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Bus beheader to remain in psychiatric care, board rules
A man who beheaded a sleeping passenger on a Greyhound bus must remain locked up under heavy security at a Manitoba psychiatric facility, a provincial review board ruled Wednesday. Vince Li will...
TSX beaten down as commodities retreat
A crack appeared in the three-month old rally on stock markets Wednesday as commodity and financial stocks led the Toronto stock market to tumble almost 300 points while the Canadian dollar retreated...
Liberals, Tories may release donor lists
The Liberal and Tory campaigns are weighing whether to release their lists of campaign donors this week in hopes of pressuring the NDP to do the same, sources said Wednesday. Usually, each party’s...
NDP accuses N.S. opponents of running out of ideas as union donations questioned
A Liberal demand that the New Democrats make public their campaign contributions in Nova Scotia was brushed aside Wednesday by NDP Leader Darrell Dexter, who said his party would comply with any...
MCPHARLAND: Harper never had a choice on GM
So many pundits have had so much to say about the bailouts at General Motors and Chrysler, you have to figure one of them must be right. The problem is knowing which one. It’s like assessing the...
New Brunswick confirms first swine-flu case
New Brunswick confirmed its first case of swine flu Friday, raising Canada's total to 35, as the federal government prepared to roll out a national public-awareness campaign to educate...
Long-time bureaucrat to head spy agency
A career bureaucrat known for cool-headed thinking is the new boss of Canada's spy agency. Richard Fadden, currently deputy immigration minister, becomes director of the Canadian Security...
Canada PM Against Election In Near Future
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday he doesn't want an election in the near future, saying that the country cannot afford political instability just as the economy is starting to...
Who's responsible for secret documents?
The government says Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt should not resign because it was her press aide who left sensitive information at a CTV News bureau. But secret documents are often the...
Family breakdown costs taxpayers nearly $7B
Family breakdown costs Canadian taxpayers nearly $7 billion a year, says a conservative social think tank. It is “one pathway to poverty,” said Andrea Mrozek, the manager of research at the...
Watchdog's budget request rebuffed
Canada's information watchdog is warning he may have to lay off staff after having a budget request rebuffed by the federal cabinet. Robert Marleau says he's looking at "aggressive cash...
Raitt must go: Opposition
Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt is shirking her ministerial duties by failing to resign after a binder full of sensitive documents was inadvertently left at an Ottawa television station,...
Ontario ill-prepared for recession: analysts
The Ontario government's days of free-wheeling spending are coming back to haunt it, leaving Canada's largest province ill-prepared to weather the economic recession and racking up debt at an...
'Buy American' retaliation will hurt everyone: Day
Retaliating against U.S. states and cities for adopting Buy American measures is like throwing a grenade in a confined space, says Trade Minister Stockwell Day. "Everyone gets hurt," Day told a...
Harper announces $12 million in aid for optics institute
Canadians are not in the mood for a summer election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday. Harper, who was in Quebec City for a research announcement and a meeting with Premier Jean...
Student molested three girls at west-end day care, Toronto police say
Tetris at 25: Five things you didn't know about the puzzling game
Deserter warns of prosecution if sent back to U.S.
A war deserter from the U.S. who fled to Canada was visibly tense Wednesday as he made his case for asylum for a second time, arguing he will face unfair prosecution if sent back to the United...
Residential school Truth commission set to go as compensation delayed
The Harper government is set to relaunch the truth forum into abuse at native residential schools amid complaints that some of the most traumatized students have waited months for...
IVISON: Tories plan First Nations overhaul
The Conservative government is set to unveil a new approach to its relations with Canada's First Nations that will see fresh money flowing to bands when Ottawa believes there is a good prospect of...
Government sold silver on loan from Buckingham Palace
Three sterling silver flower baskets sold off by the government at bargain-basement prices on a government website were on loan to Rideau Hall from Buckingham Palace, Sun Media has...
RADWANSKI: Accountability 101
There are arguments that might effectively be deployed in Lisa Raitt's defence. The government could argue, for instance, that the documents left behind at CTV's studios weren't really all that...
Canadians may yet get their money out of GM
No auto industry could have found itself more unready for the economic earthquake that beset it, than that of East Germany, in 1989. That was the year the Iron Curtain collapsed, the Berlin Wall came...
PM refuses to let Raitt quit
The Natural Resources Minister will not be asked to resign even though secret documents from her office were left at a CTV News bureau in Ottawa after an interview there last week. But the member...
SÉVIGNY: Tory attacks deny our history
Attack ads work. They distort, belittle and appeal to a thirst for gossip and muckraking. The Conservative Party television ads against Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff contribute to a new...
Aide resigns over lost papers
An aide to Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt has resigned after forgetting a binder full of sensitive cabinet documents at a television station. PMO communications director Kory Teneycke said...
EI standoff not worth an election, poll finds
A new poll suggests people would like to see employment insurance sweetened but don't think it's worth an election over the issue. The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates 53 per cent of...
Canadians won't want Flaherty to resign over deficit
Canadians appear to be willing to cut Finance Minister Jim Flaherty a little slack over his deficit shocker. A Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll shows few Canadians think the finance minister...
