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OTTAWA -- The violence and anger that has erupted in recent days over the New Brunswick crab industry is the natural result of the rapid growth of one of Canada's [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK OTTAWA -- The war of words between Canada's Environment Minister and the planet's most famous environmentalist entered a second round yesterday as John Baird accused former U.S. [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK AND JEFF GRAY OTTAWA, TORONTO -- A much-anticipated federal report has given a nod of approval to the conduct of the Toronto Port Authority and its island [...]

Byline: Simon Tuck A parliamentary committee will today begin studying the hedge fund industry, just a few weeks after a private sector task force proposed new regulations that would make [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK OTTAWA -- Ottawa says it's 'satisfied' with the U.S. response to Canada's protest about the handling of torture victim Maher Arar, even though the letter written by [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK OTTAWA -- The federal government appeared to be on its way late last night to wringing out enough forestry-industry support to salvage its deal to end the [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK OTTAWA -- A key Ontario Liberal and Jewish community figure says he likes what Stephen Harper is saying about the crisis in Lebanon a lot more than [...]

Byline: GAYLE MacDONALD AND SIMON TUCK; With reports from Kate Taylor, James Adams and Suzanne Ma. TORONTO, OTTAWA -- CBC programming executives scrambled to do damage control yesterday in the [...]

Byline: Simon Tuck, Roger Hallett, Louie Palu, John Barber, Rebecca Dube, Peter Cheney, Stephanie Nolen Parent snap You've spent most of the day battling highway traffic and Wiggles tapes, and [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK; With a report from Catherine McLean in Toronto GATINEAU, QUE -- The CRTC said yesterday that Canadian telephone customers have been overbilled to the tune of $652.7-million [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK; With a report from Tu Thanh Ha in Brossard, Que. OTTAWA -- Finance Minister Ralph Goodale says that he and other government officials are scheduled to meet [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK AND CAMPBELL CLARK; With reports by Tu Thanh Ha in Montreal and Petti Fong in Vancouver OTTAWA -- The RCMP criminal investigation into the possibility that Ottawa's [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK OTTAWA -- Proposals to combat skyrocketing fuel costs as Canadians brace for cooler weather and record energy bills were presented to the federal cabinet yesterday. The measures [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK; With a report from Canadian Press OTTAWA -- The Liberal government says it may recall Parliament early from summer break because of the softwood-lumber dispute with the [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK OTTAWA -- Ottawa will today unveil a sweeping review of security at Canada's airports, train stations, seaports and subways, less than a month after a series of [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK OTTAWA -- Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. has lost out on a multibillion-dollar nuclear reactor sale in China, a major loss for the Crown corporation in the [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK OTTAWA -- The Conservatives say that if they fail to bring down Paul Martin's Liberal government in Thursday's budget vote they almost certainly won't try to trigger [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK; With reports from Rheal Seguin in Quebec and Brian Laghi in Ottawa Montreal's Beaudoin family is preparing to bet its huge aerospace company on a new line [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK OTTAWA -- Finance Minister Ralph Goodale says Ottawa will use a healthy chunk of the extra revenue that it is expected to collect over the coming years [...]

Byline: SIMON TUCK; With a report from Mark Hume in Vancouver OTTAWA -- Tammy Draper tries not to worry too much about the future, but she realizes a financial storm [...]

Byline: BRIAN LAGHI AND SIMON TUCK OTTAWA -- Canada's provinces face the loss of an expected $2-billion federal injection aimed at relieving stress on their health systems thanks to dampening [...]

Byline: With reports from Jane Taber in Ottawa and Campbell Clark in Vancouver OTTAWA and ATHENS -- The gulf between Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the majority of Liberal MPs [...]

Byline: With a report from the Canadian Press The Progressive Conservatives posted a surprise victory last night in the Ontario by-election in Perth-Middlesex, taking the seat away from federal Liberals [...]

OTTAWA -- Finance Minister John Manley is set to announce the biggest federal spending increases in two decades, unveiling a budget today that critics say will represent Prime Minister Jean [...]

