Former public safety minister Stockwell Day says he wasn't in favour of giving police extra powers when he was in charge of the file in 2007.

A bill to force internet service providers to collect customer information, known as the lawful access or online surveillance bill, will cost at least $80 million to implement, CBC News has learned.

The so-called secret law used to give police extra powers during the G20 summit in Toronto in 2010 is being scaled back by the Ontario government.

Jaime Watt takes a weekly look at how issues making waves in Ottawa resonate with Canadians on CBC's Power & Politics. This week: Vic Toews and C-30, Don Drummond's report and F-35s.

This week on Kady O'Malley's weekly "people's caucus": the possibility of changes to the online surveillance and omnibus crime bills, the online campaign against Vic Toews and what to make of NDP membership figures.

Biographies of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and one of the most controversial, Pierre Trudeau, are vying for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

An attorney who helped U.S. politicians write mandatory-minimum sentencing laws during the 1980s is warning Canadian parliamentarians not to make the same mistakes Americans did, thinking long sentences would deter drug dealers.

Canada's environment minister says he'll need more time to go review 14,000 public submssions on a plan to protect Woodland caribou herds - but environmentalists are going back to court Thursday to seek emergency action.

The NDP has added about 45,000 members since its leadership race began in the fall, new figures released Tuesday show. The biggest gains were in Ontario and Quebec.

Pierre Juneau, the first chair of the CRTC and a former CBC president, is being remembered as a 'fervent promoter' of Canadian content on radio and TV after dying at age 89.