Justin Trudeau

The federal information watchdog has chastised the prime minister's bureaucrats for shutting down several requests from a researcher without good cause.

Canadians returning from non-essential trips will no longer be able to claim the $1,000 quarantine benefit, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This comes as several provincial and federal politicians — including two members of the federal Liberal caucus — are under fire for vacationing overseas during the holidays.

The federal Liberal government mulled the possibility of barring Canadians who travelled abroad from receiving a sick leave benefit aimed at those who must quarantine due to COVID-19 on Sunday, January 3, 2021, amid fresh admissions of foreign excursions from a growing list of politicians and a national case count that surpassed 600,000.

On a small island in British Columbia's Fraser River is a campsite packed with Canadian snowbirds who found refuge when the border with the United States was shut because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

If Donald Trump has anything in common with Canada, it might be this: a shared craving for the attention of the American people that at times can border on the pathological. 

As much as COVID-19 is a large-scale human tragedy, no doubt science tells us this is just a warning compared to the existential risks global warming poses to our civilization in the years and decades to come, writes Christian Burgsmüller, the European Union's chargé d’affaires to Canada.

Justin Trudeau always knew 2020 was going to be a difficult year, his first leading a minority Liberal government dependent on opposition party support for its survival.

The federal government is restricting travel from the U.K. for 72 hours in an effort to keep a contagious new strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 out of Canada.

Marie Christian recalls the confusion that reigned as the young people she works with tried to navigate government aid at the onset of the pandemic.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is hinting that provinces that don't want to work with Ottawa to improve standards in long-term care homes won't get federal funding.

The Canadian government says it will spend $3.16 billion to plant two billion trees over the next ten years.

The first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada.

Authorities are cautioning Canadians against getting swept up in the excitement of the approaching COVID-19 vaccine rollout, insisting that dropping our guards could have deadly consequences as federal forecasts predict the outbreak's death toll could hit nearly 15,000 come Christmas Day.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new climate plan proposes growing the carbon price and injecting $15 billion worth of initiatives into the economy. His government is hoping these efforts will result in steeper cuts to Canada’s carbon pollution that go beyond current measures.

A first ministers meeting on Dec. 10 that was supposed to be devoted to long-term, federal health care funding seems destined to be hijacked by a more urgent priority: surviving the COVID-19 pandemic.