Politics

Liberal lawmakers on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are vowing to defend access to legal abortions, but the issue's divergent and divisive history in each country guarantees they'll go about it in very different ways.

I am a political optimist by nature. I keep wanting to believe our federal government has turned a corner — that it has seen the light on the climate emergency and is ready to shift into high gear, writes columnist Seth Klein.

Piere Poilievre's reluctance to fight as hard for the freedom of pregnant people to choose as he did for the Ottawa convoy protesters is understandable, given the central role anti-abortion voters have played in the last two Conservative leadership races, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Ontario's election campaign began in earnest Wednesday with the party leaders promising to either build or cancel a planned highway that would cut through and serve key battleground areas.

The Ontario Liberals offered a stark choice at the start of the provincial election campaign on Wednesday: $10 billion more for schools or Doug Ford’s Highway 413.

Only two political parties managed to raise more money in the first quarter of this year than at the end of 2021: the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois.

Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is set to review what qualifies as a Canadian film or TV program as part of a move to modernize the country's broadcast laws.

Rescinding the constitutional right to an abortion would be just the beginning, President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, as the world confronted anew the possibility that women in the United States are poised to lose the right to choose.

The senior hydrologist with Yukon’s Department of Environment says there is a concern for flooding with record−high snowpacks in many of the basins the territory monitors.

A push from the Bloc Québécois for the House of Commons to confirm the right to an abortion failed Tuesday, as Conservative MPs were warned against commenting on the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that has thrown the issue back into the domestic spotlight.

Bribing voters with their own money is a time-tested political strategy, but few have ever taken it to the level Doug Ford’s government just did, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The Ontario Liberals promised Tuesday to cut greenhouse gas emissions by strengthening standards for industry, banning new natural gas plants, providing electric vehicle rebates and offering grants for eco-friendly renovations.

Tonight, MPs from across party lines will take part in a virtual townhall on ending fossil fuel subsidies.

Yulia Kovaliv told MPs at a House of Commons committee that Russia is using sexual violence as a weapon of war and said rape and sexual assault must be investigated as war crimes.

The "Rolling Thunder" protest in the national capital over the weekend cost an estimated $2.5 to $3 million to police, says the chair of Ottawa's police services board.