Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump arrived at the Capitol to meet with Senate Republicans on Wednesday, hours after he called off a planned signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill that GO...

FREDERICTON - Tammy Nash says a smoke detector likely saved her son's life when their family home caught fire in 2010 on the Sitansisk First Nation in central New Brunswick. Nash, director of the loca...

OTTAWA - Officials at the Bank of Canada were seemingly unfazed by economic weakness to start the year as they debated where to take the policy interest rate earlier this month. The central bank today...

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump's administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show...

WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government says cellular service in the territory continues to have persistent "deficiencies," with negative implications for public safety, emergency response and economic acti...

EDMONTON - The Department of National Defence says two senior leaders of a respected Armed Forces battalion have been removed pending an investigation. It says Lt.-Col. Jason Hudson and Chief Warrant ...

CALGARY - A poll commissioned by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce suggests almost half of its members are prepared to move their businesses out of Alberta if the province votes to separate from Canada....

TORONTO - Ontario is raising speed limits on more sections of highways across the province. Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria says the speeds will increase to 110 km/h from 100 km/h on Friday....

OTTAWA - Almost a year after the federal government's Bill C-5 was rushed through Parliament, Ottawa is finally looking to use its new powers. At an announcement in Yellowknife on Wednesday, three fed...

HALIFAX - Elections Nova Scotia says Tim Houston's Progressive Conservative party has won a byelection in the newly created riding of Chticamp-Margarees-Pleasant Bay on Cape Breton. The electoral body...