Parliamentary Opposition

Gov. Gen. Julie Payette has resigned from her post following reports of a "damaging" workplace harassment investigation.

The B.C. government should apologize to families who were the subjects of birth alerts, says the province's Representative for Children and Youth (RCY), Jennifer Charlesworth.

Premier François Legault on Tuesday nixed the idea that homeless people could be exempt from the 8 p.m. provincewide curfew.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador will become the fourth province to go to the polls during the COVID-19 pandemic after Premier Andrew Furey...

Mayor Valérie Plante and Montreal's official opposition want Quebec to reduce the delivery charges paid by restaurants.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to conduct a small shuffle of his cabinet Tuesday, sparked by the departure of Navdeep Bains, the minister of innovation, science and industry.

Sources told Global News the shuffle will address those in cabinet who say they do not plan on running again in the next federal election.

According to the official parliamentary calendar, only two weeks remain of the current House hiatus. But with the surge in post-holiday COVID-19 infections triggering an abrupt return to stringent social-distancing protocols across the country, it seems distinctly unlikely that all 338 MPs will be back in their assigned seats in the chamber on Jan. 25. […]

OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said for the first time on Friday there could well be an election this year, indicating his government is…

A day earlier, Premier Jason Kenney announced the resignations of his municipal affairs minister, Tracy Allard, who went to Hawaii, and his chief of staff, Jamie Huckabay, who travelled to Britain

MONTREAL – Montreal health-care worker David S. Landsman said Monday he was worried after learning his appointment for a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine had been cancelled following Quebec's decision to change its immunization strategy. The orderly at the Jewish General Hospital said getting the first dose of the vaccine on Dec. 17 felt …

In what can only be described as a grim year, it was, frankly, a bit dicey to forge ahead with hosting the Canadian American Business Council's annual "State of the Relationship" gala. With an opportunistic virus turning North America into one massive hotspot, upending lives and utterly disrupting the very way we interact as human […]

While many Albertans across the province denied themselves tropical getaways over the holiday season, it has come to light that a number of provincial officials did not follow the same rules set out by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Former PM urges successor to go back to the negotiating table to get better deal for services

Boris Johnson is to hail the start of a "new chapter" in British history as his long-awaited Brexit deal looks set to get the green light. MPs and peers...

Moments before Ontario Premier Doug Ford was due to make a virtual announcement in early November about long-term-care, he was on the phone.  The premier, who for years was an especially combative and partisan politician, was using the salesman side of his personality to keep in touch with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, and to […]

Dr. Peter Salk was one of the first children to receive Jonas Salk's vaccine in 1953. Here's what he thinks could happen with the COVID-19 vaccines.

In July 2013 when the Council of the Federation, a grouping of Canada's provincial and territorial premiers, met in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., six of the 13 premiers were women. From Newfoundland and Labrador, Kathy Dunderdale, Quebec's Pauline Marois, Ontario's Kathleen Wynne, Allison Redford from Alberta, British Columbia's Christy Clark and Eva Aariak from Nunavut sat down […]

The Liberals have been consistently ahead in the polls for the entire year, but that doesn't mean calling an election is a smart strategic move, according to the CEO of Ipsos.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's not keen to contest a federal election campaign with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, but he's prepared to go to the polls if the opposition parties bring down his government in a vote of non-confidence or if they stymie Liberal relief efforts.