Politics

The federal government lacked the evidence to determine protests and barricades across Canada last year were threats to national security, an organization that defends constitutional rights told a federal judge on Tuesday, April 4, 2023.

First Nations chiefs have endorsed a revised multi-billion-dollar settlement for children and families harmed by Ottawa's underfunding of on-reserve child and family services.

Donald Trump relaunched his 2024 campaign on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, just hours after becoming the first former U.S. president to confront felony charges in what prosecutors allege was a hush-money scheme to protect his reputation before the 2016 election.

The Alberta government waited a month before calling an emergency response to one of the biggest releases of oilsands tailings in the province's history, a leaked document shows.

The federal government is backing away from setting a timeline to introduce legislation that would declare First Nations policing an essential service, but at least one regional chief hopes to see it this spring.

The federal privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into the company behind ChatGPT, an explosively popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.

Environmental and health groups are prodding the federal government to turn a competition law into a powerful tool to tackle climate change and greenwashing.

But just because the Trudeau government’s bet on deficits has paid off in the past doesn’t mean it will continue being a winner indefinitely, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The British Columbia government will invest billions of dollars to ease a housing "crisis that is touching people in every corner of the province," Premier David Eby said.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she will no longer speak about her involvement in how COVID-19 court cases are being prosecuted.

Voters in Prince Edward Island delivered a decisive majority to the incumbent Progressive Conservatives on Monday, April 3, 2023, after an election campaign dominated by debate over heath care.

Hot Politics host David McKie takes the temperature at a conservative lovefest.

The Liberals used the work of the Parliamentary Budget Officer as a shield to defend their carbon tax and rebate in the past. Now, with a new report out, it's turned into a sword for their opponents. Will Canada's carbon tax survive the fight? asks columnist Max Fawcett.

As the world struggles to find the right balance between a carbon-free future and a present that still runs on fossil fuels, Canada could be leveraging its natural-gas riches to help fuel both, a new report suggests.

A national civil liberties group is set to argue that "nebulous or strained claims" about economic instability or general unrest weren't enough to legally justify the Liberal government's use of the Emergencies Act early last year.