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Born in Oshawa, Ont., Ed Broadbent served as a member of Parliament for a riding in the area for 21 years, leading the federal NDP from 1975 to 1989.

The NDP leader says his team will still get work done in Parliament even though they hover within a few seats of their 2019 tally.

<p> Law to force Canada Post back to work to be tabled this afternoon <p>OTTAWA - Back-to-work legislation to end the Canada Post lockout will be tabled in parliament this afternoon.</p> <p>Federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt informed the House of Commons that she'll introduce the bill at 3 p.m.</p>

<p> Britain shocked by allegations that tabloid hacked into murdered schoolgirl's cellphone LONDON - Britain's voracious tabloids may have hit a new low: The News of the World was facing claims Tuesday that it hacked into a missing 13-year-old's phone messages, possibly hampering a police inquiry into her abduc</p>

OTTAWA - Only three months after riding Jack Layton's personal popularity to a historic electoral breakthrough, New Democrats are confronting the tragic possibility that they'll have to soldier on without their charismatic leader.

Can the NDP survive Jack Layton's battle with cancer?

LONDON - Britain's simmering phone hacking scandal erupted again Thursday as a charity founded by the mother of a murdered child said she was targeted by a detective who worked for the News of the World.

LONDON - British lawmakers on Friday demanded James Murdoch clarify why testimony he gave to a parliamentary committee probing the phone hacking scandal conflicted with a statement from two former executives.

LONDON - He broke the story that destroyed a 168-year-old newspaper, humiliated one of the world's most powerful media moguls and cast a spotlight on a phone hacking scandal that has embroiled politicians, police and journalists.

<p> Rupert Murdoch says executive Rebekah Brooks will continue to lead News International LONDON - Media baron Rupert Murdoch says embattled executive Rebekah Brooks will continue to lead his company in Britain despite calls for her resignation amid a burgeoning tabloid phone hacking scandal. Murdoch supporte</p>

<p> James Murdoch: News of the World shutting down after losing advertisers for phone hacking ties LONDON - News International James Murdoch says he's satisfied that embattled executive Rebekah Brooks had no knowledge of phone hacking while she was editor of the scandal-ridden News of the World. His comments </p>

<p> Murdoch kills tainted tabloid News of the World amid criminal investigation in phone hacking LONDON - The Murdoch media empire unexpectedly killed off the muckraking News of the World tabloid Thursday after a public backlash over the illegal guerrilla tactics it used to expose the rich, the famous and the r</p>

Former provincial environment minister Thomas Mulcair is stirring things up at the National Assembly. Muclair told L’Actualite magazine that a bill to protect Quebecer’s wetlands was quashed because the premier didn’t want to offend Laval Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt.

Conservative leader Stephen Harper's long-running quest to attain a majority government was finally achieved Monday in a landmark federal election that also saw Jack Layton's NDP surge dramatically to become the country's official Opposition for the first time in that party's history.

After nearly a generation of unbroken dominance in Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois was almost erased from the province's political map on Monday night.

Of the 43 people in the shadow cabinet, 18 are from Quebec.

Laurin Liu woke up Tuesday morning shell shocked. The McGill University student from Calgary had just been elected MP for the NDP in Riviere-des-Mille-Iles, Que. 'It was a very modest campaign in my riding...," she said Tuesday.

When the votes are counted at the end of the evening, Jack Layton could be in position to put a New Democratic stamp on the government of Canada.

Federal New Democrats say they won't be held responsible for helping the Harper government scrap the long gun registry, although the party's MPs will not all say how they intend to vote on the issue.

What explains Jack Layton and the NDP's meteoric rise in popularity - and, more importantly, seats in the House of Commons - during Canada's 41st federal election?