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The next nominee to the Supreme Court of Canada will face televised questioning from a parliamentary committee , Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday. Justice John Major retired from the court in...

Manitoba MP Vic Toews became the new Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Monday when he was sworn in along with the rest of the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper at...

Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant has asked the Canadian federal government for the power to ban handguns, vowing to look to constitutional options if he is refused. Last last week Bryant criticized current Canadian firearms laws [Canadian...

Canadian Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said Friday in response to suggestions that the Canadian Parliament should be given a more active role in the high court appointment process that it should remain the same. McLachlin...

Irwin Cotler , the outgoing Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, has said that despite some indications from Canada's incoming Conservative party government , he doubts that the country's recently enacted same-sex marriage law [JURIST...

Quebec Justice John Gomery Wednesday released the second report of his judicial commission of inquiry into the Canadian sponsorships and advertising program scandal that developed during the term of former Liberal Party...

Canadian Prime Minister-designate Stephen Harper , elected earlier this week and slated to be sworn in February 6 by Canada's Governor-General , went out of his way at his first news conference Thursday to reassert the...

A high-ranking Canadian MP likely to be named to a Cabinet position in the new Conservative party government of Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper said Wednesday that the party would honor its campaign pledge to arm Canadian border...

Canadian Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper pledged Monday night to clean up government corruption and get tough on crime after his Conservative Party defeated the governing Liberals in Canada's federal election and won enough seats [Elections...

In a last-minute push to regain popular support in the final stages of the Canadian federal election campaign, Prime Minister Paul Martin has accused Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper of planning to pack the Supreme...