OTTAWA -- Ottawa will adopt a new accounting method for next week's budget that is expected to boost this year's surplus by about $3-billion and open the door for more [...]

OTTAWA -- The coming federal budget will include a 10-year infrastructure package with an initial value of more than $2.5-billion, much of which will be aimed at projects that are [...]

OTTAWA -- With war looming in Iraq, Finance Minister John Manley is set to inject $800-million a year, or a total of $2.4-billion over three years, into Canada's cash-strapped military, [...]

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Jean Chretien is increasing the pressure on Finance Minister John Manley to crank up spending as officials argue that the budget surplus will be as much [...]

OTTAWA -- The U.S. military's investigation of last year's friendly-fire bombing in Afghanistan that killed four Canadians is out-of-bounds and should never have been conducted, lawyers for the two U.S. [...]

OTTAWA -- George W. Bush's aggressive package of tax cuts will create new pressure on Ottawa to respond in kind, perhaps as soon as the next federal budget, economists and [...]

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Jean Chretien has rebuffed provincial demands for $25-billion in additional health-care funding, saying he doubts he will be able even to meet a more modest funding [...]

OTTAWA -- The federal government could save massive amounts of money -- perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars -- if it did a better job of collecting, spending and not [...]

OTTAWA -- Finance Minister John Manley's right-hand man was told by the Prime Minister's Office to alter a speech this month that would have provided a road map for a [...]

OTTAWA -- The air controllers involved in the friendly-fire bombing that killed four Canadian soldiers near Kandahar in April were under the leadership of a Canadian, an unnamed officer who [...]

OTTAWA -- Solicitor-General Lawrence MacAulay faced new questions yesterday about his hiring of a key aid through a political ally's accounting firm, amid increasing speculation that the Prince Edward Island [...]

OTTAWA -- Opposition parties kept up the pressure on Solicitor-General Lawrence MacAulay yesterday over fresh questions about sole-sourced contracts and patronage as allegations of cronyism widened against the embattled Prince [...]

OTTAWA -- The Chretien government faced new allegations of another serious ethical lapse yesterday, as Solicitor-General Lawrence MacAulay was accused of awarding a lucrative, untendered consulting deal to a close [...]

OTTAWA -- The Liberal government's Speech from the Throne will promise a renewed effort to combat child poverty with a major infusion of new money in the National Child Benefit [...]

OTTAWA -- The federal government is facing an uphill battle if it hopes to carve significant savings from its current programs to pay for the Prime Minister's ambitious social agenda, [...]

OTTAWA -- Faced with a mounting bill for the Prime Minister's planned social legacy, Finance Minister John Manley said yesterday he will take a close look at current spending to [...]

OTTAWA -- Strategists for Prime Minister Jean Chretien are planning to lay out a five-year spending plan in the next federal budget, a move that would tie the hands of [...]

VICTORIA and OTTAWA -- The Kyoto accord on reducing greenhouse gases casts a large shadow on Canada, from the Queen Charlottes on the West Coast to Alberta's oil sands to [...]

OTTAWA -- The federal ethics counsellor has dropped his investigations into former international co-operation minister Maria Minna because she has been ousted from cabinet, a move that suggests at least [...]

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Jean Chretien provided only a timid defence yesterday for Maria Minna, as Toronto police consider an MP's request for an investigation into the embattled International Co-operation [...]

OTTAWA -- The ceremony looked much as it has in the past -- a 21-gun salute boomed, CF-18 jets thundered overhead, and veterans gave stiff salutes as they marched past [...]

OTTAWA -- Support in Canada for the North American free-trade agreement has slipped, according to a poll to be released today as Prime Minister Jean Chretien visits the country's biggest [...]

Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver -- DAWN WALTON in Toronto SIMON TUCK in Ottawa WENDY STUECK in Vancouver A love affair with two of Canada's best-known companies propelled the Toronto Stock [...]

Byline: Simon Tuck Technology Reporter Ottawa -- Bugs Bunny isn't quite ready for the Web. Nor is most of the vast arsenal of content, from Sports Illustrated to R.E.M. to [...]