Politics

Independent Sen. Rosa Galvez was struck by the influence lobbyists have on environmental regulation and the imbalanced nature of government consultations when she joined the Senate in December 2016.

Families of the victims of the Quebec City mosque shooter say they fear on Friday's, May 27, 2022, Supreme Court ruling means the 17 children who lost a father could one day meet the killer in the streets of Quebec's capital.

Federal Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown says calling social conservatives "dinosaurs" in a book he wrote about his time in Ontario politics was "the wrong terminology"

The officially disclosed carbon footprints of Canada’s largest oil companies could balloon in size if tough new climate rules proposed earlier this year by a U.S. regulator come into effect.

A process is underway in British Columbia to temporarily defer logging in priority old-growth forests, allowing time for the government to work with First Nations to decide how they should be managed in the long term.

Europe’s frantic search for alternatives to Russian energy has dramatically increased the demand — and price — for Norway’s oil and gas.

One week after a severe wind and thunderstorm swept through Ontario and Quebec, just over 48,000 homes in the two provinces were still without power on Saturday, May 28, 2022.

When federal Justice Minister David Lametti reacted last week to the adoption of Quebec's language law reform, he took aim at the provincial government's proactive use of the notwithstanding clause to shield the law from constitutional challenges.

Firearm-related homicides have gone up 37 per cent over the past 11 years and handguns were the most commonly used weapon in such crimes, a report from Statistics Canada has found, but it warns there are large data gaps in information collection.

Two of Canada's new Arctic and offshore patrol ships were formally named on Sunday, May 29, 2022, in a move intended to preserve the stories of two of the country's naval heroes during the Second World War.

New measures to curb handguns are expected to be a central feature of federal legislation tabled this, May 30, 2022, afternoon, the Liberal government's latest — and likely boldest — suite of proposed actions to control access to firearms in Canada.

A special joint parliamentary committee will now consider its report on current legislation on assisted death and whether to expand who is eligible to opt for it.

The Supreme Court of Canada is slated to rule this morning on the sentencing of a man who went on a deadly shooting spree at a Quebec City mosque.

Law enforcement officials described in chilling detail on Thursday, May 25, 2022, the time it took for tactical officers to finally gun down an 18-year-old attacker after he shot and killed 19 students and two teachers inside a fourth-grade classroom in small-town Texas.

Quebec will be the first Canadian province to launch a vaccination campaign against the monkeypox virus, interim public health director Dr. Luc Boileau said Thursday, adding that 25 cases of the disease have been confirmed in the Montreal area.