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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has for months refused to apply for a top-secret clearance to receive confidential briefings, has...
The federal government is planning a multibillion-dollar, pandemic-style bailout for workers and businesses if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through...
The final report from Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission, to be released Tuesday, is set to lay out how Ottawa and...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday the United States will be asking all member countries of NATO — which includes...
Canada’s top soldier says the military is prepared to deploy helicopters or surveillance equipment to help secure the border with...
China says it’s willing to deepen economic relations with Canada as this country’s trading relationship with the United States hits...
The federal government is weighing early release of a proposed list of American goods that would be targeted by retaliatory...
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc is defending staying over at the home of billionaire J.D. (Jim) Irving this month, as the...
A Russian political consultant recently accused by the FBI of working for Moscow’s spies spoke on Parliament Hill last month...
One of the most important dinner dates Justin Trudeau has ever secured – an opportunity to dissuade Donald Trump from...
The federal government is expected to announce border-security investments in the weeks ahead, either through the fall economic statement or...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the provinces are stepping in to fill a border leadership void caused by Ottawa’s inaction...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he opposes allowing Russia to keep any territory it has occupied in its invasion of...
Taiwan is eager to buy liquefied natural gas from Canada when the opportunity becomes available as part of the island’s...
Canada has posted a cyber attaché at its unofficial embassy in Taiwan as Ottawa deepens co-operation with Taipei over combatting...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top advisers say they have no plans to investigate why a CSIS surveillance warrant targeting an...
Large foreign video and music streaming giants are launching a campaign against Ottawa’s new mandatory levy on their Canadian operations...
It took at least six weeks for Bill Blair, then-public safety minister, to sign an electronic and entry warrant to...
The Commons committee on national defence plans to investigate the actions of former defence minister Harjit Sajjan, who instructed the...
China and India are deeply engaged in attempting to influence diaspora communities and elect MPs sympathetic to their interests through...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is criticizing Canada for blocking military goods shipments to Israel that could help his country...
Ex-CSIS director Richard Fadden is leading a contingent of former Canadian security and defence officials on a trip to Taiwan...
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has alleged, in documents filed in federal court, that three principal shareholders in Wealth One Bank...
A retired RCMP officer charged with conducting foreign interference on behalf of China has won his bid to have the...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is warning all Canadians remaining in Lebanon to leave now because Ottawa is not guaranteeing it...
The Canadian government won’t commit to rescuing Canadians in Lebanon if war breaks out but evacuation planning is nevertheless under...
Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan lobbied in April for the Canadian Armed Forces to send about 100 soldiers to act...
Recently passed legislation to fight foreign interference would also impose jail terms of up to 14 years on military or...
Chinese electric-vehicle manufacturing giant BYD Co. expects to enter the Canadian market, according to a filing with a federal regulator...
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she didn’t soft-pedal Beijing’s interference in Canadian affairs or its human-rights record during blunt...
The federal government has paid $8.6-million to acquire a privately owned aircraft hangar adjacent to a NORAD air base in...
Conservative Party supporters in Canada are more exposed to Russian propaganda than Liberals or New Democrats and more likely to...
Directors of a charitable foundation that struck a deal with Ottawa to sponsor the immigration of Afghan Sikhs to Canada...
Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole and the Bloc Québécois said Thursday that they want parliamentary hearings into a Globe and...
Then-defence minister Harjit Sajjan instructed Canadian special forces to rescue about 225 Afghan Sikhs after the Taliban takeover in August...
Photos posted on social media by Canada’s embassy in Cuba show a Royal Canadian Navy band member leading conga lines...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s office says Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials can brief him if federal officials feel there are...
The Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois are proposing that revelations about federal politicians colluding with other countries be turned over...
Former CSIS director Richard Fadden says Canada can’t allow allegations that parliamentarians are colluding with foreign powers to remain unresolved...
The Liberal government is facing pushback from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the...
Nineteen members of Congress say Canada’s online streaming act discriminates against Americans and they are asking the United States’ top...
The federal government says it will not allow Canada to become a dumping ground for diverted Chinese steel or aluminum...
A Sikh Canadian separatist leader allegedly targeted for death by the Indian government says New Delhi arrested three of his...
Canada’s top spy says China’s concerted efforts to steal cutting-edge Canadian technology is mind-boggling, and is designed to build the...
A group of Canadian MPs and senators who belong to an international parliamentary alliance critical of the Chinese government say...
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is dispatching her deputy minister, David Morrison, to China shortly in an effort to thaw...
A sharper focus on the Arctic in Ottawa’s defence policy is a strategic move welcomed by Western allies, Canada’s top...
A Liberal Party member warned Han Dong i that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was keeping tabs on him, shortly...
A top secret CSIS briefing prepared for the Prime Minister’s Office in February 2023 last year, following leaks to the...
Former Liberal Han Dong, now an Independent MP, acknowledged at the foreign-interference inquiry Tuesday that he spoke to a top...
India has reportedly told the United States that a special panel it set up to investigate a foiled plot to...
Two infectious-disease scientists fired from Canada’s high-security National Microbiology Laboratory over threats to the country’s security have been using pseudonyms...
One of two fired scientists at the centre of an RCMP investigation into a massive security breach at Canada’s top...
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