Schreiber extradition delay backed
Justice Jeffrey Oliphant says it would be a travesty of justice to extradite German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber before the public inquiry into his business dealings with Brian Mulroney...
Feds pick up AECL documents left behind at CTV
A federal government employee picked up sensitive government documents Wednesday, which were left behind at CTV News' Ottawa bureau for nearly a week. The documents reveal Ottawa has poured far...
RADWANSKI: Harmless, but useless
As mentioned in an update to my previous post, the government's restriction of which countries could be sued under its victims of terrorism bill will help prevent it from being a really bad law. But...
Federal Liberals optimistic heading into Quebec fundraiser
Federal Liberals in Quebec believe they have the wind in their sails heading into a fundraising event in downtown Montreal on Thursday evening that will feature Leader Michael Ignatieff and three...
No 'fire sale' of Crown assets: Finance Minister
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty promised not to engage in a "fire sale" of Crown corporations such as the CBC and Via Rail, as opposition parties accused the Conservatives of embarking on an...
Federal ad campaign targets foreign cash
The federal government is launching an international advertising campaign to woo foreign investment, using the stability of Canadian banks as a lure. Canadian companies have reacted to the...
Chief electoral officer to review unions' donations to NDP
Elections Nova Scotia has launched a review of questionable donations the New Democratic Party received from several construction union locals in late April. Chief Electoral Officer Christine...
N.B. government proposes wage freeze laws for doctors, MLAs
Faced by mounting financial challenges, the New Brunswick government wants to freeze the wages of doctors and provincial politicians for the next two years. The move by Health Minister Michael...
Personal ties exposed in eHealth's untendered contracts
Executives at two companies awarded untendered contracts from eHealth Ontario had close personal connections to the CEO and board chairman, CBC News has learned. The provincial agency, tasked with...
Family grieves for Canadian on lost Air France flight
The only Canadian aboard the Air France plane that went missing off the coast of Brazil late Sunday was an intelligent, hard-working man who loved golf and travelling, his brother told CBC News. Brad...
Online "Dancing Man" clip turns Calgary waiter into worldwide sensation
Police officer injured in chase involving foreign diplomat
An Ottawa police officer suffered minor injuries after a police chase early Tuesday morning involving a 30-year-old man with diplomatic status. Police received a report of an erratic driver in an...
LAYTON: A right and not a privilege
Sixty years ago Canadians families were on their own to pay doctor and hospital bills. Those with the money got the medical attention they needed, but those without struggled. Some sold their farms,...
SIMPSON: Bailing out GM makes it really tough for government to say no to other beggars
The staggering $10.6-billion from Ottawa and Ontario to help bail out General Motors - at least temporarily - will reverberate throughout Canadian public affairs for years. The bailout will make...
GUNTER: I don't want to own GM
I'm sure I'm missing something here. I keep telling myself that it must be a good thing that Ottawa is using $9.5-billion of taxpayers' money to buy 12% of General Motors. According to Winnipeg's...
WALKOM: Canada is not in the driver's seat
There is a whiff of naïveté surrounding Canada's participation in the General Motors bailout. That the federal and Ontario governments chose to support the crucial Canadian auto industry is...
L. IAN: Harper had no choice
Speaking of "great buying opportunities," as Stephen Harper did after the stock market crashed last fall, there's a GM, not a Ford, in Canada's future. It stood to reason that since Canada has a...
D. MARTIN: Good luck serving bin Laden
Starting soon, we can send the subpoena to Osama bin Laden, 6653 Dirt Cave Rd., Third Mountain from the Left, West Pakistan. Of all the government moves to keep lawyers employed during the...
HÉBERT: Good news for Ignatieff, but it's no slam dunk yet
According to a massive CBC poll made public on Monday, it took a ballooning federal deficit to give Michael Ignatieff's Liberals a slight edge in national voting intentions last month. Until the...
Ignatieff's message getting across in Quebec: Liberals
Federal Liberals in Quebec believe they have the wind in their sails heading into a fundraising event in Montreal tomorrow evening that will feature party leader Michael Ignatieff and three prominent...
Duffy enjoys a seat with a different view
Senator Mike Duffy was pulling no punches in his criticism of Tory opponents during his speech to Conservative supporters at the Southhampton Legion in Nackawic on Saturday, May 23. The...
Increased deficit not likely to cause early election
The spectre of a $50 billion federal deficit this year isn't great news, as far as Oak Ridges — Markham MP Paul Calandra is concerned, but he didn't expect it will lead to an election any time...
Canadians Assess Their Political Leaders
Canadians hold differing views on the characteristics of their country’s five main federal party leaders, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies released by CTV. 54 per cent of respondents...
Ottawa's $170-billion challenge
The federal government is heading for a string of much larger than expected deficits over half a decade that will drive Ottawa more than $170-billion into debt, a new independent forecast...
Minister's secret papers left at news office
The federal cabinet minister responsible for finding a replacement supply of medical isotopes after the shutdown of the Chalk River reactor will have to explain why secret documents about the nuclear...
