Canada

It makes no economic sense. But that hasn’t stopped shopkeepers and locals in Gaspésie, Que., from carving up money to create a local currency.

Candidates face the dauting challenge of explaining away the recession to hard-hit Alberta voters, living at the pointy end of the downturn

A transcript of Stephen Harper’s statement about the death of Alan Kurdi and his family at a B.C. campaign stop

Jonathon Gatehouse on a photograph that should trouble everyone who has stood by and watched Syria’s refugee crisis unfold

In Canada, ’thinking big’ often means thinking a little less small. Scott Gilmore on why the image of a drowned Syrian boy must shock us into action

Abacus Data asks some unique questions to get insight into the lighter side of politics: how Canadians perceive our leaders

At a rally in Brampton, the Liberal leader happily draws some unlikely connections between his two chief rivals

Duffy hasn’t been a recluse this summer nor unwelcome in Cavendish, where politics is a second religion and his trial looms large

In recent weeks, we’ve seen grandstanding and misdirection. But it’s coming from provincial and municipal leaders, not just federal ones.

Former PMO in-house counsel Benjamin Perrin sat in the witness box at the Mike Duffy trial and gleefully took aim at Nigel Wright’s testimony