OTTAWA - A Conservative motion demanding the "unelected Senate" immediately pass a bill exempting more farm fuels from carbon pricing has failed, with the Bloc Québécois saying it could not support what it called a Tory intimidation campaign.
Ontario Conservative MP Adam Chambers says senators should, in his words, learn their place in a democracy and go back to being what he calls invisible instead of holding up a carbon pricing farm bill.
Two members of the Independent Senators Group say police and parliamentary security are investigating a threat that forced one of them to leave her home last weekend.
OTTAWA Two members of the Independent Senators Group say police and parliamentary security are investigating a threat that forced one of them to leave her home last weekend after a social media post blasted members of the upper chamber for their po