Tag Archives: Politics

VANCOUVER - Kerry-Lynne Findlay is vowing to stay on as the British Columbia Conservative leader, saying she is "not going anywhere" after a series of defections that have depleted the Opposition rank...

PHOENIX (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, a longtime Republican lawmaker from Arizona who shaped landmark water policies in the U.S. West and guided the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kava...

OTTAWA - In a historic address to the European Parliament on Thursday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he welcomes European Council President Ursula von der Leyen's ambition to see Canada become the f...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says residents have changed their clocks for the last time, as the province will be sticking with daylight time year-round. The province says 58 per cent of 72,00...

OTTAWA - Ottawa's fiscal watchdog says a surge in inflation a few years back drove a substantial jump in the cost of delivering the Canada Child Benefit after the pandemic. The Office of the Parliamen...

MONTREAL - After getting some moderate attention and a few feisty exchanges during the first debate of the Quebec election campaign, the prospects of another referendum on sovereignty became a hot top...

STRASBOURG - An enhanced partnership with the European Union will be debated and voted on in Canada's Parliament, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday following his address to the EU in France. Ca...

ST. JOHN'S - Politicians in Newfoundland and Labrador are expected to vote today on whether they support a new 50-year agreement to share energy from Labrador with Hydro-Qubec. Premier Tony Wakeham op...

OTTAWA - As Canadian politicians were pitching their major projects plans to foreign investors at a first-of-its-kind summit in Toronto, First Nations youth in Ottawa were making their own pitch to Ca...

HALIFAX - A Halifax woman with gynecological problems has been told she could wait up to five years to see a specialist even though she has been bleeding for the past 131 days. Haley Smith is 36 years...