Recent leadership races have become platforms to promote cross-party cooperation in Canada. Liberal leadership candidate Joyce Murray is the latest politician to campaign for the cause. Capital News Online explores the pros and cons of cooperation.

A private member's bill aiming to punish online bullies is losing support as experts urge for prevention, not prison.

All governments brand themselves to present a certain image and evoke certain feelings in voters, but the Conservative government's current branding exercise is drawing ire from some critics. 

Funerals can be costly for Canadian seniors and their families. An NDP private member's bill wants to amend the Old Age Security Act to allow certain low-income seniors to withdraw a maximum of $2,500 from an RRSP to pre-pay for funeral arrangements.  

The federal Liberals will elect a new party leader on April 14. With Marc Garneau out of the race, experts are calling it a coronation for Justin Trudeau.

As part of its tough-on-crime agenda, the Conservative government has proposed new legislation to create harsher punishments for mentally-ill offenders in the Canadian legal system. The government says these new measures will increase public safety, but critics argue they will do the opposite.  

Changes to Canada's system for accessing medical marijuana are igniting controversy over the drug's accessibility and the safety of home grow operations. 

It's bad enough to be ill without having to suffer what passes for cuisine in most hospitals.  But on the premise that good food can help people get better, one company is leading the push for a new country-wide standard and an end to hospital kitchen nightmares.

People are used to locks on everything: cars, doors and prisons; most times the user holds the key. However, there is one lock Canadians don't have the key to: their cellphone locks.

The face of the Anglican Church of Canada is changing, and its future is the rapping, blogging, globetrotting Rev. Kyle Wagner

The federal Liberals will elect a new party leader on April 14. With Marc Garneau out of the race, experts are calling it a coronation for Justin Trudeau.

As governments withdraw and industry potential heats up in space, real thought needs to go into who will legislate on Mars. 

Some say the subtleties of romance can’t be taught, but Saskatoon’s Global Gathering Place begs to differ. This immigrant and refugee service centre now offers an info session on the “do’s” and “dont's” of Canadian dating.

Canada ranks 20 out of 25 countries in a recent report on the reimbursement of new prescription drugs. For pharmaceutical companies, this ranking is a bitter pill to swallow.

Relatives of those sprayed with military herbicides on a New Brunswick base in the 1960s continue to fight the federal government for fair compensation.

Canada lags behind other countries in the fight against modern-day slavery. Meet the man who has devoted his life to making human trafficking a national priority.

Scientists are saying British Columbia's fish farms are perfect breeding grounds for sea lice, which are killing wild salmon. The scientists' concerns have fallen on deaf ears so far, at both the provincial and federal levels of government.

Organic food. Hybrid cars. Home composts. Canadians have been quick to embrace all things environmentally friendly.  So why aren't they dying to make the next move towards a natural end?