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OTTAWA -- Pamela Wallin knows her decision to resign from the Senate on Monday came as a surprise to some -- but to her, she said, it "just felt like the right time" to move on after 17 years.
OTTAWA -- Canadian Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Health Minister Marjorie Michel are expected to outline the "path forward" in medically assisted dying on Wednesday -- specifically the issue of whether to allow people with mental illness as their sole underlying condition to access MAID.
OTTAWA -- The Liberal government is expected to publicly take a position Wednesday on whether it believes Canada is ready to allow people with mental illnesses to access assisted dying.
OTTAWA -- The national dental care program has "transformed access to care for millions of patients" but claims are being denied without explanations and too many people are confused about what's covered, says a new report from the Canadian Dental Association.
OTTAWA -- The federal government made the first of a series of health-care funding announcements on Monday as it works to secure seven-year deals with each of the provinces and territories.
OTTAWA -- The Northwest Territories has signed an agreement with Ottawa for $51.2 million in health care funding over seven years to improve access to primary care and mental health care.
OTTAWA -- Health ministers from across the country say the federal government needs to renew $1.2 billion in funding for mental health, addictions and home care that's expiring next year.
OTTAWA -- Voters in a number of ridings across the country will choose new federal representatives in the coming weeks and months after members of Parliament from four major parties quit the House of Commons for diplomatic appointments, provincial politics or retirement.
OTTAWA -- Ontario's health minister says she and her colleagues from across the country are set to hold an emergency meeting to talk about federal funding.
OTTAWA -- Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel says she's not considering changes to regulations that restrict the sale of nicotine pouches, while tobacco control groups say the government needs to do more to tamp out the illicit market.
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is facing criticism from within his own party after choosing to appoint a candidate to run in an upcoming byelection in southern Ontario, instead of holding a nomination contest.
OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament are making their way back to Ottawa for the fall sitting of the House of Commons that gets underway on Monday.
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre kicked off his address to his caucus Thursday with a promise that the Official Opposition will unite behind the national interest and urged his MPs to be a voice for Canadians in the House of Commons.
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to address his caucus members today as they meet in Penticton, B.C., before heading back to Parliament Hill.
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told an American TV audience Thursday that Canadians are united in their mission to fight U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.
OTTAWA -- The Conservative party's big tent has been filled with infighting these past few months.
OTTAWA -- The federal Conservatives have launched a campaign to engage their supporters and encourage them to vote to stay in Canada in the upcoming Alberta referendum.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals swept a trio of byelections Monday including picking up a seat from the Conservatives in Quebec.
OTTAWA -- The Liberals swept a trio of federal byelections on Monday night, adding one more member to the ranks of their majority government and picking up a seat that had been held by the Conservatives since 2018.
OTTAWA -- The Liberals swept a trio of federal byelections on Monday night, adding one more member to the ranks of their majority government and picking up a seat that had been held by the Conservatives since 2018.
OTTAWA -- The Liberals have won at least two of the federal byelections that were held today with the count continuing in a third.
OTTAWA -- A trio of federal byelections are set for Monday in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.
OTTAWA -- "WE DON'T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!" U.S. President Donald Trump's social media post this week was a continuation on a theme he's maintained throughout the trade war: that his country doesn't need anything from Canada.
OTTAWA -- The federal government has announced a new package of relief for businesses and workers affected by U.S. President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs, which are targeted at a wide variety of sectors ranging from honey and wine production to manufacturing, textiles and hockey sticks.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump were on the phone Tuesday hours before the U.S. was set to bring in punishing tariffs on a slate of Canadian goods -- but Carney's office gave no details of the call or whether they are close to a deal to avert those tariffs.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on the phone this afternoon about the ongoing negotiations to avoid punishing new tariffs on Canadian goods set to kick in just after midnight.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on the phone this afternoon, just hours before the U.S. brings in punishing tariffs on a slate of Canadian goods.
OTTAWA -- The "delicate and intense" negotiations to avoid a new round of punishing tariffs from the American president are in their final hours in Washington, D.C.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says he expects to speak with U.S. President Donald Trump before Wednesday's tariff deadline, as trade negotiators from the two countries sat down in Washington, D.C., today.
OTTAWA -- Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met on Sunday, days ahead of the latest tariff threat from the American president.
OTTAWA -- Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met on Sunday, days ahead of the latest tariff threat from the American president.
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the federal government should give Canadians at least another 10 months of relief at the pumps.
