Parliament Hill in Ottawa may present many bizarre spectacles. But has the wide, green lawn in front of the Parliament Buildings ever seen something as bizarre as a demonstration in support of a convicted "human bomb?"

The Harper government has hired a Toronto theatre expert to inject a little war into this year's Canada Day bash on Parliament Hill.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make an official visit to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 2, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office announced Monday.

Parliament's budget watchdog says Ottawa's new formula for health-care transfers will put the federal government on a solid fiscal footing for the future while leaving the provinces to shoulder a growing burden.

"Radical" environmental groups are trying to block trade, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says, and the government may try to bring them to Parliament to explain where they get their funding.