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The Independent Senators Group will first have to find a way to prevent the Conservatives from blocking attempts to change the rules.

Two people from Scheer's innermost circle — Hamish Marshall and Marc-Andre Leclerc — no longer have formal roles in guiding his political future.

The Alberta NDP called on Premier Jason Kenney to apologize Thursday and to fire his speechwriter over a 2013 essay critical of how Indigenous issues are framed in Canada, and which argues the narrative around residential schools amounts to a "bogus genocide story."

International Day of the Girl is this Sunday. In a new book, Rona Ambrose and Jessica Dee Humphreys celebrate the powerful change that even the smallest and youngest can effect.

O'Toole's first order of business was setting in motion staffing changes. That is likely to involve bringing in some of his campaign team to oversee operations and strategy on Parliament Hill, while others take up senior roles within the party.

<p> British defence giant wants to collaborate in Canadian shipbuilding <p>OTTAWA - One of Britain's leading defence companies says it could still work with Canada on building new warships, even though the Harper government has slammed the door shut on collaboration with its NATO ally.</p> <p>A</p>

<p> Don't lobby over new warships, minister warns <p>OTTAWA - The Conservative government wants lobbyists to butt out of Canada's new shipbuilding industry.</p> <p>Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose managed to raise more than a few eyebrows at a large defence industry trade show in Ottawa on We</p>

Embattled politician Helena Guergis has resigned her junior cabinet job.

Canada's ship yards will be "humming like they haven't hummed since the Second World War" under a $35 billion, 30-year federal shipbuilding strategy announced Thursday, says Defence Minister Peter MacKay.

<p> Edmonton Conservative candidate Ryan Hastman alleges problems with voter list <p>EDMONTON - The Tory candidate trying to wrest away the only Alberta riding his party did not win in the last election has filed an official complaint with Elections Canada alleging problems with the voter's list.</p></p>

Canada's current information laws make it difficult to ensure that political staff members are held responsible for their actions, the nation's information watchdog said in a report released Monday on an incident that led to the RCMP being called in to investigate a former Conservative staffer.

OTTAWA - The two sleep-deprived sides of the House of Commons kept vigilant watch on each other Thursday as bleary-eyed MPs stood up and sat down, over and over again, their 24-hour marathon voting session pushing past the halfway mark.

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper may have accepted the auditor general's scathing criticism of the troubled F-35 program, but newly released documents show National Defence and Public Works had deep disagreements with Michael Ferguson's findings.

CALGARY - Former Alberta premier Ralph Klein was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on Tuesday, in a heartfelt ceremony at Calgary’s City Hall.

OTTAWA - The federal department of Public Works has pleaded guilty to three charges in the death of a worker killed when an Ottawa boiler plant exploded.

OTTAWA - The federal department of Public Works has pleaded guilty to three charges in the death of a worker killed when an Ottawa boiler plant exploded.

OTTAWA - The agency overseeing the replacement of the country's CF-18s intends to talk to the U.S., Australia and Britain as it conducts a full-fledged options analysis into the future of Canada's fast fighter fleet, say defence sources.

OTTAWA - The agency overseeing the replacement of the country's CF-18s intends to talk to the U.S., Australia and Britain as it conducts a full-fledged options analysis into the future of Canada's fast fighter fleet, say defence sources.

OTTAWA - A federal watchdog has blown the whistle on a series of cooked contracts at a government agency that teaches ethics to public servants.

OTTAWA - The Harper government says it's committed to trimming government spending but just can't seem to turn off the taps when it comes to advertising.