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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
The right for MPs to say and discuss almost anything they want is one of the central privileges of Parliament, but a couple of divisive debates over the past week tested the thresholds of dialogue in the House of Commons. In one case , two...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York on Sept. 28, 2012. The Canadian Press Politics video Screenshot video The intelligence agency did not expect a wholesale shift...
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Canada.com
| 8 months ago
There has been much ado about the decision by Britain and Canada to share embassies and consulates in some of the planet's more obscure but nevertheless important places. The discussion in Canada has largely centered on how Ottawa might somehow once...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Story Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, left, and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz vote on Motion 312 in the House of Commons on Wednesday Sept. 26, 2012. The Globe and Mail Editorial cartoons: September, 2012 First, most people had expected a far...
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Leader Post Online
| 8 months ago
Canadians want their federal politicians to make medicare improvement the top priority of the fall parliamentary session, a national poll has found. Job creation runs a close second as the issue considered most important by the public, according to...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Ltd's $15.1 billion offer to buy the Canadian oil and gas producer. The company's common and preferred shareholders both strongly backed the bid by the Chinese state-controlled oil producer. C$27.50 per common share for Nexen, which has operates in...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Story Canada and China first announced a draft deal in February during a visit to Beijing by Prime Minister Stephen Harper...The treaty promises to set clear investment rules for Canadians in China and Chinese investors in Canada, but questions are...
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Leader Post Online
| 8 months ago
Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth stands to vote in House of Commons on his Motion 312 in Ottawa Wednesday September 26, 2012. Conservative backbench MP Woodworth's controversial motion to appoint a committee to study the definition of a human being...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
At a time when Canadians are more partisan and polarized than ever, along comes Michael Healey just when we needed him to resurrect the unfashionable notion that we should try to understand those we politically disagree with and that the prerogative...
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Delhi News-Record
| 8 months ago
Status of Women Minister Rona Ambrose has not explained her motivation for endorsing a controversial motion calling for a review of "when life begins", despite outrage from critics. Ambrose has come under fire from some women's groups and opposition...
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Canadian Free Press
| 8 months ago
ON Motion 312 was defeated in the House of Commons today by a vote of 203 to 91. This motion, proposed by MP Stephen Woodworth, would have seen Parliament appoint a 12-member committee to study the legal definition of when a child becomes a human...
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The Globe and Mail
| 8 months ago
Public Works and Government Services Minister Rona Ambrose responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Monday September 17, 2012 The Canadian Press video Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth in Ottawa on Sept. 25,...
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Canada.com
| 8 months ago
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative MPs have been left seriously divided over the issue of abortion after a controversial motion was defeated in the House of Commons on Wednesday evening...But in a surprise development, the vote revealed the...
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Delhi News-Record
| 8 months ago
A majority of MPs rejected a motion put forward by a Tory backbencher calling for review of "when life begins," but eight cabinet ministers supported it, including the government's status of women minister. House leader Peter Van Loan, International...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Nexen , leaving Prime Minister Stephen Harper with a difficult final call to make...Canadian resource stocks, and likely stem Chinese investment in the energy patch, as well as damaging Canada's already dented reputation as a friendly jurisdiction...
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The Globe and Mail
| 8 months ago
Story Conservative MP and pro-life supporter Stephen Woodworth takes part in the March For Life rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, May 10, 2012. Woodworth is pushing for legislation to have fetuses declared persons The Canadian Press...
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Canada.com
| 8 months ago
Members of Parliament vote today on a controversial motion that would reopen the abortion debate. Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth insists his private member's bill is not about criminalizing abortion. He says it's only about getting scientific and...
