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iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Jun 23, 2021 5:57pm The entrance to the Senate building in Ottawa (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) Senators voted on Wednesday to extend their sitting hours beyond this week before they rise for the summer so they can hold final votes on two of the government’s priority bills. Senators will now sit next Monday and Tuesday with extended hours. Earlier this month, Government House leader Pablo Rodriguez presented those bills: the Budget Implementation ...

iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jun 23, 2021 6:07pm The entrance to the Senate building in Ottawa (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) Today’s Evening Brief is brought to you by the Port of Québec. The Port of Québec City has been the gateway to North America for centuries. Building Laurentia, the deep-water, fully intermodal container terminal, will revitalize a vital trade link for today and tomorrow. Learn more. Good evening to you. We begin with the Red Chamber where Senators voted on...

Article content If you have any interest in federal politics, the end of the pandemic can’t come soon enough. For over a year, Canadians have been governed by Zoom democracy: virtual question periods, committees and press conferences. It’s not like we had many options as three waves of COVID-19 rolled across the country. But as this sorry session of Parliament comes to a sorry close, it is hopefully a situation Canada will not have to repeat. Why? Because the situation has made it near impo...

Article content OTTAWA — The Liberals have accused Parliament of becoming toxic to its minority agenda while the Opposition Conservatives say Canada’s institutions are broken under the Trudeau government — finger-pointing that fuels growing speculation voters could soon head to the polls. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers are calling out Conservatives for using procedural delay tactics to stop votes from happening on outstanding pieces of legislation, which time is ticking o...

Brandon Sun By: Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press Posted: Last Modified: 7:14 PM CDT Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2021 Save to Read Later OTTAWA - The Liberals have accused Parliament of becoming toxic to their minority agenda while the Opposition Conservatives say Canadas institutions are broken under the Trudeau government — finger-pointing that fuels growing speculation voters may soon h...

Arvin Joaquin The Pornhub website is shown on a computer screen in Toronto on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. International women’s rights advocates call on Canada to apply existing laws to hold tech giants like Pornhub to account in stopping the violence and exploitation of women, saying this is no longer a Canadian issue, but a global issue. THE CANADIAN PRESS June 15, 2021 - 2:51 PM Jeanette Westbrook says being sexually abused as a child will haunt her for the res...

OTTAWA — The minority Liberal government pushed forward a key piece of its legislative agenda Friday, as a House of Commons committee wrapped up clause-by-clause review of a bill to give Canada more . . .

OTTAWA — After weeks of virtual hearings and often heated debate, an extensively amended Bill C-10 will go back to the House of Commons for a final vote. The bill aims to amend the Broadcasting Act to make streaming services adhere to Canadian content regulation.  The Commons heritage committee was forced today by a time […]

OTTAWA - The minority Liberal government pushed forward a key piece of its legislative agenda Friday, as a House of Commons committee wrapped up clause-by-clause review of a bill to give Canada more regulatory power over digital streaming platforms.