Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole came out swinging today against Liberal attempts to restore a virtual Parliament, calling a return to the hybrid model that allows MPs to dial into the proceedings from outside Ottawa a cynical attempt by the Liberals to duck accountability and undermine the work of the opposition.

Despite three decades of effort, Canada's carbon emissions have risen 20 per cent since 1990, the country remains unprepared for climate disasters and recent subsidies for the oil and gas sector have not delivered promised emission reductions, according to new reports from the federal government's chief environmental watchdog.

P.E.I. Premier Dennis King says he will "work around the clock" to get a suspension on the export of potatoes from his province to the United States lifted.

Gen. Wayne Eyre can drop the word “acting” from his title. Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed him chief of the defence staff — the top position in Canada's military — on a permanent basis.

New data from Statistics Canada shows the national homicide rate has surged to levels not seen in more than a decade — an increase driven in large part by violence in Alberta and the deaths of 22 people in Canada's worst-ever mass murder last year in Nova Scotia.