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Elizabeth May is urging members of Parliament to take a page from Canada's smallest province when it comes to celebrating love and honouring loss.The Green Party leader rose in the House of Commons Monday for a member's statement — a one-minute speech — before question period. Watch:"I booked this member's statement with the sole purpose of saying to all my friends in this place that I've now been happily married for a whole week," May said with a smile, scoring applause. "And they s

TORONTO — Leaders from Kashechewan First Nation are looking to the Ontario government and even foreign ambassadors for support in relocating their community, which they say the federal government has delayed for years."Our young people are getting really sick and tired of this," Chief Leo Friday told reporters at Queen's Park Monday.Kashechewan came into being in 1957, when the Canadian government forcibly relocated Cree families from two islands onto a plain on the banks of the Albany Riv

The director John Singleton, the first African American filmmaker to receive a Best Director Oscar nomination, died Monday at age 51 after suffering a stroke earlier this month, his family confirmed to The Associated Press.“We are sad to relay that John Singleton has died. John passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family and friends,” the family said Monday in a statement. “We want to thank the amazing doctors at Cedars-Sinai Hospital for their expert care and kindnes

OTTAWA — New Democrats want the federal government to take back the $12 million pledged to Loblaw Co. to help the grocery retailer upgrade its fridges to higher efficiency models.NDP MP Daniel Blaikie tabled the opposition motion Monday to "put people first". Text of the motion claims the government has given corporate executives and lobbyists "too much access to and influence" over its agenda."Twelve million dollars over the entire federal budget may not sound like a lot, but it's a symbo

There are some people out there who theorize that the royal baby we're so eagerly anticipating may actually have already been born.We know the due date for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first child was late April/early May, and women Meghan Markle's age frequently give birth early. She hasn't been seen in public in over a month, and her mother has arrived in the U.K.But without any close friends feeding us the gossip from Frogmore Cottage, there's nothing we can do but wait. We know we're clo

You know you're doing pretty well in life if 1) you're married to a real-life prince, 2) You're about to birth royal offspring, 3) You have famous friends at the ready to dole out advice about mamahood.Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's baby is due any day now. Almost every new mom and mama-to-be gets inundated with advice, and the Duchess of Sussex is no different. Well, aside from the fact that some of her baby-related advice is being given out by folks like Serena Williams, Amal Clooney and Jes

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is claiming the Liberal government lacks a "real" climate plan, despite its implementation of a carbon pricing system to curb greenhouse gas emissions.Scheer told reporters Monday that he "absolutely" sees a link between climate change and the flooding that has wreaked havoc in Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick in recent days."It's quite clear that climate change has been linked to many different types of extreme weather events," Scheer said at a press conferen

Sure, you've been tired, but have you ever been "nearly-breastfed-the-cat-by-accident" tired?It was a few weeks after my son was born, and my husband and I were, like most new parents with a newborn, dancing on the knife's edge of sanity. Neither of us had slept more than a few hours since the day I'd been induced in the hospital (my husband, the poor soul, had been forced to sleep on a deeply uncomfortable reclining chair as I worked on exploding our son out of my body — a fact he kept mo

Sunday night's episode of "The Simpsons" showed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau getting upset over something U.S. President Donald Trump said about him, holding a yoga pose, and then crawling out of his office to evade a question about the SNC-Lavalin affair.That's a sentence I never thought I'd write, but here we are.The episode, titled "D'Oh Canada," was co-written by the show's consulting producer Tim Long, who was raised in Exeter, Ont.The plot saw the family end up in the Great White North af

There were many reactions to Sunday night's extremely dark and intense "Game of Thrones" episode, which portrayed the Battle of Winterfell.People online responded with tears, discomfort, shock, and fatigue to the many, many deaths and gruelling battle scenes.*WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW*But as badass teen assassin Arya Stark emerged the hero, killing the Night King with the pointy end of her Valyrian steel dagger, the internet displayed a show of respect: people vowed to name their daughters after h

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to answer China's ban on Canadian canola shipments by pulling hundreds of millions of dollars Ottawa has committed to Beijing's multilateral development bank.Scheer held a news conference Monday to press Trudeau to address the canola feud by cutting off Canada's funding commitment to China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, to which the Liberal government has committed $256 million over five years.H

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn't close the door Sunday on using federal dollars to help relocate communities facing the recurring threat of severe flooding.Flooding in New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario has forced the evacuation of thousands, and threatened more property as water continues to rise with peaks not expected along the Ottawa River until Tuesday.Since the Liberals took office in late 2015, the government has approved almost $1.27 billion in funding for 41 projects d

Hundreds of election workers have died of overwork and almost 2,000 have fallen ill following the world's biggest single-day elections, held in Indonesia earlier this month.Indonesian officials said over the weekend that at least 272 election officers had died since the April 17 vote, mostly from fatigue-related illnesses caused by the long hours they clocked counting millions of ballot papers by hand, Reuters reported.Arief Priyo Susanto, a spokesman for the country's election commission (KPU),