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Seventy-five years ago, on June 15, Tommy Douglas was elected the premier of Saskatchewan, where he led a movement that gave us medicare and, ever since, being Canadian means doctor visits, hospital care — without having to worry about how to pay for it..." federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said. "We can take it further."

The head of the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association is calling on Ottawa and Quebec to address the chronic underfunding of Indigenous police forces outlined in this week's report of a national public inquiry.

Environment Canada is reviewing its public alerts system after residents of a suburban Ottawa neighbourhood hit by a tornado on Sunday, June 2, 2019, were never warned that one was on the way.

Even with provinces and Ottawa not always seeing eye-to-eye these days, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged on Friday, May 31, 2019, that his federal Liberal government would keep working with municipalities to deal with the effects of extreme weather, housing shortages and climate change.

Obama's talk touched on everything from his memories of his first visit to Ottawa, and the cookies in his likeness that are still sold in the Byward Market, to reflections on parenting, feminism, his famous 2004 convention speech, his wife Michelle Obama — and the current NBA finals matchup, featuring a Canadian team, the Toronto Raptors, for the first time.

A House of Commons committee has cleared Alberta Premier Jason Kenney of allegations he wrongly claimed residential expenses while he was a Conservative cabinet minister in Ottawa.

Flood waters were still rising around Ottawa on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, even as officials talked of planning for a future of similar disasters — and Canada's need to prevent, prepare and adapt.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he welcomes Manitoba in the legal fight against Ottawa over the federal carbon tax.

Premier Doug Ford says mainstream journalists have become irrelevant because social media allows him to speak directly to Ontarians.

When Karl Rove sat down with Preston Manning, it was no surprise that he was asked about the news that U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller had turned in his report into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

Ottawa and the Northwest Territories have reached a deal on protecting threatened caribou.

Ottawa should create a new agency to oversee the rollout of a national drug plan, a federally struck expert panel said on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, in laying out what it called the "building blocks" of the program.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is asking Ottawa to hold off on imposing a carbon tax next month until the province's Court of Appeal has ruled on its constitutionality.

Conservative Sen. David Tkachuk says he won't apologize for comments he made at a pro-pipeline rally in Ottawa, calling criticism that he was inciting violence "manufactured outrage."

One by one, a dozen survivors shared their shattering tales of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy with high-ranking church officials gathered to listen to the stories they'd declined to hear for years.