National News

OTTAWA - In 2011, Mylene Freeman became a New Democrat member of Parliament almost by accident. In 2015, she intends to be elected on purpose.

OTTAWA — The Senate has passed a private member’s bill on Lyme disease, the first Green party bill to ever pass both houses of Parliament.

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says 13.8 per cent of the population lived in low-income households in 2012. The agency says its measure of after-tax low-income deems a household to be low income if it has less than half the overall median income.

OTTAWA - Two major events affecting political life in Ottawa are taking place today each about a five-hour drive from Parliament Hill in opposite directions.

OTTAWA - Disgraced Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro abruptly resigned his House of Commons seat Wednesday, less than a week after a judge found him guilty on three counts of violating the Canada Elections Act.

NANAIMO — Shawn Atleo has listened to grandmothers in the Arctic, heard the concerns of youth in his home village of Ahousaht on the Island’s west coast and felt Ottawa’s cold winters and its harsh politics, making him ideal for the new British Colum

TORONTO - The CBC abruptly severed ties with marquee personality Jian Ghomeshi on Sunday, with a spokesman tersely saying the public broadcaster had received “information” that “precludes us from continuing our relationship” with the popular host of

OTTAWA — The gunman who staged a deadly attack Wednesday on Parliament Hill was a terrorist whose despicable crime will only harden Canada’s resolve to crack down on terrorists at home and abroad, Stephen Harper says.

CALGARY — About 10,000 employees can expect a major interruption to their routines today as a swath of downtown Calgary remains in the dark and will stay that way for several days.

VANCOUVER — Fifteen years as leader of the B.C. Federation of Labour is enough for Jim Sinclair, who will not seek re-election as head of the organization that speaks for 500,000 union members.