OTTAWA -- Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer were set to meet on Sunday, days ahead of the latest tariff threat from the American president.
OTTAWA -- Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are set to meet this afternoon as Wednesday's tariff threat looms.
OTTAWA -- Canada's top trade negotiators are in Washington today without scheduled meetings as Wednesday's tariff threat looms.
OTTAWA -- After Liberal MP Shaun Chen announced Monday his plans to resign his seat in the House of Commons in September, he was accused online of breaking House rules by voting on legislation while he was in China earlier this year.
OTTAWA -- Nearly 30,000 Canadians have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's representative in Ottawa to be kicked out of the country.
OTTAWA -- Nearly 30,000 Canadians have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's representative in Ottawa to be kicked out of the country.
OTTAWA -- Advocates for people with episodic disabilities say they don't understand why the federal government has two different definitions of disability in law -- and uses the narrower version to decide who gets benefits.
OTTAWA -- Saab says it will work with Canadian company CAE on a domestic training, flight simulation and support program if Ottawa decides to buy its Gripen jets.
OTTAWA -- The federal government will not accept any new applications this year from people who want to sponsor their parents and grandparents to come to Canada as permanent residents under a program meant to promote family reunification.
OTTAWA -- The federal government will not accept any new applications this year from people who want to sponsor their parents and grandparents to come to Canada.
OTTAWA -- Former B.C. Conservative leadership candidate Caroline Elliott is pushing back at Pierre Poilievre's recent jab about her campaign team, calling on the federal Conservative leader to work to bring people together.
OTTAWA -- The 2026 wildfire season has been manageable so far, largely because of significant amounts of rain across Western Canada, but federal officials cautioned Thursday the summer forecast is hotter and drier than normal in much of the country.
OTTAWA -- Richard Martel and Nate Erskine-Smith resigned their seats in the House of Commons on Tuesday, setting a clock ticking ahead of a pair of byelections in Quebec and Ontario -- and they are not the only ones.
OTTAWA -- A parliamentary committee is calling on the federal government to indefinitely exclude people with mental illness from becoming eligible for medical assistance in dying.
OTTAWA -- A parliamentary committee is expected to recommend against extending eligibility for medical assistance in dying to people with a mental illness in a report to the House of Commons set to be tabled Wednesday.
OTTAWA -- The Liberal government is not saying if it will act on a parliamentary committee report that's expected to recommend against making people with mental illness eligible for medical assistance in dying.
OTTAWA -- Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he will take time over the summer to review the work of a committee tasked with determining whether Canada is ready to allow people with mental illness access to medically assisted dying.
OTTAWA -- As Jocelyn Downie watched the Supreme Court of Canada strike down the laws criminalizing the act of helping someone end their life in 2015, she thought she'd better find something to do with the rest of her career.
OTTAWA -- The federal government has launched a new advisory committee on preventive health care to provide guidelines on screening for things like cervical and breast cancer.
OTTAWA -- Conservative MP Billy Morin says he will spend the summer talking to Indigenous leaders about encouraging people to vote in the Alberta referendum.
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says support for Quebec separatism was "wiped out" under Stephen Harper's government but polls show the movement has had steady support for decades.
OTTAWA -- Ninety disability advocacy and mental health organizations have signed an open letter urging the federal Liberals to permanently exclude people with mental illness from eligibility for medical assistance in dying.
OTTAWA -- A majority of the House of Commons voted against a non-binding motion on Monday that called on the federal government to protect private property from First Nations land claims — a political issue the Crown-Indigenous Relations minister has said is rife with partisan rhetoric.
OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament are set to hold a non-binding vote today on a contentious question of private property rights.
OTTAWA -- Conservative MP Michael Chong said his meeting with Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday was meant to assert Canadian sovereignty in the face of Beijing's warnings to Canadian lawmakers that such visits are inappropriate.
OTTAWA -- Conservative MP Michael Chong said his meeting with Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday was a way to assert Canadian sovereignty in the face of Beijing's warnings to lawmakers in this country that such visits are inappropriate.
OTTAWA -- Canadians worry about sports betting becoming a problem for people they know and more than one in 10 of those surveyed said they placed a wager on a sporting event in the last year, a new poll suggests.
OTTAWA -- A new online survey suggests nearly a quarter of Canadians say they've declined to get a vaccine recommended by their doctor -- and the data indicates most of them did so because they were concerned about potential side effects.