Montreal, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has paid tribute to Pierre Claude Nolin as one of the most distinguished, devoted and courageous parliamentarians of his generation. Harper is one of several past and present politicians attending a funeral in Montreal this afternoon for the late Senate Speaker. The prime minister toldRead More

Ottawa — A pause has been called in the Ottawa trial of Senator Mike Duffy on breach of trust, fraud and bribery charges. Justice Charles Vaillancourt will hear arguments Monday in what is called a voir dire, which is basically a mini-trial within the main event. Lawyers will argue overRead More

Ottawa,  Former newspaper baron Conrad Black has lost his last effort to shield million of dollars from the Canadian taxman. The Supreme Court of Canada, without giving reasons, has turned down Black’s bid to appeal a 2014 ruling from the Tax Court. That decision found Black to be a resident ofRead More

Toronto, Closing submissions are to begin today in a Toronto courtroom at the drug trial of Rob Ford’s driver. The defence said Tuesday it would call no witnesses to rebut the Crown’s case against Alexander (Sandro) Lisi and co-accused Jamshid (Jay) Bahrami, owner of a Toronto dry cleaners. Both men areRead More

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Officials say a Canadian military plane carrying an advance disaster-assistance team has landed in Kathmandu. The Canadian Joint Operations Command said on Twitter that 31 Armed Forces members had arrived in the earthquake-hit country. The Canadian Forces said Tuesday that a C-17 transport plane carrying some personnelRead More

Toronto, Premier Kathleen Wynne says she’ll co-operate fully with Ontario Provincial Police when they question her later this week about the Liberal party’s actions during a Sudbury byelection in February. The OPP are investigating allegations the Liberals offered a job or appointment to Andrew Olivier, their Sudbury candidate in 2014,Read More

Ottawa, Canada’s auditor general is taking issue with the quality of health care in remote First Nations communities, lacklustre efforts to rehabilitate prisoners and the dearth of oversight governing boutique tax credits — the Conservative government’s election bauble of choice. Many of the findings in Michael Ferguson’s spring report toRead More

LINDSAY, Ont. – A lawyer for Dean Del Mastro says the former Conservative MP should face nothing more than a fine for having been found guilty of violating the Canada Elections Act. Leo Adler says his client was never charged with corruption, but was instead found guilty of overspending duringRead More

Ottawa, Two months after Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised to consult widely on doctor-assisted dying, the federal government has yet to reveal how it intends to canvass Canadians’ views on the emotional issue — much less how it intends to legislate on the subject. And time is running out. WhenRead More

Ottawa, The Senate’s top finance official says there were no criteria or definitions of what constituted primary and secondary residences at the time Mike Duffy was making expense claims. As the fourth week of the suspended senator’s trial begins, Duffy defence lawyer Donald Bayne is continuing his cross-examination of chiefRead More