pilot of a doomed Air France flight was flying with neither the help of the autopilot nor information about the plane's speed and direction when it slammed into the Atlantic Ocean a month ago, French officials said Thursday.
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- Arab group exec quits after online tirade
 The Canadian Arab Federation moved to distance itself from one of its own executives who resigned yesterday after he apparently posted "F--- Canada Day" on his Facebook page, called Canada a "genocidal state," and said he "couldn't be more ashamed to be Canadian."
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- India decriminalizes homosexual sex
The New Delhi High Court struck down the law that criminalized consensual homosexual sex today, in a move that will radically change life for millions of gay, lesbian and transgender Indians..
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- NNW Insider: GG Jean wearing ulu knife earrings?
 Did Canada's Governor General Michaelle Jean wear ulu knife earrings during yesterday's Canada Day celebrations to show support for the seal hunt?
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- Nuclear liability limit called too low
The Conservative government is putting the nuclear industry ahead of the lives of Canadians with a proposed law limiting damages in the event of an accident, a New Democrat MP says.
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- Oilsands earns Canada bottom ranking
Canada is doing the least of any of the world's wealthiest countries to fight climate change--and Alberta's oilsands is largely to blame, says a report card released Wednesday by the World Wildlife Foundation.
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- Air Canada workers target Olympics
 The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics have become a bargaining chip at Air Canada as the country's largest airline tries to overcome labour strife and avoid filing for bankruptcy protection.
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- Magna may face Chinese rival over Opel
 Opel frontunner Magna's consortium partner Sberbank said the race to acquire the carmaker was all but over, though Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co (BAIC) may still lodge a bid in the coming days.
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- Family's death plunge a mystery
Montreal police are assisting Kingston investigators in piecing together how three teenage sisters and a female relative died after a car containing their bodies was pulled from a lock northeast of Kingston.
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- PC beef recalled from stores due to E. coli
 Consumers should avoid eating certain President's Choice brand steaks, roasts and ground beef products that are being pulled from store shelves due to possible contamination with E. coli, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says.
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- Canadian caught in U.S. prison limbo
The Harper government has denied an Alberta man's bid for a transfer from a U.S. jail to a Canadian prison on the grounds that he may one day commit a crime.
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- Al Jazeera gaining favour in Canada
They are professional journalists. They give voice to terrorists. They are vital to democracy. They suppress it. They are Al Jazeera English and they are hoping to come to a television near you.
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- Stampede kicks up a fury among animal-rights groups
The Calgary Stampede is being called a "brutal violent spectacle" of animal cruelty by the Humane Society of Canada, which has filed a complaint with Canada's broadcasting regulator over the airing of the world's largest outdoor rodeo.
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- Obama defends Canada's medicare
U. S. President Barack Obama yesterday blasted health-care reform opponents for citing faults in Canada's medicare system as a tactic to "scare" Americans away from embracing his plan to create a publicly run health insurance program in the United States.
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- French PM supports Quebec in green talks
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon lent his support yesterday to Quebec Premier Jean Charest's call for greater provincial government influence on Canada's climate-change policy.
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- Great One to get Canada's top honour
Wayne Gretzky, arguably Canada's favourite hockey great, is getting Canada's highest honour -- he's being made a companion to the Order of Canada.
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- Liberal-Era Diplomatic Language Killed Off
 It was once considered a hallmark achievement of modern Canadian foreign policy, but few breathe the words "human security" in Stephen Harper's Ottawa. And this is no accident.
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SEE EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Michael Jackson appeared healthy in a video clip -- obtained by CNN -- of his rehearsal two nights before he died. 
A pervert in a plaid shirt is luring a child in a park, but the Bloc Québécois will not do anything to stop him, the Conservative Party says in a new round of attack ads. 
It seems everyone in the tiny parish of Memramcook, N.B., has a personal memory of Romeo LeBlanc. 
Manitoba Conservative MP Vic Toews has confirmed he authorized a newsletter last month that slammed Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff for comments he made about Ukrainians more than a decade ago. 
A new report says Canadians will be fighting to recoup what they lost during the recession for several years.
Even though a strike by Toronto workers is in its 11th day, newly crowned Opposition Leader Tim Hudak says it isn't time yet to force them back to work. 
The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday took possession of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million Manhattan penthouse, an action that forced his wife to move elsewhere. 
Clad in a powder blue 'PETA' T-shirt with an image of a seal pup drawn on it, Sarah McLachlan condemned Canada's commercial sealing industry, calling it "perverse and sick." 
"Sleazebag" - Former MP John Reynolds, to Liberal MP Joe Volpe. (2005). "F--ing bastard." - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney, to former Liberal MP David Walker (1991). 
London Canada and Japan were blocking a possible deal on climate change at the Copenhagen summit, Sir David King, the former Chief Scientific Adviser, warned yesterday. 
The murder of 26-year-old protester Neda Soltan was staged, Iran's chief of police said Wednesday — a statement that rights groups and Iran watchers are calling a propagandistic lie. 
