Politics

Finance Canada has helped Trans Mountain secure $10 billion in new financing to complete construction of the controversial pipeline by promising investors that if the Crown corporation can’t pay back the loans, the public will.

Nafeesa Alibhai pulled out of the Ontario election Wednesday in a dispute connected to the Israel-Palestine conflict, echoing divisions that sank the party's federal relative in last year's vote.

The federal government is set to launch an online portal for Canadian businesses to donate to Ukrainians who need help to get set up in Canada after fleeing war in their country.

Inuit hunters fear an upcoming ruling on an Arctic mine expansion could hasten the ongoing decline of a narwhal population that they rely on for food.

As the United States faces turmoil over the possible overturning of the right to have an abortion, a new poll offers a picture of how Canadians feel about the issue.

Extraordinary powers granted to police under the Emergencies Act weren't used to clear protest blockades at Canada's border crossings, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki said on Tuesday, May 10, 2022.

NDP caucus chair Jenny Kwan says she is seeking urgent answers about what has happened to the applications of 2,900 Afghans who helped the Canadian military.

Indigenous leaders in Quebec say the government's French-language bill is destructive, paternalistic and could put the survival of First Nations languages at risk.

Doug Ford and the PCs will certainly duck abortion questions and deride them as distracting from “real issues,” writes columnist Supriya Dwivedi.

Earlier this week, Edmonton-Griesbach’s MP demanded answers from an oil and gas industry representative on whether companies intend to cough up an estimated $253 million owed to rural communities in Alberta.

Mary Simon faced some tough questions in three languages on Monday, May 9, 2022, from students at the Jaanimmarik School in Kuujjuaq, a community in northern Quebec.

Nine-year-old Zoriana Shapoval had barely rounded the corner at the St. John's International Airport on Monday, May 9, 2022, night when she saw her big sister Sofiia Shapoval waiting in the crowd, and ran straight for her outstretched arms.

Canada needs to turn its COVID-19 aid attention to expanding vaccine production everywhere or the virus will continue to run wild, mutate and bring new waves of disease, says a prominent expert.

A new analysis of government finances across the country says revenues were much stronger than expected in the last year due to higher inflation and economic growth.