Ontario, Advance polls open today in a closely watched and likely tight byelection in Sudbury. The Feb. 5 vote was called when the NDP MPP resigned after five months on the job and the previously long-held Liberal seat is now up for grabs. The most contentious candidate is Glenn Thibeault,Read More

* NDP Leader Tom Mulcair moves out MPs who announced they won’t run again Ontario, The NDP is shaking up its shadow cabinet as it prepares for the general election later this year. A handful of veteran MPs have announced they will not run for re-election this year, so TomRead More

* ‘The veteran has to be at the centre of everything we do,’ new minister says Toronto, Erin O’Toole, Canada’s new veterans affairs minister, has announced a new three-point “veteran-centric” plan for 2015, part of the government’s renewed efforts to mend a fractured relationship with its servicemen and women. PrimeRead More

* New legislation expected to be tabled soon after House resumes next week Toronto, The Conservative government wants to retool Canada’s no-fly list procedures to make it easier to prevent a suspected terrorist from boarding an airplane. n addition, it is looking to give police greater ability to generally restrictRead More

Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the federal government plans to make it a little easier for small business to access certain financing. Most companies with gross annual revenue of $10 million or less — up from $5 million — will now be eligible under the Canada Small Business FinancingRead More

Toronto, Finance Minister Joe Oliver says he will not budge from his plan to deliver a balanced budget come April, even with the recent decline in crude oil prices. In an interview with The Canadian Press at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Oliver said he’s rejecting suggestions that aRead More

While Justin Trudeau continues to extol the virtues of putting a price on carbon pollution, his Liberal Party’s preferred mechanism for doing that may not be all that different from what Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are already doing: Leaving it up to the provinces. In an interview with AM980 talk radio in London, Ont., where Trudeau’s caucus metRead More

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird plans to take a pass on this week’s high-level meeting, chaired by his Norwegian counterpart, on the future of Syria at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. However, Baird will attend separate sessions Thursday on the crisis in Ukraine and a meeting focused on theRead More

Toronto, Rob Ford is endorsing Progressive Conservative MPP Monte McNaughton in his bid to become the provincial party’s next leader. The former mayor made the surprise endorsement on Friday. “I’m supporting Monte McNaughton because he’s a family man — he’s the conservative in the PC leadership race,” Ford said aboutRead More

Ontario, Premier Kathleen Wynne continues to be dogged by questions about her handling of the appointment of a Liberal candidate in a byelection in Sudbury. The provincial Conservatives have called for Ontario Provincial Police to re-open an investigation into how former New Democrat MP Glenn Thibeault was picked for theRead More