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National security agencies and Liberal cabinet ministers are being summoned by a House of Commons committee to testify about China's alleged influence over the last federal election.

Such reform is a contentious issue in Israel and the diaspora, which underscores why it should be discussed rationally and soberly, without hyperbolic and potentially dangerous charges.

The new Israeli government plans fundamental legal reforms to fix perceived vast overreach by the Supreme Court and the legal system. Critics charge the

Perhaps the best thing that can be said about the process of drawing electoral boundaries in Canada is that it's not ultimately up to MPs to decide. That separates the Canadian system from the situation in most parts of the United States, where partisans draw the maps.

Uncertainty surrounds election delay in Newfoundland and Labrador by The Canadian Press Last Updated Feb 11, 2021 at 12:44 pm EDT Liberal Leader Andrew Furey, left to right, Progressive Conservative Leader Ches Crosbie and NDP Leader Alison Coffin pose for a photo following their televised debate from the floor of the House of Assembly in St. Johns N.L. on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador is entering uncharted legal terri...

Newfoundland and Labrador’s chief electoral officer has called for Saturday’s provincial election to be delayed in 18 ridings because of a sudden surge in COVID-19 cases

Uncertainty surrounds election delay in Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal Leader Andrew Furey, left to right, Progressive Conservative Leader Ches Crosbie and NDP Leader Alison Coffin sit prior to the start of their televised debate from the floor of the House of Assembly in St. Johns N.L. on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly February 11, 2021 - 12:20 PM ST. JOHNS, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador is entering uncharted legal territory as t...

Pedestrians walk down Stephen Avenue in downtown Calgary. Photo by Bernard Spragg/Flickr If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the Conservative Party of Canada’s attitude towards the federal carbon tax and rebate, which was updated last week with an ambitious schedule of increases that will culminate in a $170-per-tonne carbon price by 2030. Even though they lost last year’s election on the back of a failed attempt to depict the carbon tax as a “job killing�...

Is Canadian Law Better Equipped to Handle Disinformation? The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. (Joanne Clifford, https://tinyurl.com/y2xaoraf; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en) On Oct. 13, before President Trump—with only falsehoods as ammunition—began live-tweeting his attempt to overturn an election he lost, Emily Bazelon published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled, “Free Speech Will Save Our Democracy: The First Amendment in the Age of D...