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Gadhafi cancels Canada visitLibyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has cancelled a planned visit to Canada next week.
A Canadian government official told CBC News on Saturday that Gadhafi won't be landing in Newfoundland early next week to refuel his plane and stay for a night
Federal Tories pull away in new pollPrime Minister Stephen Harper is outshining rival Michael Ignatieff and putting the Conservatives on track for a possible majority in the next election, a new Angus Reid Strategies/Toronto Star poll has found.
May says Harper may spark electionOTTAWA — Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is predicting that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will find a way to engineer an election this fall, even as he attacks Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff for trying to send Canadians to the polls.
Narcissieff in the mirror of politicsMy own sense is that he'll make a seriously bad candidate, due to what I'd call his narcissism. This isn't so much about adoring yourself, as being so self-absorbed that your sense of how others react to you goes missing. A therapist I know says it usuall
No data backs Tory corrections policy: studyOTTAWA -- Decades of evidence on prison policy is being trumped by ideology and populist pandering, says an independent report on the Conservative government's corrections road map.
Key Liberals back Cauchon in riding fightLiberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is facing increasing pressure from within his caucus to accommodate former cabinet minister Martin Cauchon, who wants to run in the next election.
In interviews with CBC News, several Liberal MPs went public with their
Ottawa moves to reshape the HouseDemocratic Reform Minister Steven Fletcher is in the advanced stages of preparing legislation that would reshape the House of Commons, adding dozens of seats to the three fast-growing provinces that are now seriously underrepresented.
Cauchon blasts Liberal's 'lack of democracy'OTTAWA – The fierce squabble over Martin Cauchon's political comeback is symptomatic of a party that has lost sight of the most basic tenets of democracy, says a former national director of the Liberal party.
"We've turned into one big appointment soci
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to visit CanadaLibyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will stop in St. John's, N.L. on his way home from the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City, the prime minister's office has said.
Tory plans for U.S.-style prisons slammed in reportThe Conservative government plans to bring in an American-style prison system that will cost billions of taxpayer dollars and do little to improve public safety, according to a report to be released Thursday in Ottawa.
Tories making inroads in Toronto: pollThe EKOS poll, DONE EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE CBC and released Thursday, shows the Tories with 37 per cent support, followed by the Liberals with 29.9 per cent. The New Democratic Party followed with 13.8 per cent, the Green Party with 10.2 per cent and the Blo
Ont. aboriginal leaders demand exemption from HSTSome Ontario First Nations leaders are urging the federal government to take their treaty rights into account when implementing the harmonized sales tax (HST) in Ontario and exempt them completely from the new tax.
Outremont. Quebec squabble turns up heat on IgnatieffIgnatieff sparked a backlash within the party when he confirmed Monday that he's decided to appoint a woman as the Liberal candidate in Outremont, a Montreal riding held by Cauchon for 11 years before his retirement from politics in 2004.
opinion-No signs of traction for IgnatieffMr. Ignatieff's attempts to portray Mr. Harper as a hardline right-winger, whose ideology has been "blown out of the water" by the events of the past year, have gained little traction, according to an exclusive advance copy of a Nanos Research poll to be
Glenn Beck vs. Rush LimbaughIn the days before last weekend's conservative march on Washington, Beck flogged it repeatedly. He became such a part of the story that, as CNN correspondent Lisa Desjardins tried to report live from the event, protesters drowned her out with chants of "G
John Ivison: Battle over 'Buy American' overblownMichael Wilson’s opinion of free trade with the United States has come a long way since he dismissed it as a “simplistic and naive” idea that would “diminish our ability to compete internationally.”
Liberal Leader scoffs after minorty Conservative government's budget motion passes with support of the New Democrats and the Bloc Québécois
Commons passes confidence motionThe House of Commons has passed a crucial ways-and-means motion that has saved Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority government from potentially facing an election campaign
Hi-Ho, the Derry-OThe Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Ignatieff aims to erase NDP 'alibis'OTTAWA–The Liberals have offered to speed passage of the Conservative government's proposed employment insurance legislation, hoping to rob the NDP of its rationale for propping up the government.
Mulroney makes Harper dig at Tory feteMONTREAL - For those Stephen Harper loyalists who believed the party Thursday celebrating Brian Mulroney's 1984 electoral victory would be a display of renewed party unity, the evening was a clear miscalculation.
Liberals offer to speed EI billOTTAWA — The Liberals have offered to speed passage of Tory EI legislation, hoping to rob the NDP of its rationale for propping up the Harper government.
The Liberals proposed Thursday that the bill - worth up to $1 billion in extended employment insur
Conservative lead widens in poll..EKOS pollThe EKOS poll, commissioned for the CBC and released Thursday, shows the Tories with 35.1 per cent support, followed by the Liberals with 29.9 per cent. The New Democratic Party followed with 16.5 per cent, the Bloc Quebecois with 9.6 per cent and the Gre
Liberals demand body bag apologyLiberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is demanding the Conservative government apologize to First Nations people in Canada after some reserves received shipments of body bags as part of H1N1 flu preparation kits.
Ottawa memorial risks offending communistsPlans for a monument on Parliament Hill to honour the estimated 100 million or so innocent men, women and children killed at the hands of Communist regimes around the world, on the other hand, have hit a snag, with the NCC worried that a "Memorial to the
Conservatives Take Seven-Point Lead.ANGUS/REIDWith the possibility of a federal election beginning in the next two weeks, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are ahead of Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals by 36 per cent (up 3% since September 3rd) to 29 per cent (down 3%), the Canadian Political
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