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The NDP says there's only one word to describe senators who don't know where they live and collect a fat housing allowance - fraud.

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence wants the United Nations to intervene on the federal First Nations file.

Helena Guergis' fall from grace came with a price tag Monday after an Ontario judge ordered her to pay $118,000 in legal costs plus HST to settle the remnants of a defamation suit against the prime minister and other Tory high rollers.

Liberal leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau quickly nixed a challenge Monday from rival Marc Garneau for an hour-long mano-a-mano debate.

It started with The Cute Show and just got cuter from there.

Immigration lawyers have asked the Federal Court to declare "mean and callous" cuts to health coverage for refugee claimants in Canada unconstitutional, but the immigration minister says their case has no merit.

Canadian TV documentary maker John Driftmier died in a plane crash over the weekend while filming a new project from the skies above Kenya.

Patrick Brazeau's alleged victim says the aboriginal senator hit her arms, put a hand around her neck, pushed her down the stairs, spat in her face and touched her in an aggressively sexual way, court documents obtained by QMI Agency show.

An RCMP officer had one of his hands blown off Tuesday after an assailant opened fire inside a courthouse in Whitecourt, Atla., west of Edmonton.

The Senate drew the curtains Tuesday to keep the public in the dark about the extent to which tax dollars have been frittered away in what the NDP says is widespread fraud in the unelected chamber.

Fifteen new ridings have been carved into Ontario.

A tuition-fee compromise by Quebec's premier couldn't prevent a violent protest that rekindled memories of last year's Quebec Spring.

Canada's soldiers, prison guards, and cops are getting less. Senators are getting a little bit more. Foreign aid is getting the axe, and so are federal infrastructure programs. There's plenty of cash for the provinces and employment insurance.

Canada's top court will rule Wednesday on a controversial case that could shake up human-rights commissions and hate-speech laws cross Canada.

Conservative MP Larry Miller says the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has "no right" to say anything about an urgent appeal put forward by Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence.

A former youth hockey coach was handed a 15-day major by a Richmond judge Tuesday for an assault on two boys during a post-game handshake last year.

Blue Water Bridge Canada officials are closely monitoring news out of Washington about looming “sequester” budget cuts and their potential impact at the southern Ontario border crossing.