Finance Minister Jim Flaherty plays a shot during a charity day at the Mike Weir Classic at the Glen Abbey Golf Club in 2009. There's no sign the finance minister supports including golf fees in tax-deductible business hospitality expenses. (Chris Young/

Just when you are starting to lose hope for the future, just when you think federal politicians have completely lost touch with the needs of the average Canadian, along comes someone like NDP MP Peter Stoffer. I'm guessing you have never heard of Peter S

Allan Woods Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA—The number of Canadian soldiers medically released from the military more than doubled over the decade-long campaign in Afghanistan, according to figures provided to the Toronto Star. Almost 12,000 Canadian Forces person

OTTAWA — Amidst a new era of federal government cost-cutting that has seniors fearing for their pensions and Ottawa braced for a massive downsizing, a group of MPs is lobbying to bring back tax write-offs for golf course green fees. Opponents, however, s

An estimated six million Canadians play golf each year—that’s more participants than any other recreational activity in the country, including hockey. But although Canada’s real national pastime is played on the green, in the tax man’s eyes business deal

Standing in a Halifax shipyard, surrounded by MPs, shipbuilders in yellow hard hats and other officials, Prime Minister Stephen Harper Thursday put a political face on what has been, until now, a largely nonpolitical process. The prime minister officiall