A Conservative MP wants a special committee to look at when life begins, citing a Canadian law that he says limits it to birth.

Stephen Harper's Conservative government has won this year's Code of Silence Award from the Canadian Association of Journalists days before their one-year majority win.

The Conservative Party has filed a second motion to dismiss the robocalls lawsuits filed by the left-leaning Council of Canadians, calling council chairperson Maude Barlow a "virulent critic" of Prime Minister Stephen Harper who has "orchestrated" the litigation.

The government is going to change Canadian law so non-resident gay marriages are valid, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says.

A Canadian charitable foundation at the centre of Conservative Party accusations of foreign influence in the nation's economic affairs defended itself before a Senate Committee in Ottawa today.