Tag Archives: Politics

MONTRAL - A Quebec teachers' union says 90 per cent of its members said in a recent survey they were victims of some form of violence. Catherine Renaud, a vice-president of the union, says 81 per cent...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is looking at another larger-than-expected deficit. A mid-fiscal-year update says the province is now predicting a deficit of $1.6 billion -- more than double the $7...

OTTAWA - The World Anti-Doping Agency is challenging the legal basis of the federal privacy watchdog's investigation into the agency's handling of biological samples collected from athletes. The offic...

MONTREAL - Quebec family doctors have until Friday to vote on a deal that would see the provincial government back down on several controversial reforms in a new law that changes how physicians are pa...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been encouraging Prime Minister Mark Carney to steal his ideas on everything from tax cuts to bail reform since the April election - but he says what ...

MONTREAL - More than a year after its rollout, an online portal for collecting taxes on goods transported into Canada continues to cause headaches for shippers - from red tape tangles to periodic outa...

DARTMOUTH - The Nova Scotia government says work will soon begin on hundreds of new affordable homes, with the majority slated for Shannon Park in Dartmouth. Housing Minister John White made the annou...

WINNIPEG - The board chairman at Manitoba's Crown-owned energy utility has resigned, two years after taking on the job. Manitoba Hydro says officials at the corporation were saddened to learn of Ben G...

OTTAWA - Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents. In a letter to Prime Minister...

British Columbia is bracing for another "high impact" deluge of rain that's forecast to hit the province's Fraser Valley, after intense downpours and cross-border outflows last week inundated Abbotsfo...