Ukrainian Man Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Smuggle 120 Tortoises Into Poland
Canadian Forces vets return medals in protest
In an act of protest, two Canadian Forces veterans are returning their service medals to raise awareness about what they say are unfair deductions to veterans’ long-term disability...
GM's Canada sales outperform the industry
General Motors Corp., reorganizing under U.S. bankruptcy protection with US$60-billion in public aid, outperformed the industry in Canadian sales last month with a 12% decline as rival Chrysler LLC...
Canadian auto sales record worst May since 1999
Canadian auto sales fell 16.5 percent to record their worst May sales since 1999, hit by the turmoil in the industry and the weak economy, industry figures showed, but one analyst said the declines...
Canada not obliged to protect kids outside country, feds argue
Canada's legal duty to protect its citizens, even children, ends at the border and there is nothing in domestic or international law that obliges the government to seek Omar Khadr's repatriation, say...
Molson Coors names Dave Perkins as new CEO of Canadian division
Molson Coors Brewing Co. (TSX:TPX.B) is turning to its top marketing strategy official to head the beer company's Canadian division. Dave Perkins, 55, will replace Kevin Boyce, who is leaving...
Canada’s Dollar Strengthens, Trades Near Highest Since October
Canada’s dollar rose, trading near the highest level in almost eight months, as signs a recovery in the global economy is under way burnished the appeal of currencies linked to growth. “There...
Mediator may enter Mohawk-border impasse: MP
The federal border agency is considering entering into third-party mediations with Mohawk leaders to resolve an impasse over armed border guards that has shut down the Canada-U.S. crossing on an...
Former KGB takes sanctuary at Vancouver church
A former KGB agent threatened with deportation Wednesday morning has taken sanctuary in a Vancouver, B.C., church. Former Soviet translator Mikhail Lennikov moved to Canada 11 years ago with his...
Ignatieff might force election
Will Canadians be going to polls this summer? Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said Tuesday he will make "a serene and clear decision" on that question — likely by June 12. He cited the...
Craig's Take
As far as the Liberals are concerned, the Conservatives have as big a credibility deficit as a financial one. Michael Ignatieff wants Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's head brought to him in a...
Ottawa to change discriminatory Indian Act rules
The Harper government will change rules on Indian status that discriminated against the descendants of native women who married non-native men. Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl says the...
MPs ask minister to reverse deportation order for former KGB worker
Nearly two dozen MPs are asking the federal government to halt the deportation of a former KGB employee back to Russia. Mikhail Lennikov, his wife and his son arrived in Canada in 1997 and now...
Canada Liberals say could stop backing government
Canada's main opposition Liberal party said on Tuesday it was unhappy with the minority Conservative government's record and would decide next week whether to continue backing it. "I don't want an...
Van Loan details terror-victim bill
Only those countries that Ottawa says are supporters of terrorism could be sued in Canada by victims of terrorist acts, according to a bill introduced Tuesday. “This legislation will amend the...
Ottawa mayor wants charges dropped
Larry O'Brien's legal team launched a high-stakes bid today to convince a judge to drop two charges of influence peddling against the Ottawa mayor. Taking the courtroom by surprise, Mr. O'Brien's...
Forestry workers demand help from Ottawa
Thousands of forestry workers converged on the nation's capital today to demand federal help for their industry. They complain that small towns are being devastated by mill closures. And they...
Campbell gets pushy on EI access
Everyone recognizes the map of Canada. But the map the federal Human Resources and Skills Development Department uses is jarring. It looks like a Canada after every province and territory has lost...
POWERS: Incoherent stories
I don't disagree with Rob that some could be confused by the different approaches taken in response to the global economic crisis. But as the plan's title suggests, "Economic Action Plan for Canada",...
SILVER: Choose your own narrative
Can anyone explain to me the government's "choose your own adventure" narrative on the economy is? Here's the poo-poo platter of options to pick from: 1. Yes, we have a $50-billion deficit but the...
Magna wants electric car loans
Automotive entrepreneur Frank Stronach wants Ottawa to loan him hundreds of millions of dollars so he can start manufacturing electric cars in Canada for a world market in as little as three...
GM moves ahead with Hummer, Saturn, Saab sales
General Motors Corp. took a key step toward its downsizing on Tuesday, striking a tentative deal to sell its Hummer brand, while also revealing that it has potential buyers for its Saturn and Saab...
EI system fine, HR minister says
Human Resources Minister Diane Finley says there's no need to change the threshold on employment insurance because the current bleak economic conditions are making it easier for Canadians to...
Lawyer says ex-Liberal organizer to plead guilty to fraud and influence peddling
The lawyer for a former federal Liberal organizer involved in the sponsorship scandal says his client will plead guilty to fraud and influence-peddling charges. Benoit Corbeil is due in court in...
TD questions Ottawa's surplus forecast
The federal government will run a cumulative deficit of roughly $162-billion over five years, or nearly double what Ottawa projected in its most recent budget, economists at Toronto-Dominion Bank...
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