Politics

A new report from Canadians for Tax Fairness says top companies paid $30 billion less in taxes last year than would be expected under existing corporate tax rates.

Legislation to temporarily double GST rebates to help low- and modest-income Canadians cope with high inflation is expected to pass the House of Commons later this week.

Control over immigration and Quebec's religious symbols ban could be sources of conflict between Ottawa and the province as Premier François Legault begins his second mandate.

François Legault will be heading back to Quebec’s legislature with an even stronger hold on power, after a resounding election victory that saw his Coalition Avenir Québec win the most seats of any party in more than 30 years.

The worsening effects of climate change are compounding the historical loss of British Columbia’s old-growth forests, says the co-author of a new paper that shows decades of logging on the province’s central coast targeted the highest-value forests first.

Disinformation on federal fertilizer rules being peddled by politicians, the fossil fuel lobby and right-wing groups is “really frustrating” and “we haven't found the magic recipe yet” to address it, says Canada’s Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau.

The NDP leader should make electoral reform a condition of the party’s participation in the supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals beyond a certain date, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

In most democracies, citizens go to the polls. But in Brazil’s sparsely populated Amazon region, the polls often go to the voters.

Quebecers are heading to the polls today, October 3, 2022, after a five-week provincial election campaign dominated by issues such as immigration, the environment and the rising cost of living.

Russia’s recent complaints about its Ottawa embassy being blocked by protesters and attacked with a Molotov cocktail shed light on the tricky balance Canada faces in protecting diplomatic missions.

An alliance of sex worker rights groups is in Ontario Superior Court today, October 3, 2022, asking for several sections of the Criminal Code to be deemed unconstitutional.

Don’t cry for me, Alberta, I was leaving anyway.

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says today's National Day of Truth and Reconciliation is about the survivors of Canada's residential schools and the children who died in them and never made it home.

The federal government is extending tax relief to people, businesses and charities affected by post-tropical storm Fiona in Atlantic Canada.

Distraught residents of a southwestern Newfoundland town shared stories of survival with Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, as the prime minister got a close look at yet another coastal town shattered on the weekend by post-tropical storm Fiona.