Canadian Politics

Thousands of people around the world have received Canadian citizenship certificates as a result of a change late last year to federal law. Half of them Americans.

Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his former climate change cabinet ministers — Catherine McKenna, Jonathan Wilkinson and Steven Guilbeault — on Wednesday were at the Rideau Club, a private social club near Parliament Hill.

Germany and Norway are intensifying their bid for Canada’s submarine contract, pitching the Type 212CD as part of a shared NATO fleet. The allies have even surrendered production slots to accelerate delivery, highlighting a growing effort to counter South Korea's advantage.

The president of the Canada Border Services Agency said she doesn't think it's harder to cross the Canada-U.S. border today than in the past, as data shows U.S. customs searched a record number of electronic devices last year.

The federal government will create an independent military honours review board to reassess Afghanistan-era bravery cases, including whether Pte. Jess Larochelle merited the country's highest battlefield decoration.

The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed two challenges to the Jordan framework on Friday, ruling that the time limits put on criminal trials before charges be thrown out of court are justified under Section 11(b) of the Charter.

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with Pope Leo about artificial intelligence and the "imperative that AI must serve humanity" — a conversation that comes days after the Pope urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems.

Canada's economy ‌contracted in the first quarter of the year on an annualized basis by a slim margin, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday, making it two consecutive quarters of annualized decline, which some would call a technical recession.

China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, is in Ottawa on Friday, the first such visit in a decade.

An untold number of Ugandans, Congolese and South Sudanese nationals who were already in Canada when the federal government brought in Ebola virus-related travel restrictions for residents of those three countries have had their visas suspended, CBC News has learned.