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Members of Parliament returned to Ottawa on Monday after a weeklong break with no sign of a resolution to the House stalemate, tempers ramped back up, and renewed calls for a Liberal cabinet minister to resign — or be fired. The House of Commons has been mired in a filibuster for nearly two months now, as the Conservatives demand the government hand over documents to the RCMP in a case of alleged government misspending on a green technology fund. That continued Monday but in question period Conservative attention shifted to Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault, who three days ago apologized for not being more clear about his Indigenous identity.He previously referred to himself as a “non-status adopted Cree” and said his great-grandmother was a “full-blooded Cree woman.”He said he’d conf...

Canada’s inflation rate rose to two per cent in October, up from 1.6 per cent in September, Statistics Canada said. The annual rate of inflation, which fell below the Bank of Canada’s target of two per cent in September, beat the analyst expectation of 1.9 per cent slightly. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Price hikes at the grocery store rose at a faster pace in October, at 2.7 per cent, compared to 2.4 per cent year-over-year in September.The spike in grocery prices was led by the 7.3 per cent increase in the prices of fresh vegetables and 7.6 per cent increase for preserved fruit and fruit preparations. Trending Now ...

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a revised nuclear doctrine declaring that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country. Putin’s endorsement of the new nuclear deterrent policy comes on the 1,000th day after he sent troops into Ukraine, on Feb. 24, 2022.It follows U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles.The signing of the doctrine, which says that any massive aerial attack on Russia could trigger a nuclear response, demonstrates Putin’s readiness to tap the country’s nuclear arsenal to force the West to back down as Moscow presses a slow-moving offensive in Ukraine.Asked whether the updated doctrine was deliberatel...