Politics

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.

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Thursday, May 26, 2022, he's "very optimistic" this week's meeting of G7 climate and energy ministers will produce a consensus to gradually phase out the use of coal.

The United States and Germany signed an agreement on Friday, May 27, 2022, to deepen their cooperation on shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy in an effort to rein in climate change.

Officials from the Group of Seven wealthy nations announced on Friday, May 27, 2022, that they will aim to largely end greenhouse gas emissions from their power sectors by 2035, making it highly unlikely that those countries will burn coal for electricity beyond that date.

Canada isn’t in any danger of embracing Hungarian-style fascism, but the manipulation of the media could easily serve as an inspiration for our conservatives, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The federal government will join a legal challenge to Quebec's religious symbols law if it reaches the country's highest court, Justice Minister David Lametti said on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.

Several women's groups are imploring the federal Liberals to abandon the idea of creating a new regime for an endangered person to seek a court order to remove firearms from a stalker or abuser.