Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - An international panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its Indigenous population. The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal reached the preliminary conclusio...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Opposition leader is calling on the Liberal government to put off the province's planned shift to a new virtual-health-care provider. Glen Savoie, leader of the Progressi...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A federal judge has said that New Hampshire must make voter registration easier by allowing applicants to attest to their U.S. citizenship if they don't have the documents to prov...

ST. JOHN'S - The Newfoundland and Labrador government has dropped a lawsuit challenging the federal equalization program. The province's former Liberal government filed the suit in 2024, claiming the ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney told Pope Leo XIV on Friday that Canada wants to take a leadership role in the responsible development of artificial intelligence. The conversation happened days af...

MONTRAL - A group representing Quebec municipalities is calling on the next provincial government to boost funding for public transit agencies, which say they will need $20 billion by 2035 just to mai...

REGINA - As Ottawa appears to inch closer to a trade deal with India, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he hopes the agreement addresses punishing tariffs on pulse crops. But Moe says if the deal do...

SAINT-HYACINTHE - Bloc Qubcois MP Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay has confirmed he'll resign his seat in the House of Commons to run for the Parti Qubcois in the fall provincial election. Savard-Tremblay...

VICTORIA - Elections BC says it has found no evidence of deliberate violations in a Metro Vancouver riding that helped give the NDP government a one-seat majority after the 2024 provincial vote. The a...

EDMONTON - Elections Alberta says a massive hiring effort for the fall referendum on the province's place in Canada is to get underway early next month. The agency has said between 60,000 and 90,000 e...