A prospective foreign influence registry must not be "overly broad" to avoid unfairly targeting members of the Chinese-Canadian community and other minority groups,a senator said on Thursday, March 16, 2023.
Debate over medical assistance in dying is heating up as a deadline approaches to expand the program to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental disorder.
Prisons are badly failing to comply with solitary confinement laws and regularly violating inmate' rights, a new report by a group of Canadian senators says.
Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan says the government is open to amending legislation that would provide 10 days of paid sick leave for federally regulated workers.
Of all the ideas Alberta has attempted to export to the rest of the country, there might not be a worse one than holding one-off elections for an unelected Senate, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Senators overwhelmingly approved on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, a bill to expand access to medical assistance in dying with amendments that would relax access even more than proposed by the government.
Justin Trudeau's Liberal government is facing contradictory calls to either stand up to China or give in to so-called "hostage diplomacy" — with particular pressure coming from stalwarts of former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien's administration.