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Emails obtained by CBC News show that within months of his appointment, Senator Mike Duffy was discussing "an expanded role" in the Conservative Party, speaking at party fundraisers and Conservative associations across the country

Six months after he was appointed to the Senate, Mike Duffy was in consultations with Conservatives about an expanded role in the party and increased compensation, including his own suggestion he be named a minister without portfolio to get a car and staff, according to an email exchange...

This afternoon, Premier Kathleen Wynne's government will table its first budget since she took the reins of the Ontario Liberal Party just over three months ago. CBCNews.ca will carry the budget live at 4 p.m. ET. More...

The NDP has voted to take references to socialism out of the party's constitution, a controversial move to modernize that the party had to set aside two years ago. More...

Perceived frontrunner Justin Trudeau made a passionate plea for the party's top job during an event the Liberal Party called a "national showcase" in Toronto on Saturday. More...

By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's two main opposition parties traded warnings on Sunday against getting into bed with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives after September's election if they fail to win their own left-of-center majority. The leaders of the Social Democrats (SPD)...

This girl comes up to me with this thick Boston accent and she's like, 'Hey, you've seriously never woke up at a party and some guy was inside you?' I never woke up at a party.

AP - A new study shows that federal judges are handing out widely disparate sentences for similar crimes 30 years after Congress tried to create fairer results, but the differences don't line up with the party of the president who appointed the judges, despite any impressions that Republicans or...

A Tory MP who serves as the prime minister's point-person on allegations of fraudulent calls to voters during the last federal election says his party doesn't know whether a former staffer who resigned last week had anything to do with the calls. More...

AP - An Army soldier recovering from injuries suffered in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan has been shot at his homecoming party, and family members say he's paralyzed and in critical condition. More...

The central question ahead of Monday's provincial election is not whether Brad Wall and his Saskatchewan Party will win a second term but whether the Opposition New Democrats will experience significant losses. More...

AP - Herman Cain's rise as a presidential contender was supposed to prove that race didn't matter in the Republican Party. Cain is fast making it the only thing that does. More...

One of Canada's largest political parties is using cloud-based Salesforce.com in the U.S. to store information about voters and interact with them, but worries that U.S. government snoops could peek at sensitive information under U.S. law prompted the Canadian party to use a strong encryption...

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norway's ruling Labor Party appeared to be making sizable gains in municipal elections Monday, according to preliminary results, less than two months after a bombing and shooting massacre by a right-wing fanatic killed 77 people. The country's national broadcaster, NRK said...

A Taiwanese political party suspects the Chinese government is behind a hacking attack that stole information about the party's election activities. More...

The head of Norway's intelligence agency Janne Kristianse that she believes accused terrorist Anders Breivik received plastic surgery in order to look more "Aryan." "You do not have that Aryan look naturally in Norway," she said in an interview with the Sunday Times (article behind paywall)...

Many people dislike PowerPoint, Microsoft's ubiquitous application for creating business presentations, but few would take a political stand over it. However, that's exactly what Switzerland's Anti-PowerPoint Party (APPP) seeks to do -- along with making a bit of money. What are your thoughts...

VANCOUVER – Riot police fired tear gas to control a mob that burned cars and looted shops in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday after the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup final to the Boston Bruins. Thousands of people had jammed into the heart of downtown Vancouver in the hopes of celebrating the...

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will start a third term of one-party rule strengthened by Sunday's decisive election victory but also burdened by the need for consensus to push ahead with plans for a new constitution. Erdogan will have to focus first on a pressing foreign policy issue...

Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkey is no stranger to name-calling and over-heated rhetoric, especially in the final days before a national election. In the run-up to parliamentary elections on June 12, however, politics have taken an unexpected turn, as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his...