Ottawa

Starting Monday, parents will get lump sum Universal Child Care Benefit payments from Ottawa. We asked Jennifer Robson to help us make sense of it all.

Where does Canada stand on its 10,000-refugee promise? The answer will cost you

Natural Resources Canada’s new code-of-conduct rules assign staff a colour-coded ’risk’ level. And if you have work pals, or are a professor, watch out.

Paul Wells on the impact of foreign policy on our reputation, and Canadians’ outsize sense of anxiety about how the world sees us

Thomas Mulcair on his new book, family and faith, Quebec secession—and why Canada may finally be ready for an NDP government

Tom Mulcair was a lonely federalist working for the Quebec civil service in 1980, when a referendum threatened to tear the country apart

Ches Crosbie’s family’s political roots go deep in Newfoundland. And yet his career was crushed before it began.

Slashing spending to avoid a deficit when the economy is so weak makes no sense

More than pancakes and Smithbilt hats, this year’s Stampede was an election dress rehearsal with plenty at stake

A collection of final remarks from some of the 55 members of Parliament who will not be running for re-election