Plus, the PM is in the Toronto area attending former cabinet minister Donald Macdonald's funeral and meeting with his youth council.

Maybe vicarious space travel is the perfect escape from our current planetary unpleasantness.

Simply imposing the tax won’t cut it. Offering incentives, innovations, and transparency just might.

With little job security and lacking independent dispute-resolution mechanisms, MPs’ and ministers’ staff are vulnerable.

Plus, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains recently hired new aides.

'China has not shown a lot of enthusiasm for sectoral deals,' says Charles Burton, a former aide in Canada's embassy in Beijing.

When future generations hold exclusive ownership of ancestral cultural symbols, dissemination becomes limited and survival is threatened. The opportunity to grow a culture is dependent on cross-pollination and evolution.

The federal Liberals, self-described champions of climate action, are approving giant fossil fuel projects at breakneck pace, even compared to their predecessors, the oil-friendly Harper Conservatives.

Former Brampton Conservative MP Kyle Seeback says he will make a decision about running in Dufferin-Caledon after the Oct. 22 municipal election.

Stephen Harper is a traditional conservative, standing on a shrinking patch of political real estate, and he’s responding to the crisis like traditional conservatives too often do: by suggesting that the likes of Trump can somehow be accommodated.

A right-wing anti-immigration party has the potential to be the kingmaker in a hung Parliament after last month’s election.

Canadians aren’t in rapture over the notion we must immediately and forcefully address a warming planet, so it’s hard to imagine our politicians would be either.

If we can deprive niqab-wearing women of their choice, then I believe we can deprive our citizens of just about any choice. That’s not right.

Advice for a prime minister on how to save the world while winning public support.

The government has proposed more than 60 changes to Bill C-76, which NDP critic Nathan Cullen says points to a ‘flawed’ bill. There are a whopping 340 suggested changes altogether, to be debated next week.

The Conservatives and the CAQ have shared some candidates and ideas, but are not directly linked.

Plus, there are a flurry of staff changes in the LRB, including former Ontario Liberal staffer Kevin Den Heijer’s addition as special assistant for Ontario regional affairs.

As conservative governments take hold in other provinces, the election results in Quebec may be a harbinger of things to come elsewhere, and may prove to be a major challenge for the Trudeau Liberals in 2019.

‘When you break norms, those norms are very difficult to re-establish,’ says one former policy adviser to the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Also, a new 'controversial' book offers a blueprint to radically change Canadian health care, and an interprovincial trade conference will be hosted in Ottawa.

Pierre Trudeau and Lloyd Axworthy knew the right side of history, but the current Liberal government is running away from one of the great issues of our time.

At the end of the day, you realize there is only one true, hard metric by which you can measure your performance: on election day, will my constituents trust me to represent them?

The government is responding to critics who want to make the information commissioner’s order-making powers immediate, and scrap a requirement that requesters detail the time period, subject, and type of document.

But the warning bells sounding for Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick Liberals are not currently tolling for the federal party.