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The quota for women was tied to a contentious plan to redraw voting boundaries across India, which became a major sticking point with opposition parties.

The NDP leadership hopefuls admitted their French skills fell short during the campaign’s first debate in Montreal, where much of the discussion shifted into English.

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

Australia has mandatory voting and a 92 per cent turnout. Is it time for Canadian provinces to try it out?

Trudeau has argued it's not the leader's role to hand down commandments from on high to grassroots Liberals. Instead, he's promised that if he becomes leader, he would develop the party's platform from the bottom up, based on consultations from Liberals in particular and Canadians in general.

Experts say the deal struck between the BC NDP and BC Greens is the latest precedent for the federal deal, and can provide historical lessons for the new partnership.

OTTAWA - Family, willingness to move, and work-life balance are the key factors affecting whether Mounties seek promotion, says a new RCMP report released amid concerns of sexism and harassment within the force.

JERUSALEM - They spent their journalistic careers analyzing, covering and skewering Israel's politicians. Now, a striking number are vying to join their ranks.

HALIFAX - The group that represents Nova Scotia's Acadian population says it will launch a court challenge to quash a newly redrawn electoral map that it says will silence the voices of French-speaking people in the provincial legislature.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says his government is intent on giving Ontario, Alberta and B.C. more seats in the House of Commons, and that Quebec's share will be fair based on its population.

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says his government is intent on giving Ontario, Alberta and B.C. more seats in the House of Commons, and that Quebec's share will be fair based on its population.

A B.C. woman is calling on Canadian MPs to become political sponsors of Iranian political prisoners, most of whom are in danger of imminent execution on bogus charges.

Last month, a peer-reviewed American and Australian study linked cooking with indoor gas stoves with increased risk of childhood asthma.

Canada's chief electoral officer calculated the proposed redistribution of seats last year based on a mathematical model applied to population.

The number of reported HIV cases in Canada is at the same level as when the epidemic was emerging in the early 1980s, but the lifestyle and profile of many of these new patients is evolving, the Public Health Agency of Canada indicated in a report released this week.

Thailand's election battle got into full swing on Thursday as a mass opposition rally to mourn protesters killed in a military crackdown a year ago underscored simmering political tensions.

TORONTO - Prime Minister Stephen Harper plans to give Ontario 13 additional seats in the House of Commons, sources told The Canadian Press on Tuesday.

The American couple was arrested and charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government. Photos of the couple posing in KGB uniforms were seized by police.

OTTAWA - The plane zipping Prime Minister Stephen Harper westward this week with a gaggle of journalists and corporate executives could be seen as a sort of metaphor for Canada's new demographic — and political — reality.

The Green Party leader said she would launch a citizens' assembly with a mandate to make recommendations to Parliament on a new electoral system based on proportional representation.