New privacy rules designed to better safeguard the personal data of Canadians and let them know when it has been breached kick in today, but even security experts say they are far from perfect.

It started with President Donald Trump’s attacks on Canadian dairy farmers. Then Washington slapped tariffs on Canadian steel, citing national security. There was that disastrous G-7 summit in Quebec. Now it’s a new North American free trade agreement that excludes America’s northern neighbor. Canadians are stunned by the repeated broadsides from what has long been their closest ally and some have even begun boycotts.

Talks between the US and Canada about amending the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) have ended for the week without reaching a deal. US officials said they would meet their Canadian counterparts again next week in an effort to reach agreement. For now, the US plans to move forward with a deal with Mexico on terms reached earlier in the week. It's not clear what this means for the trilateral agreement, which governs more than $1tr (£770bn) in trade.

President Trump told reporters he was not offering Canada any concessions in NAFTA negotiations but couldn't say so publicly because it would kill the deal, he confirmed in a tweet which featured an accusation that Bloomberg had "BLATANTLY VIOLATED" an agreement that the remark was off-the-record.

Artificial trans fats will be off Canadian plates for good, as the final step to ban them in Canada is scheduled to take effect Monday. Researchers believe a ban could prevent up to 12,000 heart attacks in Canada over 20 years.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay has raised eyebrows once again over what some consider old-fashioned and patronizing attitudes toward women.

A prominent U.S. political economist says Canada is moving toward American-style inequality, and believes austerity economics and tax cuts for corporations are making the problem worse.

When celebrities read mean tweets about themselves, it's funny. When homeless people do it, it's heartbreaking. In a powerful PSA by Canadian advocacy group Raising the Roof, people who are dealing with homelessness read actual tweets written abou...

A Conservative candidate's sudden resignation marks the latest chapter in an artistic performance that's now spanned over 15 years. On Tuesday, a CBC News investigation revealed that Montreal-area "politician" Chris Lloyd was in fact a performer, whose foray into politics was intended to "mess with" the Tories.

Journalists cannot ask Harper any questions.

With the economy posting negative growth in the first four months of the year, some economists say Canada is heading into a recession. But Finance Minister Joe Oliver says the country is still on course to post two per cent GDP growth in 2015.So is Canada entering a recession and, if so, is there anything the government can do about it?

Le gouvernement canadien est aussi invité à s'expliquer quant aux restrictions qui auraient été imposées au droit de réunion pacifique.

Queen’s Park reporter Jane Taber takes an inside look at the week in Ontario politics.

The Forum Research poll showed that Quebecers, Canadians aged 55 to 64 and those who earn $60,000 to $80,000 are more likely to support the Liberal plan. The poll also found that 40 per cent of Conservative voters and 39 per cent of NDP voters support the Liberal plan.

Le Canada est l'un des derniers pays du monde à pouvoir protéger de grandes zones naturelles, mais...

B.C.'s has a strong appetite for marijuana reform with more than 70 per cent of respondents to a new poll urging either legalization or decriminalization.

Discusses the NDP's "third way" approach in Canada on not just economics but also on political strategies.

This morning, the UN Human Rights Committee — the independent treaty body that monitors state implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) — released its concluding observations on Canada. Most notably, Bill C-51.

United Nations committee expresses concern that lack of oversight and safeguarding measures could lead to rights abuses and unlawful deportations. By Jessica Murphy.

The introduction of stricter homeland security measures do not make citizens safer.

Canadian arms sales and geopolitics explain deeply cynical foreign policy stance

Canada would have to massively overhaul its Copyright Act just a few years after the last round of painstaking amendments, critics warn, if a secret trade and investment deal the government is negotiating is adopted with the terms outlined in a leaked draft from May that was made public this week. What appears to be a working draft of parts of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership pact, or TPP, was posted online this week by a U.S. non-governmental organization.

The government had constantly denied that Canada was involved in spying or espionage—until an enterprising young Englishman named William Macadam came along. By Graham Templeton.

Desperation move may prove to be prime minister’s long goodbye

With the curtain about to rise on the climactic second act of the Mike Duffy trial, Justin Trudeau promised Tuesday to clean up the scandal-tainted Senate, while Stephen Harper set his sights on neighbourhood drug labs. The Liberal leader vowed to clean up the prime minister’s “mess,” accusing Harper of leading the “most secretive, divisive and hyper-partisan government in Canada’s history.”

A maritime nation has let its naval fleet go to seed. Here's how the once-proud Royal Canadian Navy fell into such an embarrassing state of disrepair. By Scott Gilmore with Meagan Campbell.

He rides a Canada goose, slays a dragon and fist bumps an alien - and that's just in the first 30 seconds of Wyatt Scott's campaign video for the upcoming Canadian federal election.

Linda McQuaig, the prominent Toronto NDP candidate whose innocuous and true statement about the oilsands has turned into a controversy, is the latest to be caught in this political vortex. By Seth Klein.

The tenure of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has seen the slow-motion erosion of the country’s reputation for open, responsible government. By Stephen Marche.

Concern that Harper may be ‘desperate enough to deliberately provoke a conflict’ with Aboriginal peoples

Linda McQuaig’s ‘controversial’ statements on climate change simply echo scientific consensus

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair on Wednesday defended flattering comments he made over a decade ago about the conservative policies of former U.K. prime minister Margaret Thatcher, a day after a video of his comments were circulated in Quebec.

The spitefulness of the Harper regime, in one anecdote: suspending a folksinger who tracks birds for a living at Environment Canada. Time for us all to lift our voices. By J. Baglow.

Vote Together campaign aims to unite youth for change