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If we want to ensure that our elected bodies look like the public they’re created to serve, we need to stop punishing the people in them for having private lives that include children and families, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The most glaring omission on the federal NDP's priority list is the absence of a declared position on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Environment and Climate Change Canada was one of the most frequently lobbied government departments, according to new statistics from the lobbying commissioner’s annual report.

Not all the plotters have been identified, but they’re known to include a handful of senior strategists, one former cabinet minister, and Jean Charest, the only leadership candidate with any hope of beating Pierre Poilievre, writes Arno Kopecky.

The only people who seem to oppose this long-overdue change in drug strategy are the ones who keep talking about how much they love freedom and liberty.

Sheila Copps pulls the sheet back and reveals what happens when you run a campaign and how a party could recover after a previous loss.

A recent survey commissioned by voter mobilization group Future Majority found young Ontario voters are concerned about affordable housing, mental health and climate change.

Tataskweyak, also known as Split Lake, will enter its fifth year of having a boil-water advisory on May 17.

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.

If Conservatives truly hate virtue signalling as much as they say, they shouldn’t be arguing for a tax exemption on their own flavour of it, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The biggest extension to health care by far in this budget was a national dental care program. This went from obscurity to policy in a matter of months due to its inclusion in the Liberal-NDP agreement.

Canada may not be ready for “Poilievremania” just yet, but the massive crowds showing up to his rallies are a clear sign the Conservative Party of Canada is embracing him with a similar degree of enthusiasm.

Affordability, housing, education, mental health support, climate change. Do youth have anything to hope for in the federal budget out Thursday? A polling expert, youth advocate and student union rep weigh in on what matters.

We face a climate emergency — that is the existential threat of our time that must be decisively tackled in the three-year life of this agreement. And this agreement does not spell out an emergency plan, writes columnist Seth Klein.