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Ontario to partially guarantee Nortel pensions

The Ontario government is reassuring former Nortel employees who worked in the province that the first $1,000 of their monthly pension payments will be guaranteed under an emergency pension insurance fund....

Layton makes first appearance after cancer announcement

It was his first public appearance since revealing that he's suffering from prostate cancer. ...

Some federal Conservatives now jumpy about prorogation backlash

Public opinion polls, as we all know, go up and down and in the last few years have been more volatile than feathers in the wind, as Giuseppe Verdi put it in the Rigoletto. Still, the last slump of the Conservatives has created some turmoil within Pr...

Liberals not ready to defeat Tories in spring

Since closing the popularity gap with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories three weeks ago the federal Liberals are stalled in the polls, which party insiders say is dissuading anyone in caucus from gunning for a spring election. "Canadians don'...