Voters gave Glenn De Baeremaeker another term on Monday in a decisive victory for the incumbent Ward 38 Scarborough Centre councillor. At a victory party in the basement of his Scarborough home, surrounded by neighbours and volunteers watching the campaign results on a borrowed big-screen TV, De Baeremaeker marvelled atRead More

Edmonton, Alberta Premier Jim Prentice won a seat in the legislature Monday as his Progressive Conservatives defeated all comers in four by-election races. Prentice, the 58-year-old former MP and Conservative cabinet minister under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, handily defeated Wildrose candidate Kathy Macdonald in Calgary-Foothills. Health Minister Stephen Mandel outlastedRead More

Ottawa, Top Canadian security officials are due to testify on Monday before a parliamentary committee about threats facing the nation in the same building where a man described as an homegrown militant opened fire last week as Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with lawmakers. On Sunday police said Michael Zehaf-Bibeau,Read More

Toronto, A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that police say shows he was driven by ideological and political motives, police said Sunday. Royal Canadian Mounted Police CommissionerRead More

Toronto, Mayoral candidate John Tory has raised $2.48 million from more than 5,000 donors, his campaign has announced. Tory released his full list of donors on Saturday morning after rival candidate Olivia Chow criticized him for failing to publish the information in a reasonable period of time after promising toRead More

OTTAWA – The grounds of Parliament Hill have reopened to the public and the Speaker says tours are to resume on Monday. Parliament Hill had been off limits until Friday night in the wake of the fatal shooting of a soldier at the National War Memorial and the killing ofRead More

OTTAWA — Hundreds of Canadians gathered at the National War Memorial on Friday to witness the return of the ceremonial honour guard, breaking into applause for military personnel and later carpeting the monument with flowers. It was a spontaneous show of solidarity and support for the Canadian Forces, given thatRead More

Ottawa, Canadians returned to the reopened grounds of their Parliament building on Saturday, three days after a homegrown radical rushed in armed with a rifle after killing a soldier in the second domestic attack in a week on the country’s military. The grounds of the hilltop gothic building, whose clockRead More

Ottawa, A gunman shot and fatally wounded a soldier in Ottawa on Wednesday and then entered the country’s parliament buildings chased by police, with at least 30 shots fired in dramatic scenes in the heart of the Canadian capital. A suspected gunman was shot dead inside the parliament building, aRead More

  Toronto, The Liberals are using their new majority to block attempts to get to the bottom of two of their biggest scandals involving cancelled gas plants and the Ornge air ambulance service, Ontario’s opposition parties charged Tuesday. The Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats want the justice committee to callRead More