Canada

The Liberal Party won decisively ending nearly a decade of Conservative rule. Audio

Canada looks set to vote in a new government and a new Prime Minister with the name Trudeau. Justin Trudeau is the son of the charismatic Pierre who held power for 11 years from 1968 to 1979. Audio

Its leaf adorns the nation's flag but now the Maple's syrup is in Canada's courts. The case involves the theft of eighteen-million-dollars worth of the sugary sap. Toronto based reporter Jared Lindzon… Audio

Staff columnist for the Toronto Star, and author of two books, whose piece on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, The Nixon of the North, appears in the latest issue of Harper's magazine. Audio

A dozen candidates in the Canadian elections have been forced to quit after comments they made on social media came back to haunt them. Ottawa journalist Jessica Murphy has been covering the… Audio

Unhappy Canadian dairy farmers have parked dozens of tractors in central Ottawa and walked their cows down the main street opposite Parliament to protest trade talks they say could cripple them… Audio

Canada may open up its border to more US milk as a trans Pacific Partnership compromise. Audio

Canadian puppeteer performing his show The Daisy Theatre at the Auckland International Cabaret Season this week, Audio

A new report on foreign direct investment in New Zealand shows China was not the dominant investor in the past two years - it was Canada. Audio

A new report on foreign direct investment in New Zealand shows that China was not the dominant investor in the past two years - it was Canada. Audio

Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton discuss the stalled TPP talks, The NZ First party conference, and the possibility of Winston Peters angling to become Prime Minister under a… Audio

Since the talks collapsed, the Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper has called general elections in October. That is expected to make significant climbdowns on Canada's dairy tariffs politically… Audio

New Zealand is continuing to push Canada for access to its dairy market. Canada's reluctance to open its domestic market to dairy imports was one of the stumbling blocks that stalled the Trans-Pacific… Audio

For more on the Canadian angle to this story Steven Chase of Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper is in Hawaii covering the talks. Audio

Continuing with TPP and Canadian concerns about any agreement that meant it had to dial back its tarriffs which run as high as 250 percent. Audio