Justin Trudeau

After spending the past two weeks criss-crossing the country to speak with ordinary Canadians in town hall meetings, Justin Trudeau is heading to Switzerland where he'll rub elbows with the rich and powerful at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

"Paternalistic," "inadequate," and "unrealistic." These are some of the words peppered throughout memos prepared for Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr regarding the federal government's efforts to consult with First Nations about Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. All of them warned that First Nations wanted more time to ensure their rights were accommodated.

Canada's pipeline regulator, the National Energy Board (NEB), is giving energy giant Kinder Morgan some new help to speed up its Trans Mountain expansion project, after recognizing the Texas-based company was showing some "reluctance" to follow the existing rules.

The Trudeau government unveiled its draft of a mammoth new law that would put in place a system to track and price carbon pollution from fossil fuels and industry.

A dark cloud hovers over a Vancouver summit aimed at securing peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula, write two female civil society leaders.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was going to find himself in hot water one way or another when he took a trip to the Aga Khan’s private island, then later attended a pair of meetings about one of the spiritual leader’s projects, the former House of Commons ethics watchdog said Wednesday.

"All Canadians can now expect to pay more for everything," says a Conservative party fundraising email. But is it true?

Justin Trudeau has been spared from testifying before a parliamentary committee over his controversial Bahamas vacation, as Liberals on the House of Commons ethics committee said Trudeau and can answer questions about the getaway during a cross−country town hall tour.

The plan opens up 90 percent of U.S. offshore reserves to private companies: from 2019 to 2024, forty-seven new leases are planned for the waters off Alaska, California, the Eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico.

Former Canadian hostage Joshua Boyle made a brief video appearance in an Ottawa courtroom today after being charged with 15 offences, including sexual assault, following his release from captivity in Afghanistan.

Joshua Boyle, 34, was arrested in Ottawa, his lawyer, Eric Granger, told The Canadian Press. The 15 charges against Boyle, according to court documents, include eight counts of assault, two counts of sexual assault, two counts of unlawful confinement and one count of causing someone to "take a noxious thing, namely Trazodone," an antidepressant.

The prime minister doesn't have business meetings. He has relationship sessions.

The federal Finance Department has shaved several years of projected deficits from Canada's long-term financial future following better-than-expected economic growth in 2017 — though many more years of deficits remain.

"Perhaps he should consider returning... a significant part, or perhaps all of the $215,000 of taxpayers’ money that was spent in enabling his unacceptable holiday," said Conservative ethics critic Peter Kent.

Canada and the United States will co-host in a meeting of foreign ministers in Vancouver on Jan. 16, 2018 on the North Korean nuclear crisis.