The formerly non-affiliated New Brunswick Sen. David Richards has joined the Conservative Senate Caucus.
Source: CBC News (Politics)
Competition for Canada’s multibillion-dollar submarine program is heating up and remarks from the Germans and Norweigans come weeks after two South Korean shipyards submitted a detailed, unsolicited proposal.
At question period on Monday, two Conservative MPs beseeched the government to approve a pipeline that very afternoon. Such a request raises other questions. Questions like, what pipeline? To where? To be built by whom? And under what conditions?
A federal watchdog agency found a breakdown of ministerial accountability after reviewing a clandestine operation abroad connected to claims a CSIS operative smuggled teenage girls into Syria to join ISIS.
The federal government says it will match donations made to the Canadian Red Cross as wildfires tear across the Prairies, forcing thousands from their homes.
Government whip Mark Gerretsen insists nothing went wrong with a throne speech sub-amendment vote that now calls on the government to table an economic update before Parliament breaks for the summer.
Global economic growth is slowing more than was expected only a few months ago as the fallout from the Trump administration’s trade war continues, the OECD said Tuesday. And Canada is among the countries where the downturn is most concentrated.
The recent throne speech promised legislation to bolster security at Canada’s borders and new tools for police and intelligence agencies to help them stop the flow of deadly fentanyl and its precursors.
A recently released RCMP audit says its 911 dispatch rooms across the country are struggling with staff shortages and burnout, putting front-line Mounties and the public at risk.
Some observant royal watchers thought King Charles looked emotional at times throughout his visit to Canada last week — and a Buckingham Palace spokesperson confirms to CBC News that the normally stoic monarch found delivering the throne speech to be a particularly poignant moment.
